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Kidney failure and the federal government

Subjects: “…United States. Medicare Bureau. End-Stage Renal Disease Program.…”
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Fate of the wild the Endangered Species Act and the future of biodiversity / by Burgess, Bonnie B., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. Setting the stage -- pt. 2. Characters -- pt. 3. Conflict -- pt. 4. …”
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Suburban crossroads the fight for local control of immigration policy / by Vicino, Thomas J.

Table of Contents: “…-- The multiethnic metropolis and its discontents -- Setting the stage: local histories and contemporary portraits -- Inklings of public problems -- The politics of relief -- Public policy and planning for the multiethnic metropolis -- Conclusion: the fight endures.…”
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Backlash against welfare mothers past and present / by Reese, Ellen, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Dreams deferred, broken families, and hardship : the impacts of welfare reform -- Attacking welfare, promoting work and marriage : continuity and change in welfare opposition -- The first welfare backlash (1945/1979) -- The 1950s welfare backlash and federal complicity -- Explaining the postwar rise of welfare opposition -- The Southern welfare backlash : Georgia and Kentucky -- The Northern and Western welfare backlashes : California and New York -- Setting the stage : the failures of liberal innovation -- The contemporary welfare backlash (1980/2004) -- The rise of the Republican right and new Democrats -- Business interests, conservative think tanks, and the assault on welfare -- The contemporary welfare backlash, 1980/2004 -- Rebuilding the welfare state : forging a new deal for working families.…”
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Light manufacturing in Africa targeted policies to enhance private investment and create jobs /

Table of Contents: “…Light manufacturing in Africa: focused policies to enhance private investment and create productive jobs -- Part I. Setting the stage -- Chapter 1. Good possibilities for light manufacturing in sub-Saharan Africa -- Part II. …”
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State capitalism, contentious politics and large-scale social change

Table of Contents: “…Wolff -- Labor representation and organization under state capitalism in China / Jackie Sheehan -- A consideration of China's incomplete retreat from state capitalism / Rumy Hasan -- Chinese "develop the west" campaigns and their environmental impacts : the post-socialist condition in China / Yuehtsen Juliette Chung -- State capitalist aspirations and the two-stage theory of revolution in the Philippines / Vincent Kelly Pollard.…”
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Blue future : protecting water for people and the planet forever / by Barlow, Maude

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Uncertainty underground Yucca Mountain and the nation's high-level nuclear waste /

Table of Contents: “…Nuclear waste story : setting the stage / Thomas A. Cotton -- Regulating the geologic disposal of high-level nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain / William M. …”
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No one is illegal fighting violence and state repression on the U.S.-Mexico border / by Akers Chacón, Justin

Table of Contents: “…Mexico : caught in the web of U.S. empire / Justin Akers Chacón -- Introduction -- 12. Conquest sets the stage -- 13. Neoliberalism consumes the "Mexican miracle" -- 14. …”
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Strategy in the second nuclear age power, ambition, and the ultimate weapon /

Table of Contents: “…Holmes -- After proliferation: deterrence theory and emerging nuclear powers / Joshua Rovner -- South Africa's nuclear strategy: deterring "total onslaught" and "nuclear blackmail" in three stages / Helen E. Purkitt and Stephen F. Burgess -- The future of Chinese nuclear strategy / Christopher T. …”
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Upland Geopolitics : Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush / by Dwyer, Michael B.

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The politics of education reform in the Middle East self and other in textbooks and curricula /

Table of Contents: “…Educational reform in the Arab world: directives, mechanisms, and challenges in Lebanon, Syria, and Oman / Nemer Mansur Frayha -- Education reform in Oman: evolution of secondary school curricula / Salha Abdullah Issan -- Educational developments in Jordan from the 1950s until today: stages and characteristics / Mohammad Khalil Abbas -- Major trends of educational reform in Egypt / Iman Farag -- On the impossibility of teaching history in Lebanon: notes on a textbook controversy / Massoud Daher -- History textbooks in Egyptian schools: a tool for the representation of collective memory / Atef Botros -- Different layers of identity in Lebanese textbooks / Jonathan Kriener -- The philosophical foundations of education and the range of its implications for the content of civic education textbooks in Jordan / Mustafa Abu al-Sheikh and Yasser al-Khalailah -- Gender images in Jordanian textbooks in the subject field of social education / Naseema al-Khalidi -- Images of Europeans in Jordanian textbooks / Qasem al-Newashi -- History curricula and textbooks in Palestine: between nation building and quality education / Samira Alayan -- Bridging conflicts through history education?…”
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Reducing global poverty the case for asset accumulation /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Caroline Moser -- Intergenerational asset accumulation and poverty reduction in Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1978-2004 / Caroline Moser and Andrew Felton -- Learning from asset-based approaches to poverty / Michael R. Carter -- The stages-of-progress methodology and results from five countries / Anirudh Krishna -- Asset accumulation policy and poverty reduction / Caroline Moser -- Addressing vulnerability through asset building and social protection / Sarah Cook -- Social protection and asset accumulation by the middle class and the poor in Latin America / Andres Solimano -- Building natural resource-based assets in southern Africa : workable scenarios / Paula Nimpuno-Parente -- Protecting land rights in post-tsunami and postconflict Aceh, Indonesia / Lilianne Fan -- Hurricane Katrina : impact on assets and asset-building approaches to poverty reduction / Amy Liu -- Gangs, violence, and asset building / Dennis Rodgers -- Beyond microfinance / Vijay Mahajan -- Using microinsurance and financial education to protect and accumulate assets / Monique Cohen and Pamela Young -- Migrant foreign savings and asset accumulation / Manuel Orozco -- Transnational communities of the United States and Latin America / Hector Cordero-Guzman and Victoria Quiroz-Becerra -- Gender and transnational asset accumulation in El Salvador / Sarah Gammage -- Claiming rights : citizenship and the politics of asset distribution / Clare Ferguson, Caroline Moser, and Andy Norton.…”
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