The Modern Family in Japan: Its Rise and Fall, Paperback - Chizuko Ueno

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With Congress paralyzed, lawmaking falls to executive agencies and courts that interpret existing statutes. Due to the so-called Chevron doctrine, ...

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Many historical processes are dynamic. Populations grow and decline. Empires expand and collapse. Religions spread and wither. Natural scientists h...

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Publisher: University of Washington PressAuthor(s): Thomas FleischmanIllustration(s): 19 b&w illus., 1 mapNumber of pages: 296Collection: Weyerhaeu...

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Covers the dramatic 15 years of Japanese Empire expansion.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): N S NashIllustration(s): 120 B&W illustrations...

Examines what went wrong with the atheist dream, and explains why religion and faith are destined to play a central role in the twenty-first centur...

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The new book from the award-winning SUNDAY TIMES journalist Brian Appleyard. This is a spirited exploration of cars and their cultural impact throu...

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Emperor Meiji and the beginnings of the Imperial Empire of Japan: 1867 - 1912. Japan under Emperor Taisho: 1912 - 1926. Japan under Emperor Showa: ...

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The Despensers were a baronial English family who rose to great prominence in the reign of Edward II (1307-27) when Hugh Despenser the Younger beca...

Is, as Hamlet once complained, time out joint? Have the ways we understand the past and the future--and their relationship to the present--been reo...

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A biography of Wilhelm von Habsburg that intends to reconstruct the life of this extraordinary man - a man who remained loyal to his Ukrainian drea...

Reducere. A dazzling new history of the world through ten major empires.

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Reducere. DescriptionExplore the Captivating History of the Ottoman Empire The Ottoman world was nothing like an exotic fairytale featuring tyrant sultans, m...

* A fascinating survey of the key moments of post-war medical discovery - fully revised and updated for this new edition

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A dazzling new history of the world through ten major empires.

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In 1851 Isaac Singer brought onto the market the first practical sewing machine in history. He had combined all the ideas that had gone before to m...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Jonathan (The George Washington University, USA) SheaNumber of pages: 272Collection: New Directions ...

For nearly twenty years, each day, one would hear or see in the news that a senior pastor has committed suicide, unexpectedly resigned, or was inve...

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