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Material relations : the marriage figurines of prehispanic Honduras / by Hendon, Julia A. (Julia Ann)

Table of Contents: “…Tenampua : Conflict and Competition -- Chapter 4. Campo Dos : Wealth and Influence -- Chapter 5. …”
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Fundamentals of international aviation law and policy / by Scott, Benjamyn I., Trimarchi, Andrea

Table of Contents: “…Foundations of Aviation Law -- Early Development in Air Law -- Convention on International Civil Aviation -- International Civil Aviation Organization -- International Air Transport -- Criminal Aviation Law -- Contractual Liability -- Third Party Liability and Damage on the Surface -- Aviation Insurance -- Aviation Competition Law -- Regulation of Environment in Aviation -- Suborbital Transportation and the Link to Space Law…”
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Manhood, Citizenship, and the National Guard : Illinoi, 1870-1917 / by Hannah, Eleanor L.

Table of Contents: “…Illinois militia revival in the 1870s -- Manhood and citizenship on display -- Confused missions: the first twenty years of strike duty, 1870-90 -- New training practices, drill competitions, and the rise of sharpshooting -- Death, manhood, and service in the Spanish American war -- Lessons learned: the ING and strike duty, 1894-1916 -- The pursuit of state and federal support.…”
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Made in Africa : Learning to Compete in Industry / by Newman, Carol, 1977-, Tarp, Finn, 1951-, Söderbom, Måns, Abebe Shimeles, Rand, John, 1974-, Page, John M., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…-- Learning to compete -- Productivity, exports and competition -- Firm capabilities -- Industrial clusters -- How Africa can industrialize -- A strategy for industrial development -- Dealing with resource abundance -- An agenda for aid -- Afterword: leopards and laggards.…”
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More quick team-building activities for busy managers 50 new exercises that get results in just 15 minutes / by Miller, Brian Cole, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Welcoming : introductions and icebreakers ; Battling : games that teach healthy competition ; Teamwork : challenges that require cooperation ; Creativity : challenges that encourage out-of-the-box thinking ; Support : activities to appreciate and help each other.…”
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Icarus in the boardroom the fundamental flaws in corporate America and where they came from / by Skeel, David A., 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Jay Cooke and the birth of America's first large scale corporations -- The gilded age and the crisis of competition -- Icarus meets the New Deal -- "I want to be like Mike" : LBO's and the new corporate governance -- Enron, WorldCom, and the transformation of Icarus -- "The most sweeping securities law reforms since the New Deal" -- "We have met the corporation and it is us."…”
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Strategic management of health care organizations by Ginter, Peter M.

Table of Contents: “…The nature of strategic management -- Understanding and analyzing the general environment and the health care environment -- Service area competitor analysis -- Internal environmental analysis and competitive advantage -- Directional strategies -- Developing strategic alternatives -- Evaluation of alternatives and strategic choice -- Value adding service delivery strategies -- Value adding support strategies -- Communicating the strategy and developing action plans.…”
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Control of growth the Drosophila Myc homolog /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: The Myc oncogene in vertebrates -- Molecular function of Myc -- Normal function of Myc -- Myc in other taxa -- Myc in Drosophila melanogaster -- Myc controls animal size, endoreplication, apoptosis, cell competition and asymmetric division -- Molecular function of Myc in Drosophila melanogaster -- Ribosome synthesis -- Max-independent activities -- Genetic screening can reveal essential partners.…”
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Besieged school boards and the future of education politics /

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Fundamentals of weed science by Zimdahl, Robert L.

Table of Contents: “…Weeds--the beginning -- Weed classification -- Ethnobotany -- Weed reproduction and dispersal -- Weed ecology -- Invasive plants -- Allelopathy -- The significance of plant competition -- Methods of weed management and control -- Biological weed control -- Introduction to chemical weed control -- Properties and uses of herbicides -- Herbicides and plants -- Herbicides and soil -- Herbicide formulation -- Herbicides and the environment -- Pesticide legislation and registration -- Weed management systems -- Weed science--the future.…”
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The European Union explained institutions, actors, global impact / by Staab, Andreas, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…The evolution of the European Union -- Parameters of European integration -- Enlargement -- Institutions -- The European Commission -- The European Council -- The Council of Ministers -- The Presidency -- The European Parliament -- The European Court of Justice -- Checks and balances -- Policies -- The single market and competition -- Regional policy and cohesion -- The common agricultural policy -- Economic and monetary union -- Justice and home affairs -- Common foreign and security policy -- Trade and the common commercial policy.…”
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Technology change and the rise of new industries by Funk, Jeffrey L.

Table of Contents: “…Opportunities and challenges for firms and governments. Competition in new industries -- Different industries, different challenges -- part IV. …”
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Broken hearts the tangled history of cardiac care / by Jones, David S. (David Shumway)

Table of Contents: “…The mysteries of heart attacks -- The case for plaque rupture -- The case against plaque rupture -- Learning by doing -- The plaque rupture consensus -- Rupture therapeutics -- Therapeutic ruptures -- Fear and unpredictability -- Surgical ambition and fear -- Suffering cerebrums -- Deliriogenic personalities -- The case of the missing complications -- Selective inattention -- The cerebral complications of coronary artery bypass surgery -- A taxonomy of inattention -- Competition's complications.…”
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Something's Gotta Give : Charleston Conference Proceedings, 2011 /

Table of Contents: “…why, when, and how collaboration sometimes trumps competition, the user perspective /…”
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Compound Containment : A Reigning Power's Military-Economic Countermeasures against a Challenging Power / by Kim, Dong Jung

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Rediscovering fire basic economic lessons from the Soviet experiment / by Nell, Guinevere Liberty, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…The real benefits of competition -- The dynamics of unemployment and efficiency -- The holistic target : the value of profit and loss for the firm -- The rat race : the value of profit and loss for the economy -- Middlemen, trade, and the market system -- The high price of price control -- The root of all prosperity : money and the danger of centralized monetary policy -- Regulation and the institutions of a dynamic economy -- Democracy and freedom -- Corporate capitalism or the free market.…”
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Artisan entrepreneurs in Cairo and early-modern capitalism (1600-1800) / by Hanna, Nelly

Table of Contents: “…Defining a framework for the economic history of early-modern Egypt -- Artisan entrepreneurs: capitalist practices in a precapitalist environment -- A period of unprecedented social mobility for nonelites -- The Jalfis: oil pressers and emirs -- Competition between different forms of capitalism -- Guilds: moving between traditional and precapitalist structures -- Conclusion: what remained of artisan entrepreneurship a hundred years later?.…”
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Microeconomic theory : a heterodox approach / by Lee, Frederic S., 1949-2014

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- The making of heterodox microeconomics -- Structure, agency, and modeling the economy -- The business enterprise : structures -- The business enterprise : agency and causal mechanisms -- Markets and demand for the social product -- Competition, the market price, and market governance -- Microeconomics and the social provisioning process -- Appendix 1 Heterodox microeconomics course syllabus -- Appendix 2 Narrative-qualitative-analytical problem sets -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Afghanistan and Central Asia NATO's role in regional security since 9/11 /

Table of Contents: “…Energy security in and around Central Asia -- pt. IV. International competition and co-operation over Afghanistan and Central Asia -- pt. …”
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