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Diffusion of gender quotas in Latin America and beyond advances and setbacks in the last two decades /

Table of Contents: “…The diffusion of gender quota laws in Latin America / Adriana Piatti-Crocker -- (Argentina) Melida Archenti and Maria Ines Tula (University of Buenos Aires) -- (Brazil) Clara Araujo (State University of Rio de Janeiro) -- (Mexico) Jennifer Piscopo (University of California, San Diego) -- (Mexico, Sub-national) Pär Zetterberg, Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden -- (Peru) : Greg Schmidt (University of Texas, El Paso) -- (Costa Rica) : Ana Isabel Garcia Quesada- Costa Rica -- (Dominican Republic) Jacqueline Polanco (Bronx Community College -- Gender quota laws in Latin America : from diffusion to the end of a wave?…”
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Diffusion of gender quotas in Latin America and beyond advances and setbacks in the last two decades /

Table of Contents: “…The diffusion of gender quota laws in Latin America / Adriana Piatti-Crocker -- (Argentina) Melida Archenti and Maria Ines Tula (University of Buenos Aires) -- (Brazil) Clara Araujo (State University of Rio de Janeiro) -- (Mexico) Jennifer Piscopo (University of California, San Diego) -- (Mexico, Sub-national) Pär Zetterberg, Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden -- (Peru) : Greg Schmidt (University of Texas, El Paso) -- (Costa Rica) : Ana Isabel Garcia Quesada- Costa Rica -- (Dominican Republic) Jacqueline Polanco (Bronx Community College -- Gender quota laws in Latin America : from diffusion to the end of a wave?…”
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Reinventing local and regional economies / by Gordon, Gerald L.

Table of Contents: “…The case study approach -- Lessons from the formula for economic growth on main street America -- Political foundations for economic reinvention -- Exposing the notion that a local economy can remain static -- Taking the long-term view and managing expectations : the horizon for elected officials -- Economic development seen as an investment -- (Case studies: Fairfax County, Milwaukee) -- Community development as a precursor to economic reinvention -- Building bridges between the public and private sectors -- (Case studies: Rochester, Allentown, Buffalo) -- Creating support systems and clusters -- (Case studies: Lexington, Kentucky; Pittsburgh; Dayton; Kansas City, Phoenix) -- Enhancing a community's assets for business attraction: tending to the product -- (Case studies: Baltimore, Las Vegas/Water) -- Basic strategic foundations for economic growth and economic development -- Distinguishing between economic growth and economic development -- Stabilizing economies through diversification -- (Case studies: Seattle, Detroit, Fairfax County, Birmingham, Tulsa, Charlotte) -- Coordinating land use and other local and regional planning -- (Case studies: Albuquerque, Dubuque, Youngstown) -- Target industries and community assets -- (Case studies: Indianapolis, Cleveland, the Bronx, multiple silicon "wannabe's" -- Encouraging technology transfer from colleges and universities to stimulate economic development -- (Case studies: MIT, johns hopkins, carnegie-mellon university and the university of pittsburgh, george Mason University) -- Marketing for business relocation and expansion -- Reality versus perceptions and truth in advertising -- The growth of entrepreneurial businesses as a complement to business attraction and retention -- (case studies: Allentown, Rochester, Kansas City) -- Best (and worst) practices in the use of incentives for business attraction -- (Case studies: Chicago/Boeing; State of North Carolina/Firestone Bridgestone tires; State of Maryland/Marriott Corporation).…”

Reinventing local and regional economies / by Gordon, Gerald L.

Table of Contents: “…The case study approach -- Lessons from the formula for economic growth on main street America -- Political foundations for economic reinvention -- Exposing the notion that a local economy can remain static -- Taking the long-term view and managing expectations : the horizon for elected officials -- Economic development seen as an investment -- (Case studies: Fairfax County, Milwaukee) -- Community development as a precursor to economic reinvention -- Building bridges between the public and private sectors -- (Case studies: Rochester, Allentown, Buffalo) -- Creating support systems and clusters -- (Case studies: Lexington, Kentucky; Pittsburgh; Dayton; Kansas City, Phoenix) -- Enhancing a community's assets for business attraction: tending to the product -- (Case studies: Baltimore, Las Vegas/Water) -- Basic strategic foundations for economic growth and economic development -- Distinguishing between economic growth and economic development -- Stabilizing economies through diversification -- (Case studies: Seattle, Detroit, Fairfax County, Birmingham, Tulsa, Charlotte) -- Coordinating land use and other local and regional planning -- (Case studies: Albuquerque, Dubuque, Youngstown) -- Target industries and community assets -- (Case studies: Indianapolis, Cleveland, the Bronx, multiple silicon "wannabe's" -- Encouraging technology transfer from colleges and universities to stimulate economic development -- (Case studies: MIT, johns hopkins, carnegie-mellon university and the university of pittsburgh, george Mason University) -- Marketing for business relocation and expansion -- Reality versus perceptions and truth in advertising -- The growth of entrepreneurial businesses as a complement to business attraction and retention -- (case studies: Allentown, Rochester, Kansas City) -- Best (and worst) practices in the use of incentives for business attraction -- (Case studies: Chicago/Boeing; State of North Carolina/Firestone Bridgestone tires; State of Maryland/Marriott Corporation).…”

Comrades in health : U.S. health internationalists, abroad and at home /

Table of Contents: “…Jack Geiger -- Barefoot in China, the Bronx, and beyond / Victor W. Sidel and Ruth Sidel -- Medical internationalism and the last epidemic / Bernard Lown -- Social medicine, at home and abroad / Howard Waitzkin -- Find the best people and support them / Paula Braveman Cooperantes, solidarity, and the fight for health in Mozambique / Stephen Gloyd, James Pfeiffer and Wendy Johnson -- From Harlem to Harare : lessons in how social movements and social policy change health / Mary Travis Bassett -- Brigadistas and revolutionaries : health and social justice in El Salvador / Michael Terry with Laura Turiano -- Health and human rights in Latin America : a lawyers experience with public health internationalism / Alicia Ey Yamin -- History, theory, and praxis in Pacific Islands health / Seiji Yamada -- Doctors for global health : applying liberation medicine and accompanying communities in their struggles for health and social justice / Lanny Smith, Jennifer Kasper, and Timothy Holtz -- Doctors across blockades : American medical students in Cuba / Razel Remen and Brea Bondi-Boyd -- Conclusion : across the generations: lessons from health internationalism / Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Theodore M. …”
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Comrades in health : U.S. health internationalists, abroad and at home /

Table of Contents: “…Jack Geiger -- Barefoot in China, the Bronx, and beyond / Victor W. Sidel and Ruth Sidel -- Medical internationalism and the last epidemic / Bernard Lown -- Social medicine, at home and abroad / Howard Waitzkin -- Find the best people and support them / Paula Braveman Cooperantes, solidarity, and the fight for health in Mozambique / Stephen Gloyd, James Pfeiffer and Wendy Johnson -- From Harlem to Harare : lessons in how social movements and social policy change health / Mary Travis Bassett -- Brigadistas and revolutionaries : health and social justice in El Salvador / Michael Terry with Laura Turiano -- Health and human rights in Latin America : a lawyers experience with public health internationalism / Alicia Ey Yamin -- History, theory, and praxis in Pacific Islands health / Seiji Yamada -- Doctors for global health : applying liberation medicine and accompanying communities in their struggles for health and social justice / Lanny Smith, Jennifer Kasper, and Timothy Holtz -- Doctors across blockades : American medical students in Cuba / Razel Remen and Brea Bondi-Boyd -- Conclusion : across the generations: lessons from health internationalism / Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Theodore M. …”
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Meet me with your black drawers on my life in music / by Cheatham, Jeannie

Table of Contents: “…Arthur Reginald Riley -- Funerals -- The Reverend Uncle Frank, lessons on men, and finding Jesus -- The coming of the cold -- Summer heat -- Wrong direction -- The new house -- It's an ill wind that don't blow somebody some good -- Yellow cab to the red-light district -- Junkies and jazz -- World War II : let the good times roll -- Just get on the greyhound, girl -- The Evans exodus -- Jailhouse blues -- From hell to heaven blues -- Snowbound -- The song of the Colvinaires -- New baby blues -- A blizzard of birdshit -- The colors of many changes -- Triumph, tragedy, turmoil, and tenor players -- A little love song -- Little Mattie, big mama, and the beautiful Miss M -- The blues and the Buffalo scuffle -- Escape from Buffalo -- New York City, ditty-wah-ditty -- Fatback -- Bronx gulag and agoraphobia -- The light shineth in the darkness -- From hell to academia -- Welcome to Wisconsin -- On the move in Madison -- Movin' an' moanin', groovin' an' groanin' in Madison -- The way west -- Pipe dreamin' in the valley of smoke -- A standing O in San Diego -- Take it! …”
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Meet me with your black drawers on my life in music / by Cheatham, Jeannie

Table of Contents: “…Arthur Reginald Riley -- Funerals -- The Reverend Uncle Frank, lessons on men, and finding Jesus -- The coming of the cold -- Summer heat -- Wrong direction -- The new house -- It's an ill wind that don't blow somebody some good -- Yellow cab to the red-light district -- Junkies and jazz -- World War II : let the good times roll -- Just get on the greyhound, girl -- The Evans exodus -- Jailhouse blues -- From hell to heaven blues -- Snowbound -- The song of the Colvinaires -- New baby blues -- A blizzard of birdshit -- The colors of many changes -- Triumph, tragedy, turmoil, and tenor players -- A little love song -- Little Mattie, big mama, and the beautiful Miss M -- The blues and the Buffalo scuffle -- Escape from Buffalo -- New York City, ditty-wah-ditty -- Fatback -- Bronx gulag and agoraphobia -- The light shineth in the darkness -- From hell to academia -- Welcome to Wisconsin -- On the move in Madison -- Movin' an' moanin', groovin' an' groanin' in Madison -- The way west -- Pipe dreamin' in the valley of smoke -- A standing O in San Diego -- Take it! …”
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