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Dragons with clay feet? transition, sustainable land use, and rural environment in China and Vietnam /

Table of Contents: “….] -- Land fragmentation and smallholder rice farm's production costs in Jiangxi Province, China / Shuhao Tan, Gideon Kruseman, and Nico Heerink -- Intensification of rice production and negative health effects for farmers in the Mekong Delta during Vietnam's transition / Nguyen Huu Dung and Max Spoor -- Public investment, agricultural research, and agro-chemicals use in grain production in China / Jing Zhu and Yousheng Li -- Sustainability issues in East Asian rice cultivation / Herman van Keulen -- Agricultural technology and nitrogen pollution in Southeast China / Marrit van den Berg, Guanghuo Wang, and Reimund Roetter -- China's farmland use: a scenario analysis of changes and trends / Changhe Lu, Xiubin Li, and Minghong Tan.…”
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Budgeting basics and beyond by Shim, Jae K.

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: About the Authors.Preface.Chapter 1: The What and Why of Budgeting: An Introduction.Chapter 2: Strategic Planning and Budgeting: Process, Preparation and Control.Chapter 3: Administering the Budget: Reports, Analyses, and Evaluations.Chapter 4: Break-even and Contribution Margin Analysis: Profit, Cost, and Volume Changes.Chapter 5: Profit Planning: Targeting and Reaching Achievable Goals.Chapter 6: Master Budget: Genesis of Financial Forecasting and Profit Planning.Chapter 7: Cost Behavior: Emphasis on Flexible Budgets.Chapter 8: Evaluating Performance: The Use of Variance Analysis.Chapter 9: Manufacturing Costs: Sales Forecasts and Realistic Budgets.Chapter 10: Marketing: Budgeting for Sales, Advertising, and Distribution.Chapter 11: Research and Development: Budgets for a Long-term Plan.Chapter 12: General and Administrative Costs: Budgets for Maximum Productivity.Chapter 13: Capital Expenditures: Assets to Be Bought, Sold, and Discarded.Chapter 14: Forecasting and Planning: Reducing Risk in Decision Making.Chapter 15: Moving Averages and Smoothing Techniques: Quantitative Forecasting.Chapter 16: Regression Analysis: Popular Sales Forecast System.Chapter 17: Cash Budgeting and Forecasting Cash Flow: Two Pragmatic Methods.Chapter 18: Financial Modeling: Tools for Budgeting and Profit Planning.Chapter 19: Using Software Packages and E-Budgeting: Computer-based Models, Spreadsheets, and Web-based System.Chapter 20: Capital Budgeting: Selecting the Optimum Long-term Investment and Real Options.Chapter 21: Budgeting for Cost Management: Activity-based Budgeting and Life-cycle Budgeting.Chapter 22: Zero-base Budgeting: Priority Budgeting for Best Resource Allocation.Chapter 23: Managers' Performance and Balanced Scorecard: Evaluation on the Division Level.Chapter 24: Budgeting for Service Organizations: Special Features.Chapter 25: Budgeting for Nonprofit Organizations: Diverse Types.Chapter 26: Using Management Games for Executive Training.Appendix I: Present and Future Value Tables.Appendix II: Statistical Table.Glossary of Budgeting and Planning Terms.Index.…”
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Treating black women with eating disorders : a clinician's guide /

Table of Contents: “…Cultural Competence and Humility / Charlynn Small -- Black Women "Showing Up" for Therapeutic Healing / Mazella Fuller -- A Gap in the Research : Race-Specific Issues and Difficult Questions / Eulena Jonsson -- Bulimia : An Attempt to Solve Insoluble Problems / Jennifer Ashby-Bullock -- Social Desirability, Social Networking Sites, and Eating Disorders among African American Women / Chantelle Bernard -- The Skin I'm In : Stereotypes and Body Image Development in Women of Color / Warrenetta Crawford Mann -- Father Hunger? …”
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Conflict of interest in global, public and corporate governance

Table of Contents: “…Conflict of interest from the perspective of the sociology of organised action Erhard Friedberg; 3. Empirical research on conflict of interest: a critical look Michael Davis; Part II. …”
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Understanding North Korea : indigenous perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Historical evolution of North Korea's monolithic political system and its main characteristics -- The historical origins and formation of the monolithic political system in North Korea / Kee Kwang-seo (Chosun University) -- The stability of the monolithic system under Kim Jong-un : an analysis / Kim Keun-sik (Kyungnam University) and Lee Gee-dong (Institute for National Security Strategy) -- The power elite of North Korea's monolithic system / Lee Ju-cheol (Korea Broadcasting System) -- Change in North Korean society from the view of economic policy and social transformation -- Potential for economic reform in North Korea / Kim Yeon-chul (Inje University) -- North Korean economy in transition : market feudalism / Han Jong-woo (Graduate Institute of Peace Studies, Kyung Hee University) -- The process of social change in North korea / Lee Woo-young (University of North Korean Studies) -- North Korea's foreign policy, perception of the United States, and its relations with the United States and China (G2) -- Surviving in the face of hegemony : North Korea's post-cold war American policy / Suh Bo-hyuk (Seoul National University) -- The formation and development of North Korea's understanding of the United States / Kim Kwang-un (National Institute of Korean History) -- The transformation of China-North korea relations and its implications / Lee Jong-seok (Sejong Institute) -- Twenty years of the North Korean nuclearization problem : the North Korean perspective / Lim Soo-ho (Samsung Economic Research Institute) -- The inter-Korean relationship, United STates and North East Asia -- Change in North Korea's policy toward South Korea and its implications / Chin Hee-gwan (Inje University) -- Understanding conflict on the Korean peninsula : a focus on the Yellow Sea incident / Suh Choo-suk (Korea Institute for Defense Analyses) -- Economic cooperation between the two Koreas : present and future / Kim Yeon-chul (Inje University) -- The irony of American policy toward North Korea : regime denial / Han Jong-woo (Graduate Institute of Peace Studies, Kyung Hee University) -- Conclusion.…”
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Interpreting African American history and culture at museums and historic sites /

Table of Contents: “…. -- Imagining slave square: resurrecting history through cemetery research and interpretation / by D L Henderson -- Furnishing slave quarters and free black homes: adding a powerful tool to interpreting African American life / by Martha B. …”
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Applications of microdialysis in pharmaceutical science

Table of Contents: “…Monitoring neurotransmitter amino acids by microdialysis. -- 3. Basic Research on receptors. -- 4. Psychostimulants and addictive drugs. -- 5. …”
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Thrift a cyclopedia : being an early attempt to assemble the best of what is known from history and literature about one of our most provocative words for those who are not ashamed... by Blankenhorn, David

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Communication and interviewing skills for practice in social work, counselling and the health professions by Higham, P. E., 1939-

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A Dark Trace : Sigmund Freud on the Sense of Guilt by Westerink, Herman, Westerink, Herman

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Roads to reconciliation conflict and dialogue in the twenty-first century /

Table of Contents: “…Lowery -- Practicing reconciliation in the classroom after September 11 / Barbara Patterson -- September 11 and the search for justice and accountability / Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im -- Reconciliation in the new millennium / Jimmy Carter -- An agenda for higher education / Rebecca Chopp.…”
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Civil-military relations in today's China swimming in a new sea /

Table of Contents: “…Social trends in China : implications for the Pople's Liberation Army / Tony Saich -- The impact of social changes on the PLA : a Chinese military perspective / Xiaobing Li -- The new military elite : generational profile and contradictory trends / Cheng Li -- The fourth-generation leaders and the new military elite / Yu bin -- The PLA and the provinces : military district and local issues / Zhiyue Bo -- The political implications of PLA professionalism / Lyman Miller -- Unravelling the myths about political commissars / You Ji -- Searching for a twenty-first-century officer corps / Thomas J. …”
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Race and nation in modern Latin America

Table of Contents: “…Chambers -- Belonging to the great Granadan family : partisan struggle and the construction of indigenous identity and politics in Southwestern Colombia, 1849-1890 / James Sanders -- Searching for "Latin America" : race and sovereignty in the Americas in the 1850s / Aims McGuinness -- Imagining the colonial nation : race, gender, and middle-class politics in Belize, 1888-1898 / Anne S. …”
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China into Africa trade, aid, and influence /

Table of Contents: “…Rotberg -- China's new policy toward Africa / Li Anshan -- China's emerging strategic partnerships in Africa / Wenran Jiang -- Africa and China : engaging postcolonial interdependencies / Stephanie Rupp -- Chinese-African trade and investment : the vanguard of South-South commerce in the twenty-first century / Harry G. Broadman -- Searching for oil : China's oil strategies in Africa / Henry Lee and Dan Shalmon -- Special economic zones : China's developmental model comes to Africa / Martyn J. …”
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Cataloging correctly for kids an introduction to the tools /

Table of Contents: “…Fountain for the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services, Cataloging and Classification Section, Cataloging of Children's Materials Committee -- How children search / Lynne A. Jacobsen -- Cataloging correctly using AACR2 and MARC 21 / Deborah A. …”
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Boomers and beyond reconsidering the role of libraries /

Table of Contents: “…Atchley -- Work and purpose after 50 / Stephen Ristau -- In search of active wisdom : libraries and consciousness-raising for adulthood II / Mary Catherine Bateson -- Information-questing moments : retirement-age Americans at the library door / Ronald J. …”
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Elizabeth Gaskell and the art of the short story

Table of Contents: “…Exploring the boundaries in Elizabeth Gaskell's shorter fiction / Alan Shelston -- Chains of our own forging : Gaskell and a search for freedom / Ian Campbell -- Tracing the linguistic fingerprints of the unitarian ethos : a corpus-based study of Elizabeth Gskell's short stories / Massimo Verzella -- Elizabeth Gaskell and the crime short story / Mariaconcetta Costantini -- Elizabeth Gaskell's Disappearances : narratives of absence between mystery and empirical detection / Renzo D'Agnillo -- In and out of the Victorian house : the representation of domestic spaces in Gaskell's The grey woman / Anna Enrichetta Soccio -- The cat on her knee : Gaskell's leave-taking / Benedetta Bini -- Interpreting otherness : Elizabeth Gaskell and The crooked branch / Marilena Saracino -- Narrating nineteenth-century dress codes : Elizabeth Gaskell and the desire for a turban / Francesco Marroni -- Illustrating Cranford : George du Maurier and Hugh Thomson / Valentina Polcini -- Filming Gaskell's shorter fiction / Raffaella Antinucci -- Ruth-sick for home : the Keatsian imagination in the novel of Elizabeth Gaskell / Allan C. …”
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Encountering life in the universe ethical foundations and social implications of astrobiology /

Table of Contents: “…Bedau and Mark Triant -- Space exploration and searches for extraterrestrial life : decision making and societal issues / Margaret S. …”
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Russia's steppe frontier : the making of a colonial empire, 1500-1800 / by Khodarkovsky, Michael, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…The Sociology of the frontier, or why peace was impossible -- Social and political organization in the Steppe -- Raiding and warfare -- Captives and slaves -- Trade and economy -- A Khan, or a search for central authority -- Religion -- Ideology through diplomacy -- 2. …”
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Games in libraries : essays on using play to connect and instruct /

Table of Contents: “…McAbee -- In the library with the candlestick : adapting clue for the special collections library / Emily Jack and Jonathan McMichael -- Learning with games in medicine and healthcare and the potential role of libraries / Bohyun Kim -- Searching for Blackbeard's treasure : using an interactive information literacy game to reach transfer students / Andrew Kearns, Breanne A. …”
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