The Young Lord and Other Tales to which is added Victorine Durocher by Sherwood, Mrs., 1775-1851 (Mary Martha)

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Institutional design and voting power in the European Union

Table of Contents: “…Hosli -- On the relative unimportance of voting weights : observations on agenda-based voting procedures / Hannu Nurmi -- Patterns of voting in the council of ministers of the European Union : the impact of the 2004 enlargement / Rafal Trzaskowski -- Decision-making in the EU Council after the first eastern enlargement : the relevance of the empirical findings for the voting rules / Běla Plechanovová -- Degressive proportionality : composition of the European parliament. the parabolic method / Victoriano Ramírez González -- Putting citizens first : representation and power in the European Union / Friedrich Pukelsheim -- Comparative analysis of several methods for determining the composition of the European parliament / José Martínez Aroza and Victoriano Ramírez González -- On bounds for allocation of seats in the European parliament / Wojciech Słomczyński and Karol Życzkowski -- Conclusions : the system of equal influence of the citizens in the EU-the Polish proposal submitted during the 2007 reform treaty negotiations / Marek A. …”

Sea rovers, silver, and samurai Maritime East Asia in global history, 1550-1700

Table of Contents: “…. -- Between bureaucrats and bandits : the rise of Zheng Zhilong and his organization, the Zheng Ministry (Zheng Bu) / Cheng-heng Lu -- The Zheng regime and the Tokugawa bakufu : asking for Japanese intervention / Patrizia Carioti -- Determining the law of the sea : the long history of the Breukelen Case, 1657-1662 / Adam Clulow -- Dreams in the Chinese periphery : Victorio Riccio and Zheng Chenggong's regime / Anna Busquets -- Shame and scandal in the family : Dutch eavesdropping on the Zheng lineage / Leonard Bluss -- Bridging the bipolar : Zheng Jing's decade on Taiwan, 1663-1673 / Xing Hang -- The burning shore : Fujian and the coastal depopulation, 1661-1683 / Dahpon David Ho -- Admiral Shi Lang's secret proposal to return Taiwan to the VOC / Weichung Cheng -- Trade, piracy, and resistance in the Gulf of Tonkin in the seventeenth century / Robert J. …”