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The first book to detail the history of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and its Convention, covering the years from 1955 to 2010. It includes accounts of the formulation of the Convention, the development of ICSID's Regulations and Rules and analysis of the cases submitted to it over this time....

The Crash of '29 is one of the key moments in American, and indeed world history. This gifted narrative historian addresses its effects on both business and society, and recreates the coming together of economic forces culminating in this disaster....

The central aim of the book is to provide new insights into the striking degree of cellular diversity found in the interneuronal microcircuits in the brain's neocortex and hippocampus. It elaborates on novel ideas about interneuronal diversity that rest upon recent theoretical and experimental results concerning the developmental origins, the...

When did English become American? What distinctive qualities made it American?        What role have America's democratizing impulses, and its vibrantly heterogeneous        speakers, played in shaping our language and separating it from the mother tongue?A        wide-ranging account of American English, Richard Bailey's Speaking...

Ancient peoples regarded names as indicative of character and destiny. The Jews were no exception. All Jews descended from Jacob, who was given the name Israel. The Bible seemed to explain this name as having to do with struggle. But generations following the Bible found in Israel references to seeing God, singing, ruling, being upright, angelic...