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Fiber-to-the-Home Technologies

By: Josep Prat,Pere E. Balaguer,Joan M. Gené,Oscar Díaz,Sergi Figuerola

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Fiber-to-the-Home Technologies

By: Josep Prat,Pere E. Balaguer,Joan M. Gené,Oscar Díaz,Sergi Figuerola

This broad-ranging volume fundamentally covers all the variable factors of development and advancement of the promising technology of FTTH, which will be the key broadband telecom access technique to the end users of the future.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1475752199

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9781475752199

Egyptian-Type Documents from the Mediterranean Littoral of the Iberian Peninsula before the Roman Conquest, Volume 1 Introductory Survey

By: Josep Padró i Parcerisa

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Egyptian-Type Documents from the Mediterranean Littoral of the Iberian Peninsula before the Roman Conquest, Volume 1 Introductory Survey

By: Josep Padró i Parcerisa

Preliminary material -- CHRONICLE OF PREVIOUS RESEARCH -- POSSIBLE CONTACTS WITH EGYPT BEFORE THE FIRST MILLENNIUM -- THE EGYPTIAN, PSEUDOEGYPTIAN AND EGYPTIANIZING MATERIAL -- INDEX -- LIST OF PLATES -- Plates I-XXVIII.

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144

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BRILL

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9004295364

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9789004295360

Global Housing Projects

25 buildings since 1980

By: Josep Llu's Mateo

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Global Housing Projects

25 buildings since 1980

By: Josep Llu's Mateo

The world is merging into one global system of goods, people and information. This book explores the social, cultural, and economic phenomena of globalization through housing. The Chair of Architecture and Design at the ETH in Zurich examines the last 25 years of housing development. This book is a historical criticism with the built projects as protagonists. Housing typologies have been chosen as contemporary architectural prototypes. The selection of housing projects reflects the most innovative and influential built housing projects to propose new important guidelines in housing.

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Actar D, Inc.

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1638409544

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9781638409540

Three Selected Papers on Catalan Folklore

Traditional Literature and Ethnopoetics, Introduction to a History of Folklores Extraordinary Stories, Urban Legends

By: Josep M. Pujol

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Three Selected Papers on Catalan Folklore

Traditional Literature and Ethnopoetics, Introduction to a History of Folklores Extraordinary Stories, Urban Legends

By: Josep M. Pujol

This volume contains a selection of three translations of articles by Josep M. Pujol (Barcelona, 1947–2012), one in each of the three areas that he defined to characterise his work in the field of folklore: the theory of interactive artistic communication; the history of folklore studies and folk literature; and folk narrative. The three articles give a taste of the important contributions he made to the study of folklore, and which have been studied and contextualised by Carme Oriol in the introduction that precedes the three texts. This edition also includes the complete folkloric bibliography of Josep M. Pujol in chronological order, with all the references.

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PUBLICACIONS UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA i VIRGILI

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8469591762

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9788469591765

Foundations of National Identity

From Catalonia to Europe

By: Josep R. Llobera

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Foundations of National Identity

From Catalonia to Europe

By: Josep R. Llobera

Since it emergence in the 19th century in response to feudalism, nationalism has been a mixed blessing. Originally seen as a positive force, often enough it has resulted in warfare and persecution of minorities, so much so that, over time, it has been considered a social evil whose apparent decline has been greeted as a positive development. The author disputes this or rather, he maintains that the picture that emerges is more complex: nationalism is not disappearing but has taken on a different form. What we are experiencing is an increasing autonomy of ethnonations, i.e. nations without a state, in the wake of a weakening of the multinational states and the transfer of their sovereignty upwards, in the case of Europe to the federation of the European Union, and downwards to the "ethnonations." Catalonia is the major case study in this book but it is embedded in a comprehensive theoretical framework as well as the historical and contemporary reality of Europe, opening up a new perspective. The author, one of the foremost scholars in this field, brilliantly succeeds in developing an original, clear and comprehensive vision of nationalism that is accessible to a wide readership.

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230

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Berghahn Books

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1845450426

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9781845450427

Private Life

By: Josep Maria de Sagarra

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Private Life

By: Josep Maria de Sagarra

Private Life holds up a mirror to the moral corruption in the interstices of the Barcelona high society Sagarra was born into. Boudoirs of demimonde tramps, card games dilapidating the fortunes of milquetoast aristocrats - and how they scheme to conceal them - fading manors of selfish scions, and back rooms provided by social-climbing seamstresses are portrayed in vivid, sordid, and literary detail. The novel, practically a roman-à-clef for its contemporaries, was a scandal in 1932. The 1960's edition was bowdlerized by Franco's censors. Part Lampedusa, part Genet, this translation will bring an essential piece of 20th-century European literature to the English-speaking public.

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Archipelago

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0914671278

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9780914671275

Barcelona

20th Century Urbanism

By: Josep Parcerisa

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Barcelona

20th Century Urbanism

By: Josep Parcerisa

What have been the general ideas about the growth of Barcelona over the last fifty years? Why were they so controversial? Why is the Metro still the Cinderella of the Metropolitan system? Who extended the Cerdà plan to the River Besòs? The answer to these questions and many more can be found in this book which explains a century of urbanism in Barcelona, stressing two key periods: the years in which Barcelona was conceived as a capital city and the years in which it was converted into a metropolis. The book closes by raising current topics that have dominated discussion about the city from the turn of the 20th Century and which are crucial to its future. The architect and university lecturer Josep Parcerisa offers us the keys to understanding the city and its recent history. Throughout the book, the reader will find more 300 images that often speak for themselves. For the first time, the urbanism of the city is explained and can be visualised at the same time.

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MARGE BOOKS

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8415340648

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9788415340645

The Spanish Frustration

How a Ruinous Empire Thwarted the Nation-State

By: Josep M. Colomer

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The Spanish Frustration

How a Ruinous Empire Thwarted the Nation-State

By: Josep M. Colomer

Old troubles with remote origins persist in modern Spain, including huge public debts, extensive corruption, widespread unlawfulness, oligarchical politics, territorial splits, and permanent protests and riots. When did Spain screw up? The Spanish Frustration provides an interpretation of several important aspects of present-day Spain and its past stories. It argues that, in the long term, Spain missed the opportunity to become a consolidated modern nation-state because it was entangled in imperial adventures for several centuries when it should have been building a solid domestic basis for further endeavors. In short: a ruinous empire made a weak state, which built an incomplete nation, which sustains a minority democracy.

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Anthem Press

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178308989X

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9781783089895

Another Country

Sexuality and National Identity in Catalan Gay Fiction

By: Josep-Anton Fernàndez

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Another Country

Sexuality and National Identity in Catalan Gay Fiction

By: Josep-Anton Fernàndez

This book studies the emergence, in the late 1960s and 1970s, of a sophisticated body of gay fiction in Catalan, and examines the relation between the representation of homosexuality and the discourses on national identity that legitimate modern Catalan literature. Gay fiction, argues the author, reveals a tension between the nation and the body in Catalan literature: Catalonia is a nation different from Spain, a cultural and political minority within Europe; but the existence of sexual minorities within its boundaries reveals its inner complexity, which resists homogenization. Catalonia is another country in more ways than one. Drawing on a variety of critical discourses (gay theory, psychoanalysis, and authors such as Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, and Bourdieu), Another Country explores the intertwinings of identity, cultural politics, and desire in the work of Terenci Moix, Lluis Fernandez, Biel Mesquida, and Lluis Maria Todo. The book analyses how gay writers renegotiate identity discourses in Catalan literature in order to introduce homosexuality into them, often with destabilising effects. The role of gay authors in the process of canon construction (a crucial aspect of contemporary cultural nationalism in Catalonia) is also considered, focusing on postmodernism and the divide between high and mass culture. Finally, Another Country addresses the interplay of homosexual desire within the frame of a distinction between perversion and transgression, and proposes an alliance between queer and nationalist discourses.

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MHRA

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1902653262

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9781902653266

MIAS Architects at Centre Pompidou

By: Josep Miàs

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MIAS Architects at Centre Pompidou

By: Josep Miàs

As a kid who wanted to be an architect you could either make clay shapes, drag pieces of driftwood into vague boxes—or put together Meccano cages. I followed the last option and surely so did Josep Miás". --Peter Cook Tracing through the pieces being published, you sense that Josep Miás is essentially a man who takes strips and edges and develops them into meshes, and then maybe combs, and then maybe honeycombs with a conspicuously boyish delight in making the sketch, the linear diagram, the scale model and the built building. Underlying the apparently fearless is a sense of what can fly, swing, lurch, lean or rest: in other words the composite that makes something possible to be as it is in space. MiAS Architects is an internationally recognized Architecture and Urbanism Studio, founded by Josep Miás in 2000, known for both its innovative experimental projects and its practice combining sustainable technology, innovative manufacturing and cutting edge construction practices.

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Actar D, Inc.

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163840822X

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9781638408222

The Gray Notebook

By: Josep Pla

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The Gray Notebook

By: Josep Pla

Josep Pla’s masterpiece, The Gray Notebook, is one of the most colorful and unusual works in modern literature. In 1918, when Pla was in Barcelona studying law, the Spanish flu broke out, the university shut down, and he went home to his parents in coastal Palafrugell. Aspiring to be a writer, not a lawyer, he resolved to hone his style by keeping a journal. In it he wrote about his family, local characters, visits to cafés; the quips, quarrels, ambitions, and amours of his friends; writers he liked and writers he didn’t; and the long contemplative walks he would take in the countryside under magnificent skies. Returning to Barcelona to complete his studies, Pla kept up his diary, scrutinizing life in the big city with the same unflagging zest and humor. Pla, one of the great Catalan writers, held on to this youthful journal for close to fifty years, reworking and adding to it, until he finally published The Gray Notebook as both the first volume and the capstone of his collected works. It is a beautiful, entrancing, delightful book—at once a distillation of the spirit of youth and the work of a lifetime.

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New York Review of Books

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1590176715

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9781590176719

Memoir of My Youth in Cuba

A Soldier in the Spanish Army During the Separatist War, 1895–1898

By: Josep Conangla i Fontanilles

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Memoir of My Youth in Cuba

A Soldier in the Spanish Army During the Separatist War, 1895–1898

By: Josep Conangla i Fontanilles

Memoir of My Youth in Cuba: A Soldier in the Spanish Army during the Separatist War, 1895-1898 by Josep Conangla is an important addition to the accounts of Spanish and Cuban soldiers who served in Cuba's second War of Independence.

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206

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University of Alabama Press

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0817358927

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9780817358921

Fuster, una declinació personal

By: Josep Iborra

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Fuster, una declinació personal

By: Josep Iborra

Aquest volum recull alguns dels treballs esparsos de Josep Iborra sobre el pensament i l'obra de Joan Fuster, i sobre el seu perfil personal i humà. Analitza l'assaig fusterià i alguns dels seus aforismes, i també la relació entre Fuster i Montaigne, Valéry o Pascal, entre d'altres. Inclou ressenyes i articles sobre la publicació de la correspondència de Fuster amb escriptors i intel·lectuals catalans de renom, i descriu el context en què va escriure la seua obra. Finalment, també assenyala la influència de Fuster en la literatura catalana, especialment al País Valencià. Josep Iborra, des de la seua experiència com a estudiós i amic de l'escriptor de Sueca, ens ofereix amb aquest conjunt de textos, alguns dels quals són inèdits, una excepcional anàlisi que amplia i completa els estudis precedents de l'obra fusteriana.

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Universitat de València

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8437095298

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9788437095295

In Praise of Historical Anthropology

Perspectives, Methods, and Applications to the Study of Power and Colonialism

By: Alexandre Coello de la Rosa,Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste

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In Praise of Historical Anthropology

Perspectives, Methods, and Applications to the Study of Power and Colonialism

By: Alexandre Coello de la Rosa,Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste

In Praise of Historical Anthropology is based on a fundamental conviction: the study of society cannot be undertaken without considering the weight of history and separations between disciplines in academics need to be bridged for the benefit of knowledge. Anthropology cannot be limited to situating its object in its immediate context; rather its true subject of study is society as a historical problem. The book describes the complex attempts to transcend this separation, presenting perspectives, methodologies and direct applications for the study of power relations and systems of social classification, paying special attention to the reconstruction of colonial situations. Following the maxim expounded by John and Jean Comaroff, this book will help us understand that historical anthropology is not a matter of merging the two disciplines of anthropology and history, but rather considering societies in their historically situated dimension and applying the tools of the social and human sciences to the analysis. In this vein, the book reviews the complex attempts to bridge disciplinary separations and theoretical proposals coming from very different traditions. The text, consequently, opens up hegemonic perspectives to include 'other anthropologies.

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Routledge

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1000038572

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9781000038576

Egyptian-Type Documents from the Mediterranean Littoral of the Iberian Peninsula before the Roman Conquest, Volume 2 Study of the Material

By: Josep Padró i Parcerisa

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Egyptian-Type Documents from the Mediterranean Littoral of the Iberian Peninsula before the Roman Conquest, Volume 2 Study of the Material

By: Josep Padró i Parcerisa

Preliminary material /JOSEP PADRÓ I PARCERISA -- INTRODUCTION /JOSEP PADRÓ I PARCERISA -- I. WESTERN LANGUEDOC /JOSEP PADRÓ I PARCERISA -- II. CATALONIA /JOSEP PADRÓ I PARCERISA -- III. VALENCIA /JOSEP PADRÓ I PARCERISA -- IV. MURCIA /JOSEP PADRÓ I PARCERISA -- INDEX /JOSEP PADRÓ I PARCERISA -- LIST OF PLATES /JOSEP PADRÓ I PARCERISA -- Plates XXIX-LXV /JOSEP PADRÓ I PARCERISA.

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BRILL

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9004296417

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9789004296411

EBOOK: Critical Challenges For Health Care Reform In Europe

By: Richard B. Saltman,Josep Figueras,Constantino Sakellarides

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EBOOK: Critical Challenges For Health Care Reform In Europe

By: Richard B. Saltman,Josep Figueras,Constantino Sakellarides

This volume explores the central issues driving the present process of healthcare reform in Europe. 17 chapters written by scholars and policy makers from all parts of Europe draw together the available evidence from epidemiology and public health, economics, public policy, organizational behaviour and management theory as well as real world policy making experience, laying out the options that health sector decision-makers confront. Through its cross-disciplinary, cross-national approach, the book highlights the underlying trends that now influence health policy formulation across Europe. An authoritative introduction provides a broad synthesis of present trends and strategies in European health policy.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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033523268X

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9780335232680

Remembering the Tatas

Domestic Women and Slavery in Tetouan (19th - 20th centuries)

By: Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste

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Remembering the Tatas

Domestic Women and Slavery in Tetouan (19th - 20th centuries)

By: Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste

This book sheds light on the final process of slavery in Morocco, unraveling the contemporary roots of servility and stereotypes about blackness in the Arab world. Unlike other generalist analyses, this research focuses on the practice of servitude through a case study in the city of Tetouan. Until well into the twentieth century, bought women arrived in the city to join the domestic labor market, also becoming signs of social distinction. This historical ethnography is paradigmatic in reconstructing the relations between masters and domestics of slave origin, putting names and faces to subaltern people to rescue them from oblivion.

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9004681612

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9789004681613

The Imperial Nation

Citizens and Subjects in the British, French, Spanish, and American Empires

By: Josep M. Fradera

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The Imperial Nation

Citizens and Subjects in the British, French, Spanish, and American Empires

By: Josep M. Fradera

How the legacy of monarchical empires shaped Britain, France, Spain, and the United States as they became liberal entities Historians view the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as a turning point when imperial monarchies collapsed and modern nations emerged. Treating this pivotal moment as a bridge rather than a break, The Imperial Nation offers a sweeping examination of four of these modern powers—Great Britain, France, Spain, and the United States—and asks how, after the great revolutionary cycle in Europe and America, the history of monarchical empires shaped these new nations. Josep Fradera explores this transition, paying particular attention to the relations between imperial centers and their sovereign territories and the constant and changing distinctions placed between citizens and subjects. Fradera argues that the essential struggle that lasted from the Seven Years’ War to the twentieth century was over the governance of dispersed and varied peoples: each empire tried to ensure domination through subordinate representation or by denying any representation at all. The most common approach echoed Napoleon’s “special laws,” which allowed France to reinstate slavery in its Caribbean possessions. The Spanish and Portuguese constitutions adopted “specialness” in the 1830s; the United States used comparable guidelines to distinguish between states, territories, and Indian reservations; and the British similarly ruled their dominions and colonies. In all these empires, the mix of indigenous peoples, European-origin populations, slaves and indentured workers, immigrants, and unassimilated social groups led to unequal and hierarchical political relations. Fradera considers not only political and constitutional transformations but also their social underpinnings. Presenting a fresh perspective on the ways in which nations descended and evolved from and throughout empires, The Imperial Nation highlights the ramifications of this entangled history for the subjects who lived in its shadows.

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Princeton University Press

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0691217343

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9780691217345

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