“…Focussing on legislatures in democratic nations or in territories that are parts of democratic units, the book features case studies on Malta, Bermuda, Jersey, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Lesotho, Liechtenstein, the Isle of Man, Commonwealth Caribbean, Nunavut (Canada), Pacific islands, Swaziland, and Scotland. Contributors employ an interdisciplinary approach to examine both the outcomes and causes of different political mechanisms, and bring to the surface underlying correlation between small states through their analysis. …”
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“…The documentary highlights the impact on holiday destinations that are overrun by tourists from the perspective of local people in hotspots such as Venice and Barcelona as well as further afield in places such as the Gili Islands. The commentary points out that what is a holiday destination for the visitor is a home for other people, and that the quality of life for many residents is becoming severely harmed as a result of the rising tide of visitors"…”
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“…Based upon empirically grounded case studies of Timor-Leste, Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Bougainville, Solomon Islands and Fiji, this book illustrates that civil society actors can have different – and sometimes competing – priorities, resources and approaches to transitional justice. …”

“…The East Timorese might have had Indonesia as their destination when they left the eastern half of the island in the aftermath of the referendum, but they have not relinquished their cultural identities as East Timorese. …”

“…It presents heretofore unpublished material, an edition of a series of manuscripts discovered in the frame of the Aswan High Dam campaign at the site of Attiri, a rocky island in the Batn el-Hajjar region in the Sudan, and does so in an innovative way, through an intense collaboration of the editors under the name of the Attiri Collaborative. …”

“…The analysis of the Socialist Workers Party-Movement to Socialism (PST-MAS) allows recognizing the party's speeches and organizational forms against three central axes: the establishment of the dictatorship and the subsequent prohibition and dissolution of the Peronist and Marxist left , the consequences of the repression based on the device of the Clandestine Detention Centers and the process of political opening that followed the defeat in the Falkland Islands. The pages of this work analyze the organizational forms adopted by a large part of the seventies-based left in a repertoire of practices that oscillated between “legality” and “clandestinity”. …”

“…Beginning with the creation of the first party school by intellectuals on the island of Capri in 1909, David-Fox argues, the Bolshevik cultural project was tightly linked to party educational institutions. …”

“…CONFORTER L'AMELIORATION DU CLIMAT ÉCONOMIQUE ÉVOLUTION INTÉRIEURE ET INTERNATIONALE -Les facteurs déterminant l'activité économique -Politiques monétaires et budgétaires -Emploi et chômage -Coûts, prix et profits -Commerce extérieur et balance des opérations courantes -Évolution monétaire internationale ÉVOLUTION PAR PAYS -Etats-Unis -Japon -Allemagne -France -Royaume-Uni -Italie -Canada -Australie -Autriche -Belgique -Danemark -Espagne -Finlande -Grèce -Irlande -Islande -Luxembourg -Norvège -Nouvelle-Zélande -Pays-Bas -Portugal -Suède -Suisse -Turquie PREVISIONS DÉTAILLÉES ET AUTRES INFORMATIONS DE BASE -Principales hypothèses -Demande et production -Eléments d'analyse des politiques budgétaires -Population active, emploi et chômage -Prévisions de l'inflation -Evolution récente de l'inflation -Commerce extérieur et invisibles ANNEXE TECHNIQUE -Sources et méthodes -Classification par pays -Statistiques de base…”

“…EINLEITUNG OECD-WIRTSCHAFTSAUSBLICK: ÜBERSICHT UND POLITIK -Gesamtbeurteilung der makroökonomischen Situation -Jüngste Entwicklung und Aussichten -Hauptbestimmungsfaktoren für die Wirtschaftsaktivität -Risikofaktoren angesichts der gegenwärtigen Situation -Makroökonomische Politik -Anhang: Auswirkungen der Yen-Aufwertung -Konsequenzen der angespannten Finanzlage für den Wirtschaflsaufschwung -Einige Maßnahmen zur qualitativen Verbesserung der Staalsausgaben ENTWICKLUNG IN DEN EINZELNEN OECD-LANDERN -USA -Japan -Deutschland -Frankreich -Italien -Großbritannien -Kanada -Australien -Belgien -Dänemark -Finnland -Griechenland -Irland -Island -Luxemburg -Neuseeland -Niederlande -Norwegen -Österreich -Portugal -Schweden -Schweiz -Spanien -Türkei ENTWICKLUNG IN AUSGEWÄHLTEN NICHT-OECD-LANDERN -Mittel- und Osteuropa und die Neuen Unabhängigen Staaten der ehemaligen Sowjetunion -Sonstige Regionen STATISTISCHER ANHANG (engl. …”

“…EINLEITUNG OECD-WIRTSCHAFTSAUSBLICK: ÜBERSICHT UND POLITIK-Gesamtbeurteilung der Wirtschaftslage -Jüngste Entwicklung und Aussichten -Unsicherheitsfaktoren beim projizierten Verlaufsmuster des Aufschwungs -Sicherung einer dauerhaften Expansion -Mittelfristige Entwicklung in den OECD-Ländern -Schätzung des Produktionspotentials, der Lücke zwischen potentieller und effektiver Produktion und der strukturellen Haushaltssalden -Tendenzen im internationalen Handel ENTWICKLUNG IN DEN EINZELNEN OECD-LÄNDERN -USA -Japan -Deutschland -Frankreich -Italien -Vereinigtes Königreich -Kanada -Australien -Belgien -Dänemark -Finnland -Griechenland -Irland -Island -Luxemburg -Mexiko -Neuseeland -Niederlande -Norwegen -Osterreich -Portugal -Schweden -Schweiz -Spanien -Türkei ENTWICKLUNG IN AUSGEWÄHLTEN NICHT-OECD-LÄNDERN -Mittel- und Osteuropäische Länder und russische Föderation -China und Dynamische Volkswirtschaften Asiens -Süd- und Mittelamerika ANHANG (engl. …”

“…Wonder Wheel-La rueda de la maravilla, película realizada por el infatigable Woody Allen, presenta una historia complicada, como lo es la situación de la familia que tiene su refugio a los pies de la noria que domina el parque de atracciones de Coney Island. Dos cónyuges ya no tan jóvenes, cada uno de los cuales carga a sus espaldas con un pasado borrascoso, viven en un estado de precario equilibrio. …”

“…The editors connect the preoccupations of Pacific archaeologists with those of their colleagues working in other island regions and on 2big questions3 of colonisation, migration, interaction and patterns and processes of cultural change in hitherto-uninhabited environments. …”

“…Drawing on long-term ethnographic research alongside Pacific Islander and neo-phenomenological conceptual frameworks, Music Worlding distinguishes between meaning(s) and meaningfulness in Palauan music-making. …”

“…This volume brings together contributions from leading international experts as well as from the island itself, analysing the economic, political and social challenges facing Cuba today La crisis económica a raíz de la pandemia de COVID está poniendo a prueba el socialismo cubano. …”

“…This Special Issue aims to collect high-quality studies that combine the aforementioned solutions, including works pertaining to: The hot, warm, and cold recycling of reclaimed asphalt pavement; Marginal materials for asphalt pavements; Innovative sustainable materials; Durability and environmental aspects; Structure performance, modeling and design; Advanced trends in rehabilitation and preservation; Surface characteristics and road safety; Management system/life cycle analysis; Urban heat island mitigation; Energy harvesting…”

“…The chapters cover a range of topics, from an evaluation of proposals for political reform in the early 2000s, a review of the discussion of 'failing states’ in the island Pacific and the shift to limited preferential voting in 2007, to a detailed account of political developments from the move against Sir Michael Somare in 2011 to the election of Prime Minister Marape and his performance to 2022. …”

“…They demonstrate the existence of a vibrant island society with various evolving cult practices. …”

“…In sieben Länderbeiträgen werden die Chancen und Herausforderungen des beruflichen Wiedereinstiegs in Belgien, Deutschland, Griechenland, Island, Polen, Slowenien und der Türkei beleuchtet - in einigen Ländern wurde damit Neuland betreten. …”

“…From David Mitchell, the Booker Prize nominee, award-winning writer and one of the featured authors in Granta̕s Best of Young British Novelists 2003 issue, comes his highly anticipated third novel, a work of mind-bending imagination and scope.A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan̕s California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified dinery server on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation -- the narrators of Cloud Atlas hear each other̕s echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small.In his captivating third novel, David Mitchell erases the boundaries of language, genre and time to offer a meditation on humanity̕s dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us…”

“…"The Cypria, so named because its poet supposedly came from the island of Cyprus, was an early Greek epic that is known to us primarily through quotations and references to passages by later authors, as well as through a prose summary of its plot and contents. …”