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Migraine : A History / by Foxhall, Katherine

Table of Contents: “…-- The "beating of hammers" : classical and medieval approaches to hemicrania -- "Take housleeke, and garden wormes" : migraine medicine in the early modern household -- A "deadly tormenting megrym" : expanding markets and changing meanings -- "The pain was very much relieved and she slept" : gender and patienthood in the nineteenth-century -- "As sharp as if drawn with compasses" : Victorian vision, men of science and the making of modern migraine -- "A shower of phosphenes" : twentieth-century stories and the medical uses of history -- "Happy hunting ground" : conceptual fragmentation and medication in the -- Twentieth century -- "If I could harness pain" : the migraine art competitions, 1980-7.…”
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Democracy and the politics of electoral system choice engineering electoral dominance / by Ahmed, Amel

Table of Contents: “…Strategies of containment: the role of repression and accommodation; 3. Strategies of competition: the logic of electoral system choice, single member plurality (SMP) vs. proportional representation (PR); 4. …”
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Running for judge the rising political, financial, and legal stakes of judicial elections /

Table of Contents: “…Schaffner and Jennifer Segal Diascro -- Voters' responses to high-visibility judicial campaigns / Lawrence Baum and David Klein -- Competition as accountability in State Supreme Court elections / Melinda Gann Hall -- Judicial selection methods and capital punishment in the American states / Paul Brace and Brent D. …”
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Social health insurance for developing nations by Hsiao, William C.

Table of Contents: “…Hsiao -- Colombia: social health insurance with managed competition to improve health care delivery / Diana Pinto and William C. …”
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Reproductive biology and phylogeny of birds

Table of Contents: “…Testis size, sperm size and sperm competition / James V. Briskie and Robert Montgomerie. …”
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The organization of firms in a global economy

Table of Contents: “…Melitz -- Competing in organizations : firm heterogeneity and international trade / Dalia Marin and Thierry Verdier -- Optimal choice of produce scope for multiproduct firms under monopolistic competition / Robert C. Feenstra and Hong Ma -- Firm heterogeneity, intra-firm trade, and the role of central locations / Stephen Ross Yeaple -- Export dynamics in Colombia : firm-level evidence / Jonathan Eaton ... …”
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Dynamics of Southwest prehistory

Table of Contents: “…Jefferson Reid -- Prehistoric cooperation and competition in the western Anasazi area / George J. …”
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The Vega factor oil volatility and the next global crisis / by Moors, Kent F.

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Empirical model building data, models, and reality / by Thompson, James R. (James Robert), 1938-

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Blossoms and blood : postmodern media culture and the films of Paul Thomas Anderson / by Sperb, Jason, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…The Art-House Adam Sandler Movie: Commodity Culture and the Ethereal Ephemerality of Punch-Drunk Love (2002) -- Chapter 5. I Have a Competition in Me: Political Allegory, Artistic Collaboration, and Narratives of Perfection in There Will Be Blood (2007) -- Afterword. …”
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Sustainable biofuel and biomass : advances and impacts /

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Violence, nonviolence, and the Palestinian national movement by Pearlman, Wendy

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The politics of religion in Soviet-occupied Germany the case of Berlin-Brandenburg, 1945-1949 / by Brennan, Sean (Sean Philip), 1979-

Table of Contents: “…The brown dictatorship before the red: the German churches under national socialism -- The question of the CDU and the churches during the period of the "antifascist transformation, "1945-1947 -- The Volkscongress movement and the end of the CDU's political independence, December 1946 -October1949 -- "Unity schools are secular schools": the struggle over religious education in the secondary schools of Berlin Brandenburg -- The competition between socialist and religious youth and women's organizations in Berlin-Brandenburg -- The conflict over charitable activity by the evangelical and Catholic churches in Berlin-Brandenburg -- "Christianity and Marxism are not in opposition": the propaganda offensive in East Germany concerning "religious freedom" under communism -- The Allied Religious Affairs Committee and the impossibility of a united religious policy for Germany.…”
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Strategy, innovation, and change challenges for management /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Robert Galavan, John Murray, and Costas Markides -- Understand your situation -- The economics of global competition: implications for business / Dermot McAleese and Gerard OBrien -- From customer understanding to strategy innovation: practical tools to establish competitive positioning / Cliff Bowman and Richard Schoenberg -- And the winner takes it all? …”
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Sociology of interprofessional health care practice critical reflections and concrete solutions /

Table of Contents: “…/ Lynda D'Avray and Peter McCrorie -- Interprofessional healthcare as intercultural experience : early years training for medical students / Andrew Russell -- Competition the new collaboration? : employing inter-team competitiveness to motivate health students to learn together / Monica Moran, Rosalie Boyce, and Lisa Nissen -- Preparing educators for interprofessional learning : rationale, educational theory & deliver / Jill Thistlethwaite and Gillian Nisbet -- Health workforce reform, interprofessional education, and practice and the division of labour / Rosalie A. …”
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Defending the brand aggressive strategies for protecting your brand in the online arena / by Murray, Brian H., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…-- What to do -- The business case -- Boardroom summary -- The opportunities and threats of online commentary -- The rumor mill -- Financial earnings -- Early warning -- Information security -- Other security and liability threats -- The world's largest focus group -- Activism and "sucks" sites -- Nobody is immune -- Managing risk -- Buried treasure -- The business case -- Boardroom summary -- Customer diversion -- Customer capture -- Cybersquatting -- Typo-piracy -- Domain name administration -- Arbitration -- Search engine manipulation -- Invisible seeding -- Visible seeding -- Spoofing --Paid placement -- Managing seeding and spoofing issues -- Software utility generated advertisements -- Mislabeled links -- Unsolicited e-mail -- Keeping the customer -- Bringing the customer back -- Scope of the problem -- The future -- The business case -- Boardroom summary -- Online partners and distribution issues -- A managing partner compliance -- The customer experience -- Changing dynamics -- Online partners -- Affiliates -- Suppliers -- Distributors -- Third parties -- Monitoring partners -- Step 1: Prioritization -- Step 2: Brand management -- Step 3: Enforcement -- The business case -- Boardroom summary -- Counterfeits and gray markets -- Gray markets -- Combating gray market activity -- Counterfeiting -- Copier supplies -- Pharmaceuticals -- Online monitoring -- Criteria that may signal a suspect distributor -- Testing authenticity -- The business case -- Boardroom summary -- Defending against digital piracy -- Music -- Sales leads -- Video -- Cease and desist -- Customer convenience -- Copy protection and digital rights management -- Software -- Text and images -- E-books -- The Stephen King experiment -- News services -- Market data -- The business case -- Boardroom summary -- Trust -- The costs of compromised privacy and security -- Information collection technologies -- Cookies -- Web beacons -- Information security -- Customer information transmission -- Customer information storage -- Fraud -- Managing privacy and security -- The business case -- Boardroom summary -- Competitive intelligence -- Using online competitive intelligence to outmaneuver competitor brands -- The internet as a competitive intelligence source -- Brand presence -- Brand reach -- Competitor brand abuse -- Competitor absence -- Linking relationships -- Partnerships -- Recruiting competitor partners -- Online commentary -- Collecting the data -- Counterintelligence -- Actionable information -- The business case -- Boardroom summary.…”
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Ricardo on Money : A Reappraisal / by Deleplace, Ghislain

Table of Contents: “…A generalisation -- 6 The depreciation of metallic money -- 6.1 Convertibility and adjustment in the market for bullion -- The effect of the melting pot on the upper limit of variation in the market price of bullion -- The effect of seignorage on the lower limit of variation in the market price of bullion -- 6.2 Price adjustment in the markets for other commodities than bullion -- The effect of a change in the value of money on the competition of capitals -- From the market price of bullion to the market prices of commodities -- A bullion-price channel of transmission of a monetary shock -- 6.3 Debasement of the coin and depreciation of money -- The effect of debasement on the market price of gold bullion -- Debasement and "the principle of limitation of quantity" -- 6.4 The instability of the double standard -- The variability of the relative market price of gold in silver and the alternating standard -- The behaviour of the Bank of England and the prospective fall in the value of money -- Appendix 6: A letter on the double standard of money -- 7 The regulation of the quantity of convertible notes by the standard -- 7.1 The MoneyStandard Equation and the quantity of money -- 7.2 The adjustment of the value of money to an increase in the "wants of commerce" -- The notion of wants of commerce -- An endogenous adjustment -- The superiority of paper money over coins -- 7.3 The adjustment to a discretionary increase in the convertible-note issue -- "Forcing" Bank of England notes into circulation -- The melting of circulating coins -- The Penelope effect -- 7.4 A non-quantitative approach -- 7.5 Money without a standard -- A double inconvertibility -- The MoneyStandard Equation and inconvertibility -- 7.6 Conclusion: the specificity of the market for gold bullion -- Appendix 7: The effects of a change in the money supply: real balances, rate of interest and Says Law -- 1. …”
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Red zone management changing the rules for pivotal times / by Holland, Winford E.

Table of Contents: “…Red zone gameplan for changing competitive strategy -- ch. 6. Red zone gameplan for mergers and acquisitions -- ch. 7. …”
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Democracy as problem solving civic capacity in communities across the globe / by Briggs, Xavier de Souza

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Democracy and public problems -- Managing urban growth : the problem and its civics -- Rethinking the American West : a civic intermediary and the movement for "quality growth" in Utah -- The grassroots-to-grasstops dynamic : slum redevelopment and accountability in Mumbai -- The civics of economic restructuring -- The hyper-organized region : leading the next "new economy" in Pittsburgh -- Progressive regionalism and entrepreneurial government : democratization and competitive restructuring in the greater ABC, Brazil -- Leading change in child and youth well-being -- From the ballot box to better results : cross-sector accountability in the San Francisco children's movement -- Rights, conflict, and civic capacity : meeting the needs of poor children and families in postapartheid Cape Town -- Conclusion.…”
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Information Technology and Organizational Learning : Managing Behavioral Change in the Digital Age by Langer, Arthur M.

Table of Contents: “…chapter 1 The “Ravell” Corporation -- chapter 2 The IT Dilemma -- chapter 3 Technology as a Variable and Responsive Organizational Dynamism -- chapter 4 Organizational Learning Theories and Technology -- chapter 5 Managing Organizational Learning and Technology -- chapter 6 Organizational Transformation and the Balanced Scorecard -- chapter 7 Virtual Teams and Outsourcing -- chapter 8 Synergistic Union of IT and Organizational Learning -- chapter 9 Forming a Cyber Security Culture -- chapter 10 Digital Transformation and Changes in Consumer Behavior -- chapter 11 Integrating Generation Y Employees to Accelerate Competitive Advantage -- chapter 12 Toward Best Practices -- chapter 13 conclusIons.…”
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