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Out of he frame

the struggle for acedemic freedom in Israel

Even before he wrote his bestselling book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, historian Ilan Pappe was a controversial figure in Israel. In Out of the Frame, he gives a full account of his break with mainstream Israeli scholarship and its consequences. Growing up in a ...

Popular resistance in Palestine

a history of hope and empowerment

The Western media paint Palestinian resistance against Israeli occupation as exclusively violent: armed resistance, suicide bombings, and rocket attacks. In reality these methods are the exception to what is a peaceful and creative resistance movement. In this fascinating book, Dr Mazin Qumsiyeh synthesises data from ...

The Shoah in Ukraine

history, testimony, memorialization

Eds. Ray Brandon, Wendy Lower. On the eve of the Nazi invasion of the USSR in 1941, Ukraine was home to the largest Jewish community in Europe. Between 1941 and 1944, some 1.4 million Jews were killed there, and one of the most important ...

Everyday quantum reality

Most people have heard about quantum physics and its remarkable, well- nigh bizarre claims. And most people would assume that quantum reality describes a world quite different from ours. In this book, David A. Grandy shows that one can find quantum puzzles, or variations thereof ...

The novelist's lexicon

writers on the words that define their work

Ed. Villa Gillet/Le Monde. At the renowned, international literary conference hosted by Villa Gillet and Le Monde, organizers asked more than seventy prominent authors to choose a word that opens a door to their work. Their musings, collected here for the first time, offer ...

Autobiography

If every writer necessarily draws on their own life, is any writing outside the realm of 'autobiography'? The new edition of this classic guide is fully updated to include: developments in autobiographical criticism, highlighting major theoretical issues and concepts different forms of the genre, from ...

Mathematical economics

This textbook, designed for a single semester course, begins with basic set theory, and moves briskly through fundamental, exponential, and logarithmic functions. Limits and derivatives finish the preparation for economic applications, which are introduced in chapters on univariate functions, matrix algebra, and the constrained and ...

Derecho penal español

parte especial

Las 12 habilidades directivas clave

El mundo actual requiere de los empleados, jefes y directivos, y en general de cualquier persona que trabaje o desee hacerlo, una gran habilidad en la dirección de uno mismo y de los demás. Y no siempre se encuentra el tiempo suficiente para profundizar en ...

Cómo conseguir la mejor reunión y optimizar sus resultados

En este libro encontrará recomendaciones, estrategias y consejos para mejorar las reuniones, ya sean presenciales o virtuales, reduciendo tanto los costes económicos como emocionales. Las autoras aportan su experiencia y le ofrecen las claves para una gestión eficaz en sólo 6 pasos: 1. Planificación 2 ...

Obras completas

Edición y presentación de Ramón Punset Blanco, Francisco J. Bastida Freijedo, Joaquín Varela Suanzez-Carpegna ; Coord. Ognacio Fernández Sarasola.

El salario y la nómina

INDICE: El salario y los sistemas salariales. Estructura del salario. Ingresos extrasalariales (I). Estructura del salario. Ingresos extrasalariales (II). Fijación y modificación del salario. Derecho al salario en periodos de no actividad compatibles como de trabajo. Deducciones sobre los ingresos del trabajador. Liquidación y pago ...

Derechos colectivos en el trabajo autónomo

IDNICE: Una introducción a los derechos colectivos en el trabajo autónomo. Los derechos básicos de titularidad individual. Los derechos básicos de la titularidad colectiva. Los acuerdos de interés profesional. La participación institucional. La tutela judicial.

España y modelos de federalismo

Eds. José Tudela Aranda y Félix Knüpling; Prols. Francisco Rubio Llorente y Arnold Koller. ÍNDICE: Prólogos.- Introducción y sinopsis.- PARTE I: LA FEDERALIZACIÓN DE ESPAÑA.- La relevancia política del Federalismo en el siglo XXI, por George Anderson.- España: ¿una federación multinacional encubierta?, por Ronald L ...

Los amerindios en la narrativa occidental

Diferentes académicos de reconocido prestigio internacional estudian las maneras en que fueron representados e imaginados los amerindios en los discursos occidentales desde el siglo XVI hasta el siglo XXI. Se analiza cómo se fueron creando estereotipos, definiendo términos y construyendo identidades a ambos lados del ...

Derecho administrativo de la información y administración transparente

La transparencia en la actuación del Estado es una palabra que se ha puesto de moda, que se utiliza como comodín en muy diversos ámbitos del saber, ciencia política, Derecho, sociología, etc., y que ha adquirido una gran importancia como consecuencia del desarrollo de las ...

The chronicle of Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor

Church and war in Late Antiquity

Ed. Geoffrey Greatrex. The Chronicle attributed to Zachariah of Mytilene is one of the most important sources for the history of the church from the Council of Chalcedon in 451 to the early years of the reign of Justinian (527-565). The author who compiled the ...

Set-off defences in international commercial arbitration

a comparative analysis

The book deals with set-off in international arbitration proceedings. In these proceedings, set-off is frequently the tool relied upon to resist a claim. At the same time, the legal intricacies make it hard to use. The first part of the book provides a survey of ...

Ideologies in the Age of Extremes

liberalism, conservatism, communism, fascism 1914-91

This is a history of political ideologies during the period famously described by Eric Hobsbawn as 'The Age of Extremes' - from the First World War to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Ideologies in the Age of Extremes introduces the key ideologies of the age ...

The employment relationship

a comparative overview

Ed. Giuseppe Casale. The issue of who is or is not in an employment relationship has become problematic in recent decades as a result of major changes in work organization as well as in the adequacy of legal regulation in adapting to such changes. In ...