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British engagement with Japan, 1854-1922 : the origins and course of an unlikely alliance / by Best, Antony, 1964-

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Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute the memoirs of George A. Cowan / by Cowan, G. A. (George A.), 1920-2012

Table of Contents: “…Joint Working Group for Radiochemistry -- International symposium, heavy ion physics, Dubna, Russia -- Photo gallery II -- A trip to the North Pole -- Down the Aleutian Islands to Amchitka -- The Oklo natural reactor -- Disposal of high-level radioactive wastes -- The solar neutrino program -- Atmospheric dynamics around Antarctica -- The White House Science Council -- Simplicity and complexity -- Photo gallery III -- The Santa Fe Institute : its intellectual origins -- SFI becomes operational -- Behavioral science -- My interest in early mental development -- What have I learned? …”
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Korea and East Asia the stony road to collective security /

Table of Contents: “…Kang and Leif-Eric Easley -- The role of Japan in the international relations of East Asia / John Swenson-Wright -- Russia and Asian integration models : the SCO experience and ideas for northeast Asia / Georgy Toloraya -- Strategic choices and political paralysis in the Korean crisis : commentary on papers by David C. …”
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French Women and the Age of Enlightenment /

Table of Contents: “…Prather -- The view from Russia / Carolyn Hope Wilberger -- The view from Spain: Rococo finesse and esprit versus plebeian manners / Eva M. …”
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The World War I reader [primary and secondary sources] /

Table of Contents: “…The great illusion, 1910 / Sir Norman Angell -- Germany and the next war / General Friedrich von Bernhardi -- The "Willy-Nicky" telegrams / Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia -- The circus rider of Europe / Dennis Showalter -- The army and the nationalist revival / Douglas Porch -- The good soldier Schweik / Jaroslav Hašek -- Her privates we / Frederick Manning -- A soldier's notebook / Alexei Brusilov -- Officer-man relations: the other ranks' perspective / G. …”
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Western Europe, Eastern Europe and world development, 13th-18th centuries collection of essays of Marian Małowist / by Małowist, Marian

Table of Contents: “…Preface: "Marian Małowist : an appreciation" / Immanuel Wallerstein -- Introduction: "I chased after Polish grain all over the world" / Jean Batou and Henryk Szlajfer -- Commercial capitalism and agriculture -- Merchant credit and the putting-out system : rural production during the Middle Ages -- Some remarks on the role of merchant capital in Eastern Europe in the late Middle Ages -- Kaffa : the Genoese colony in Crimea and the Eastern question (1453-1475) -- Levantine trade with Eastern Europe in the 16th Century : some problems -- Poland, Russia and Western trade in the 15th and 16th centuries -- The problem of the inequality of economic development in Europe in the later Middle Ages -- Problems of the growth of the national economy of Central-Eastern Europe in the late Middle Ages -- East and West Europe in the 13th-16th centuries : confrontation of social and economic structures -- Economic and political divisions in medieval and early modern Europe -- Eastern Europe and the countries of the Iberian Peninsula : parallels and contrasts -- The social and economic stability of the Western Sudan in the Middle Ages -- The Western Sudan in the Middle Ages : underdevelopment in the empires of the Western Sudan Hopkins-Małowist debate -- Social and economic life in Timur's empire -- New Saray, capital of the Golden Horde -- The foundations of European expansion in Africa in the 16th century : Europe, Maghreb and Western Sudan -- Portuguese expansion in Africa and European economy at the turn of the 15th century -- Gulf of Guinea countries in the 15th and early 16th century.…”
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Obsidian and ancient manufactured glasses

Table of Contents: “…Glascock and Martin Giesso -- Volcanic glass procurement and use in the late Paleolithic, Central Primorye, Far East Russia / Trudy Doelman, Robin Torrence, Vladimir Popov, Nikolai Kluyev, and Igor Sleptsov -- Obsidian provenance at several Italian and Corsican archaeological sites using the non-destructive x-ray fluorescence method / Anna Maria De Francesco, Marco Bocci, Gino Mirocle Crisci, and Vincenzo Francaviglia -- Polynesian volcanic glass : uses, sourcing, and distribution / Marshall Weisler -- Glass vessels in Sub-saharan Africa : a compositional study of samples from Mtwapa, Kenya / Laure Dussubieux and Chapurukha M. …”
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Coalition challenges in Afghanistan : the politics of alliance /

Table of Contents: “…-New Zealand relationship / Robert Ayson -- Pakistan : a tale of two allies / Timothy D. Hoyt -- Russia : friend or foe on Afghanistan? / Renanah Miles -- Going forward lessons learned / Gale A. …”
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French banking and entrepreneurialism in China and Hong Kong from the 1850s to 1980s / by Bonin, Hubert

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Cloud network management an IoT based framework /

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Conspiracy theories in Eastern Europe : tropes and trends /

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China's role in the Arctic : observing and being observed / by Hong, Nong

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BRICS media : reshaping the global communication order? /

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A World of Fiction : Digital Collections and the Future of Literary History / by Bode, Katherine

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The Interconnected Arctic — UArctic Congress 2016

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 17 Human capital development in the Russian Arctic -- Chapter 18 Impact of wages on employment and migration in the High North of Russia -- chapter 19 Well-being in an Arctic city. …”
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Children and war a historical anthology /

Table of Contents: “…Childhood, memory, and the American Revolution / Elizabeth McKee Williams -- "After the war I am going to put myself a sailor" : geography, writing, and race in the letters of free children of color in Civil War New Orleans / Molly Mitchell -- Flowers of evil : mass media, child psychology, and the struggle for Russia's future during the First World War / Aaron J. …”
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Religion and law an introduction / by Edge, Peter W.

Table of Contents: “…-- The state and the individual -- The nature of the problems -- Disobeying generally applicable prohibitions -- Religious drug use in the US, England, and South Africa -- Refusing a positive duty to act -- Conscientious objection to military service under the ECHR -- Conscientious objection to taxation in the US -- Seeking protection for religious difference : improper proselytism under the European Convention on Human Rights -- The state and the religious organisation -- The nature of the problems -- Organisational involvement in the domestic constitution and international organisations -- Religious representation in the UK -- Organisational involvement in the international arena -- State involvement in the organisation : registration and recognition in Russia -- Organisational involvement in state initiatives : religious charities in the UK -- Claims against religious organizations : clergy issues -- Claims by clergy in the United Kingdom -- Claims for the misconduct of religious professionals in the United States -- Community rights : sacred places -- Sacred buildings in the United Kingdom -- Sacred places in the US : indigenous American religions and the US landscape -- International guarantees of religious interests -- Universal declaration of human rights -- International covenant on civil and political rights -- 1981 Declaration -- European Convention on Human Rights -- Introductions to particular jurisdictions -- United Kingdom -- United States -- Canada -- New Zealand -- South Africa -- Theoretical issues -- Defining religion -- Significance of law and religion to one another.…”
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The nation in the global era conflict and transformation /

Table of Contents: “…Tabb -- Statist globalization in China, Russia and the Gulf states / Jerry Harris -- Australia has a transnational capitalist class? …”
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A road to nowhere? Jewish experiences in the unifying Europe /

Table of Contents: “…/ Gabriel Sheffer -- Cultural pluralism as an American Zionist option for solidarity its relevance for today's European Jewry / Ofer Schiff -- European Jewish experiences -- Between Eurasia and Europe : Jewish community and identities in contemporary Russia and Ukraine / Vladimir Zeev Khanin -- A dual, divided modernization : reflections on 200 years of the Jewish reform movement in Germany / Micha Brumlik -- Ghosts of the past, challenges of the present : new and old "others" in contemporary Spain / Raanan Rein and Martina Weisz -- The dialectics of the diaspora : on the art of being Jewish in the Swedish minority / Lars Dencik -- Does European Jewry need a new ethnic spiritual umbrella? …”
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The hidden form of capital spiritual influences in societal progress /

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