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![The Hundred Years' War on Palestine A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 [Repost]](https://i124.fastpic.org/big/2024/1112/17/719771029410496b121774525239a117.webp) Free Download The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi English | January 28, 2020 | ISBN: 1627798552, 1250787653 | True EPUB | 336 pages | 14.8 MB A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history  Free Download Cesare P. R. Romano, "The Human Right to Science: History, Development, and Normative Content" English | ISBN: 0197768997 | 2024 | 904 pages | PDF | 10 MB Recognized as early as 1948, the right to benefit from progress in science and its applications (known more succinctly as "the right to science") has long confounded international legal scholars and practitioners. While it is key to properly framing the relationship between science, technology, and society, the right to science continues to be poorly understood and very rarely invoked by those who could benefit from it.
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