This book is not about suicide bombers. Tending one's fields, visiting a relative, going to the hospital: for ordinary Palestinians, such everyday activities require negotiating permits and passes, curfews and closures, "sterile roads" and "seam zones"―bureaucratic hurdles ultimately as deadly as outright military incursion. Not since the late Edward Said has there been such an articulate Ara…
This book is a comprehensive reference book and commentary on basic documents about relations between the EU and the People's Republic of China from 1949 to the present. It contains all significant official and unofficial documents in English and Chinese about EU-China relations since the founding of the PRC in 1949. Since the opening-up of China in 1979, and especially after the establishment …
A book on high yield, written by bond market professionals, is exactly what issuers have been waiting for. The elaborations on structures and covenant packages are crystal clear and help to navigate through the intricacies of the product. This book provides a valuable overview of the market. In particular, it offers in-depth analysis of the buy-side for Asian high yield and a detailed guide to …
Kejahatan pencucian uang merupakan salah satu kejahatan yang berkembang pesat seiring dengan peradaban manusia. Dampak yang ditimbulkannya sedemikian besar dan luas. Buku ini membahas aspek-aspek yuridis UU Anti Pencucian Uang dengan fokus penegakan hukum.
An entertaining and thought-provoking portrait of Indonesia: a rich, dynamic, and often maddening nation awash with contradictions. Jakarta tweets more than any other city on earth, but 80 million Indonesians live without electricity and many of its communities still share in ritual sacrifices. Declaring independence in 1945, Indonesia said it would 'work out the details of the transfer of powe…
An entertaining and thought-provoking portrait of Indonesia: a rich, dynamic, and often maddening nation awash with contradictions. Jakarta tweets more than any other city on earth, but 80 million Indonesians live without electricity and many of its communities still share in ritual sacrifices. Declaring independence in 1945, Indonesia said it would 'work out the details of the transfer of powe…
Conflict and Reconciliation in the Contemporary World gives a concise, original and multi-faceted introduction to the study of modern conflict situations. Using eight case- studies, from four continents: Yugoslavia, Israel, Northern Ireland, South Africa, El Salvador, Cambodia, Cyprus and Afghanistan, it includes discussion on: - threatened regional peace and security - cycles of internal dis…
Over the last two years, the world economy has gone through a major crisis. The twenty-sixth session of UNCTAD’s Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting (ISAR) provides an important opportunity for examining various issues pertaining to corporate accounting and reporting in the context of the financial crisis. The objective of this wor…
"One of the most remarkable phenomena of the past decade has been the renascence of Humanism in various ideological systems," observes Erich Fromm in his introduction to this volume, which gathers together for the first time the free-ranging thoughts of a new group of thinkers most of whom call themselves "socialist humanists," and who, despite their vastly divergent backgrounds and political c…
This important volume advocates a pro-poor growth strategy where the poor also participate directly as subjects in development. The contributors maintain that a critical element in this process is social mobilization where organizations of the poor work in partnership with a restructured state and a socially responsible private sector. They see a new political space for this in the current atte…