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Forensic investigation of stolen-recovered and other crime-related vehicles by Stauffer, Eric, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…The problem of auto theft / Mikel Longman -- Victim and witness interviews and collection of circumstantial information / Jean-François Chevalley, Manuel Poza -- General crime scene considerations and documentation / Moira Johnson, Simone Reynolds -- Forensic examination of stolen-recovered vehicles, part I : technical examination and general forensic traces / Marc Demierre -- Part II : Chemical traces--drugs, explosives, and gunshot residue / Francesco Saverio Romolo -- Traces and their evidentiary values / Éric Stauffer -- Vehicle identification / William T. …”
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Take control of your drinking--and you may not need to quit by Levy, Michael S., 1953-

Table of Contents: “…-- Wait--you may need medical help -- What to do : moderation or abstinence? -- Moderation : general techniques -- Your personal moderate drinking contract -- Bumps and detours with moderate drinking -- Managing your thoughts to quit drinking -- What you must do to quit drinking -- Managing urges to use -- Slips and falls on the path to sobriety -- The need for outside help -- Self-help groups -- Professional treatment -- Medications.…”
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Grow in concert with nature sustaining East Asia's water resources management through green water defense / by Li, Xiaokai

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgement -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- Executive summary -- Introduction -- Status of water resources in East Asia -- Defining the green water defense approach -- Selected country case studies of best practices -- General conclusions and recommendations -- Building on the best practices : towards a roadmap for East Asia -- References -- Appendix: country case study - Victoria, Australia -- Box 1: Water planning in Australia -- Box 2: Victorian water planning framework -- Box 3. …”
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Beginning InfoPath 2003 by Barker, F. Scott

Table of Contents: “…InfoPath, the journey begins -- Getting started designing with InfoPath -- Understanding data -- Creating an InfoPath form from an existing data source -- Utilizing XML and Web service data sources -- Working with controls in general -- Looking at some useful controls and techniques -- Working with sections -- Managing views -- Publishing InfoPath forms -- Working with code in your InfoPath form -- Getting starting using script -- Working with .NET managed code -- Real world tasks and coding examples -- Creating and working with Web services -- Implementing security -- Working with InfoPath with Windows SharePoint services -- Manufacturing plant case study.…”
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Institutional microeconomics of development

Table of Contents: “…Institutional economics of development : some general reflections / Pranab Bardhan -- Spontaneous markets, networks, and social capital : lessons from Africa / Marcel Fafchamps -- Financial markets and conflict in the developing world / Eliana La Ferrara -- Liberalization meets investment climate / Robin Burgess -- Local democracy and ethnic diversity : a review, a new framework, and some evidence from Indonesian villages / Oriana Bandiera and Gilat Levy -- Local accountability improves health services / Martina Björkman, Ritva Reinikka, and Jakob Svensson -- Extended family networks in rural Mexico : a descriptive analysis / Manuela Angelucci ... …”
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Russia a long view / by Gaĭdar, E. T. (Egor Timurovich)

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Modern economic growth -- Modern economic growth -- Economic determinism and the twentieth-century experience -- The general and the particular in modern economic growth -- Agrarian societies and capitalism -- Traditional agrarian society -- A different path -- The phenomenon of antiquity -- Capitalism and the rise of Europe -- The trajectory of Russia's development -- Particular features of Russia's economic development -- The collapse of an empire -- Major issues of the postindustrial world -- The post-socialist crisis and recovery growth -- The dynamics of population and international migration -- The state burden on the economy -- The formation and crisis of systems of social safeguards -- The evolution of education and healthcare systems -- The transformation of the system for manning the armed forces -- On the stability and flexibility of political systems -- Epilogue -- Bibliographical references -- Index.…”
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Derivatives, risk management & value by Bellalah, Mondher

Table of Contents: “…Extensions of option pricing theory to American options and interest rate instruments in a continuous-time setting : dividends, coupons and stochastic interest rates -- pt. 6. Generalization of option pricing models and stochastic volatility -- pt. 7. …”
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Strategic analysis and choice a structured approach / by Warner, Alfred G.

Table of Contents: “…Setting the scope of analysis: defining your industry -- Chapter 3. Analyzing the general environment: PEST or PESTLE assessment -- Chapter 4. …”
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Moments of despair suicide, divorce, and debt in Civil War era North Carolina / by Silkenat, David

Table of Contents: “…By his own hand : suicide -- Most horrible of crimes : suicide in the old south -- The self-slaying epidemic : suicide after the Civil War -- The legacy of the war we suppose : suicide in medical and social thought -- To loosen the bands of society : divorce -- The country is also a party : antebellum divorce in black and white -- Connubial Bliss until he entered the army by conscription : civil war and divorce -- The divorce mill runs over time : marital breakdown and reform in the new south -- Enslaved by debt : the culture of credit and debt -- Sacredness of obligations : debt in antebellum North Carolina -- Out of debt before I die : the credit crisis of the Civil War -- What the landlord and the storeman choose to make it : general stores, pawnshops, and boardinghouses in the new south -- Nothing less than a question of slavery or freedom : populism and the crisis of debt in the new south.…”
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Behind the crisis Marx's dialectics of value and knowledge / by Carchedi, Guglielmo

Table of Contents: “…-- Formal logic and dialectical logic -- Induction, deduction and verification -- Debates -- Recasting the issues -- Abstract labour as the only source of (surplus-) value -- The materiality of abstract labour -- The tendential fall in the average profit-rate (ARP) -- The transformation-'problem' -- The alien rationality of homo economicus -- Crises -- Alternative explanations -- The cyclical movement -- The subprime debacle -- Either Marx or Keynes -- Subjectivity -- Crisis-theory and the theory of knowledge -- Neither information-society nor service-society -- Individual knowledge -- Social knowledge -- Labour's knowledge -- Knowledge and value -- The general intellect -- Science, technique and alien knowledge -- Trans-epochal and trans-class knowledge -- Knowledge and transition.…”
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Privatize this? assessing the opportunities and costs of privatization / by McGowan, Richard, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…-- Proposed and newly privatized industries -- The evolution and scope of the privatized prison industry -- Privatizing a lottery : the case of Illinois -- Conclusion -- General motors and the government bailout : the hybrid privatization.…”
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Rediscovering political economy

Table of Contents: “…Sirico -- Restoring sound economic thinking : what natural law taught us / John Mueller -- The idea of commerce in enlightenment political thought / Alan Levine -- Understanding Friedrich Engels (and Marx) and Adam Smith on economic organization and the price mechanism / Samuel Hollander -- Ten (mostly) Austrian insights for these trying times / Bruce Caldwell -- Political economy and American economic experience -- Promoting the general welfare : political economy for a free republic / Richard Wagner -- The economic theory of the American founding / Thomas G. …”
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Research tools in natural resource and environmental economics

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to research tools in natural resouce and environmental economics / Batabyal and Nijkamp -- Dynamic analysis / Huffaker -- Stochastic analysis : tools for environmental and resource economics modeling / Xepapadeas -- Game theory : static and dynamic games / Benchekroun and Long -- Introduction to economic valuation methods / Abdullah, Markandya and Nunes -- Hedonic method: value of statistical life, wage compensation, and property value compensation -- Environmental valuation : the sum of specific damages approach / Graves -- Economic estimation of non-linear continuous-time models of intertemporally optimizing agents / Donaghy and Wymer -- Computable general equilibrium models for the analysis of economy-environment interactions / Wing -- Experimental methods and environmental and natural resource policy / Cherry and McKee -- Modeling the economics of ecosystem services at watershed scale : a spatial model of land use externalities and the regulating functions of wetalnds / Simonit and Perrings -- Geographical infromation systems models and spatial data analysis / Haining and Law -- Materials balance models / Ayres and Méndez -- Industrial ecology : reflections of an environmental economist / Førsund.…”
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Choosing the lesser evil understanding decision making in humanitarian aid NGOs / by Heyse, Liesbet, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Choosing the lesser evil : selecting humanitarian aid projects -- Filling a void in NGO research : understanding diversity in NGO behavior -- Opening the black box of internal NGO dynamics : an organizational decision-making perspective -- Towards the reality of humanitarian aid provision : three sketches of NGO behavior -- Traces of the administrative organization : MSF's organizational features -- Consequentionality in aid provision : MSF's dominant decision-making pattern -- Disagreement, commitment, and constraints : MSF's secondary decision-making patterns -- From consequential to garbage can decision-making : two examples of MSF aid provision to Africa -- The opposite of the administrative organization : ACT Netherlands' organizational features -- Working with 'the family' : ACT's dominant decision-making pattern -- Working outside 'the family' : ACT's secondary decision-making patterns -- Decision-making dynamics in MSF and ACT : comparison and discussion of research results -- A look beyond the horizon : identifying steps towards theoretical generalization -- Complexity reduction through decision-making : intended and unintended consequences in humanitarian aid.…”
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Government versus markets the changing economic role of the state / by Tanzi, Vito

Table of Contents: “…Economic Role of State: 1. General introduction and main issues; Part II. Historical Review: 2. …”
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Corporate dreams big business in American democracy from the Great Depression to the great recession / by Hoopes, James, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…-- Masking the arrogance of power -- Responsibility versus profit at general motors -- Critics of managerial character -- JFK's pyrrhic victory over U.S. steel -- The corporation in the wilderness again -- McNamara and the staffers -- The false confidence of the anti-corporatists -- Corporate America loses world supremacy -- Laying the groundwork for the corporation's cultural comeback -- Leadership -- Managing by values -- Creating the concept of corporate culture -- Inventing the leadership development industry -- Reagan aids corporations by bashing government -- Entrepreneurship -- Supply siders versus the big corporation -- Reengineering the corporation -- George W. …”
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Gangster tour of Texas by Baker, T. Lindsay

Table of Contents: “…Brinkley and his empire of fraud in Del Rio -- High stakes gambling underground at Top O'Hill Terrace -- Bascom Giles : bribery at the highest levels in the Texas General Land Office -- The Houston Police dope scandal : selling heroin back to the dealers -- Two brothers and gaming over Gulf waters: the end of the gangster era in Texas.…”
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Demography and the economy

Table of Contents: “…Venti -- Financing Medicare: a general equilipbrium analysis / Orazio Attanasio, Sagiri Kitao and Giovanni L. …”
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New research on parenting programs for low-income fathers /

Table of Contents: “…A randomized control study of the "developing all dads for manhood and parenting program (DAD MAP)" curriculum -- Factors associated with fatherhood program effectiveness: a randomized controlled trial of TYRO dads -- Engaging fathers in perinatal home visiting: early lessons from a randomized controlled study of dads matter HV -- Evaluation of Key to Kāne, a text-messaging intervention for fathers in Hawaii -- Challenges and opportunities for engaging unmarried parents in court-ordered, online parenting programs -- A mixed methods study of a mother-only program to enhance coparenting relationships -- Fatherhood and coparenting: a study of engaging mothers in paternal involvement interventions -- Engaging mothers in coparenting services with the nonresidential fathers of their children via fatherhood programs: insights into barriers and solutions -- "You gotta make them feel": a study of evidence-informed strategies for addressing domestic violence in fatherhood programs -- Journey of a policy change to include fathers in homeless shelters -- Information classification: general -- estimating the monetary value of fatherhood programs -- Developing father inclusion policy at the state level: a qualitative assessment of enablers and barriers -- What have we learned and where do we go from here?…”
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Face-to-face communication over the Internet emotions in a web of culture, language and technology /

Table of Contents: “…Electronically-mediated face-to-face communication: issues, questions, and challenges Arvid Kappas and Nicole C. Kra;mer; Part I. General Aspects of Visual Cues in CMC: 1. Visual cues in computer-mediated communication: sometimes less is more Joseph B. …”
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