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Suruya Puoqhi: PILGRIMS & SULTANS: THL Hajj UNDLR THP OWMAN.
Hehz Halm: SHI'A ISLAM: FROM RELIGION TO REVOLUT
Daniel W. Brown. RETHINKING TRADITION IN MODERN ISLAMIC THOUGHT
Asghar Ali Engineer. THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN IN ISLAM     

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Michael Linton, Sveriges historie (History of Sweden). (Aarhus, 1994). ISBN 87 7288 308 1. 250 pp., DEK 198.     

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Green consumption, energy use and carbon dioxide emission . Eva Alfredsson
Sustainable Development and Geographical Space. Issues of Population, Environment, Globalization and Education in Marginal Regions . Edited by Heikki Jussila, Roser Majoral and Bradley Cullen     

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Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network, Ari Ben-Menashe Trick or Treason: The October Surprise Mystery, Robert Parry     

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In the absence of Soviet statistics on commuting it is estimated that, as of the late 1960's, at least 10 million people commuted to work or study in the Soviet Union, or about 12 percent of the number of public-sector workers and students. Sample surveys have shown that commuting is found not only in the suburban zones of large cities, but also around small towns, and that it involves as many as 3 million residents of rural areas who travel to work in urban places. The maximum commuting radius in the Soviet Union appears to be about 50 km, with the number of commuters dropping off sharply beyond that limit. In terms of social composition, commuters tend to be mainly young men of relatively low skills. An assessment of commuting, from the Soviet point of view, lists both positive features, such as the fuller use of labor resources around a large urban center, and negative features, such as the unproductive loss of time involved in commuting over long distances.     

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Gustaf Retzius (1842–1919), the Swedish anatomist and anthropologist, and Camillo Golgi were contemporaries. They met on several occasions and came in closer contact when Golgi, together with Ramón y Cajal, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in Stockholm in 1906. Retzius came from an illustrious family. His father was professor of anatomy at Karolinska Institutet and Gustaf himself made a fast career. At 35, he was appointed to a professorship in histology, especially created for him at Karolinska Institutet, and later he became professor of anatomy in the same institution. Retzius was exceedingly productive, and published more than 300 scientific papers, most of which dealt with the nervous system and sensory organs. The majority of these were included in his magnificent volumes Biologische Untersuchungen, Neue Folge (Biological Investigations, New Series), which appeared from 1890 to 1921, and in Das Gehörorgan der Wirbelthiere (“The Acoustic Organ of Vertebrates”, 1881 and 1884), which may be his internationally better known contribution. Much of his work, especially on invertebrates, was based on Ehrlich's methylene blue method, but he also used the Golgi method early on. Particularly his studies of the innervation of the sensory organs became of great importance for the support of the neuron doctrine. His standing internationally was reflected in his membership in many of the most prominent academies abroad, as well as in invitations to him to give a “Croonian Lecture” in 1908 and “The Huxley Lecture” in 1909.     

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Leroy O. Stone and Claude Marceau, Canadian Population Trends and Public Policy through the 1980s
Bernard M. Fry and Herbert S. White, Publishers and Libraries: A Studyof Scholarly and Research Journals
Richards J. Heuer, Jr., ed. Quantitative Approaches to Political Intelligence: The CIA Experience     

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Matilde Mordt, Livelihoods and Sustainability at the Agrarian Frontier. The Evolution of the Frontier in Southeastern Nicaragua