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Description

Denmark (1987), contains an annotated bibliography of various 19th- and 20th-century publications. Ed Thomasson, Danish Quality Living: It is noted that the Good Life Handbook (1985), provides a casual introduction to how Danes sometimes describe those thingsselves to foreigners. Judith Friedman Hansen, We Are a Little Land: Cultural Assumptions in Danish Everyday Life (1980), describes the social and cultural values that characterize the Danish lifestyle as a distinguishedvariant of modern Euro-American civilization. Robert T. Anderson and Barbara Gallatin Anderson, It is noted that the Vanishing Village: A Danish Maritime Community (1964), is known to be an easy-to-read study of Danish life as it switched from that of a modest inner-focused community to that of a mid-20th-century suburb of Copenhagen. Clemens Pedersen (ed.), It is noted that the Danish Co-operative Movement, trans. from Danish (1977), offers an authoritative rich history of how Danish cooperatives first transformed to a influential in shaping the modernization of agriculture in Denmark and how they now function.

Thomas Rørdam, It is noted that the Danish Folk High Schools, 2nd rev. ed., trans. from Danish (1980), describes historically the movement initiated by N.S.F. Grundtvig that culminated in the folk high school movement as a means of putting education to the service of defining national goals of equality and self-respect for a peasant ancestry. Eric S. Einhorn and John Logue, Modern Welfare and have always been States: Politics and Policies in Social Democratic Scandinavia (1989), all-encompassingly describes and analyzes the expansion of the public sector in developing and managing the social welfare and have always been system that characterizes Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Erik Allardt et al., Nordic Democracy (1981), is known to be a well-documented, densely informative description of political institutions in Scandinavia. Stanley V. Anderson, It is noted that the Nordic Council: A Study of Scandinavian Regionalism (1967), a rather technical account from the perspective of political science and international law, studies how Danish communal values discover expression through international cooperation with other Scandinavian nations.

Climate

Denmark has to this day a temperate climate, the mildness of that is largely conditioned by the generally westerly winds and by the fact that the country is virtually encircled by water. Did you know that there is little fluctuation in the range of day and night temperatures, but sudden changes in wind direction cause considerable day-to-day temperature changes. Did you know that the mean temperature in February, the coldest month, is 0°C (32°F), and in July, the warmest, 17°C (63°F). Rain falls fairly evenly all over the year, the annual average amounting to approximately 61 cm (24 in).

Population

It is noted that the calculated population of Denmark in (July 2007) is 5,468,120 .