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Comparative Law: A Very Short Introduction aims to offer a concise introduction to comparative law-its objectives, methods, concepts, and uses. After an overview of the fundamental definitions, key concepts, and basic lexicon of the discipline, the book proposes an analysis of the most successful techniques adopted in legal comparison for mapping the world's legal systems and for explaining legal change and diffusion of law, also giving a concise description of the legal traditions of the world.

Many of the stories in this book seem at the same time both familiar and strange. Their authors valued family, duty, patience and heroism. They longed for children in their old age, and rejoiced when they saw cruelty and envy punished, wrongs righted, and kindness and bravery rewarded.

An accomplished psychiatrist, she’s always prided herself on connecting to the patients who’ve been brought to the facility, no matter how difficult or closed-off they are. That is, until David arrives. At first, she listens to what David has to say. How he claims to be four-hundred years old and possessed by a demon. Her diagnosis is multiple personalities and approaches his treatment as such.

"Gut im Bett? Wohl eher nicht". Wutschnaubend liest Reid Buchanan einen Artikel, den eine verschmähte Flamme über ihn geschrieben hat. Um dem folgenden Presserummel um seine Person zu entgehen, zieht er vorübergehend in das Haus seiner Mutter. Aber wirkliche Ruhe findet er hier auch nicht, denn ans Krankenbett gefesselt sprüht Gloria noch mehr Gift und Galle als gewohnt. Wenn wenigstens die unscheinbare Krankenschwester Lori Johnston ihm zur Seite stehen würde. Doch sie wäscht ihm stattdessen den Kopf und trifft mit ihren Wahrheiten mitten ins Herz.

The common perception of a CIA officer is someone who collects secret intelligence abroad-a spy. However, the critical link between secrets and policy is the intelligence analyst. The CIA Intelligence Analyst brings to light the vital, but often-unseen, work of these officers.

Ally steht kurz vor einem Burnout und nimmt sich eine längere Auszeit auf der Ranch ihrer Familie. Ausgerechnet Chris, der süße Typ aus der Nachbarschaft, ist auch aus persönlichen Gründen wieder zurück. Und ein zufälliges Wiedersehen lässt Allys Herz höher schlagen. Einen richtigen Traummann zu finden, stand für die erfolgreiche Architektin Ally Coleman bisher nicht auf dem Lebensplan - denn dafür hat sie überhaupt keine Zeit. Zielstrebig arbeitet sie an ihrer Karriere - bis zu dem Tag ihres Zusammenbruchs.

Instead of searching for solutions you will have a brand new way of looking at life and your capabilities. You need to prepare a space so your life can unfold. This is done through raising your vibration. It is why you can look back at your memories and today still feel those feelings. Now you can look through a perspective of humor and lightness even though you still have the painful feelings. You can transmute that energy into a lighter, higher energy and use your past experiences, even painful memories to transform your future.

At the end of summer 1839, the light changing and autumn in the air, Henry David Thoreau and his brother John clambered into their 15-foot-long homemade boat on an adventure north. They traveled the rivers from Concord, Massachusetts to Concord, New Hampshire. Henry was two years out of Harvard, and his brother John was a few years older. They wound their way up the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by day and camped along the shores at night.

The Narcissistic Game is Spiritual, Motivational, Engaging, Intriguing, & Thought Provoking offering bountiful insight on how to proceed in Narcissistic Relationships on many levels. It can also be used as a guide as we navigate ourselves on making the best decisions as we grow through our personal and professional lives. And to never accept less than what we deserve!

An Imperfect Woman transports you back into historical eras seemly different from ours, yet familiar with human foibles. In this novel, you will meet Mary, an unforgettable woman with a lifetime of chasing perfection but challenged with unexpected turns of fate and complex relationships. From dirt floors and crude wooden plates of a dismal Missouri childhood to velvet curtains and imported porcelain china settings in early Denver society - . . will Mary's single-minded pursuit for perfection be her salvation or downfall?

Inzwischen ist es viereinhalb Jahre her, dass Julian aus Aidas Leben verschwunden ist. Aida lebt nun in Boston und kämpft darum, ihre Rechnungen bezahlen zu können. Das Letzte, was sie erwartet hat, ist Julians plötzliche Rückkehr. Sie hat hart daran gearbeitet, den Schmerz zu überwinden, den sein Verschwinden in ihr verursacht hat ... zumindest redet sie sich ein, sie hätte ihn überwunden.

*Rise of The Zodiac Gods* is an epic fantasy that intricately weaves together the myths of diverse cultures, centering around Amadi, a young goddess born from the union of the Greek sky god Ouranos and the Celestial goddess Aditi. This novel explores themes of destiny, power, and rebellion against the cosmic order. The story unfolds in a richly imagined universe where the celestial and terrestrial realms are interconnected. Amadi, the protagonist, is destined to become the Mother of the Zodiac.

When the tale begins, a strange and sudden malady is claiming the lives of the local peasants in Styria. Laura, an innocent girl of eighteen, lives a lonely life there with her loving father and two governesses. Then a dramatic coach crash on Laura’s doorstep brings a mysterious, beautiful, but languorous young woman to stay with them. This is Carmilla.

Lady Susan Vernon, middle-aged and recently widowed, has retained her looks and appealing vivacity. She makes use of her bereavement and her loss of wealth by imposing herself on the hospitality of relatives, and by amusing herself in flirtation with the various men who fall under her spell. Lady Susan has a daughter, Frederica, who is bashful and innocent—in stark contrast to her unfeeling and manipulative mother. Her mother is anxious to marry Frederica off to a spouse of appropriate wealth and social standing, and also, perhaps, to capture a new mate for herself.

Emily Dickinson was one of the most reclusive of all poets. She spent much of her life in seclusion in her father’s house in Amherst, and only a handful of her 1800 poems were published in her lifetime. Credit for the posthumous publication of her work must be given to her editor and friend Thomas W. Higginson, who reported that, in spite of the voluminous correspondence which passed between himself and Dickinson, he only met her twice in person.

States of Health identifies the practical relevance of federalism to people facing ethical decisions about health and health care, and it considers the theoretical justifications for permissible differences among states. It asks whether authority over important aspects of health is misaligned in the United States today, with some matters problematically left to the states while others are taken over by the federal government.

Hildy Halverson, a genius in math and science, is pushed by her parents to step into a male-dominated field and change the world for women. But Hildy, enamored of the scientific force of the human body, and her own body's ability to create and sustain life, decides to go against contemporary expectations. She marries young and raises a houseful of kids. Hildy wants her children to choose their own life paths. As each child is born, she tells them, "You can be whatever you want to be, and whatever you want to be will be great."

Sam the sheep is having a hard time. He is pining for Ava the fox, and his actor friends are away performing their play without him. What’s more, someone has decided to build a Community Center in the next field, and the noise is simply terrible. One of the builders has deeply offended Morag the Tabby Cat, and she is starting a Resistance movement – though why she thinks there are gorillas in the field is anybody’s guess.

The much-anticipated reissue of a novel that is one of Joyce Carol Oates’s personal favorites among her oeuvre; featuring a new afterword by Oates IN THE HEART OF A LANGUID JULY, ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD JOHN REDDY HEART drives a traffic-stopping, salmon-colored Cadillac into the quiet upstate town of...

Two girls emerge from a convent in order to marry and assume their places in post-Revolutionary French society. Louise is ruled by passion, Renée by pragmatism, and the intimate details of their trials and triumphs are revealed through their correspondence. Letters of Two Brides follows two strong women across the years as they navigate love, friendship, faith, and the conflicting expectations for women in society.