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Why have referendums on European integration proliferated since the 1970s? How are referendums accommodated within member states' constitutional orders and with what impact on the European integration process? What is the likely institutional impact of referendums on the future of the European integration...

Stemming from an international and multidisciplinary network of leading specialists, this best-selling text is fully updated with new chapter additions. With the first edition prepared at the end of the last century and the second edition adding inter-regional relations, this new edition focuses on...

The Records of Mazu and the Making of Classical Chan Literature explores the growth, makeup, and transformation of Chan (Zen) Buddhist literature in late medieval China. The volume analyzes the earliest extant records about the life, teachings, and legacy of Mazu Daoyi (709-788), the famous leader...

Violence is hard to escape because of the scars it leaves—on the body, the mind, and the heart. Small, skinny, and timid, Matt is the school’s punching bag. He suffers in silence and holds no hope anyone will come to his aid. The last thing on his mind is finding someone special. He’s...

The moon. Engine of tides and inspiration to lovers. Unchanging and eternal. Or is it? What if the moon disappeared? Savor three intertwined tales of the vanished moon: extinguished by semantics, indifference, and love. (short story)

When the road to riches becomes the road to ruin. Panama: a tropical paradise with an anything-goes attitude. Bring your wish list. It’s a place to start. Or to start over. Where the best of intentions are dazzled by the glitter of easy money. Steven McKay chases the quick bucks in offshore finance,...

The book is about a lesser-known Venice; Palladio, libraries, artisans, the stones used in mosaics and monuments, places linked to music, and literary landscapes. There is also a chapter dedicated to “Instructions for losing your way” and a list of useful addresses and information about events, libraries, museums and exhitibitions, theatres, cinemas and bookshops.

Before she knew it, she grabbed the knife and saw a pair of sad bleary hazel eyes, bewitching and beautiful otherwise, on a freckled pale face looking back at her. She looked terrible. The knife, too, seemed to tell her off, pushing her into a deeper slump, 'You don't belong up there girl. I'll show you your place, down below the cuts and bloods.'

A Complete Guide To Organic Gardening, Resources On The Net, Pros And Cons, Organic Gardening Trend, Organic Vegetable Gardening and How To Grow A Garden!

The ones who studied latin have idioms and phrases in mind that they would like to reuse without, at times, having a clear memory of them. The ones who, instead, couldn't study it often find quotes, because that is the language in which those thoughts were born. Here we have those concepts, useful...

Devemos conclamar as pessoas a se interessarem pela política do cotidiano ou estaríamos diante de algo novo, um momento de saturação do que já conhecemos e maturação de novas formas de organização social e política? Esse livro apresenta um debate inspirador sobre os rumos da política na...

The future of public space is uncertain. Although public spaces have become increasingly shabby and crowded, novel alternatives have appeared in the form of fantastic, semi-public pleasure grounds, developed by well-heeled, crowd-pleasing entrepreneurs and devoted to profit, consumption, and self-indulgence....

From the most prominent thinkers in Latin American philosophy, literature, politics, and social science comes a challenge to conventional theories of globalization. The contributors to this volume imagine a discourse in which revolution is defined not as a temporalized march of progress or takeover...

This is a book about the crisis of the European integration project as seen from the vantage point of people’s movements across and to the European continent. But why should the issue of refugees or of migration have anything to do with the dynamics of the integration or disintegration of the European...