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Money laundering prevention deterring, detecting, and resolving financial fraud / by Turner, Jonathan E., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…-- Corruption Always Begins Small -- Bribery and Corruption of Your Employees -- Bribery and Corruption by Your Employees -- Evolution of Government Attitudes -- Official Corruption Impacts Individual Corruption -- Tax Evasion as a Gateway to Money Laundering -- Moving from Taxes to Criminal Activity -- The Rise of Regional and Multinational AML Organizations -- The Connection between Fraud and Money Laundering -- Money Laundering as a Do-It-Yourself Activity -- The Service Providers: Bankers, Accountants, and Lawyers -- Conclusion -- ch. 3 Mechanisms for Moving Money -- Money Laundering Requires Movement through the System -- Broken Windows Encourage Other Crimes -- Look Local, Think Global -- Expanding International Requirements -- Financial Havens Are Expanding -- Money Laundering Is a Growth Industry -- Law Enforcement Gets a Big Boost -- Profit Drives Criminal Activity -- Structuring the Scheme to Succeed -- Why Use a Bank, When You Can Own One? …”
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Advancing crisis communication effectiveness : integrating public relations scholarship with practice /

Table of Contents: “…Holladay, & Rick White -- Connected in crisis : how nonprofit organizations can respond and refocus / Hilary Fussell Sisco & Mark McMullen -- Media relations for government/public affairs crises : ethical and unethical components of scandal and spin / David E. …”
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Critical tax theory an introduction /

Table of Contents: “…Livingston -- The working poor are paying for government benefits : fixing the hole in the anti-poverty purse / Francine J. …”
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Principles of biomedical ethics / by Beauchamp, Tom L.

Table of Contents: “…Nonmaleficence </strong> -- The Concept of Nonmaleficence and the Principle of Nonmaleficence -- Distinctions and Rules Governing Nontreatment -- Optional Treatments and Obligatory Treatments -- Killing and Letting Die -- The Justification of Intentionally Arranged Deaths -- Protecting Incompetent Patients -- <strong>6. …”

Communicative Figurations Transforming Communications in Times of Deep Mediatization /

Table of Contents: “…Communicative practices and political decision-making in a changing media environment; Tanja Pritzlaff-Scheele & Frank Nullmeier -- 13. Paper versus SIMS: Governing the figurations of mediatized schools in England and Germany; Andreas Breiter & Arne Hendrik Ruhe -- 14. …”
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Rural Socio-Economic Transformation: Agrarian, Ecology, Communication and Community, Development Perspectives : Proceedings of the International Confernece on Rural Socio-Economic...

Table of Contents: “…Hapsari Social engineering of local government in the perspective of communication study toward the development program of pedestrian area T. …”
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Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film /

Table of Contents: “…Wagner and Mark Garrett Cooper -- 'Don't be a segregationist: program films for everyone': the New York Public Library's film library and youth film workshops / Elena Rossi-Snook and Lauren Tilton -- Teenage moviemaking in the lower East side: the Rivington Street Film Club, 1966-1974 / Noelle Griffis -- Ro-revus talks about race: South Carolina malnutrition and parasite films, 1968-1975 / Dan Streible -- Government-sponsored film and latinidad: Voice of la raza (1971) / Laura Isabel Serna -- Aestheticizing Asian American assimilation in the learning corporation of America's many Americans series (1970-1982) / Nadine Chan -- 'The right kind of family': memories to light and the home movie as racialized technology / Crystal Mun-hye Baik -- Black home movies: time to represent / Jasmyn R. …”
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International law and international relations

Table of Contents: “…Diehl, Charlotte Ku, and Daniel Zamora -- Europe before the court : a political theory of legal integration (1993) / Anne-Marie Slaughter [Burley] and Walter Mattli -- The European Court of Justice, national governments, and legal integration in the European Union (1998) / Geoffrey Arrett, R. …”
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A companion to Eastern European cinemas

Table of Contents: “…Center and periphery, or how Karel Vachek formed a new government / Alice Lovejoy -- The Polish black series documentary and the British Free Cinema movement / Bjorn Sorenssen -- Socialists in outer space: East German film's Venusian adventure / Stefan Soldovieri -- Red Shift: new Albanian cinema and its dialogue with the old / Bruce Williams -- National space, (trans)national cinema: Estonian film in the 1960s / Eva Näripea -- For the peace, for a new man, for a better world! …”
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The digital divide facing a crisis or creating a myth? /

Table of Contents: “…Nie and Lutz Erbring -- The Digital World of Hispanics in the United States 272 -- Cheskin Research -- Survey of Americans on Technology 274 -- National Public Radio, Kaiser Family Foundation, and Kennedy -- School of Government -- 14 The Truth about the Digital Divide 279 -- Ekaterina O. …”
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Textbook of pharmacoepidemiology

Table of Contents: “…Strom -- Examples of existing databases : health maintenance organizations/health plans / Sengwee Toh ... [et al.], U.S. Government claims databases / Sean Hennessy, Cristin Palumbo Freeman, Francesca Cunningham, Medical record databases / Alexis Ogdie ... …”
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Enterprise Risk Management in the Global Supply Chain. by Cook, Thomas A.

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Ambiguous pleasures sexuality and middle class self-perceptions in Nairobi / by Spronk, Rachel

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Hip and ambitious in Nairobi -- Conceiving sexuality -- Interfaces of pleasure and anxiety -- Structure of the book -- The study of sexuality -- Sexuality research in Kenya -- Health approaches to sexuality -- Sexuality research in the context of AIDS in Africa -- The dynamics of sexuality: the focus of this study -- Anthropology and sexuality -- The social construction of sexuality, and its limits -- Sex as embodied experience -- Historicising sexuality -- Methodological aspects of sexuality research -- Researching sex and sexuality: research places and practices -- Researching sex and sexuality: collection and validity of data -- An unmarried with partner, non-Kenyan, white female young professional -- Young professionals: emblems of social transformation -- Sexuality and societal transformations -- Gender and sexuality in colonial times -- Gender and sexuality in postcolonial times -- Social transformation and moral anxiety -- The young and ambitious in Nairobi -- Classifying young professionals -- Hesitations about ethnicity and issues of belonging -- Living independently and single -- Nightlife and dating -- Young urban professionals and the formation of a contemporary identity -- Explorers of a modern identity -- Young professionals' position towards customary ways of living -- 'Westernization' -- Africanness -- Conclusion -- Society in flames: sexuality in the context of AIDS -- AIDS as a context of life -- Africanist perspectives on AIDS and sexuality -- Policies of the government and nongovernmental organizations -- The definition of 'risk groups' -- The medicalization of sexuality -- Christian perceptions of AIDS and sexuality -- The remoralization of sexuality -- Sexuality and contemporary lifestyles -- AIDS as the disease of 'immorality' -- The public emergence of the intimate -- Intimacy as part of lifestyle -- Conclusion -- Ambiguous pleasures: sexual desire, career, and femininity -- Female sexuality in Nairobi, Kenya and beyond -- Pamela, Martha, Njeri, Tayiani and Dorcas -- The importance of dating -- 'Playing hard to get' -- To give and to receive sexual pleasure -- Chastity and the realization of sexual pleasure -- Boundaries of sexual pleasure -- Between sexual allure and limited availability -- Appropriating sexual pleasure -- Sexual pleasure and conventional expectations -- Communicating ambiguity -- Embodying transformations -- Conclusion -- Ambiguous pleasures: sex, riches and masculinity -- Male sexuality in Nairobi society, Kenya and beyond -- Alex, Eric, Tom, Maurice and Ongeri -- Men's sexual debut -- Circumcision as constitutive to masculinity -- Sex as a skill-being a 'good lover' -- Love in relation to sexual drive -- Sex and having 'arrived' -- Moving between sexual prowess and restrained potency -- Sexual desire as a physical craving -- Balancing too much and too little sex -- The waning dominant patriarchal ideology -- Accommodating change -- Conclusion -- Sign of the times: media and the therapeutic ethos of romantic love -- Romantic love and the twin spheres of consumption and mass media -- Representing romantic love: films, television and advertisements -- Television -- Advertising -- The privileging of the image -- The manifestations of romantic love: music -- Practicing romantic love: dating -- Practices of mediation: magazines -- The therapeutic discourse on relationships -- Sign of the times: imaginations and practices of romantic love versus 'Westernization', or the perils of modernity -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: sexuality and its ambiguous pleasures -- Researching sexuality in Africa -- The pleasures and anxieties of sexuality -- Middle-class lifestyles and self-perceptions -- Sex and sophistication - self and embodiment.…”
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Political (Dis)Engagement : The Changing Nature of the 'Political' / by Manning, Nathan

Table of Contents: “…Spread the message: there is an alternative -- Building the anti-cuts movement and empowering people through direct action -- Conclusion: resisting the government's lies and promoting alternatives for the 99% -- 7. …”
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Web as History : Using Web Archives to Understand the Past and the Present / by Brügger, Niels

Table of Contents: “…Domain name studies and archived web contentConclusion; Part two Media and government; 4 The tumultuous history of news on the web; News and the web; History of news on the web, from the web; The web as history: news online; The early days of news on the web: 1990-2005; The rise of blogs; And then came social media; The challenge of adapting to the web; The web, grown up: 2010-2015; The changing news landscape as a local story; The next generation of news on the web, and beyond; Echoes of social networking; Mobility, automation and everything after; Why the web's history of news matters.…”
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Extreme events robust portfolio construction in the presence of fat tails / by Kemp, Malcolm H. D.

Table of Contents: “…Really Extreme Events -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Thinking outside the box -- 9.3 Portfolio purpose -- 9.4 Uncertainty as a fact of life -- 9.5 Market implied data -- 9.6 The importance of good governance and operational management -- 9.7 The practitioner perspective -- 9.8 Implementation challenges -- 10. …”
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Normatividades e instituciones eclesiásticas en la Nueva España, siglos XVI-XIX /

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The frugal librarian thriving in tough economic times /

Table of Contents: “…Jernigan Library, Foundation Center Cooperating Collection, Office of Sponsored Research and Federal Government Grants / Victoria Lynn Packard -- Start your job search here / Jason Kuhl -- Entrepreneurs in the library : how an entrepreneurial spirit expanded the patron base and elevated its political standing / James Lund -- Laid off? …”
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Agricultural and Forestry Reconstruction After the Great East Japan Earthquake Tsunami, Radioactive, and Reputational Damages /

Table of Contents: “…Part I The Road to Reconstruction from the Tsunami and Radioactive Contamination: Two and a Half Years On -- 1 Dealing with Disasters of Unprecedented Magnitude: The Local Government’s Tribulations and the Road to Reconstruction (Hidekiyo Tachiya) -- 2 Tokyo University of Agriculture East Japan Assistance Project Assisting with Reconstruction: Guiding Principles, Planning, and Propagation of Benefits (Toshiyuki Monma) -- 3 Characteristics of the Agricultural and Forestry Industries in the Soma Area and Damage Sustained as a Result of the Great East Japan Earthquake (Takahiro Yamada, Puangkaew Lurhathaiopath, and Toshiyuki Monma) -- Part II Reconstruction from Tsunami Damage -- 4 Reconstruction Support for the Farmland Struck by Tsunami (Itsuo Goto and Kaisei Inagaki) -- 5 Tsunami Damage to Farming Operations and the New Generation of Farmers and Farm Management (Yukio Shibuya, Takahiro Yamada, Nyamkhuu Batdelger, Puangkaew Lurhathaiopath, Gentaro Suzumura, and Toshiyuki Monma) -- 6 Presenting a Model for Revival of Rural Communities in Japan’s Disaster Zones (Shigeyuki Miyabayashi, Yasushi Takeuchi, Hiromu Okazawa, Tomonori Fujikawa, and Yutaka Sasaki) -- 7 Contributing to Restoration of Tidal Flats in Miyagi Prefecture’s Moune Bay Following the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (Susumu Chiba, Takeshi Sonoda, Makoto Hatakeyama, and Katsuhide Yokoyama) -- Part III Reconstruction from Radioactive Contamination -- 8 Initiatives by the Soil Fertilization Team to Develop Agricultural Technologies for Paddy Fields with Radioactive Contamination (Itsuo Goto and Kaisei Inagaki) -- 9 The Potential for Producing Rice for Feed and Whole Crop Rice Silage in Radiation-Contaminated Areas (Seiji Nobuoka) -- 10 Developing and Trialing a System to Monitor Radionuclide in Individual Plots of Farmland to Help Reconstruction Farming in Contaminated Areas (Toshiyuki Monma, Puangkaew Lurhathaiopath, Youichi Kawano, Dambii Byambasuren, Yuta Ono, and Quar Evine) -- 11 New Decontamination Methods for Parks and Other Areas in Which Radionuclide Have Accumulated (Mitsuo Kondo and Chizuko Mizuniwa) -- 12 Forest Restoration (Takahisa Hayashi) -- 13 Nuclear Radiation Levels in the Forest at Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture (Iwao Uehara, Tomoko Seyama, Fumio Eguchi, Ryuichi Tachibana, Yukito Nakamura, and Hiroya Obayashi ) -- 14 Radioactive Contamination of Ostriches in a Potentially Permanent Evacuation Zone (Hiroshi Ogawa, Hidehiko Uchiyama, Koji Masuda, Takeshi Sasaki, Tadao Watanabe, Toshiaki Tomizawa, and Schu Kawashima) -- 15 The Radioactive Contamination in Some Arthropod Species in Fukushima (Tarô Adati and Sota Tanaka) -- 16 A Consumer Survey Approach to Reputation-Based Damage Affecting Agricultural Products and How to Overcome It (Puangkaew Lurhathaiopath, Shizuka Matsumoto, Makoto Hoshi, Sayaka Yamaguchi, and Toshiyuki Monma) -- Part IV Activities and Impressions of Students and Farmers Who Supported the Project -- 17 Staking Recovery Hopes on Soma Revival Rice (Kaisei Inagaki, Tomoko Ninagi, Saburo Sasaki, and Akiko Sato) -- 18 Impression of the Students Participated in the Radioactivity Monitoring System of Farmland (Volodymyr Ganzha, Keiji Kanamori, Hana Fujimoto, and Ryo Itakura) -- 19 Impression of the Forestry managers and students participated in the Radioactivity Damage Investigation of Forests (Eihachi Horiuchi, Kiyoaki Sasaki, Masaaki Itakura, Chisato Yasukawa, and Chihiro Kinoshita).…”
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Dynamical systems : theories and applications / by Elhadj, Zeraoulia

Table of Contents: “…4.3.6 Robust chaos in non-smooth neural networks4.4 The importance of robust chaos in mathematics and some open problems; 5: Estimating Lyapunov Exponents of 2-D Discrete Mappings; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Lyapunov exponents of the discrete hyperchaotic double scroll map; 5.3 Lyapunov exponents for a class of 2-D piecewise linear mappings; 5.4 Lyapunov exponents of a family of 2-D discrete mappings with separate variables; 5.5 Lyapunov exponents of a discontinuous piecewise linear mapping of the plane governed by a simple switching law; 5.6 Lyapunov exponents of a modified map-based BVP model…”
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