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Library of walls the Library of Congress and the contradictions of information society / by Collins, Samuel Gerald

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : if on a winter's night a reader -- Anthropology and the imperial archive -- From knowledge machines to information scapes : tracing the library's places and non-places -- Ghosts in the information machine -- "Getting the champagne out of the bottle and into the six-pack : laying the foundations for the virtual library and the LC -- Corporeal work at the virtual library : research and scholarship for a new age -- Conclusion : the American pastoral revisited.…”
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Break your own rules how to change the patterns of thinking that block women's paths to power / by Flynn, Jill, 1945-

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Guidelines for managing process safety risks during organizational change /

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The clash of the cultures investment vs. speculation / by Bogle, John C.

Table of Contents: “…The clash of the cultures -- The double-agency society and the happy conspiracy -- The silence of the funds : why mutual funds must speak out on the governance of our nation's corporations -- The change in the "mutual" fund culture -- Are fund managers true fiduciaries? …”
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Smart financial management the essential reference for the successful small business / by Sihler, William W., 1937-

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Changing the Course of AIDS : Peer Education in South Africa and Its Lessons for the Global Crisis / by Dickinson, David, 1963-

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Ships for the Seven Seas : Philadelphia Shipbuilding in the Age of Industrial Capitalism / by Heinrich, Thomas R., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Shipbuilding as much as possible advanced: The rise and decline of wooden shipbuilding,1640-1870 -- A small margin: Ironclads and the transition from wooden to iron shipbuilding -- The American Clyde: Corporate and proprietary Capitalism in the Philadelphia maritime economy, 1865-1875 -- Workshop of the world : Commerce, crafts, and class conflict, 1875-1885 -- A vicious quality: Cramp and the origins of the Military-Industrial Complex, 1885-1898 -- New departure:Growth and Crisis, 1998-1914 -- This machine of war: World War I -- What next? …”
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Public libraries going green by Miller, Kathryn, 1971-

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The afterlife of Adam Smith : the influence, interpretation and misinterpretation of his economic philosophy, 1760s-2010s / by Farina, William, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Businessmen become revolutionaries (1764/1777) -- A new republic grapples with old issues (1778/1790) -- The british empire makes war against its offspring (1791/1815) -- Almost free labor (1816/1837) -- Might makes right (1838/1850) -- Northern industry tames southern agriculture (1851/1865) -- More competition, more oppression (1866/1877) -- The great american relocation (1878/1890) -- A clumsy foray into colonialism (1891/1901) -- Trustbuster (1901/1913) -- Anglo-american power shift (1914/1921) -- Ascendant consumerism (1922/1928) -- The implosion of ?…”
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Legal issues in information security / by Grama, Joanna Lyn

Table of Contents: “…Fundamental concepts -- Information security overview -- Privacy overview -- The American legal system -- Part Two. Laws influencing information security -- Security and privacy of consumer financial information -- Security and privacy of information belonging to children and in educational records -- Security and privacy of health information -- Corporate information security and privacy regulation -- Federal government information security and privacy regulations -- State laws protecting citizen information and breach notification laws -- Intellectual property law -- The role of contracts -- Criminal law and tort law issues in cyberspace -- Part Three. …”

The supply chain imperative by Neef, Dale, 1959-

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International HRM a cross-cultural approach / by Jackson, T. H. (Terence Hugh)

Table of Contents: “…The Competent Organization: The American Model 59 Andersen Consulting (Europe) - The American model - Why American theories might not apply abroad - Parochialism and universality - Management competences approach - European and international competences - The cultural regard for managers and their competences - Different degrees of internationalization of companies - Problems inherent within the competences model - Implications for managers: selection of managers and key staff - An agenda for research. 4. …”
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Beyond September 11 an anthology of dissent /

Table of Contents: “…: corporate moralism and the 'war against terrorism' / Dave Whyte -- Markets, regulation and risk : the US Airlines industry and some fallout from September 11 / Steve Tombs -- Dangers of the armed response at home / Mick North -- Terrorism, neighbours and Nuremberg / Herman Schwendinger and Julia Schwendinger -- Pledging allegiance : the revival of prescriptive patriotism / Cecilia O'Leary and Tony Platt -- My fellow Americans : looking black on red Tuesday / Jonathan David Farley -- Neither pure nor vile / Mike Marqusee -- The lion, the witch and the warmonger : 'good', 'evil' and the shattering of imperial myth / Howard Davis -- Beyond September 11 : certainties and doubts / Barbara Hudson -- Could Osama Bin Laden have been a woman? …”
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Path to prosperity Hamilton Project ideas on income security, education, and taxes /

Table of Contents: “…Scott-Clayton -- Investing in the best and brightest: increased fellowship support for American scientists and engineers / Richard B. Freeman -- Creating a better tax system -- The simple return: reducing America's tax burden through return-free filing / Austan Goolsbee -- Reforming corporate taxation in a global economy: a proposal to adopt formulary apportionment / Reuven S. …”
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Evading the Patronage Trap : Interest Representation in Mexico / by Palmer-Rubin, Brian

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Digital state : the story of Minnesota's computing industry / by Misa, Thomas J.

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Corruption, global security, and world order

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Reading publics : New York City's public libraries, 1754-1911 / by Glynn, Tom, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Readers, Libraries, and New York City Before 1911 -- Chapter 1: The New York Society Library: Books, Authority, and Publics in Colonial and Early Republican New York -- Chapter 2: Books for a Reformed Republic: The Apprentices' Library in Antebellum New York -- Chapter 3: The Past in Print: History and the Market at the New-York Historical Society Library -- Chapter 4: The Biblical Library of the American Bible Society: Evangelicalism and the Evangelical Corporation Chapter 5: Commerce and Culture: Recreation and Self-Improvement in New York's Subscription Libraries -- Chapter 6: "Men of Leisure and Men of Letters": New York's Public Research Libraries -- Chapter 7: Scholars and Mechanics: Libraries and Higher Learning in Nineteenth-Century New York -- Chapter 8: New York's Free Circulating Libraries: The Mission of the Public Library in the Gilded Age -- Chapter 9: The Founding of the New York Public Library: Public and Private in the Progressive Era -- Conclusion: New York's Public Libraries and the Elusive Reading Publics -- Works Cited -- Notes.…”
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Innovation and the pharmaceutical industry critical reflections on the virtues of profit /

Table of Contents: “…Cohen -- Does America have a second drug problem? / Richard A. Epstein -- Global drug innovation in a world of financial finitude: retailing virtue to promote -- Capital formation and profit / Michael A. …”
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