Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal bastions of freedom and democracy. Drawing on extensive research and making Hebrew sources accessible to the international community, Maya Wind shatters this myth and documents how Israeli universities are directly complicit in the violation of Palestinian rights.As this book shows, Israeli universities serve as pillars of Israel's system of oppression against Palestinians. Academic disciplines, degree programs, campus ...

In Occidente le università israeliane vengono dipinte come bastioni liberali del pluralismo e della democrazia, ma in realtà hanno un ruolo chiave nel regime di oppressione del popolo palestinese. Rendendo accessibili a livello internazionale molti documenti ufficiali israeliani, Maya Wind mostra infatti come i corsi di laurea, le infrastrutture dei campus e i laboratori di ricerca siano attivamente coinvolti in ciò che è sempre più diffusamente riconosciuto come un regime di apartheid. De...

The story most often commonly told about the Maya involves their spectacular collapse at the height of their civilization in the early ninth century CE. Crops died, disease and malnutrition spread, and scorched earth warfare became common. People lost faith in their governments and moved to the Caribbean coast, the mountains of Guatemala, or further afield. But there is another tale that is equally compelling. One hundred years earlier, a group of kings known as the Snakes created a League...

Wanneer Jo door haar man wordt ingeruild voor een jongere vriendin verhuist ze naar een binnenvaartschip op de Theems. Tijdens haar huwelijk hoefde ze alleen maar te koken, maar ze merkt al snel dat ze nu meer zal moeten doen om de boel drijvende te houden.Gelukkig krijgt ze hulp van een vriendin van haar dochter. Dora is op het laatste moment weggevlucht van haar bruiloft en vraagt Jo om een veilige haven waar ze haar leven op orde kan krijgen. De beide vrouwen krijgen al snel ong...

In the pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican world, histories and collections of ritual knowledge were often presented in the form of painted and folded books now known as codices, and the knowledge itself was encoded into pictographs. Eight codices have survived from the Mixtec peoples of ancient Oaxaca, Mexico; a part of one of them, the Codex Zouche-Nuttall, is the subject of this book. As a group, the Mixtec codices contain the longest detailed histories and royal genealogies known for any indigen...

Ein verschlafenes Fischerdorf, ein Mann, der lieber schweigt als zu reden, und eine Liebe, die niemand erwartet hat. Als die Journalistin Ava in das kleine Küstenstädtchen Port Isley kommt, will sie eigentlich nur eine Geschichte schreiben. Doch schnell merkt sie, dass das Leben hier anders tickt: Die Menschen kennen einander beim Namen, die Boote legen im Morgengrauen ab, und Geheimnisse werden im Rauschen der Wellen verborgen. Mitten in diesem Alltag trifft sie auf William, einen Fischer...