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How men and women fit

finally anderstand your partner with the 3 brains theory

The book that will change your relationships for the better! How MEN & WOMEN FIT, finally understand your partner with the 3 Brains theory brings a revolutionary new way of looking at interpersonal relationships and how we as men and women can change our communication and ...

Reliance in the breaking-off of contractual negotiations

trust and expectations in comparative perspective

This book explores the theoretical basis of precontractual liability for the unilateral breaking-off of negotiations from a comparative perspective. It argues that, in the selected civil law jurisdictions (Germany, France and Chile), the true basis of this liability is the notion of ‘reliance’ and it ...

1939 Exilio republicano español

Esta publicación recoge los resultados de la exposición 1939. El exilio republicano español, que conmemora los ochenta años cumplidos desde el fin de la Guerra Civil española y el inicio de la dictadura franquista. En ella se traza una cartografía de los desplazamientos y las ...

Teal dots in an orange world

how to organize the workplace of the future

n the last century, changes in technology have driven massive developments in the social economy. The Fourth Industrial Revolution demands new approaches to organizational structures and teams. A paradigm shift is emerging, putting engagement, relations, inclusion and freedom at the centre. We need small self-managed ...

To the shores of Chile

the journal and history of the Brouwer Expedition to Valdivia in 1643

To the Shores of Chile presents the remarkable story of an expedition that took place in Latin America during the height of the Dutch Empire. Skillfully translated by Mark Meuwese, this captivating work sheds light on Dutch imperialism and the complicated relationships between Native peoples ...

A monument to dynasty and death

the story of Rome's Colosseum and the emperors who built it

Early one morning in 80 CE, the Colosseum roared to life with the deafening cheers of tens of thousands of spectators as the emperor, Titus, inaugurated the new amphitheater with one hundred days of bloody spectacles. These games were much anticipated, for the new amphitheater ...

Democracy in China

the coming crisis

With Xi Jinping potentially set as president for life, China’s move toward political democracy may appear stalled. But Jiwei Ci argues that four decades of reform have created a mentality in the Chinese people that is just waiting for the political system to catch ...

North Africa and the making of Europe

governance, institutions and culture

This innovative edited collection brings together leading scholars from the USA, the UK and mainland Europe to examine how European identity and institutions have been fashioned though interactions with the southern periphery since 1945. It highlights the role played by North African actors in shaping ...

Revolts and the military in the Arab Spring

popular uprisings and the politics of repression

Through detailed exploration of events in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, Syria and Yemen, Sean Burns here breaks down the concept of professionalism within the armed forces into its component parts and demonstrates how variation in military structures determines their behaviour. In so doing, and by ...

Capital markets union and beyond

Experts from economics, finance, law, policy, and banking discuss the design and implementation of a future capital market union in Europe. The plan for further development of Europe's economic and monetary union foresees the creation of a capital market union (CMU)—a single market ...

The Pyrenees in the Modern Era

reinventions of a Landscape, 1775-2012

This original study examines different incarnations of the Pyrenees, beginning with the assumptions of 18th-century geologists, who treated the mountains like a laboratory, and romantic 19th-century tourists and habitués of the spa resorts, who went in search of the picturesque and the sublime. The book ...

The Middle Ages in popular imagination

memory, film and medievalism

It is often assumed that those outside of academia know very little about the Middle Ages. But the truth is not so simple. Non-specialists in fact learn a great deal from the myriad medievalisms - post-medieval imaginings of the medieval world - that pervade our everyday culture ...

The making of England

a new history of the Anglo-Saxon world

During the tenth century England began to emerge as a distinct country with an identity that was both part of yet separate from 'Christendom'. The reigns of Athelstan, Edgar and Ethelred witnessed the emergence of many key institutions: the formation of towns on modern street ...

L'esprit démocratique du populisme

Et si la nature du populisme nous échappait encore ? L’actualité politique voit ce mot ressurgir régulièrement, mais, au-delà de sa charge polémique, que désigne-t-il exactement ? Depuis trente ans, les médias ressassent les mêmes poncifs : le populisme serait démagogique et autoritaire ; ni de droite ni ...

L'économie européenne 2019

L’OFCE propose dans la collection « Repères » un bilan annuel de l’économie européenne. L’édition 2019 s’inscrit dans une actualité particulière : 2019 est l’année des vingt ans de l’euro, une année d’élection au Parlement européen et l’année qui pourrait ...

Nationalism, identity and statehood in Post-yugoslav Montenegro

This book provides the most comprehensive study to date of political and social developments in Montenegro from the processes that led to the disintegration of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to Montenegro's eventful trajectory towards independence and, later, towards Euro-Atlantic integration. Kenneth Morrison ...

L'économie mondiale 2020

Chaque année, le CEPII publie dans la collection « Repères » des analyses inédites des grandes questions économiques mondiales. L’économie mondiale ralentit à l’ombre de tensions commerciales et géopolitiques aiguës alors que la coordination internationale est en lambeaux. Au-delà du protectionnisme de Donald Trump, c ...

Religious evolution and the Axial Age

from shamans to priests to prophets

Religious Evolution and the Axial Age describes and explains the evolution of religion over the past ten millennia. It shows that an overall evolutionary sequence can be observed, running from the spirit and shaman dominated religions of small-scale societies, to the archaic religions of the ...

Scribbling through history

graffiti, places and people from Antiquity to Modernity

For most people the mention of graffiti conjures up notions of subversion, defacement, and underground culture. Yet, the term was coined by classical archaeologists excavating Pompeii in the 19th century and has been embraced by modern street culture: graffiti have been left on natural sites ...

La crise de la représentation

Représenter est un verbe tellement courant que nous oublions de lier trois de ses sens majeurs : les artistes nous représentent le monde, les médias le saisissent dans son actualité, les citoyens enfin se plaignent d’être mal représentés. Le pari de ce livre est d ...