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Subjects / keywords: SCHMITTER, PHILIPPE C; UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS; 382.91728 S377a

Subjects / keywords: Ciencias Políticas; Seguridad (Nacional e Internacional)

In recent decades, the belief in progress that was widespread across the two centuries following the French Revolution has withered away. This article suggests, though, that the diagnosis of the end of progress can be us...

Subjects / keywords: IZENBERG, GERALD N; PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS; 150.1952 I98e

The present book has been written for teachers and students of English as a second language (L2, henceforth) and considers the three educational levels, namely, school, college and university. They will find it as a usef...

The title of this book pays homage to Vittorio Gregotti’s The Territory of Architecture, but substituting the word territory for the word landscape, because the latter is a more personal concept and is related to the p...

We are pleased to present to the entire academic community and the general public the following work, which contains recent research results of a group of teachers from the Faculty of Educational Sciences in areas such a...

The Secret Sex of Money throws the spotlight on female forms of dependence such as Money, Sex, Power and Subordination. As has always been the case, economic independence is no guarantee of a woman's autonomy. This book ...

If development as human progress takes itself seriously, it has to reveal the deceitful publicity of development as capitalist freedom. Development as capitalist freedom is currently discussed under the heading globalisa...

The liberatory effect of democratic ethics, following the introduction of the institutions of an inclusive democracy, is the necessary condition for paedeia. In turn, Paedeia is the sufficient condition for the developme...

This study pioneered the construction or adaptation of a Spanish version of the Teacher as Social Context (TASC) Questionnaire. The current study included a sample of 410 secondary education teachers in Spain. A confirma...

This study aimed to investigate the impact of work values (i.e., autonomy, competence and growth, and job security) on employee effort from a needs-supplies fit perspective. Using data from 295 employees and their 57 sup...

The article discusses the practicability of application of the iura novit curia principle in international arbitration and the potential problems arising thereof. The procedural principle governing most civil-law jurisdi...

This article seeks to refute the thesis of contemporary environmental criticism of the aesthetic origins of American lawn culture. In contrast to the prevailing view about the aesthetic autonomy of the perfect front lawn...

Title: "Institutional Autonomy of Educational Centers: Premises, Organization, Strategies" (Translation). "The proceedings of a conference dedicated to exploring institutional autonomy as it concerns Spanish educational ...

This article analyses how small entrepreneurs navigate the political economy of Transnistria, a de facto state characterised by external dependence, oligarchic concentration of power, and geopolitical uncertainty. Drawin...

The aim of the paper is to show the peripeties of codification of the concept of (business) travel in connection with the performance of work in the municipality of the workplace and the legislative and technical problem...

The EU legislator has modified once again the so-called Brussels 2 bis Regulation. The new regulation 2019/1111 adds new provisions on parental responsibility and child abduction, but leaves those on divorce largely unto...

This article is devoted to the Philippine Autonomy Act from the year 1916. The aim of this paper is to evaluate which circumstances lead to its passing and which steps in legislation and politics had to be realized befor...

This work normatively theorizes legal pluralism and analyzes the interaction of the indigenous peoples of Canada and Australia with state law. Jeremy Webber develops in this work a normative theory of legal pluralism ana...

What is the dramatic action in Lully and his librettists ’ “tragedies en musique”? We argue that it consists in the necessary deployment of a set of passions carefully articulated, according to an initially euphori...

Gower’s “Tale of Florent”, Chaucer’s “Wife of Bath’s Tale” and the anonymous romance “The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle” are three late-medieval English texts that repeatedly confront their ma...

Until the early 19th century, the selection of educational measures available to parents in relation to the children under their care was not usually legally restricted. A change in this issue can be observed with the em...