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The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures
Jurgen Habermas, Frederick G. Lawrence
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• Author(s): Jurgen Habermas | Frederick G. Lawrence • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThis critique of French philosophy and the history of German philosophy is a tour de force that has ...
View full detailsChaos Bound
N. Katherine Hayles
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• Author(s): N. Katherine Hayles • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryHayles's point is that the almost simultaneous appearance of interest in complex systems across ma...
View full detailsTheology in the Age of Scientific Reasoning
Nancey Murphy
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• Author(s): Nancey Murphy • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: TheismIn this timely and provocative book, Nancey Murphy sets out to dispel skepticism regarding Christian belief. She argues ...
View full detailsSince Owen: A Parent-To-Parent Guide for Care of the Disabled Child
Charles R. Callanan
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• Author(s): Charles R. Callanan • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Parenting - General
Gorgias
Plato, Eric Robertson, E. R. Dodds
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• Author(s): Plato | Eric Robertson | E. R. Dodds • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: LogicBased on a fresh survey of the work, this revised edition of the late E.R. Dodds's standard edition of Plato's Gorgias include...
View full detailsThe Ubiquity of the Finite: Hegel, Heidegger, and the Entitlements of Philosophy
Dennis J. Schmidt
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• Author(s): Dennis J. Schmidt • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsWhat are the assumptions and tasks hidden in contemporary calls to overcome the metaphysical tradition? Reflecting upon the internal contradi...
View full detailsArtificial Intelligence at Mit, Volume 1: Expanding Frontiers
Patrick Henry Winston, Sarah Alexandra Shellard
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• Author(s): Patrick Henry Winston | Sarah Alexandra Shellard • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Artificial Intelligence - GeneralThe broad range of material included in these volumes suggests to the newcomer the natur...
View full detailsSong of Songs in the Middle Ages
Ann W. Astell
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• Author(s): Ann W. Astell • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Biblical Studies - Old Testament - GeneralIncluded among the sacred books of Judaism and Christianity alike, the Song of Songs...
View full detailsThe Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780 1860
Christopher Clark
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• Author(s): Christopher Clark • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Economic ConditionsBetween the late colonial period and the Civil War, the countryside of the American northeast was large...
View full detailsReligion, Myth and Folklore in the World's Epics: The Kalevala and Its Predecessors
Lauri Honko
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• Author(s): Lauri Honko • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Religion & ScienceNo detailed description available for "Religion, Myth and Folklore in the World's Epics".
Coal and Politics in Late Imperial Russia
Aleksandr I. Fenin
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• Author(s): Aleksandr I. Fenin • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Industries - General
The Semiotic Web 1989
Thomas A. Sebeok, Jean Umiker-Sebeok
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• Author(s): Thomas A. Sebeok | Jean Umiker-Sebeok • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralNo detailed description available for "The Semiotic Web 1989".
Grundlagen der Physikalischen Chemie
Walter J. Moore, Wolfgang Paterno
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• Author(s): Walter J. Moore | Wolfgang Paterno • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Chemistry - Physical & Theoretical"A popular textbook containing the key concepts of physical chemistry, which do not become obs...
View full detailsFate and Utopia in German Sociology, 1870-1923
Harry Liebersohn
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• Author(s): Harry Liebersohn • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralFate and Utopia in German Sociology provides a lucid introduction to a major sociological tradition in Western thought. It is an intellectual hist...
View full detailsAllgemenine und anorganische Chemie
Erwin Riedel
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• Author(s): Erwin Riedel • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: GeneralKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Allgemenine und anorganische Chemie" verfügbar.
Reading Gertrude Stein: Worldwide Changes in Employment Systems
Lisa Ruddick
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• Author(s): Lisa Ruddick • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Women Authors"Ruddick's interpretative study of Gertrude Stein breaks new ground in both Stein studies and poststructural theor...
View full detailsDelicate Subjects
Julie Ellison
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• Author(s): Julie Ellison • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Einführung in die Theologische Ethik
Martin Honecker
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• Author(s): Martin Honecker • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Christian Theology - SystematicKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Einführung in die Theologische Ethik" verfügbar.
The Pragmatics of Word Order: Typological Dimensions of Verb Initial Languages
Doris L. Payne
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• Author(s): Doris L. Payne • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationNo detailed description available for "The Pragmatics of Word Order".
Fieldnotes
Roger Sanjek
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• Author(s): Roger Sanjek • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThirteen distinguished anthropologists describe how they create and use the unique forms of...
View full detailsWomen and Romance: The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel
Laurie Langbauer
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• Author(s): Laurie Langbauer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - WomenAccording to Laurie Langbauer, the notion of romance is vague precisely because it represents ...
View full detailsExperiments in the Machine Interpretation of Visual Motion
David W. Murray, Bernard Buxton
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• Author(s): David W. Murray | Bernard Buxton • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Computer Vision & Pattern RecognitionThis book describes experimental advances made in the interpretation of visual motion over the l...
View full detailsOn the Study Methods of Our Time
Giambattista Vico, Elio Gianturco, Donald Phillip Verene
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• Author(s): Giambattista Vico | Elio Gianturco | Donald Phillip Verene • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Philosophy, Theory & Social AspectsGiambattista Vico's first original work of...
View full detailsChristianizing Death: Reconciling Family and Factory
Frederick S. Paxton
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• Author(s): Frederick S. Paxton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Christianity - History - General
Ezra Pound as Literary Critic
Emeritus K. K. Ruthven, K. K. Ruthven
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• Author(s): Emeritus K. K. Ruthven | K. K. Ruthven • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: American - GeneralBringing some of the insights of modern critical theory to bear on Pound's activities as a literary critics, K.K....
View full detailsKreuzzüge - Leo XIII.
Gerhard Müller, Horst Balz, James K. Cameron
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• Author(s): Gerhard Müller | Horst Balz | James K. Cameron • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: TheologyKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Kreuzzüge - Leo XIII." verfügbar.
Material Beings
Peter Van Inwagen
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• Author(s): Peter Van Inwagen • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsAccording to Peter van Inwagen, visible inanimate objects do not, strictly speaking, exist. In defending this c...
View full detailsThe Political Philosophy of Montaigne
David Lewis Schaefer
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• Author(s): David Lewis Schaefer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Individual PhilosophersThis provocative book provides a comprehensive interpretation of Montaigne's Essays as a work of...
View full detailsBeing and Goodness: The Concept of Good in Metaphysics and Philosophical Theology
Scott MacDonald
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• Author(s): Scott MacDonald • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Good & EvilThe intuition that there is a necessary connection between being and goodness has guided a philosophical trad...
View full detailsFrom Signs to Design: Environmental Process and Reform in Renaissance Rome
Charles Burroughs
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• Author(s): Charles Burroughs • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanBurroughs brings an especially wide range of explanatory models--from social history, cultural anthropology, iconology and semiotics--t...
View full detailsA.U.A. Language Center Thai Course: Book 3
J. Marvin Brown
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• Author(s): J. Marvin Brown • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Southeast Asian Languages (see also Vietnamese)The set includes extensive grammar, dialogues, and conv...
View full detailsRussia
John Daborn
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• Author(s): John Daborn • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Teaching Methods & Materials - Arts & HumanitiesThe Revolution of 1917 briefly opened up the possibility of a new wo...
View full detailsMicrocognition: Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and Parallel Distributed Processing
Andy Clark
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• Author(s): Andy Clark • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionParallel distributed processing is transforming the field of cognitive science. Microcognition provides a clear, readable g...
View full detailsMeaning and Mental Representation
Robert Cummins
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• Author(s): Robert Cummins • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralIn this provocative study, Robert Cummins takes on philosophers, both old and new, who pursue the question of mental representation as an abstractio...
View full detailsA Life of Her Own: A Countrywoman in Twentieth-Century France
Émilie Carles
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• Author(s): Émilie Carles • Publisher: Rutgers University Press • Publisher Imprint: Rutgers University Press • BISAC: EducatorsPublished in France in 1977 as Une Soupe aux Herbes Sauvages, this autobiography of a peasant woman reared in the sto...
View full detailsBird Trapping and Bird Banding: A Handbook for Trapping Methods All over the World
Hans Bub, Frances Hamerstrom, Karin Wuertz-Schaefer
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• Author(s): Hans Bub | Frances Hamerstrom | Karin Wuertz-Schaefer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Birdwatching Guides
Understanding Employee Ownership
Corey Rosen, Karen M. Young
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• Author(s): Corey Rosen | Karen M. Young • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Industries - General
Music Alone: Philosophical Reflections on the Purely Musical Experience
Peter Kivy
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• Author(s): Peter Kivy • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Criticism - GeneralWhat makes a musical work profound? What is it about pure instrumental music that the listener f...
View full detailsUnending Design: Urban Life and the State in the Early Modern Era
Joseph M. Conte
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• Author(s): Joseph M. Conte • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: PoetryDrawing on the work of contemporary American poets from Ashbery to Zukofsky, Joseph M. Conte elaborates an innovative ...
View full detailsSymbiosis as a Source of Evolutionary Innovation: Speciation and Morphogenesis
Lynn Margulis, Rene Fester
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• Author(s): Lynn Margulis | Rene Fester • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Genetics & GenomicsThese original contributions by symbiosis biologists and evolutionary theorists address the adequacy of...
View full detailsSocrates, Ironist and Moral Philosopher: Civilian Control of Nuclear Weapons in the United States
Gregory Vlastos
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• Author(s): Gregory Vlastos • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical"Gregory Vlastos's book begins from the conviction that Socrates' strangeness...
View full detailsHeat Transfer
L. C. Wrobel, C. A. Brebbia
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• Author(s): L. C. Wrobel | C. A. Brebbia • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: ReferenceNo detailed description available for "Heat Transfer".
Downtown, Inc.: How America Rebuilds Cities
Bernard J. Frieden, Lynne B. Sagalyn
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• Author(s): Bernard J. Frieden | Lynne B. Sagalyn • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningPioneering observers of the urban landscape Bernard Frieden and Lynne Sagalyn delve into the inner work...
View full detailsThe Framework of Operational Warfare
Clayton Newell
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• Author(s): Clayton Newell • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Military ScienceWith the five paragraph field order format used by the US Army as his base, Lieutenant Colonel Newell provides a logical way to make sense ...
View full detailsPrimary "ousia": An Essay on Aristotle's Metaphysics Z and H
Michael Loux
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• Author(s): Michael Loux • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsMichael J. Loux here presents a fresh reading of two of the most important books of the Metaphysics, Books Z and H, ...
View full detailsStardom: Industry of Desire
Christine Gledhill
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• Author(s): Christine Gledhill • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - GeneralStardom brings together for the first time major writing of the last decade which seeks to understand the ...
View full detailsThe See of Peter
James T. Shotwell, Louis Loomis
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• Author(s): James T. Shotwell | Louis Loomis • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Christian Life - GeneralThe See of Peter presents in translation, three distinct sets of texts on the asc...
View full detailsHoly Entrepreneurs
Constance Brittain Bouchard
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• Author(s): Constance Brittain Bouchard • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Economic ConditionsThe twelfth century was characterized by intense spirituality as well as rapid economic devel...
View full detailsGame Theory
Drew Fudenberg, Jean Tirole
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• Author(s): Drew Fudenberg | Jean Tirole • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Decision Making & Problem SolvingThis advanced text introduces the principles of noncooperative game theory in a direct and uncomplicated...
View full detailsHandbook of Zoology/ Handbuch der Zoologie, Tlbd/Part 31, Hymenoptera, Unterordnung Symphyta
Wolfgang Schedl
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• Author(s): Wolfgang Schedl • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - InvertebratesKeine ausf�hrliche Beschreibung f�r "Hymenoptera, Unterordnung Symphyta" verf�gbar.
Action and Knowledge: Breaking the Monopoly With Participatory Action Research
Orlando Fals-Borda, Mohammad Anisur Rahman
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• Author(s): Orlando Fals-Borda | Mohammad Anisur Rahman • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Developing & Emerging CountriesAction and Knowledge draws on twenty ye...
View full detailsIdeas and Institutions
Kathryn A. Sikkink
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• Author(s): Kathryn A. Sikkink • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentIn Ideas and Institutions, Kathryn Sikkink illuminates a key question in contemporary p...
View full detailsThe Trend of Economic Thinking: Essays on Political Economists and Economic History
F. a. Hayek
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• Author(s): F. a. Hayek • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Economic HistoryThis volume presents much newly published work by Hayek on methodology of economics, its development as a subject, its key thinkers and its im...
View full detailsMyths of Empire
Jack L. Snyder
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• Author(s): Jack L. Snyder • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: World - GeneralOverextension is the common pitfall of empires. Why does it occur? What are the forces that cause the great po...
View full detailsFreedom and the Law
Bruno Leoni
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• Author(s): Bruno Leoni • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralAccording to Bruno Leoni, the greatest obstacle to rule of law in our time is the problem of overlegislation. In modern de...
View full detailsThe Modernization of Inner Asia
Cyril E. Black, Louis Dupree, Elizabeth Endicott-West
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• Author(s): Cyril E. Black | Louis Dupree | Elizabeth Endicott-West • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentThis work treats the region of Inner Asia as a single unit, providing both an ac...
View full detailsEinführung in die internationalen Wirtschaftsbeziehungen
Axel Sell
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• Author(s): Axel Sell • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Economics - GeneralKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Einführung in die internationalen Wirtschaftsbeziehungen" verfügbar.
Reappraisals
Peter Uwe Hohendahl
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• Author(s): Peter Uwe Hohendahl • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryReappraisals is a provocative account of the development of modern critical theory in Germany and ...
View full detailsThe Kurds: A Contemporary Overview
Philip G. Kreyenbroek, Stefan Sperl
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• Author(s): Philip G. Kreyenbroek | Stefan Sperl • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralThe position of the 19 million Kurds is an extremely complex one. Their territory is divided between 5 sovereign states, none ...
View full detailsSchuldrecht
Wolfgang Fikentscher
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• Author(s): Wolfgang Fikentscher • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Administrative Law & Regulatory PracticeKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Schuldrecht" verfügbar.