Landscape Of Hope And Despair: Palestinian Refugee Camps (The Ethnography of Political Violence)

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In this book, Martin Bunton focuses on the way in which the Palestine Mandate was part of a broader British imperial administration - a fact often masked by Jewish immigration and land purchase in Palestine. His meticulous research reveals clear links to colonial practice in India, Sudan, and
Cyprus amongst other places. He argues that land officials' views on sound land management were derived from their own experiences of rural England, and that this was far more influential on the shaping of land policies than the promise of a Jewish National Home.

Bunton reveals how the British were intent on preserving the status quo of Ottoman land law, which (when few Britons could read Ottoman or were well grounded in its legal codes) led to a series of translations, interpretations, and hence new applications of land law. The sense of importance the
British attributed to their work surveying and registering properties and transactions, is captured in the efforts of British officials to microfilm all of their records at the height of the Second World War. Despite this however, land policies remained in flux.

Constructing Boundaries: Jewish and Arab Workers in Mandatory Palestine (S U N Y Series in Israeli Studies)

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Constructing Boundaries: Jewish and Arab Workers in Mandatory Palestine (S U N Y Series in Israeli Studies)
Deborah Bernstein
Manufacturer: State University of New York Press
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ASIN: 0791445399

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Constructing Boundaries examines the competition, interaction, and impact among Jewish and Arab workers in the labor market of Mandatory Palestine. It is both a labor market study, based on the Split Labor Market Theory, and a case study of the labor market of Haifa, the center of economic development in Mandatory Palestine. Bernstein demonstrates the impact of the pervasive national conflict on the relations between the workers of the two nationalities and between their labor movements. She analyzes the attempts of Jewish workers to construct boundaries between themselves and the Arab workers, and also highlights cases of cooperation between Jewish and Arab workers and of joint class struggle.

Development Under Adversity: The Palestinian Economy in Transition

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Development Under Adversity: The Palestinian Economy in Transition

Manufacturer: World Bank Publications
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ASIN: 0821344188

Documents and Essays on Jewish Labour Policy in Palestine

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Documents and Essays on Jewish Labour Policy in Palestine
General Federation of Jewish Labour in Israel
Manufacturer: Greenwood Press Reprint
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A collection of documents, testimony, and essays dealing with political and economic issues in Palestine following the August 1929 riots.

The Economic Viability of a Palestinian State (Ips Papers)

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The Economic Viability of a Palestinian State (Ips Papers)
George T. Abed
Manufacturer: Inst for Palestine Studies
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ASIN: 0887282091

The Economics of Palestine: Economic Policy & Institutional Reform for a Viable Palestine (Routledge Studies in Development Economics)

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The Economics of Palestine: Economic Policy & Institutional Reform for a Viable Palestine (Routledge Studies in Development Economics)

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ASIN: 041532761X

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Suppose that a sovereign independent state of Palestine were to come into existence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. What economic policies and institutional reforms would be necessary? This book attempts to answer this interesting question.

The creation of any "new" state is an interesting enough situation to analyze but in the case of Palestinian state, with all the baggage that this entails, the outcomes of such an analysis are intriguing. Many important issues are discussed including:

* the flow of Palestinian labor to Israel
* corporate governance, the financial sector and pensions
* overall development strategies, foreign aid and the return of refugees

With contributions from internationally respected contributors, this volume is well-written, accessible, and important on many levels from students and academics involved with development economics, politics, and international relations through to policy-makers and those with a general interest in the Middle East.

The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-Development

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The Gaza Strip
The most comprehensive study on the economy of Gaza

The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-Development
Sara Roy
Manufacturer: Inst for Palestine Studies
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ASIN: 0887282601

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In this ground-breaking and comprehensive study, Sara Roy examines in detail the political economy of the Gaza Strip since the Israeli occupation in 1967. Providing an historical context for Israeli economic policy, Roy argues that despite certain economic benefits that have accrued to the Gaza Strip as a result of its interaction with Israel, Israeli policy in the strip has been guided by political concerns that not only hindered, but blocked internal economic development. The first study of its kind to investigate fully Palestinian economic development in Gaza, The Gaza Strip is of great importance for not only economists and development specialists, but also scholars, policy makers and all those interested in Gaza.

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Ignore the Daniel Pipes review.......2002-07-05

As usual, Pipes backs up his arguments with nothing save petulant diatribe. Roy's study of Gaza is first-rate and highly recommended by many scholars in the field. A very thoroughly investigated look at the Israeli governments slow destruction of infrastructure and economy within the Occupied Territories.

The Gaza Strip.......2001-07-27

Though her ostensible subject is Gaza, Roy's emotions are engaged when the subject is Israel. The Israeli government, she writes, "has attempted to dispossess Palestinians of their political and cultural patrimony through the direct expropriation of their economic resources." So intense is her hatred of things Israeli that Roy finds normal language inadequate. Instead, she reverts to archaisms (its military occupation since 1967 has been "malefic") and neologisms (its policy in Gaza has been one of "de-development," a term she made up to mean the "deliberate, systematic destruction of an indigenous economy by a dominant power"). Even when the Israelis do something right, such as subsidize the growing of carnations in Gaza, Roy finds that the Palestinians "suffered considerable losses" from the program, due to the capriciousness of the Israeli marketing company. As for the Declaration of Principles (DoP), the less said, the better: Roy writes that this agreement "will not alter the underlying relationship between occupier and occupied, only its form."

When Palestinian sympathizers like Roy dismiss Yasir Arafat as a sell-out for having signed the DoP, it invariably prompts the thought that they are less interested in the welfare of Palestinians than with the opportunity to vent spleen at the Jewish state. Its academic trappings aside, this would seem to a be a book whose purpose first and last is to discredit Israel.

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The most comprehensive study on the economy of Gaza.......1999-11-17

This book is the most thorough analysis of the economy in the Gaza Strip that I have been able to find. I highly recommend it for those who seek more details than your average sources. Very well documented and referenced as well.

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Israel and dollar diplomacy
Victor Perlo
Manufacturer: New Century Publishers
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ASIN: B0007F6R3W

Management of Shared Groundwater Resources - The Israeli-Palestinian Case with an International Perspective (Natural Resource Management and Policy, Volume 18)

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Management of Shared Groundwater Resources - The Israeli-Palestinian Case with an International Perspective (Natural Resource Management and Policy, Volume 18)

Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: 0792372549

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Most of the world's freshwater resources in the liquid state (i.e. not in glaciers and polar caps) are underground. As the population grows and demand for water rises, reliance on groundwater increases. In many cases the groundwater underlies boundaries, or is part of a hydraulic system that crosses boundaries. In such cases there is always the danger that the 'prisoner's dilemma' will run its course and all parties will compete over who will pump the most water, ultimately destroying the storage potential to the detriment of future generations of all parties reliant on the groundwater. This book explores the options and means for averting this all too realistic scenario by managing these shared groundwater resources. Nowhere is the likelihood of excessive use of groundwater greater than in the water-scarce Middle East, and especially in the Israeli-Palestinian case. Here both sides are heavily reliant on a shared aquifer, the Mountain aquifer. This book is the outcome of a seven-year effort to find ways to manage the Mountain aquifer, perhaps the most important resource shared by Israelis and Palestinians. As part of this cooperative study, four workshops were held in which a selected number of Palestinian, Israeli, and foreign experts were invited. The chapters in this book were originally presented in one of these workshops. To these papers introductory and concluding chapters were added.

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While western-derived legal codes have superseded Islamic law in many parts of the Muslim world, Islamic, Koran-based law still retains its force in the area of marriage and family relations, the area that is key to the status of women. This work makes available for the first time in English three compilations of responses to questions about family law given by two prominent Muslim jurists of the ninth century (third century of Islam)--Ahmad b. Hanbal, the eponymous founder of the Hanbali rite of Sunni Islam (the one dominant in Saudi Arabia), and Ishaq b. Rahwayh. These compilations are basic sources for the study of the development of legal thinking in Islam. The introduction to the translation locates the compilations in a historical context and elucidates how the various issues of family law are treated. An appendix contains a collation of the significant variants among the manuscripts and printed versions of the Arabic texts. The volume concludes with a topical index and an index of names.

Chapters on Marriage and Divorce: Responses of Ibn Hanbal and Ibn Rahwayh. (book reviews): An article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society

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Chapters on Marriage and Divorce: Responses of Ibn Hanbal and Ibn Rahwayh. (book reviews): An article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
G.H.A. Juynboll
Manufacturer: American Oriental Society
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00092Z1E4
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from The Journal of the American Oriental Society, published by American Oriental Society on October 1, 1994. The length of the article is 860 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Chapters on Marriage and Divorce: Responses of Ibn Hanbal and Ibn Rahwayh. (book reviews)
Author: G.H.A. Juynboll
Publication: The Journal of the American Oriental Society (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 1994
Publisher: American Oriental Society
Volume: v114 Issue: n4 Page: p680(1)

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Provides a detailed account of events in Colombian agriculture in the 1990s, analyzing the consequences of recent free-market policy reforms and illustrating how macroeconomic developments are critical in determining the performance of agriculture.

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This series of topic books is suitable for students studying a wide range of biological subjects at advanced level, or as part of a vocational course. The series brings together topics that are now part of A-level courses, but which are seldom covered in sufficient depth in traditional textbooks. Biodiversity studies the great diversity of organisms which occur on Earth. It addresses how global diversity has evolved and how it is monitored. The text also considers how biodiversity can be maintained under present day threats such as global climate change, pollution and increasing human populations.

Saprotrophic mycelial cord abundance, length and survivorship are reduced in the conversion of tropical cloud forest to shaded coffee plantation [An article from: Biological Conservation]

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Saprotrophic mycelial cord abundance, length and survivorship are reduced in the conversion of tropical cloud forest to shaded coffee plantation [An article from: Biological Conservation]
R. Guevara
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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ASIN: B000RR73UG

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One of the most conspicuous soil elements of the tropical cloud forest in central Veracruz, mycelial cord-forming fungi, is strongly affected by the conversion of forest into shaded coffee plantations. Mycelial cord-forming fungi are less abundant, smaller and have a sharper mortality rate in shaded coffee plantations than in relatively conserved forest sites. I present evidence that suggests that changes in soil microenvironmental conditions affect the abundance of mycelial cord forming fungi. These results lend further support to growing evidence that the biodiversity of the understorey and soil are not being conserved within shaded coffee plantations. This contrasts markedly with other studies that suggest that over storey biota is effectively conserved by this conversion.

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In most peroxisomal disorders the nervous system is severely affected which explains the clinical and community burden they represent. This is the first book to focus not only on the mutations causing these inherited illnesses, but also on mechanisms that regulate, suppress or enhance expression of genes and their products (enzymes). Indeed since the success and completion of the Human Genome Project all genes (coding DNA sequences) are known. However, of many, their function, and the role of the gene product has not been determined. An example is X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy, the most frequent peroxisomal disorder. Children are born healthy, but in more than 1 out of 3, demyelination of the brain starts unpredictably and they die in a vegetative state. The gene mutated in most families has been known for 10 years; but the true role of the encoded protein, ALDp, is still speculative; and within the same family, very severe and asymptomatic clinical histories co-exist, unexplained by the mutation.

Peroxisomal Disorders and Regulation of Genes

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Peroxisomal Disorders and Regulation of Genes
Frank Roels
Manufacturer: Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
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ASIN: B000MBSW6G

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Seduced by simplicity, physicists find themselves endlessly fascinated by hydrogen, the simplest of atoms. Hydrogen has shocked, it has surprised, it has embarrassed, it has humbled--and again and again it has guided physicists to the edge of new vistas where the promise of basic understanding and momentous insights beckoned. The allure of hydrogen, crucial to life and critical to scientific discovery, is at the center of this book, which tells a story that begins with the big bang and continues to unfold today.

In this biography of hydrogen, John Rigden shows how this singular atom, the most abundant in the universe, has helped unify our understanding of the material world from the smallest scale, the elementary particles, to the largest, the universe itself. It is a tale of startling discoveries and dazzling practical benefits spanning more than one hundred years--from the first attempt to identify the basic building block of atoms in the mid-nineteenth century to the discovery of the Bose-Einstein condensate only a few years ago. With Rigden as an expert and engaging guide, we see how hydrogen captured the imagination of many great scientists--such as Heisenberg, Pauli, Schrödinger, Dirac, and Rabi--and how their theories and experiments with this simple atom led to such complex technical innovations as magnetic resonance imaging, the maser clock, and global positioning systems. Along the way, we witness the transformation of science from an endeavor of inspired individuals to a monumental enterprise often requiring the cooperation of hundreds of scientists around the world.

Still, any biography of hydrogen has to end with a question: What new surprises await us?

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Hydrogen.......2005-08-27

An excellent description, not only of the Hydrogen atom, but the way that very simple structure informed scientists about more complex structures in the universe. Very well written and not mathematically intense.

reflects a turning point for physics.......2003-08-01

John Rigden has achieved a remarkable synthesis here in humanizing what is normally a coldly inhuman subject. I have always been interested in the mechanics of subatomic processes, but have found it difficult to understand when presented as an end-product of research efforts. This book contextualizes the research effort in such a way as to relate the research findings to the real life people who struggled to obtain them. In the process, I ended up learning the details of the nature of hydrogen much better than in any other book.

I think this kind of humanizing of physics is overdue and marks a welcome development for future efforts in physics writing. Physics is, in the end, a human endeavor and can only be understood in detail when presented as such.

As an example of the difference, I will quote from page 216 in reference to David Schramm-- "David was a first-rate scientist, 'but,' as Margaret Geller has written, 'perhaps more important in this harsh world, he was an extraordinary person of great generosity and kindness.'"

These words are apt for this effort by John Rigden... the book is a work of great generosity and kindness. I look forward to seeing this sentiment be taken up in future works in the field of physics.

Interesting look at physics history.......2002-10-19

The author takes us on a history of 20th century physics by focusing on the signal element of Hydrogen. He does a good job of providing enough technical detail to make it clear why certain discoveries are important without overwhelming you. His choice of focusing on Hydrogen does limit him a little as to what he looks at though. A fairly short book so worth the investment in time for me.

Simplicity to Demonstrate Complexity.......2002-09-09

It makes sense, if you are going to try to understand something, to go to the simplest instance of it and get all the information you can from the subject unimpeded by complications. Hydrogen is the simplest of all atoms. It is all around us; though hydrogen gas floats out of our atmosphere to join the hydrogen atoms that are in the "vacuum" of space, hydrogen makes up a large proportion of stars, water, and ourselves. John S. Rigden has written an admiring tribute to the simplest atom, _Hydrogen: The Essential Element_ (Harvard University Press). It turns out that hydrogen has played an enormous role in our understanding of matter and energy, and that the simplest of atoms is so complicated and surprising that Rigden's book is a continual source of elemental wonder.

Hydrogen is element number one, only a single electron orbiting a single proton. Repeatedly Rigden shows that this simplicity has been a boon to research. The lessons learned from this basic atom, in Rigden's story, form a history of physics in the twentieth century. The refinements to theory have largely been to explain the dark bands in the spectrum produce when hydrogen is made to glow. Niels Bohr produced the first modern picture of the atom, incorporating the experimental data from Rutherford and the hydrogen spectrum, but recklessly disregarding the historic laws of physics which he felt could not apply within the atom. He thus began the amazingly successful and fabulously strange quantum explanation for the behavior of matter. Rigden has not just included experimenters and theorizers, but also appealing stories about them, such as I. I. Rabi developing magnetic resonance in the 1930s to measure the nucleus, but then in 1988 being wheeled into a Magnetic Resonance Imaging machine. He said, "It was eerie... I would never have dreamed that my work would come to this." _Hydrogen_ is not just about understanding the inner workings of the atom, but also about hydrogen as the ticker of a clock, as anti-matter, and as a confirmer of big bang cosmology.

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Novel explores turbulent side of literary genius.......2003-09-23

I found this book to be unlike the other works I had read by Edith Wharton. While her books "The Age of Innocence," "The House of Mirth" and "The Children" focused on the intricacies of upper-class society, "Hudson River Bracketed" is more about the creative personality. Young Vance Weston comes to New York State from a small town in the midwest. Untutored, he has a strong desire to write, and he makes his way in the New York literary world. He forms a strong friendship with a wealthy and brilliant women, Halo Tarrant. This book occasionally felt a bit like a pot-boiler, but it did hold my attention, particularly due to the way that Vance was in many ways a difficult person, yet undeniably a talented writer. There is a sequel (which I have not read) called "The Gods Arrive"

The Gods Arrive a Sequel to Hudson River Bracketed

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The Gods Arrive a Sequel to Hudson River Bracketed
Edith Wharton
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The Gods Arrive, a Sequel to Hudson River Bracketed

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Hudson River Bracketed
Edith Wharton
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HUDSON RIVER BRACKETED
Edith Wharton
Manufacturer: Grosset & Dunlap
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Hudson River Bracketed.
Edith Wharton
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Hudson River Bracketed. (Centennial Edition.)

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Hudson River Bracketed. (Centennial Edition.)
Edith Wharton
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Edith Wharton
Hudson River Bracketed
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HUDSON RIVER BRACKETED
WHARTON EDITH
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ASIN: B000PH21VY

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Hudson River Bracketed
Edith Wharton
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