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Prescription for the People : An Activist’s Guide to Making Medicine Affordable for All / by Quigley, Fran, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…People everywhere are struggling to get the medicines they need -- The United States has a drug problem -- Millions of people are dying needlessly -- Cancer patients face particularly deadly barriers to medicines -- The current medicine system neglects many major diseases -- Corporate research and development investments are exaggerated -- The current system wastes billions on drug marketing -- The current system compromises physician integrity and leads to unethical corporate behavior -- Medicines are priced at whatever the market will bear -- Pharmaceutical corporations reap history-making profits -- The for-profit medicine arguments are patently false -- Medicine patents are extended too far and too wide -- Patent protectionism stunts the development of new medicines -- Governments, not private corporations, drive medicine innovation -- Taxpayers and patients pay twice for patented medicines -- Medicines are a public good -- Medicine patents are artificial, recent, and government-created -- The United States and big pharma play the bully in extending patents -- Pharma-pushed trade agreements steal the power of democratically elected governments -- Current law provides opportunities for affordable generic medicines -- There is a better way to develop medicines -- Human rights law demands access to essential medicines.…”
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The Venetian Money Market : Banks, Panics, and the Public Debt, 1200-1500 / by Mueller, Reinhold C

Table of Contents: “…Family and Finance: Forced Loans and the Open Market at Work -- 14. Investment by Foreigners in the Monte Vecchio -- A. …”
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Outsmarting the riptide of domestic violence metaphor and mindfulness for change / by Pernicano, Pat, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Stories for pre-contemplation -- Investing in others : relationships -- Weighing the risks and benefits of change -- Tuning in : parent-child interaction -- Repeated exposure to domestic violence -- Self-destructive behavior -- Confronting entitlement -- Stories for contemplation -- Peeling away defenses -- Safety for self and others -- The blame game -- Self-protection -- Thinking and planning in relationships -- Relationship roles -- The cycle of abuse -- Beyond sex to intimacy -- Stores for preparation -- The powerful pull of the past -- Having the right tools: survival skills -- Facing your own monsters -- Identifying and expressing feelings -- Change takes time -- Codependency -- What comes next? …”
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Outsmarting the riptide of domestic violence metaphor and mindfulness for change / by Pernicano, Pat, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Stories for pre-contemplation -- Investing in others : relationships -- Weighing the risks and benefits of change -- Tuning in : parent-child interaction -- Repeated exposure to domestic violence -- Self-destructive behavior -- Confronting entitlement -- Stories for contemplation -- Peeling away defenses -- Safety for self and others -- The blame game -- Self-protection -- Thinking and planning in relationships -- Relationship roles -- The cycle of abuse -- Beyond sex to intimacy -- Stores for preparation -- The powerful pull of the past -- Having the right tools: survival skills -- Facing your own monsters -- Identifying and expressing feelings -- Change takes time -- Codependency -- What comes next? …”
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Facilitating trade through competitive, low-carbon transport : the case for Vietnam's inland and coastal waterways / by Blancas, Luis C.

Table of Contents: “…Context -- Objectives of the report -- Scope and methodology -- Key data sources -- Structure of the report -- Demand for waterborne and multimodal transport -- Size and historical growth patterns of IWT and coastal shipping -- Growth projections for IWT and coastal shipping -- Commodity tonnage and tonnage distribution by mode -- Inland and coastal shipping lengths of haul -- Main freight flows -- Regional routes and modal competition -- Primary intra- and interregional corridors -- Red River delta region -- Mekong delta -- Coastal shipping -- Corridor 1: Hanoi, Haiphong, Quang Ninh -- Corridor 2: Quang Ninh, Ninh Binh -- Corridor 3: Hanoi, Ninh Binh -- Corridor 1: HCMC northwest -- Corridor 3: HCMC southwest --Container transport in the Mekong delta -- IWT market structure -- Shipping companies -- Coastal shipping -- Shipping volumes -- Container flows -- Containerized cargo (domestic cargo) -- Ccontainerized cargo (feeder cargo) -- Sea-river transport -- Market structure for coastal shipping -- Vinalines -- Competitive position of IWT and coastal shipping -- Competitive position of IWT -- Competitive position of coastal shipping -- Supply chains and logistics costs in Vietnam -- Conclusions on demand -- Supply-side considerations: waterways, ports, and fleet -- Institutional framework for the waterway and port sectors -- Waterway infrastructure -- Northern waterways -- Southern waterways -- Central region waterways -- Technical classification of the waterways -- Planned investments in waterways -- The IWT master plan for 2020 -- Major channel projects -- Ports -- River ports -- Planned investments in river ports -- Seaports -- Fleet -- Fleet of river-going vessels -- Fleet of sea-going vessels -- Fleet of sea-river vessels -- Modernization of IWT fleet -- Conclusions on waterways, ports, and fleet -- Modal differences in fuel efficiency and GHG emissions -- Relative carbon intensity among transport modes -- Main challenges and recommendations -- Planning -- Institutional/regulatory environment -- Phsical bottlenecks -- Lack of IWT hinders market development -- Financing -- Strategy and action plan -- Estimated impact of public sector interventions in IWT and coastal shipping -- Translating the IWT/coastal shipping strategy into tangible interventions -- Methodology: translating interventions into impacts -- Modal shift and emissions impact of the proposed interventions -- CBA results -- References -- Appendix A: list of stakeholders interviewed -- Appendix B: major waterway routes in the north and south -- Appendix C: general considerations on DWT capacity increases in the national IWT fleet -- Appendix D: cargo data and modal split model -- Cargo flows for northern provinces: road transport in tons per day -- Cargo flows for northern provinces: iwt in tons per day -- Cargo flows for southern provinces: road transport in tons per day -- Cargo flows for southern provinces: IWT in tons per day -- Appendix E: detailed description of proposed interventions -- Appendix F: detailed impacts of proposed interventions.…”
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Facilitating trade through competitive, low-carbon transport : the case for Vietnam's inland and coastal waterways / by Blancas, Luis C.

Table of Contents: “…Context -- Objectives of the report -- Scope and methodology -- Key data sources -- Structure of the report -- Demand for waterborne and multimodal transport -- Size and historical growth patterns of IWT and coastal shipping -- Growth projections for IWT and coastal shipping -- Commodity tonnage and tonnage distribution by mode -- Inland and coastal shipping lengths of haul -- Main freight flows -- Regional routes and modal competition -- Primary intra- and interregional corridors -- Red River delta region -- Mekong delta -- Coastal shipping -- Corridor 1: Hanoi, Haiphong, Quang Ninh -- Corridor 2: Quang Ninh, Ninh Binh -- Corridor 3: Hanoi, Ninh Binh -- Corridor 1: HCMC northwest -- Corridor 3: HCMC southwest --Container transport in the Mekong delta -- IWT market structure -- Shipping companies -- Coastal shipping -- Shipping volumes -- Container flows -- Containerized cargo (domestic cargo) -- Ccontainerized cargo (feeder cargo) -- Sea-river transport -- Market structure for coastal shipping -- Vinalines -- Competitive position of IWT and coastal shipping -- Competitive position of IWT -- Competitive position of coastal shipping -- Supply chains and logistics costs in Vietnam -- Conclusions on demand -- Supply-side considerations: waterways, ports, and fleet -- Institutional framework for the waterway and port sectors -- Waterway infrastructure -- Northern waterways -- Southern waterways -- Central region waterways -- Technical classification of the waterways -- Planned investments in waterways -- The IWT master plan for 2020 -- Major channel projects -- Ports -- River ports -- Planned investments in river ports -- Seaports -- Fleet -- Fleet of river-going vessels -- Fleet of sea-going vessels -- Fleet of sea-river vessels -- Modernization of IWT fleet -- Conclusions on waterways, ports, and fleet -- Modal differences in fuel efficiency and GHG emissions -- Relative carbon intensity among transport modes -- Main challenges and recommendations -- Planning -- Institutional/regulatory environment -- Phsical bottlenecks -- Lack of IWT hinders market development -- Financing -- Strategy and action plan -- Estimated impact of public sector interventions in IWT and coastal shipping -- Translating the IWT/coastal shipping strategy into tangible interventions -- Methodology: translating interventions into impacts -- Modal shift and emissions impact of the proposed interventions -- CBA results -- References -- Appendix A: list of stakeholders interviewed -- Appendix B: major waterway routes in the north and south -- Appendix C: general considerations on DWT capacity increases in the national IWT fleet -- Appendix D: cargo data and modal split model -- Cargo flows for northern provinces: road transport in tons per day -- Cargo flows for northern provinces: iwt in tons per day -- Cargo flows for southern provinces: road transport in tons per day -- Cargo flows for southern provinces: IWT in tons per day -- Appendix E: detailed description of proposed interventions -- Appendix F: detailed impacts of proposed interventions.…”
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The known, the unknown, and the unknowable in financial risk management measurement and theory advancing practice /

Table of Contents: “…Goodhart -- Crisis management : the known, the unknown, and the unknowable / Donald L. Kohn -- Investing in the unknown and unknowable / Richard J. …”
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Fernando Alonso the father of Cuban ballet / by Singer, Toba

Table of Contents: “…Cuban revolution triumphs and invests in ballet! -- 17. Constructing ballet schools, extending the revolution -- 18. …”
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The known, the unknown, and the unknowable in financial risk management measurement and theory advancing practice /

Table of Contents: “…Goodhart -- Crisis management : the known, the unknown, and the unknowable / Donald L. Kohn -- Investing in the unknown and unknowable / Richard J. …”
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Fernando Alonso the father of Cuban ballet / by Singer, Toba

Table of Contents: “…Cuban revolution triumphs and invests in ballet! -- 17. Constructing ballet schools, extending the revolution -- 18. …”
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Taiwan and China : Fitful Embrace /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Lowell Dittmer -- Taiwan's national identity and cross-strait relations / Yi-Huah Jiang -- Changing identities in Taiwan under Ma Ying-jeou / Jean-Pierre Cabestan -- Paths crossed but never merged: changes and continuities of Taiwanese in Mainland China / Shu Keng & Ruihua Lin -- Chinese national identity under reconstruction / Gang Lin & Weixu Wu -- Chinese youth nationalism in a pressure pot / Rou-lan Chen -- Varieties of state capitalism across the Taiwan Strait: a comparison and its implications / Chih-shian Liou -- The nature and transition of Taiwanese investment in China: business orientation, profit seeking, and politicization / Chung-min Tsai -- Cross-strait economic relations and China's rise: the case of the IT sector / Tse-Kang Leng -- Social entrepreneurialism in post-developmental state Taiwan / You-Tian Hsing -- Pivot, hedger, or partner: strategies of lesser powers caught between hegemons / Yu-Shan Wu -- A farewall to arms? …”
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Taiwan and China : Fitful Embrace /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Lowell Dittmer -- Taiwan's national identity and cross-strait relations / Yi-Huah Jiang -- Changing identities in Taiwan under Ma Ying-jeou / Jean-Pierre Cabestan -- Paths crossed but never merged: changes and continuities of Taiwanese in Mainland China / Shu Keng & Ruihua Lin -- Chinese national identity under reconstruction / Gang Lin & Weixu Wu -- Chinese youth nationalism in a pressure pot / Rou-lan Chen -- Varieties of state capitalism across the Taiwan Strait: a comparison and its implications / Chih-shian Liou -- The nature and transition of Taiwanese investment in China: business orientation, profit seeking, and politicization / Chung-min Tsai -- Cross-strait economic relations and China's rise: the case of the IT sector / Tse-Kang Leng -- Social entrepreneurialism in post-developmental state Taiwan / You-Tian Hsing -- Pivot, hedger, or partner: strategies of lesser powers caught between hegemons / Yu-Shan Wu -- A farewall to arms? …”
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From resource allocation to strategy

Table of Contents: “…Sull -- Customer power, strategic investment, and the failure of leading firms / Clayton M. …”
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Business of medical practice advanced profit maximization techniques for savvy doctors /

Table of Contents: “…Bode -- Return on medical practice investment calculations / David Edward Marcinko -- Creating practice equity value / David Edward Marcinko, Charles F. …”
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Automating Microsoft Windows server 2008 R2 with Windows Powershell 2.0 by Hester, Matthew, 1971-

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Growing greener cities urban sustainability in the twenty-first century /

Table of Contents: “…Hirsch -- Metro nature: its functions, benefits, and values / Kathleen L. Wolf -- Green investment strategies: how they matter for urban neighborhoods / Susan M. …”
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The lean entrepreneur how visionaries create products, innovate with new ventures, and disrupt markets / by Cooper, Brant

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Opening doors gender equality and development in the Middle East and North Africa /

Table of Contents: “…-- Religion is too simplistic an explanation -- Oil endowments alone cannot explain the paradox either -- Social norms and the legal framework limit women's agency -- Social and cultural norms constrain women's roles outside the home -- Evolving norms and the invisible hand of marriage -- Equality under the law and its enforcement is critical for women's agency -- Legal systems differ widely and derive from multiple sources -- Legal constraints to women's agency in MENA -- Economic incentives dampen participation in the workforce -- A social contract underpinned by a generous but costly welfare state -- Extensive public sector employment with generous compensation -- Generous subsidies encourage women to stay at home -- State regulation and intervention in the market -- Heavy investment in education, but not the kind that businesses want -- Unequal access to entrepreneurship opportunities -- The time for reform is now -- Aspirations are changing -- As education levels increase, female labor force participation will likely increase -- A demographic gift? …”
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Automating Microsoft Windows server 2008 R2 with Windows Powershell 2.0 by Hester, Matthew, 1971-

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Growing greener cities urban sustainability in the twenty-first century /

Table of Contents: “…Hirsch -- Metro nature: its functions, benefits, and values / Kathleen L. Wolf -- Green investment strategies: how they matter for urban neighborhoods / Susan M. …”
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