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Mary P. Follett creating democracy, transforming management / by Tonn, Joan C.

Table of Contents: “…. -- Self-realization and service -- Ward 17 -- Substitutes for the saloon, schools, and suffrage -- Private funds for public purposes -- My beloved centres -- The functions, financing, and control of community centers -- The war years -- The new state -- Not neighborhood groups but an integrative group process -- Too good a joke for the world -- Creative experience -- Professional transition, personal tragedy -- You have been extraordinarily helpful to executives -- I am almost at the same moment happy and unhappy -- Prepared to go or stay with equal graciousness.…”
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An insider's guide to the UN by Fasulo, Linda M.

Table of Contents: “…An overview -- UN founding documents -- The Secretary General and the Secretariat -- The American ambassadors -- The Security Council -- Peace operations -- The General Assembly -- Coordinating to fight international terrorism -- The UN village -- Rights versus sovereignty: the US and the International Criminal Court -- The call for reform -- UN finances -- A tour of UN headquarters -- The coup against Boutros-Ghali -- UN advocates, donors, and friends -- Keeping tabs on how nations vote -- Making a career at the UN -- ECOSOC -- Agencies, programs, and commissions -- Rule of law and human rights -- Social and economic development -- Protecting the biosphere and its inhabitants -- UN to the rescue -- Nuclear, biological, and chemical threats -- Guiding globalization: how the UN helps make things work -- International crime and drug trafficking.…”
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Improving care for the end of life a sourcebook for health care managers and clinicians /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: continuous quality improvement for better end-of-life care -- How to make improvement happen -- Preventing, assessing and treating pain -- Managing dyspnea and ventilator withdrawal -- Beyond the living will: advance care planning for all stages of health and disease -- Supporting people in difficult times: relationships, spirituality, and bereavement -- Continuity of care: improving transitions, continuity, and coordination of care in the health care system -- Caring for caregivers: helping staff to provide good care -- Hospital-based palliative care consults and units -- Law , policy, and finance -- Alzheimer's and other dementias: opportunities to honor life -- Opportunites to improve care for cancer patients -- Offering end-of-life services to patients with advanced heart or lung failure -- Depression and delirium -- Conclusion: getting started.…”
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Data mining applications with R / by Zhao, Yanchang, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction 2. Case Study in Finance 3.Case Study in Retail 4. Case Study in Telecommunications 5. …”
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Health law : cases, materials, and problems / by Furrow, Barry R., Greaney, Thomas L., 1948-, Johnson, Sandra H., Jost, Timothy S., Schwartz, Robert L., 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Cost, quality, access, and choice -- Quality control regulation : licensing health care professionals -- Quality control regulation of health care institutions -- The professional-patient relationship -- Liability of health care professionals -- Liability of health care institutions -- Health care cost and access : the policy context -- Duties to treat -- Private health insurance and managed care : liability and state and federal regulation -- Public health care financing programs : medicare and medicaid -- Professional relationships in health care enterprises -- The structure of the health care enterprise -- Fraud and abuse -- Antitrust -- Reproduction and birth -- Legal issues in human genetics -- Organ transplantation and the determination of death -- Life and death decisions -- Medically assisted dying -- Regulation of research involving human subjects.…”

Financial sector governance the roles of the public and private sectors /

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Ill-gotten money and the economy experiences from Malawi and Namibia /

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African brain circulation beyond the drain-gain debate /

Table of Contents: “…Pan-African brain circulation / Cynthia Lucas Hewitt -- Diaspora remittances and the financing of basic social services and infrastructure in francophone Africa south of the Sahara / Fondo Sikod and Gerard Tchouassi -- Globalization, migration, and the challenges of development in Africa / John Akokpari -- On the brain drain of Africans to America : some methodological observations / F. …”
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Health, nutrition, and population in Madagascar, 2000-09

Table of Contents: “…Country and sector context -- Objectives and organization of the country status report -- Available data and reports -- Demographic trends -- Child health -- Maternal health -- Nutritional status of children and women -- Other communicable diseases contributing to mortality and morbidity in Madagascar -- Non-communicable diseases -- Meeting the millennium development goals (MDGS) -- Behaviors and interventions affecting child health -- Community factors and behaviors affecting nutritional status of children -- Maternal health and reproductive health -- Communicable diseases -- Health care access and utilization by the poor -- Sector organization -- Quality of services -- Financing of the health sector -- Equity of health spending -- Efficiency issues of health spending -- Scope for creating fiscal space -- Potential impact of the crisis on the health sector -- The importance of accountability for health -- Governance and accountability in the Malagasy context.…”
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Introduction to international political economy / by Balaam, David N., 1950-, Dillman, Bradford L.

Table of Contents: “…-- Laissez-faire : the economic liberal perspective -- Wealth and power : the mercantilist perspective -- Economic determinism and exploitation : the structuralist perspective -- Constructivism -- Structures of international political economy -- The global production structure -- The international trade structure -- The international finance and monetary structure -- The global security structure -- The international knowledge structure : controlling flows of information and technology -- States and markets in the global economy -- The development challenge -- The fragmentation of the European Union : the crossroads redux -- Moving into position : the rising powers -- The Middle East and North Africa : things fall apart -- Transnational problems and dilemmas -- The illicit global economy : the dark side of globalization -- Energy and the environment : navigating climate change and global disaster -- Global health : refugees and caring for the forgotten.…”

"One planet" cities : sustaining humanity within planetary limits / by Thorpe, Dave, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…-- The ultimate problem: humanity's limits to growth -- Ecological footprinting and other standards -- Choosing which standards to use -- Feeding cities while saving the planet -- Regenerative cities -- Zero carbon cities -- Transforming industry to become 'one planet' -- Managing water in the age of change -- 'One planet' neighbourhoods -- Buildings in a 'one planet' city -- Mobility in a 'one planet' city -- How smart is a 'smart city'? -- Financing the way to a 'one planet' future -- A menu of case studies -- Wales and one planet development -- Six steps to a one planet city -- One day in a one planet city : a short story.…”
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Handbook of exchange rates

Table of Contents: “…The Exchange Rate in a Behavioural Finance Framework 5. The Evolution of Exchange Rate Regimes and Some Future Perspective Part II. …”
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Doing business in 2005 removing obstacles to growth.

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