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Written by Austrian baron Karl Alexander Anselm von Hugel (1795-1870), this travelogue was one of the first western books published on the Kashmir region. Von Hugel, who worked as a soldier, diplomat, botanist, explorer and ethnologist at various stages in his life, embarked on a trip to India in the 1830s as part of an extensive world tour. His account of his time in Kashmir and the Punjab was first published in German as a four-volume edition from 1840. He aimed to 'lift the veil' on Kashmir in an attempt to resolve the contentious reputation among Europeans of this unfamiliar region, and the book serves as a thorough guide to its history, geography, climate, culture and politics. This English translation and abridgement was prepared by Thomas Best Jervis (1796-1857) and published in 1845. Also included in this reissue is a biography that the author's son, Anatole von Hugel, privately published in 1903.

Diese Untersuchung befasst sich mit privatnutzigen reinen Unterhaltsstiftungen, die durch ihre Leistungen das Auskommen der Begunstigten sichern, ohne dass diese Leistungen einen Gemeinwohlbezug aufweisen. Der Autor fragt dabei aus einer rechtsvergleichenden Perspektive, ob reine Unterhaltsstiftungen ihrem Zweck nach mit der deutschen Gesamtrechtsordnung vereinbar sind. Er kommt dabei zu dem Ergebnis, dass diese wesentlichen Prinzipien der Rechtsordnung widersprechen, etwa dem Gedanken der Generationengerechtigkeit sowie den Grundsatzen von Eigenverantwortung, Leistungsfahigkeit und Chancengleichheit. Dies folgt daraus, dass reinen Unterhaltsstiftungen das Merkmal der Gemeinwohlorientierung fehlt, mit welchem Stiftungen allgemein assoziiert werden.

In 1979 Karl Alexander burst upon the literary world with a brash, exciting novel with a unique concept: H. G. Wells, the famous, bestselling author of such sensations as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds had actually invented a time machine.When H.G. Wells showed his friends his fantastic time machine he never suspected that his college friend, Leslie John Stevenson, was in truth the Jack the Ripper.But, when Scotland Yard detectives show up at Wells's house looking for Stevenson, he steals the machine and flees to the future--1979 San Francisco. Knowing that he was responsible for the infamous murderer's escape, Wells pursues the Ripper into the future.Once in San Francisco, Wells realizes that he must now save a city, and a particular lovely young woman, from a new reign of terror at the hands of the feared Terror of Whitechapel.