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  • Faith in Numbers
    Michael Hoffman
    Why does religion sometimes increase support for democracy and sometimes do just the opposite? In Faith in Numbers, political scientist Michael Hoffman presents a theory of religion, group interest, and democracy. Focusing on communal religion, he demonstrates that the effect of communal prayer on support for democracy depends on the interests of the religious group in question...
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    180,60 €

  • Cipangu, Golden Cipangu
    Michael Hoffman
    The stories collected here were written over the past seven years for a monthly Japan Times column called The Living Past. They range from earliest prehistory to modern times. The column still runs. The living past is inexhaustible. It never runs out of stories to tell.Column and book both were born of the conviction that the past, as the inrushing future engulfs it, is worth p...
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    18,19 €

  • Love Poems, Inspirational Poems and More!
    Michael Hoffman
    Michael Hoffman started writing poetry when he was forty-five. He kept his mind busy while in prison for the six years that he was there. He turned his life over to God, and he started writing poetry in many different themes, writing for his children to their mother during a fall on relationship.He was the one who had to change his life around. No one else could force him to ch...
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    11,41 €

  • The Psychology of Men in Context
    Ethan Hoffman / Michael Addis
    The Psychology of Men in Context is an essential introduction to the field which challenges readers to examine psychological research on men, masculinity, and gender, and consider its impact on daily life, through everyday speech, popular media, political rhetoric, and more. ...
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    227,39 €

  • The Psychology of Men in Context
    Ethan Hoffman / Michael E. Addis
    What does it really mean to say that boys will be boys, men are from Mars, or that contemporary men are in crisis? Does modern psychology support or refute these notions? And how is psychological theory and research about boys and men used in society?The Psychology of Men in Context is an essential introduction to the field which challenges readers to examine psychological rese...
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    94,83 €

  • Hounds of Mercy
    Michael Hoffman
    Brave Tsavo, the first Rhodesian Ridgeback hound, never really dies. The African nature god Shango blesses him with multiple lives, and he travels through time and space as a boon to the people he loves. Follow his heroic journey from battles with ferocious lions on the Dark Continent to his 9/11 disaster site search and rescue miracles. Watch him soften the hearts of weary sol...
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    14,31 €

  • Fuji, Sinai, Olympos
    Michael Hoffman
    Travel companions on my journeys are four in number: Odysseus, Don Quixote, Huckleberry Finn and Basho.” (Travel) “He walked in priestly garb. Arriving towards evening at a town or village, he’d chant sutras until passersby gave him, or flung him, enough money for a flophouse bed, a little food, a bath and enough saké  to induce a measure of forgetfulness. ‘A beggar,’ he admoni...
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    17,25 €

  • In The Land of the Kami
    Michael Hoffman
    The stories, or essays, or perhaps poems in disguise, collected here are somewhat whimsical. They emerged from simple questions: What is Zen? Who was Confucius? What was it like to be a kid in Japan 10,000 years ago, or 1000, or 500? How did death come to seem, as it did for many centuries, so much more important to the Japanese than life? It is the author’s proud boast that, t...
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    17,20 €

  • The Thirsty Addict Papers
    Michael a. Hoffman Dr Ad / Michael aHoffman Dr Ad
    Dr. Michael Hoffman wrote The Thirsty Addict Papers for the thousands of counselors searching for practical wisdom and how-to instruction on enlivening spirituality in the delicate process of recovery. This is the first book to apply the diverse fields of Jungian depth psychology, Buddhist mindfulness practice, mythology and folklore, cognitive behavioral therapy and contemplat...
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    25,56 €

  • The Naked Ear
    Michael Hoffman
    From the (mock) introduction by the (fictitious) translator:'’The Naked Ear’ is an unpolished, apparently unfinished piece of writing by an author about whom nothing is known, not even his name. The manuscript that chanced to come into my possession in so bizarre a fashion is signed--self-mockingly, one presumes--’John of Silence.’'Who was this ’John of Silence’? Was he alive? ...
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    17,91 €

  • On A Day Like This
    Peter Stamm / Hoffman / Michael Hofmann
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    15,03 €

  • Little Pieces
    Michael Hoffman
    The six stories that make up 'Little Pieces' are all set in Japan, land of Zen austerity, manga excess, and much in between. In 'First Snow,' a joyous chance reunion of a babysitter and her one-time charge unexpectedly spirals into confession and response. Sonoko, in the story that bears her name, slips with practiced ease out of the world of her life into that of 11th-century ...
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    16,13 €

  • Joint Source Channel Coding Using Arithmetic Codes
    Bi Dongsheng / Khalid Sayood / Michael Hoffman
    Based on the encoding process, arithmetic codes can be viewed as tree codes and current proposals for decoding arithmetic codes with forbidden symbols belong to sequential decoding algorithms and their variants. In this monograph, we propose a new way of looking at arithmetic codes with forbidden symbols. If a limit is imposed on the maximum value of a key parameter in the enco...
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    38,13 €

  • Shipwrecks and Lost Treasures
    HOFFMAN / VARHOLA / STON / Michael Varhola
    Twenty-one riveting stories and illustrations about ships that met their end in the treacherous waters of the Great Lakes, such as: British gunboat H.M.S. Speedy in 1804, American Navy brig U.S.S. Niagara in 1820, Civil War steamer Island Queen in 1864, the infamous freighter Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975, and many more! ...
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    12,74 €

  • Nectar Fragments
    Michael Hoffman
    The four stories of Part I vary in setting from Shinobazu Pond to 19th-century Germany, where Dostoevsky toils in despairing, poverty-stricken exile on Crime and Punishment. The 'Nectar Fragments' of Part II are linked short stories set in the fictional Montreal suburb of Nectar, where an aging recluse living like a prisoner in the house in which he grew up struggles to recast...
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    26,27 €

  • Unformed Landscape
    Peter Stamm / Michael Hoffman / Michael Hofmann
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    18,29 €

  • The Coat That Covers Him
    Michael Hoffman
    Michael Hoffman’s characters are, willy-nilly, participants in plots that don’t add up. Some emerge stronger; others, shadows of their former selves. The six stories and one novel that make up this collection are set, wholly or primarily, in Japan, land of the artful mask. Meet the man who loses his key and sets in motion a chain of events whose incomprehensibility he will nev...
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    33,25 €

  • Withdrawal
    Michael Hoffman
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    18,22 €

  • Withdrawal
    Michael Hoffman
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    26,58 €

  • The Empty Cafe
    Michael Hoffman
    Why did the woman in the restaurant scream? Why is the man falsely charged guilty? The empty cafe fills; reason unravels. In the novella Solitude, the last of eight tales in this volume, Solomon Rose returns home after 22 years to confront a dilemma soluble only by murder. ...
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    18,68 €

  • Rebellion
    Joseph Roth / Michael Hoffman / Michael Hofmann
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    16,00 €