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The horse in early modern English culture : bridled, curbed, and tamed / by De Ornellas, Kevin

Table of Contents: “…Paul's -- Laying the world on your mare : the corrupt horse-race in Shirley's Hide Parke -- Constructed combatants : political steeds before, during, and after the Civil Wars -- Conclusion.…”
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Ethics in health services and policy a global approach / by Harris, Dean M., 1951-

Table of Contents: “…. -- Fair Treatment of Health Care Workers from Other Countries. -- 12 Corruption and Informal Payments in Health Systems. -- Payment of Informal Fees by Patients and Their Families. -- Is Corruption Bad for Your (and Other People's) Health? …”
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The persistence of Cambodian poverty from the killing fields to today / by Kerbo, Harold R.

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Greece's 'odious' debt : the looting of the Hellenic republic by the Euro, the political elite and the investment community / by Manolopoulos, Jason

Table of Contents: “…-- Western branding, eastern legacy: a country on a fault line -- The looting of Greece: scandals, corruption and a monstrous public sector -- Getting unlucky : it all begins to unravel -- The euro in practice -- Liquidity boom -- The entertainers -- An unaffordable bail-out? …”
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Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire : Microcosms of Modernity / by Schull, Kent F.

Table of Contents: “…Ottoman criminal justice and the transformation of Islamic criminal law and punishment in the age of modernity, 1839-1922 -- Prison reform in the late Ottoman Empire : the state's perspectives -- Counting the incarcerated : knowledge, power and the prison population -- The spatialisation of incarceration : reforms, response and the reality of prison life -- Disciplining the disciplinarians : combating corruption and abuse through the professionalisation of the prison cadre -- Creating juvenile delinquents : redefining childhood in the late Ottoman Empire.…”
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Organizational pathology : life and death of organizations / by Samuel, Yitzhak

Table of Contents: “…chapter 1 A Theoretical Framework -- chapter 2 Organizational Fatality -- chapter 3 Failure Prediction Models -- chapter 4 Maladies and Disorders -- chapter 5 The Spiral of Decline -- chapter 6 The Perils of Politics -- chapter 7 Greed and Corruption -- chapter 8 Corporate Crime -- chapter 9 Crises and Fixations -- chapter 10 Failing and Surviving -- chapter 11 Disbandment and Closure -- chapter 12 Lessons Learned.…”
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The Cuban connection drug trafficking, smuggling, and gambling in Cuba from the 1920s to the Revolution / by Sáenz Rovner, Eduardo

Table of Contents: “…U.S. prohibition and smuggling from Cuba -- Drug trafficking and political anarchy during the 1930s -- The Chinese and opium consumption in Cuba -- Corruption and drug trafficking in Cuba during the Second World War and the early postwar years -- Lucky Luciano in Cuba -- The Prío Socarrás government and drug trafficking -- Gambling in Cuba -- The Andean connection -- Contacts in France -- The Batista dictatorship and drug trafficking -- Revolution -- The diplomacy of drug trafficking at the beginning of the Revolution.…”
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Japanese temple Buddhism worldliness in a religion of renunciation / by Covell, Stephen Grover, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Temple Buddhism today: scholarly and popular images of corruption -- Laity and the temple: past and present -- Trying to have it both ways: the laity in a world-renouncer organization? …”
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The Copts of Egypt challenges of modernisation and identity / by Ibrahim, Vivian

Table of Contents: “…Benevolence and philanthropy (1882-1945) ; Factionalism and corruption (1882-1945) ; A Coptic revolution : Harakat Al-Tathir (1952-1954).…”
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Criminal injustice slaves and free Blacks in Georgia's criminal justice system / by McNair, Glenn, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…"My Lord, they are stark mad after Negroes" : slavery and the corruption of Georgia's legal culture -- "For the better ordering and governing Negroes" : Blacks and the law -- "Negroes might cut the throats of our people" : Black crime and its causes -- "Some convenient method and form of tryal" : the trial process -- "The slave should look to his master and the courts to avenge his wrongs" : the appellate process -- "May the Lord have mercy on his soul" : punishment.…”
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Themes in Latin American cinema a critical survey / by Richards, Keith John, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Women protagonists in Latin American film -- A hora da estrela (The hour of the star) -- En la puta vida (In this tricky life) -- Novia que te vea (Like a bride) -- Crime and corruption. A spectrum of criminality: gangsters, politicians and the military -- Ratas, ratones, rateros (Rodents) -- Perder es cuestión de método (The art of losing) -- Días de Santiago (Days of Santiago) -- Fratricide and neo-imperialism: twentieth-century conflicts. …”
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Dirty assets : emerging issues in the regulation of criminal and terrorist assets /

Table of Contents: “…/ Jackie Harvey -- Corruption, the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) and asset recovery / Indira Carr and Robert Jago -- Terrorism financing and the policing of charities : who pays the price? …”
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The Price of progress public services, taxation, and the American corporate state, 1877 to 1929 / by Higgens-Evenson, R. Rudy (Ronald Rudy), 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Compromise, corruption, and confrontation : tax reform in the 1870s -- Progress, bit by bit : school and insane asylum spending, 1880 to 1900 -- From charter-mongering to catching corporate freeloaders : corporation taxes, 1880-1907 -- The second era of internal improvements : transportation spending, 1890 to 1929 -- Consent, control, and centralization : school and hospital spending, 1900 to 1929 -- Giants of history : income and gasoline taxation, 1910 to 1929 -- The test of democracy : controlling spending in the corporate state, 1907 to 1929.…”
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Against the profit motive : the salary revolution in American government, 1780-1940 / by Parrillo, Nicholas R.

Table of Contents: “…The old regime : lawful bargaining for public services -- Bargaining outlawed -- A regulatory nightmare : salaries as a remedy for corrupt exchange and official lucre -- A government capable of saying "no" : salaries as a reaction against customer service -- State and local taxation : the tax ferrets -- Federal taxation : the moiety men -- Criminal prosecution : cash for convictions -- Incarceration : jailors' fees and penitentiary profits -- Naval warfare : prize money and blood money -- Epilogue : American state-building and the critique of bureaucracy.…”
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Multiple analyses in clinical trials

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Definition of a clinical trial -- The great compromise of medical research -- The populations can fool us -- Extending to the population -- Appropriate sampling -- Trustworthy estimates -- Random research -- Experimental corruption -- Prospectively designed research -- Patience and tight protocols -- Endpoints -- Community responsibility -- Investigator mandate -- P-values: pros and cons -- Evolution in trial methodology -- Argument for multiple endpoints -- Conflict within trial interpretation -- Type I error inflation -- Bonferroni correction -- Negative primary endpoints.…”
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The history and politics of voting technology in quest of integrity and public confidence / by Saltman, Roy G.

Table of Contents: “…The late nineteenth centaury : struggling with corruption and fraud -- 4. The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries : mechanization and political reforms -- 5. …”
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The culture of Islam changing aspects of contemporary Muslim life / by Rosen, Lawrence, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…The circle of beneficence : narrating coherence in a world of corruption -- Ambivalence towards power : approaches to authority in postcolonial Morocco -- What is a tribe, and why does it matter? …”
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Logistics and supply chains in emerging markets / by Manners-Bell, John

How Human Rights Can Build Haiti : Activists, Lawyers, and the Grassroots Campaign / by Quigley, Fran, 1962-

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Idriss Déby and the Darfur conflict / by Toïngar, Ésaïe, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Chad, Sudan and Darfur -- Idriss Déby struggles to maintain Zaghawa power -- Bour, survivor of Zaghawa attack -- Déby's international counterfeiting operation revealed -- Chad's black gold -- Deadly betrayal in the oil fields of Sidegui -- Darfur's troubles begin with Déby -- Chad, Sudan, and rebels -- A leader in deception and corruption -- A skeptical look at "The usual suspects" -- Birth of the Janjawiid (militiamen with horses) -- The voiceless children -- They called each other "younger brother, older brother" -- The fall of Bangui -- Misperceptions -- The International Criminal Court -- Proposition for peace in Darfur and the sub-region.…”
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