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    Series series Competition Law/Droit de la concurrence
    Companies today must consider and comply with competition law in their daily business management. The financial and reputational risks for breaching such rules are severe and the success of many merger and acquisition projects depends very much on it. While competition law rules become increasingly sophisticated, business people are still expected to comply with it. Rather than giving a ... Read more

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  • Teenage Resistance Fighter

    With the Maquisards in Occupied France

    Translated by Patrick Depardon, Sarah Saunders ...
    "A history book that reads like a novel, this testimony comes from one of the last living eyewitnesses" of the Nazi occupation of France (Christiane Amanpour, CNN Chief International Correspondent).September 5, 1944The Americans are approaching; we follow their progress impatiently on the radio, by intercepting messages reserved for the commandos. They cannot be beaten now. But it is up to us to ... Read more

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    Creators, Timekeepers, Architects

    Translated by Alison Duncan ...
    Training a powerful lens on the microscopic wonders of the universe, hundreds of photos, both exquisite and strange, accompany this startling exposé of a secret world invisibly evolving around us for billions of years.Silver Winner of the 2021 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for Nature & EnvironmentMicrofossils—the most abundant, ancient, and easily accessible of Earth's fossils—are also the most ... Read more

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  • A Brief History of Earth

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    Why the Natural World Looks the Way It Does

    by Philip Ball ...
    The acclaimed science writer "curates a visually striking, riotously colorful photographic display…of physical patterns in the natural world" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Though at first glance the natural world may appear overwhelming in its diversity and complexity, there are regularities running through it, from the hexagons of a honeycomb to the spirals of a seashell and the branching ... Read more

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  • White Mouse

    by Nancy Wake ...
    Nancy Wake, nicknamed 'the white mouse' for her ability to evade capture, tells her own story. As the Gestapo's most wanted person, and one of the most highly decorated servicewomen of the war, it's a story worth telling.After living and working in Paris in the 1930's, Nancy married a wealthy Frenchman and settled in Marseilles. Her idyllic new life was ended by World War II and the invasion of ... Read more

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  • Hidden Wonders

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    Look through a physicist’s lens to revel in the hidden elegance of 200+ everyday objects and physical mechanisms, from crumpled paper to sandcastles.Includes 35 science experiments that bring physics concepts to life in your own kitchen!Hidden Wonders focuses on the objects that populate our everyday life—crumpled paper, woven fabric, a sand pile—but looks at them with a physicist’s eye, revealing ... Read more

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  • Paleozoic Age

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  • Practical Gemmology - A Study of the Identification of Gem-Stones, Pearls and Ornamental Minerals

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