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Reducing global poverty the case for asset accumulation /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Caroline Moser -- Intergenerational asset accumulation and poverty reduction in Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1978-2004 / Caroline Moser and Andrew Felton -- Learning from asset-based approaches to poverty / Michael R. Carter -- The stages-of-progress methodology and results from five countries / Anirudh Krishna -- Asset accumulation policy and poverty reduction / Caroline Moser -- Addressing vulnerability through asset building and social protection / Sarah Cook -- Social protection and asset accumulation by the middle class and the poor in Latin America / Andres Solimano -- Building natural resource-based assets in southern Africa : workable scenarios / Paula Nimpuno-Parente -- Protecting land rights in post-tsunami and postconflict Aceh, Indonesia / Lilianne Fan -- Hurricane Katrina : impact on assets and asset-building approaches to poverty reduction / Amy Liu -- Gangs, violence, and asset building / Dennis Rodgers -- Beyond microfinance / Vijay Mahajan -- Using microinsurance and financial education to protect and accumulate assets / Monique Cohen and Pamela Young -- Migrant foreign savings and asset accumulation / Manuel Orozco -- Transnational communities of the United States and Latin America / Hector Cordero-Guzman and Victoria Quiroz-Becerra -- Gender and transnational asset accumulation in El Salvador / Sarah Gammage -- Claiming rights : citizenship and the politics of asset distribution / Clare Ferguson, Caroline Moser, and Andy Norton.…”
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Understanding cancer a patient's guide to diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment / by Coleman, C. Norman

Table of Contents: “…-- Diagnostic tests and staging studies: gathering information -- Making decisions about treatment: how success is measured -- Weighing the long-term risks and benefits of treatment -- Conventional treatments: an overview -- Molecular targeted therapy -- Clinical research trials: what they're all about -- Clinical case studies: four patient stories -- Afterword -- Appendix A. cancer molecular biology -- Appendix B. analyzing cost-effectiveness -- Appendix C. patient's checklist.…”
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What ever happened to the faculty? drift and decision in higher education / by Burgan, Mary

Table of Contents: “…Bricks and mortar : the American campus -- The myth of the bloviating professor : sages and guides -- Getting the "liberal" out of education : the curriculum -- Absence makes the heart grow colder : online education -- A more perfect union : college and university governance -- Rookies of the year and superstars : academic competition -- The case of the firecracker boys : academic science and academic freedom -- The disposable faculty : tenure now -- Staging a comeback : exemplary cases.…”
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Understanding and managing your child's food allergies by Sicherer, Scott H.

Table of Contents: “…Avoidance diets -- Maintaining a nutritious diet -- Navigating the supermarket -- At home and in social settings -- In restaurants and while traveling -- At school and camp -- Food allergy at different ages and stages. Infants and toddlers -- Preschool and school-age children -- Teenagers and young adults -- Emotional concerns. …”
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Dialectical behavior therapy with suicidal adolescents by Miller, Alec L.

Table of Contents: “…-- Dialectical behavior therapy: treatment stages, primary targets, and strategies -- DBT program structure: functions and modes -- Dialectical dilemmas for adolescents : addressing secondary treatment target -- Assessing adolescents: suicide risk, diagnosis, and treatment feasibility -- Orienting adolescents and families to treatment and obtaining commitment -- Individual therapy with adolescents -- Including families in treatment -- Skills training with adolescents -- Assessing progress, running a graduate group, and terminating treatment -- Program issues.…”
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Web-based instruction a guide for libraries / by Smith, Susan Sharpless

Table of Contents: “…Setting the stage -- Library instruction on the Web -- Design and development cycle -- Selecting project development tools -- Designing the user interface -- Multimedia : using graphics, sound, animation, and video -- Interactivity -- Evaluation, testing, and assessment.…”
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Conflict management for libraries strategies for a positive, productive workplace / by Montgomery, Jack G.

Table of Contents: “…When you go to work, you bring more than your lunch from home -- How to identify the actors in the play : all the world's a stage -- The role of unions -- The specter and reality of workplace violence -- The internal candidate -- But she's had such a hard life -- It is obvious we do not matter -- I don't have to listen to this! …”
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Make your contacts count networking know-how for business and career success / by Baber, Anne, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Develop your relationships -- Move through the six stages -- The next move is up to you -- Rate your relationships -- Have questions about the A's? …”
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Faith in the halls of power how evangelicals joined the American elite / by Lindsay, D. Michael (David Michael), 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Campaigns, coalitions, and the Oval Office -- Intellectuals and the groves of academe -- Artists, celebrities, and the public stage -- Corporate titans and the corner office.…”
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Voting about God in early church councils by MacMullen, Ramsay, 1928-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The democratic element -- The cognitive element -- The 'supernaturalist' element -- The violent element -- Preliminaries -- Councils in action -- The stage -- Dioscorus -- Management -- Exact words.…”
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An introduction to the literature of Equatorial Guinea between colonialism and dictatorship / by Lewis, Marvin A., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : The essay in Equatorial Guinea : Hispanidad, cultural syncretism, and the search for Guineidad -- Poetry: in search of an authentic voice -- The short story : a genre in search of authors -- Drama : oral and written for the stage -- The early Equatorial Guinean novel : writing under colonialism -- The contemporary novel : Hispanidad and Guineidad interrogated--again.…”
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The scar of visibility medical performances and contemporary art / by Kuppers, Petra

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: bodily fantasies -- Visions of anatomy: space, exhibitions, and dense bodies -- Living bodies: staging knowledge, fantasy, and temporality -- The collaborative arts: pain and performance -- Intersections: blood, laughter, and the space-off -- Monsters, cyborgs, animals: crashes, cuttings, and migraines -- Medical museums and art display: the discourses of AIDS -- Reaching out: outsider art, specialists, and positions in between -- Epilogue: fantasies in the sand.…”
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The post-Soviet wars rebellion, ethnic conflict, and nationhood in the Caucasus / by Zürcher, Christoph

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : war and peace in the Caucasus -- Setting the stage : the past, the nation, and the state -- Making sense : conflict theory and the Caucasus -- Wars over Chechnya -- Wars in Georgia -- The war over Karabakh -- Wars that did not happen : Dagestan and Ajaria -- Conclusion : post-Soviet wars and theories of internal wars.…”
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Oklahoma! the making of an American musical / by Carter, Tim, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…-- From stage to screen.…”
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Safety and ethics in healthcare a guide to getting it right / by Runciman, Bill

Table of Contents: “…Setting the stage : an overview of healthcare -- Risk and the harm caused by healthcare -- Healthcare : a dysfunctional system -- Naming, blaming and shaming -- Human error and complex systems -- Knowing what to do -- Ethics, professional behaviour and regulation -- When things go wrong : looking after the people involved -- When things go wrong : preventing a recurrence -- Getting the best out of people -- Getting the best out of the system -- Where to now?…”
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Impact of e-commerce on consumers and small firms

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Colin Gray and Salvatore Zappalà -- Stage models of ICT adoption in small firms / Colin Gray -- Social influence and diffusion of innovations in education / Carlo Tomasetto and Felice Carugati -- Climate for innovation, attitudes to Internet and ICT adoption in small firms / Salvatore Zappalà and Guido Sarchielli -- Changing leadership cultures in e-commerce service industry / Mikko J. …”
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Globalization and health

Table of Contents: “….] -- The rapid shifts in stages of the nutrition transition: the global obesity epidemic / Barry M. …”
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Shakespeare and text by Jowett, John

Table of Contents: “…Author and collaborator -- Theatre -- The material book -- The first folio -- Mapping the text -- Emendation and modernization -- Versification and stage directions -- Texts for readers.…”
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The sites of Rome time, space, memory /

Table of Contents: “…Larmour -- Victim and voyeur : Rome as a character in Tacitus' Histories 3 / Rhiannon Ash -- The gates of Janus : Bakhtin and Plutarch's Roman meta-chronotope / Jason Banta -- Staging Rome : the Renaissance, Rome, and humanism's classical crisis / Jacob Blevins -- Sizing up Rome, or theorizing the overview / Caroline Vout -- Ancient Rome for little comrades : the legacy of classical antiquity in Soviet childrens' literature / Marina Balina -- The sites and sights of Rome in Fellini's films : 'not a human habitation but a psychical entity' / Elena Theodorakopoulos.…”
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Volunteers a social profile / by Musick, Marc A.

Table of Contents: “…-- Personality -- Motives -- Values, norms, and attitudes -- Socio-economic resources -- Time and health -- Gender -- Race -- The life course: the early stages -- The life course: the later stages -- Social resources -- Volunteer recruitment -- Schools and congregations -- Community, neighborhood, city, and region -- Cross-national differences -- Trends in volunteering -- Volunteer tasks -- The volunteer role -- Citizenship and prosocial behavior -- Occupation, income, and health -- Conclusion.…”
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