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Introduction to technical services / by Evans, G. Edward, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Technical services administration -- Staffing -- Technical services issues -- Acquisitions : overview -- Distributors and vendors -- Print and digital books -- E-resource issues -- Serials : print and electronic -- Government information -- Media -- Fiscal management -- Overview and decisions -- Description : identifying materials -- Access points : retrieving the record -- Subject analysis -- Subject authorities -- Classification systems -- Marc format and metadata -- Copy cataloging -- Processing materials -- Leading the catalog department.…”

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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The end of energy the unmaking of America's environment, security, and independence / by Graetz, Michael J.

Table of Contents: “…A "new economic policy" -- Losing control over oil -- The environment moves front and center -- No more nuclear -- The changing face of coal -- Natural gas and the ability to price -- The quest for alternatives -- A crisis of confidence -- The end of an era -- Climate change : a game changer -- Shock to trance : the power of price -- The invisible hand : regulation and the rise of cap and trade -- Government for the people : Congress and the road to reform -- Disaster in the Gulf.…”
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Duck and cover civil defense images in film and television from the Cold War to 9/11 / by Matthews, Melvin E.

Table of Contents: “…Duck and cover: civil defense and government propaganda films -- Doomsday on the big screen: civil defense and Fifties cinema -- Doomsday on the small screen: civil defense and early television -- The Kennedy years: "shelter morality" and survivalism -- "Do you really want to have lived without ever having made love?" …”
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The making of the first Korean president : Syngman Rhee's quest for independence, 1875-1948 / by Yu, Young Ick

Table of Contents: “…Birth of a Christian reformer -- Diplomacy with a U.S. president and Ivy League education in America -- Christian education and evangelism in Korea and Japan -- Early life in Hawaiʻi -- President of the Korean provisional governments -- Fall from power in Shanghai and Hawaiʻi -- Solo drive for Korean independence in Europe and marriage to Francesca Donner -- In pursuit of diplomatic recognition during the Pacific war -- New rivals and detractors -- Becoming the president of the Republic of Korea.…”
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Resources, power and economic interest distribution in China /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Power and Economic Power Paradigm -- Economic Power and Corporate Contractual Arrangements -- Theory of Transaction Price based on the Power Paradigm -- Price Determination in Goods Market -- Price Determination in Financial Market Price Determination in Labor Market -- Theoretical Foundations and Boundaries for Government Intervention -- Economic Power Structure and the Optimal Allocation of Production Factors -- Institutional Change with Power as the Underlying Logic -- Conclusions and Prospects of the Research based on Power Paradigm.…”
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Technicians of Human Dignity : Bodies, Souls, and the Making of Intrinsic Worth / by Bennett, Gaymon, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Human Dignity and the Vatican -- The Church, the Secular, and Pastoral Power -- The Ontology of Vocation: Gaudium et spes -- Human Dignity and the United Nations -- Incapacity by Design: Politics, Sovereignty, and Human Rights -- Dignity and Governance: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- Diagnostic Excursus: Economies of Life and Power -- Human Dignity and the President's Council on Bioethics -- Bioethics and the Reconfiguration of Biopolitics -- The Biopolitical Pastoral: Beyond Therapy -- Methodological Epilogue: Toward an Anthropology of Figuration.…”
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Marriage proposals questioning a legal status /

Table of Contents: “…The meaning of marriage / Martha Albertson Fineman -- Taking government out of the marriage business : families would benefit / Dorian Solot and Marshall Miller -- What place for marriage (e)quality in marriage promotion? …”
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Brown gumshoes detective fiction and the search for Chicana/o identity / by Rodriguez, Ralph E. (Ralph Edward), 1965-

Table of Contents: “…crises of identity and culture -- Rudolfo Anaya's Sonny Baca series : governing the self in a sea of change.…”
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The corporate transformation of health care can the public interest still be served? / by Geyman, John P., 1931-

Table of Contents: “…Growth of investor-owned corporate health care -- Hospitals and nursing home chains -- Health maintenance organizations (HMOS) -- Health insurance industry -- Pharmaceutical industry -- Medically-related industries -- Impacts of corporate practices on the health care system -- Compromising the integrity of research -- Disinformation and media control -- Lobbying of government -- Co-opting the regulators -- Privatization vs. public utility model of health care -- Politics and options for health care reform -- An approach to reform.…”
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Colonial legacies economic and social development in East and Southeast Asia / by Booth, Anne, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Economic growth and structural change, 1900-1940 -- Agricultural expansion, population growth and access to land -- What were colonial governments doing? The myth of the night watchman -- State -- International trade, the balance of payments, and exchange rate policies: 1900-1940 -- Growth and diversification of the market economy -- Changing living standards and human development -- The greater Asian co-prosperity sphere: 1942-1945 -- The transition to independent states -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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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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Re-globalisation : when China meets the world again / by Wang, Dong, 1977-, Cao, Dejun

Table of Contents: “…Embracing globalisation and China's narrative -- From globalisation to re-globalisation -- Inclusive development and interconnection thinking -- The Belt and Road Initiative and global governance -- The Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank pushes forward re-globalisation -- Digital economy 2.0 and Alibaba's globalisation story -- The mechanism of reversal pressure and the experience of special economic zones in China -- Embracing the era of re-globalisation -- Conclusion. …”
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China's economic reform : experience and implications / by Zhang, Yu, 1964 January-

Table of Contents: “…Practices of economic reform and development of economics in China -- Political-economics analysis of Chinese economic model -- Theories and practices on socialist market economy -- Logic of gradual reform in China -- Market failure does not constitute the basis for existence of the state-owned economy-concurrently on the status and role of the state-owned economy in the socialist market economy -- The relationship between government and market in the socialist market economy -- Reasons for the constant and rapid development of Chinese economy.…”
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Colonial Legacies : Economic and Social Development in East and Southeast Asia / by Booth, Anne, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Economic growth and structural change, 1900-1940 -- Agricultural expansion, population growth and access to land -- What were colonial governments doing? The myth of the night watchman -- State -- International trade, the balance of payments, and exchange rate policies: 1900-1940 -- Growth and diversification of the market economy -- Changing living standards and human development -- The greater Asian co-prosperity sphere: 1942-1945 -- The transition to independent states -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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The Idea of Democracy in the Modern Era / by Ketcham, Ralph, 1927-

Table of Contents: “…Prospects for government in 1989 -- Aristotelian and Confucian insights -- Tensions of Citizenship: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam -- The first era of modern thought, ca. 1600-1750 -- The United States and first modernity democracy -- The second modernity: from Bentham to Dewey -- Liberal democracy in the twentieth century -- Second modernity thought in Japan and China -- An Asian third modernity -- Postmodernism and a fourth modernity democracy -- Comparing rationales for democracy -- The idea of democracy in the third millennium.…”
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Letter to Beaumont, letters written from the mountain, and related writings by Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778

Table of Contents: “…Bush and Christopher Kelly -- Fragments of the Letter to Christophe de Beaumont 84 -- Translated by Christopher Kelly -- History of the Government of Geneva o02 -- Translated by Christopher Kelly -- Letters Written from the Mountain 131 -- Translated by Judith R. …”
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Towards a People-Driven African Union : Current Obstacles and New Opportunities / by Kane, Ibrahima

Table of Contents: “…AUTONOMOUS CIVIL SOCIETY ENGAGEMENT WITH THE AFRICAN UNIONPreparatory meetings; Observer status and accreditation; Parallel meetings; Host government obstruction; 9. KEY DECISIONS AT SUMMITS IN 2006; The Draft Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance; The Hissene Habre case; Decision on the presidency of the African Union; Annual Activity Report of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights; The Draft Single Legal Instrument on the Merger of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights and the Court of Justice of the African Union.…”
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Systemic implications of transatlantic regulatory cooperation and competition

Table of Contents: “…-- The banking crisis: causes, consequences and remedies -- The political economy of transatlantic regulatory cooperation and competition: a (unofficial) view from Europe -- How hard and soft law interact in international regulatory governance: alternatives, complements and antagonists -- EU-US regulatory cooperation and developing country trade -- Transatlantic trade, the automotive sector: the role of regulation in a global industry, where we have been and where we need to go, how far can EU-US cooperation go toward achieving regulatory harmonization? …”
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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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