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The Creation and Transfer of Choses in ActionThis new edition provides a comprehensive treatment of the law relating to intangible property or choses in action (debts, contract rights, securities, intellectual property, leases, rights/causes of action and equitable rights), including new material on rights or causes of action and the taking of...

Understanding the Hormone Connection to find Hope and WellnessHormones and migraine are intimately connected. Ten million women in the US suffer from migraine associated with hormones -- but they may not know it. This concise and practical handbook equips female headache sufferers with all the tools they need, in conjunction with their healthcare...

The Bible and the American RevolutionThe American colonists who took up arms against the British fought in defense of the ''sacred cause of liberty.'' But it was not merely their cause but warfare itself that they believed was sacred. In Sacred Scripture, Sacred War, James P. Byrd shows that the Bible was a key text of the...

Combinatorics is the branch of discrete mathematics that studies (and counts) permutations, combinations, and arrangements of sets of elements. This book constitutes the first book-length survey of the history of combinatorics and uniquely assembles research in the area that would otherwise be inaccessible to the general reader....

Biography of a LanguageOffers a well-researched and highly readable survey of the language in all its historical, geographic, and social aspects...

The Gallieni-Lyautey Method and Colonial Pacification in Tonkin and Madagascar, 1885-1900A volume which offers new insights into the nature of military conflict and consolidation within European empires in the late nineteenth century....