Thomas Johansson

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The Fascinating King's Gambit by Thomas Johansson This work is probably the first book devoted to investigating the entire Bishop's Gambit. But that is not all! A complete in depth repertoire against black's different ways of declining white's pawn offer is also provided. A great service for those who may want to take up this opening with the white pieces! The author laboured with the analytical work for nearly two years, aiming to create one of the best theoretical guides to the King's Gambit ever written. - But if he fulfilled this ambition can of course, only be determined by the reader! What can not be denied is that Johansson shares a multitude of theoretical novelties and insights with his readers. Basically offering them access to an almost unexplored world which until now has been reserved for a relatively small crowd of strong King's Gambiteers. From the author of The King's Gambit for the Creative Aggressor! Instead of going on and on about the content of this book, let me just quote a very famous King's Gambiteer, grandmaster David Bronstein. 'You want to play the King's Gambit? Well, Black can draw after 3.Nf3. Play 3.Bc4 if you want to win!' Visit the author's website at: http://hem.passagen.se/tjmisha/countdown.html

The Fascinating King's Gambit

Chris Haywood

Across Europe we are witnessing a series of events that are drawing upon representations of men and masculinity that are rupturing the social fabric of everyday life. For example, media reports of social unrest, misogynous hate crime, religious extremism, drug trafficking and political Far Right mobilization often have been at the centre of the discussion the figure of the apathetic, disenchanted, socially excluded young man. Marginalized Masculinities explores how men in precarious positions in different countries and social contexts understand and experience their masculinities, focusing on men who are viewed as being marginal in a range of fields in society including the family, work, the media and school. By focusing on atypical or marginal masculinities in each subfield, Haywood and Johansson provide an informed understanding of what it means to experience marginalization. Indeed, within this enlightening volume the chapters engage with the issue of whether it is necessary to name ‘a’ dominant masculinity in order to make sense of and understand the nature of marginalized masculinity. This insightful title will be of interest to researchers, undergraduates and postgraduates interested in fields such as Gender Studies, International Studies, Comparative Studies and Men Studies.

Contexts, Continuities and Change

Marginalized Masculinities

Jesper Andreasson

This book investigates extreme sports, defined as sports in which athletes challenge and transgress societal perceptions of what is humanly possible to achieve, in terms of physical training and bodily development/performance. Situated within a growing body of literature analysing the impact of new training trends on an individual’s body, identity, lifestyle and perception of his/her social surroundings, Extreme Sports, Extreme Bodies focuses on the gendered and embodied experiences of bodybuilding, Ironman triathlon, and mixed martial arts. Through their ethnographic analysis, Andreasson and Johansson present a unique and updated account of the increasing phenomenon of extreme sports and extreme bodies in contemporary Western society, grounded in the sociology of sport, body studies and embodiment literature.

Gender, Identities and Bodies in Motion

Extreme Sports, Extreme Bodies

Jung Hee Cheon

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on post-quantum cryptography, PQCrypto 2022, held in as a Virtual Event in September 2022. The 23 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. They cover a broad spectrum of research within the conference's scope, including code-, hash-, isogeny-, and lattice-based cryptography, multivariate cryptography, and quantum cryptanalysis. The papers are categorized in the following topical sub-headings: Code-Based Cryptography; Multivariate Cryptography and the MinRank Problem; Quantum Algorithims, Attacks and Models; Implementation and Side Channel Attacks; Isogeny; Lattice-based Cryptography; Cryptanalysis.

13th International Workshop, PQCrypto 2022, Virtual Event, September 28–30, 2022, Proceedings

Post-Quantum Cryptography

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cryptology in India, INDOCRYPT 2003, held in New Delhi, India in December 2003. The 29 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 101 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on stream ciphers, block ciphers, Boolean functions, secret sharing, bilinear pairings, public key cryptography, signature schemes, protocols, elliptic curve cryptography and algebraic geometry, implementation and digital watermarking, and authentication.

4th International Conference on Cryptology in India, New Delhi, India, December 8-10, 2003, Proceedings

Progress in Cryptology -- INDOCRYPT 2003

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Fast Software Encryption, FSE 2003, held in Lund, Sweden in February 2003. The 27 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed, improved, and selected from 71 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on block cipher cryptanalysis, Boolean functions and S-boxes, stream cipher cryptanalysis, MACs, block cipher theory, side channel attacks, new designs, and modes of operation.

10th International Workshop, FSE 2003, LUND, Sweden, February 24-26, 2003, Revised Papers

Fast Software Encryption

David Pointcheval

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, EUROCRYPT 2012, held in Cambgridge, UK, in April 2012. The 41 papers, presented together with 2 invited talks, were carefully reviewed and selected from 195 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on index calculus, symmetric constructions, secure computation, protocols, lossy trapdoor functions, tools, symmetric cryptanalysis, fully homomorphic encryption, asymmetric cryptanalysis, efficient reductions, public-key schemes, security models, and lattices.

31st Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Cambridge, UK, April 15-19, 2012, Proceedings

Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2012

This book compiles several years of multi-faceted qualitative research on fitness doping to provide a fresh insight into how the growing phenomenon intersects with issues of gender, body and health in contemporary society. Drawing on biographical interviews, as well as online and offline ethnography, Andreasson and Johansson analyse how, in the context of the global development of gym and fitness culture, particular doping trajectories are formulated, and users come into contact with doping. They also explore users’ internalisation of particular values, practices and communications and analyse how this influences understandings of the self, health, gender and the body, as well as tying this into wider beliefs regarding individual freedom and the law. This insight into doping goes beyond elite and organised sports, and will be of interest to students and scholars across the sociology of sport, leisure studies, and gender and body politics.

Trajectories, Gender, Bodies and Health

Fitness Doping

Are you one of those e4-players who absolutely hate to face the French Defence? And when it occurs, do you get the feeling that black has all the fun, whether he's pressuring your d-pawn, breaking down your pawn centre, rounding up your a-pawn or boring you to tears with the Rubinstein? - Then the Reti Gambit may be the solution for you too After having written two popular books on the King's Gambit for white (The King's Gambit for the Creative Aggressor in 1998 and The Fascinating King's Gambit in 2004/5) Thomas Johansson devotes his third chess opening book to a little known gambit that definitely spices up the French Defence I can't guarantee that white always gets an advantage in the RG - after all, even the theoretical main lines after 2.d4 tend to end up equal after about 20 moves - but the positions that arise are usually so interesting and fun that once you've learned how to play it, I think you will soon be looking forward to your next encounter with the French Defence

The Fascinating Réti Gambit

Ylva Odenbring

This edited collection focuses on different aspects of everyday violence, harassment and threats in schools. It presents a number of in-depth studies of everyday life in schools and uses examples and case studies from different countries to fuel a discussion on national differences and similarities. The book discusses a broad range of concepts, findings and issues, under the umbrella of three main themes: 1) Power relations, homosociality and violence; 2) Sexualized violence and schooling; and 3) Everyday racism, segregation and schooling. Specific topics include sexuality policing, bullying, sexting, homophobia, and online rape culture. The school is young people’s central workplace, and therefore of great importance to students’ general feeling of wellbeing, safety and security. However, there is no place where youth are at greater risk of being exposed to harassment and violations than at school and on their way to and from school. Threats are a relatively common experience among school students, but some aspects of these mundane and frequent harassments and violations are not taken seriously and are, therefore, not reported. Harassment and violations often have negative effects on youth and children, and increase their risks of such adverse outcomes as school dropout, drug use, and criminal behaviour. Contemporary research has shown that gender is of great importance to how students handle and report, or do not report, various violent situations. Studies have also revealed how the notions of masculinity and of being a victim can be conflicting identities and affect how students handle situations of threat, violence and harassment. The importance of gender is also particularly evident with regard to sexual harassment. Female students generally report greater exposure to sexual harassment than male students do.

Education and Safe Learning Environments

Violence, Victimisation and Young People

Phong Q. Nguyen

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 32nd Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, EUROCRYPT 2013, held in Athens, Greece, in May 2013. The 41 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 201 submissions. They deal with cryptanalysis of hash functions, side-channel attacks, number theory, lattices, public key encryption, digital signatures, homomorphic cryptography, quantum cryptography, storage, tools, and secure computation.

32nd Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Athens, Greece, May 26-30, 2013, Proceedings

Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2013

Soren Ervo

This title was first published in 2003. The contributing authors have sought to integrate a gender perspective into their respective fields without isolating it from other theoretical accounts. The chapters attempt to employ insights from feminist work and gender studies in general, yet insist on criticizing monolithic accounts of masculinity and elaborating on more differentiated, historically and socially embedded accounts of men's lives and their construction of masculinities. The volume is the result of interdisciplinary workshops focusing on questions of male sexuality, the male body and masculine representations - primarily investigating the relationship between change and continuity within western patriarchal society and the theoretical (rather than political) implications of the new reserach in men and masculinities. This volume differs from the first in that it deals with the construction of masculine identities on an individual level - the individual man's relationship with his own body and sexuality.

Bending Bodies: v. 2: Bending Bodies

Fredrik Miegel

Lifestyle and Identity in Contemporary Youth Culture

Do the Right Thing

Søren Ervø

The two 'Moulding Masculinities' volumes represent the first major publication in English of Northern European studies on masculinities. They focus on men’s relationships towards each other and their bodies, primarily from psycho-dynamic and social constructionist perspectives. The contributors are drawn from disciplines as diverse as sociology, social anthropology, media studies and sports sciences, and include scholars from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, The Netherlands, Germany, Australia, the UK and the USA. Investigating the relational aspects of masculinity, this volume describes how different masculinities are moulded within diverse structures and settings. It explores how men interact with each other and how they collectively react to and embody changing concepts of masculinity. By centering on the struggle and negotiation between different groups and discourses of masculinity and investigating the origin of dominant images and ideals of masculinity, these two volumes will widen international understanding of how historic forms of masculinity are interpreted, revived and combined in the process of moulding masculinities.

Moulding Masculinities

Among Men

Subhamoy Maitra

Christer Mattsson

This book offers an in-depth study of personal accounts of men and women who have at one time entered, participated in and ultimately exited the neo-Nazi movement, with a focus on advanced Western states. Through detailed stories of the movement’s violence, hatred, and ideology, coupled with narratives of the individuals’ life plans and dreams when entering the movement and reintegrating into society, the work provides knowledge, hope and new directions for readers to better understand and react to a reinvigorated extreme right across Western nations. The book provides innovative research on the relationship between the life trajectories of neo-Nazis and their significant others, enabling better and more evidence-based strategies for preventing radicalization and promoting deradicalization. The extensive case studies include the voices of those who returned to the movement, or never left at all, providing a rare opportunity to compare active, former and returned right-wing extremists. The main contribution of the book is to provide an innovative approach to the oral history of young men and women who have participated in different national and local neo-Nazi movements in Western countries, namely Sweden and the United States. In order to understand the current trends within the movement and their relationship to the surrounding society, this shift calls for in-depth analyses based on social-psychological and sociological perspectives. Stressing the importance of having a gender theory, socio-cultural, historical, and both a national and contextual perspective on the neo-Nazi movement, this book contributes new knowledge to this field of research. This book will be of much interest to students of political extremism, radicalisation, terrorism studies and social psychology.

Social Psychology Perspective

Radicalization and Disengagement in Neo-Nazi Movements

Hur ska vi se på det stora utbudet av psykoterapi, bantningsmetoder, livsstilsgurus och underhållningspsykologi? Finns det en risk för att de som ska hjälpa faktiskt bidrar till att skapa förvirring och kaos? Vad är det som präglar dagens identitetsskapande? Den här boken är skriven i gränslandet mellan sociologi, psykologi, socialpsykologi och psykoterapi. En av utgångspunkterna har varit att undersöka hur ett fenomen som Dr Phil och program som Extreme Makeover har kunnat få så stort genomslag i västvärlden. Ett syfte med min bok är att sätta in dessa fenomen i ett större socialt och kulturellt sammanhang. Del ett av boken ägnas åt själens problem och handlar bland annat om den utbredda självhjälpskulturen. Den andra delen av boken fokuserar frågor som rör kropp, hälsa och livsstil. Den nya fitness- och hälsokulturen utgör i många avseenden ett komplement till populärpsykologi och psykoterapi och det finns en rad viktiga beröringspunkter mellan dessa kulturella fenomen. Jag följer här spåren från bantningslitteraturen fram till dagens ökade intresse för plastikkirurgi. På vägen gör jag också ett nedslag i fitness- och träningskulturen. Tanken att vi idag kan göra om oss är vägledande för min undersökning. Den tredje delen ägnas åt att dra ihop trådarna. På vilket sätt handlar detta om en ny kulturell process? Hur påverkas människors identiteter och vardagsliv? Thomas Johansson är professor i socialpsykologi, verksam vid institutionen för socialt arbete och centrum för kulturstudier vid Göteborgs universitet.

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