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Wa and the Wala: Islam and Polity in Northwestern Ghana - Ivor Wilks - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=OFjbQeB7EtwC&dq=ivor+wilks+wala&pg=PP1&ots=rTsUq6z41C&sig=zVFKbqhnqZUhRus7RSpFDXICPkc&hl=de&prev
In the late seventeenth century Wala emerged as a small state in what is now northwestern Ghana. Ivor Wilks traces the history of Wala from its beginnings to the present, paying particular attention to the complex relations between the Muslim and…
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Modern Supramolecular Gold Chemistry: Gold-Metal Interactions and Applications - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=7ncAG0OEk7QC&pg=PA49#v=onepage
Filling a gap in our systematic knowledge of gold, this monograph covers the fundamental aspects, while also considering new applications of gold compounds in catalysis, as nanoparticles, and their potential application as luminescent compounds. Written by…
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Frames of Anime: Culture and Image-Building - Tze-Yue G. Hu - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=ZfK9VTigj20C&pg=PA105
Japanese anime has long fascinated the world, and its mythical heroes and dazzling colors increasingly influence popular culture genres in the West. Tze-yue G. Hu analyzes the “language-medium” of this remarkable expressive platform and its many…
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Finnish Military Effectiveness in the Winter War, 1939-1940 - Pasi Tuunainen - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=t_OODAAAQBAJ&pg=PA117
This book analyzes the multi-faceted phenomenon of Finnish military effectiveness in the Winter War (1939–40). Drawing on a wide array of primary and secondary sources, Pasi Tuunainen shows how by focusing on their own strengths and pitting these against…
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Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush and Cheney - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=EtGQ2J-8-HAC&pg=PA148
This brilliantly argued and wonderfully written collection by twenty-two of the best political analysts in the US analyzes the extraordinary and unprecedented threat the White House and its allies present to civil liberties, civil rights, the Constitution,…
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Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil, updated edition - Ron Rosenbaum - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=yHFKDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT134&dq=%22completely+normal%22
In Explaining Hitler, Ron Rosenbaum investigates the meanings and motivations people have attached to Hitler and his crimes against humanity. What does Hitler tell us about the nature of evil? In often dramatic encounters, Rosenbaum confronts historians,…
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The Capra Touch: A Study of the Director's Hollywood Classics and War ... - Matthew C. Gunter - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=XLD--w2GHrkC&pg=PA28&dq=%22Broadway+Bill%22#v=onepage
During World War II, Academy Award–winning director Frank Capra (1897–1991) made propaganda films for the U.S. Government, such as Prelude to War, The Nazis Strike, The Battle of Britain, War Comes to America and The Negro Soldier. These entries in the Why…
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Shattering Tradition: Custom, Law and the Individual in the Muslim Mediterranean - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=Pos3wAofV4UC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA235&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=true
Few deny that in the Muslim world religion and law are intimately linked. However, local legal realities mean that Islamic law is often pushed out of the picture by customary law, which is usually tribal, and by state law. The three may at times produce…
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Revolution and Subjectivity in Postwar Japan - J. Victor Koschmann - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=-ORcP2EiVccC&pg=PA69&dq=1907+%22Hirano+Ken%22&hl=de&sa=X&ei=qwyPT9bKMcmSswbr3_G-CQ&ved=0CDgQ6AEw
After World War II, Japanese intellectuals believed that world history was moving inexorably toward bourgeois democracy and then socialism. But who would be the agents—the active "subjects"—of that revolution in Japan? Intensely debated at the time, this…
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Inside the Radical Right: The Development of Anti-Immigrant Parties in ... - David Art - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=9dUTXJakqLoC&pg=PA136&dq=fp%C3%B6+radical+right&hl=de&sa=X&ei=kPNSUquAAue_0QW53ICoDA&ved=0CDQQ6A
What explains the cross-national variation in the radical right's electoral success over the last several decades? Challenging existing structural and institutional accounts, this book analyzes the dynamics of party building and explores the attitudes,…