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Japanese Law: An Economic Approach - J. Mark Ramseyer, Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies J Mark Ramseyer, Minoru Nakazato - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=i6bBtrKFHYMC&pg=PA195
In this introduction to Japanese law, J. Mark Ramseyer and Minoru Nakazato combine an economic approach with a clear and often amusing account of the law itself to challenge commonly held ideas about the law. Arguing against such things as the assumption…
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Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams - Charles King - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=xFVpLV_Mqc0C&pg=PA332
"Rich and riveting, complex and compelling, powerful and poetic."—Peter M. Gianotti, Newsday In Odessa, the greatest port on the Black Sea, a dream of cosmopolitan freedom inspired geniuses and innovators, from the writers Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel…
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A Passion for Mathematics: Numbers, Puzzles, Madness, Religion, and the ... - Clifford A. Pickover - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=03CVDsZSBIcC&pg=PA330
A Passion for Mathematics is an educational, entertaining trip through the curiosities of the math world, blending an eclectic mix of history, biography, philosophy, number theory, geometry, probability, huge numbers, and mind-bending problems into a…
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Wanted Women: Faith, Lies, and the War on Terror: The Lives of Ayaan Hirsi ... - Deborah Scroggins - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=UQEHOTzZcXEC&pg=PT224&dq=Mufti+Rashid+Ahmad,+Karachi&hl=de&sa=X&ei=94DUUdbrCtDAswaFs4GIBw&ved=0C
The author of Emma’s War offers a compelling account of the link between Muslim women’s rights, Islamist opposition to the West, and the Global War on Terror, as explored through the experiences of two fascinating female champions from opposing sides of…
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The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920 - Kären Wigen - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=r97IMpBNYLMC&pg=PA32&dq=suwa+clan&hl=de&sa=X&ei=MRxgUpCtIZKr0gWtyYHwCQ&ved=0CEwQ6AEwAw#v=onepage
Contending that Japan's industrial and imperial revolutions were also geographical revolutions, Kären Wigen's interdisciplinary study analyzes the changing spatial order of the countryside in early modern Japan. Her focus, the Ina Valley, served as a…
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Blood Wedding - Pierre Lemaitre - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=zadnCwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT143&ots=XV0_zSOiod&dq=%22printer%20rattles%22&hl=de&pg=PT143#v=onepage&q=%22
Sophie is haunted by the things she can't remember - and visions from the past she will never forget.One morning, she wakes to find that the little boy in her care is dead. She has no memory of what happened. And whatever the truth, her side of the story…
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Black 9/11: Money, Motive and Technology - Mark Gaffney - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=N_60BQAAQBAJ&pg=PT127
The weeks following the attacks of September 11, 2001, were traumatic for nearly every American, but for some, the answers they received from the media and the government to explain the horrific events was not satisfactory. Accusations of cover-ups,…
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"We Are Jews Again": Jewish Activism in the Soviet Union - Yuli Kosharovsky - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=F0MwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA357
Kosharovsky’s authoritative four-volume history of the Jewish movement in the Soviet Union is now available in a condensed and edited volume that makes this compelling insider’s account of Soviet Jewish activism after Stalin available to a wider audience.…
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Cartier - Hans Nadelhoffer - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=xnKpjh1gkqgC&pg=PA23&dq=rue+de+la+paix+1814&hl=de&sa=X&ei=AXhzUurlFfCN4gTdnIDgAQ&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAD
From modest beginnings in Paris to predominance in the world of high fashion, the rise of the house of Cartier is comprehensively chronicled in this lavish volume. In the 1980s Cartier granted Hans Nadelhoffer exclusive access to its archives in order to…
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Making Sense of Heritability - Neven Sesardic - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=3rinSZNZFe0C&pg=PA152&dq=%22Edwards%22+Lewontin&hl=de&ei=pBRiTeSfBYSLswaXlp22CA&sa=X&oi=book_res
In this book, Neven Sesardic defends the view that it is both possible and useful to measure the separate contributions of heredity and environment to the explanation of human psychological differences. He critically examines the view - very widely…