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The book proposes an informational theory of constitutional review highlighting the mediator role of constitutional courts in democratic conflict solving.
On the island of Fuerteventura, the Germans have built a house of 'rest' that offers all kinds of pleasure to their submarine officers after hard months in the deep sea. The British secret service to infiltrate Erika Simon, German Jewish exile in England, in the group of prostitutes who enliven the leisure hours of the Germans. Its mission is to gather as much information as possible about the movement of the dreaded submarines. Your risk, involve your heart in an unexpected relationship. His dilemma, trapped in a terrifying crossroads: betray your allies or betray her lover ...
Alberto Vzquez-Figueroa, the acclaimed popular novelist, has given us in Ebano a novel in his own tremendously realistic and almost cinematographic style. This time his novel is set in Africa, the main characters being a young European lecturer and his wife, an ebullient and idealistic black African who tries to bring to the attention of the Western world the miserable plight of her home country. While on honeymoon in Africa, she is abducted during one of her husband’s absences. So begins the young man’s odyssey to find his wife who, suffering great hardship, is taken to Arabia —to be sold to a sheik for a large sum of money.
'NDiaye is a hypnotic storyteller with an unflinching understanding of the rock-bottom reality of most people's life.' New York Times ' One of France's most exciting prose stylists.' The Guardian. Obsessed by her encounters with the mysterious green women, and haunted by the Garonne River, a nameless narrator seeks them out in La Roele, Paris, Marseille, and Ouagadougou. Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined, dead or alive, seductive or suicidal, driving the narrator deeper into her obsession, in this unsettling exploration of identity, memory and paranoia. Self Portrait in Green is the multi-prize winning, Marie NDiaye's brilliant subversion of the memoir. Written in diary entries, with lyrical prose and dreamlike imagery, we start with and return to the river, which mirrors the narrative by posing more questions than it answers.
When the Mexican people swept Vicente Fox into office in 2000, they broke the dictatorial one-party rule that had strangled Mexico for more than seventy years. Elected as a political outsider with a message of hope, President Fox steered Mexico's fragile young democracy through turbulent times. Now, in this vivid and intimate book, President Fox tells his inspiring personal story and shares his new vision for the future of the Americas. A native son of Mexico, grandson of pioneers from the United States and Spain, he worked his way up from ranch hand and truck driver to become the youngest CEO in the history of Coca-Cola Mexico. His political rise from precinct worker to world leader was equ...
The secrets to Apple's success and how to use them, from the Apple insider Ken Segall In Think Simple, Apple insider and New York Times bestselling author Ken Segall gives you the tools to Apple's success - and shows you how to use them. It's all about simplicity. Whether you're in a multinational corporation or a lean startup, this guide will teach you how to crush complexity and focus on what matters; how to perform better, faster and more efficiently. Combining his insight from Apple with examples from companies across industries all over the world - including Ben & Jerry's, Whole Foods, Intel and HyundaiCard - Segall provides a simple roadmap for any company to find success.