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Antitrust in Germany and Japan
The First Fifty Years, 1947-1998
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- Americana Library (AL)
2017
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Antitrust in Germany and Japan presents an innovative, comparative analysis of the development and enforcement of two antitrust regimes, illustrating how each was shaped by American occupation strategies and policies following World War II. First imposed in 1947, the antitrust controls in Germany and Japan were the world’s first outside the United States. Those enacted in Japan continue in force, whereas in Germany, following a decade of debate, the occupation legislation was supe...
Law’s Political Foundations
Rivers, Rifles, Rice, and Religion
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- Elgar Studies in Legal Theory
2016
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Law's Political Foundations: Rivers, Rifles, Rice and Religion explains the development of the two basic systems of public and private law and their historical transformations. Examining the historical development of law in China, Japan, Western Europe, and Hispanic America, Haley argues that law is a product, rather than a constitutive element, of political systems.Four narrative chapters commence with the development of Chinese legal tradition as a public law order in wh...
2025
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Applying and applying and being denied and denied. My hiring chances are slim to none.My dad said, "You have two chances of beating me." (I'm not too sure where he got the saying from.) None and absolutely none. At the age of twelve, my dad walked into my brother's old room and newly mine. He watched me as I tried to read Genesis of the Bible. I looked as that's why it so hot. Setting a seventy-eight-degree thermostat. "I am proud of you for reading that." He smiled, and the Vietna...
The Rebel Yell & the Yankee Hurrah
The Civil War Journal of a Maine Volunteer
2014
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On an "I will if you will" dare, John Haley enlisted in the 17th Maine Regiment in August 1862 "for three years, unless sooner discharged." ("Discharged, shot, or starved" would have been more accurate, Haley later wryly observed.) Though a reluctant soldier at first, he served steadfastly in the Army of the Potomac for nearly three years, participating in some of the most significant battles of the Civil War.John Haley was not the only soldier to record each day's events in his jo...
2014
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Charles N. Hunter, one of North Carolina’s outstanding black reformers, was born a slave in Raleigh around 1851, and he lived there until his death in 1931. As public school teacher, journalist, and historian, Hunter devoted his long life to improving opportunities for blacks.A political activist, but never a radical, he skillfully used his journalistic abilities and his personal contacts with whites to publicize the problems and progress of his race. He urged blacks to ally themse...
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- Warhammer 40,000
2026
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A Warhammer 40,000 AnthologyA collection of short stories focused on war-torn planets like Armageddon, as the Space Marines and Astra Militarum attempt to hold back many enemies of the Imperium before it's too late. In a hostile galaxy, there can be only war.READ IT BECAUSEThe galaxy is riven by war on a thousand fronts. It is up to the likes of the Astra Militarum, Black Templars, Blood Angels, Space Wolves, and more to fight despe...
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- Inferno!
2019
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Tales from the Worlds of WarhammerFrom the bar of the Brazen Claw where aelven Prince Maesa tells his tale, to the secretive rituals of the Adeptus Mechanicus and a feral Emperor-worshipping tribe, this anthology brings you 11 tales of action and adventure!READ IT BECAUSEThe latest volume of Warhammer short fiction includes the first-ever Blood Bowl tale to grace Inferno!'s pages, along with a look into the past of one of Inquisitor ...
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- John Joseph Akar
Unabridged
11 min
1973
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Discover how an African trickster god made it possible for people to tell stories.Long, long ago there were no stories on earth for children to hear. All stories belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. Ananse, the Spider man, wanted to buy some of these stories, so he spun a web up to the sky to bargain with the Sky God. The price the Sky God asked was Osebo, the leopard-of-the-terrible-teeth, Mmboro the hornet-who-stings-like-fire, and Mmoatia the fairy-whom-men-never-see. Can Ananse capt...
2017
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Driven almost to the brink of self-destruction at Isstvan V, the Iron Hands now seek vengeance for the murder of their primarch Ferrus Manus. Gathering survivors from the Raven Guard and the Salamanders aboard any vessels capable of warp travel, these Shattered Legions wage a new campaign of annihilation against the traitor forces across the galaxy a campaign masterminded by legendary warleader Shadrak Meduson. This Horus Heresy anthology contains ten short stories by authors including Dan...
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- The Horus Heresy: Siege of Terra
2025
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A Siege of Terra AnthologyHorus is dead. His Heresy is over. The scars of mankind’s great schism will never fully heal. For those left behind, a new Era of Ruin is dawning, promising both new beginnings and fresh peril for an Imperium riven by trauma and war.READ IT BECAUSEThis is the final instalment of the Horus Heresy but that was just the beginning of a much darker tale which will be 10,000 years in the telling. These short stor...
2014
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The Heresy came to Calth without warning. In just a few hours of betrayal and bloodshed, the proud warriors of the XIIIth Legion Guilliman’s own Ultramarines were laid low by the treachery of their erstwhile brothers of the XVIIth. Now, as the planet is scoured by solar flares from the wounded Veridian star, the survivors must take the fight to the remaining Word Bearers and their foul allies, or face damnation in the gloomy arcology shelters beneath the planet’s surface. In this all-new c...
2016
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The galaxy burns at Horus’s command, and a billion more lives are lost with each passing moment though it was not always so. Once, the title of Warmaster stood for honour, loyalty and a fierce pride in the strength of the Space Marine Legions. But perhaps by following the myriad lines of destiny and defiance that were already woven around the primarchs and their sons, we may yet come to understand the bitterness that can eat away at even the most steadfast of souls… [br] This Horus Heresy ...











