Options for the Beginner and Beyond Unlock the Opportunities and Minimize the Risks, Second Edition / Olmstead, W.. by Olmstead, W.

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Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research edited by Alex C. Michalos. by Michalos, Alex C.

Table of Contents: “…Aboriginal Peoples Survey, Canada (APS) -- Reporting of Indices by the Press -- Accessibility -- Personal and Institutional Accountability -- Acquiescence Response Set -- Action Research -- Bakas Caregiving Outcomes Scale -- Balanced Life -- Bankruptcy -- Barthel Index -- Basic Capabilities Index (BCI) -- Calibrated Development Index -- Campbell, Angus -- Canadian Index of Well-Being -- Cancer Survivor(s) -- Cantril Self-Anchoring Striving Scale -- Daily Diary Methodology -- Dartmouth COOP Charts -- Dartmouth Pain Questionnaire -- Data Analysis -- Databook of Happiness -- Early Adolescence -- Children from Birth to Age Five, Quality of Life in -- Early School Leaving -- Earthquakes -- Earth’s Carrying Capacity -- Equity Theory -- F-Ratio -- Face Perception -- Facet Theory -- Facilities -- Factor Analysis -- Feelings of Justice -- Gambling -- Gardening -- Gated Communities -- Gender and Education -- Gender and Health -- Happiness -- Happiness Adjusted Life Years -- Happiness Measures -- Happy Life Inventory -- Happy Planet Index -- ICTs Role in QoL -- Ideology and Quality of Life -- Illiteracy, an Overview -- Immigrants, an Overview -- Immigrants, Responses to -- Japan, Quality of Life -- Job Descriptive Index -- Job Satisfaction -- Job Security -- Katz Activities of Daily Living Scale -- KIDS COUNT® -- Knowledge Transfer and Exchange -- Known-Groups Validity -- Labor Markets and Underemployment -- Lake Erie Quality Index -- Lancashire Quality of Life Profile -- Land Use Diversity Index -- Land Quality Indicators -- Malnutrition -- Manchester-Oxford Foot Questionnaire (MOxFQ) -- Mapping Neighborhoods -- Marginal Utility -- Marginalized Communities -- National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) -- National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) -- National Neighborhood Indicator Partnership -- Natural Resource Management (NRM) -- Neck Disability Index -- Obesity, an Overview -- Objective and Subjective Deprivation -- Objective Index of Quality of Life Developed for the Municipalities of the Barcelona Province -- Objective Index of Quality of Life in Spain -- Objective Quality of Life -- Pain, an Overview -- Pairwise Comparisons -- Care, Palliative -- Parametric Analysis -- Parental Time and Child Well-Being -- Qualitative Indicators of Development -- Qualitative Methods -- Work Index in Span, Quality of -- Community Life Measures, Quality -- Work and Employment, Quality of -- Random Effects Regression for Panel Data -- Rank-Order Correlation -- Rasch Analysis -- Rasch Polytomous Models -- Long-Term Unemployment, Rate of -- Sample Frame -- Sample Survey -- Sampling Error -- Life Satisfaction Judgments -- Medical Care, Satisfaction with -- Taiwan -- Task Discretion -- Taxes -- Taylor and Aspinwall Psychosocial Stress Model -- Telecommuting -- Unemployment -- UNESCO Framework for Cultural Indicators -- UNESCO World Culture Report -- Education for All Global Monitoring Report -- Crime Estimates -- Validity, Logical -- Validity, Statistical -- Valuations of Life/Injury -- Value Theories -- Values Aspired to by Adolescents and by Adolescents’ Parents in Relation to Their Children’s Future -- Walkability -- War -- Waste Recycling -- Water Consumption -- Watershed(s) -- Xenophobia -- Youth Dependency Ratio -- Youth in Transition Survey (YITS) Canada -- Youth Violence -- Youth/Adolescent Rights -- Zero-Order Relationships -- Z-Scores.…”
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Founding finance : how debt, speculation, foreclosures, protests, and crackdowns made us a nation / William Hogeland. by Hogeland, William

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Systematic : how systems biology is transforming modern medicine / James R. Valcourt. by Valcourt, James R.

Table of Contents: “…The basics -- Seeing the systems in biology: technological advances are letting scientists understand living things in a new way -- Déjà vu all over again: the common patterns and principles of natural systems -- America's next top mathematical model: understanding complex systems sometimes requires math -- Ignoring the devil in the details: robustness, prediction, noise, and the general properties of systems -- Part II. …”

Personal Finance QuickStart Guide The Simplified Beginner's Guide to Eliminating Financial Stress, Building Wealth, and Achieving Financial Freedom. by Rochard, Morgen

Table of Contents: “…Permanent Life Insurance -- Annuities -- Disability Insurance -- Property and Casualty, Health, and Umbrella -- Long-Term Care Insurance -- Life Insurance Strategies -- | 11 | Taxes -- Tax Facts -- Retirement as a Source of Tax Savings -- Mortgage Interest Deduction -- Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) -- Capital Gains vs. …”
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The global economy in transition : debt and resource scarcities / J. Ørstrøm Møller. by Møller, J. Ørstrøm

Table of Contents: “…The deadly cocktail. Private gain, public loss. Making profit at the cost of society's interest. …”
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The great American university : its rise to preeminence, its indispensable national role, why it must be protected / Jonathan R. Cole. by Cole, Jonathan R.

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Fiscal policy after the financial crisis / edited by Alberto Alesina and Francesco Giavazzi.

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Welsh Responses to the French Revolution : Press and Public Discourse, 1789-1802. by Löffler, Marion

Table of Contents: “…List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Editorial Principles; Introduction; An astrological prediction; A loyalist address in the wake of the Fishguard landing; A patriotic song; A poem on Thomas Paine as the instrument of God'svengeance; William Pitt's tax on dogs; An account of the history of the eisteddfod; The Welsh discovery of America; A petition from Carmarthen town for abolishing theslave trade; A declaration of loyalty from Talgarth, Breconshire; A declaration of loyalty from Dissenting ministers of threecounties in west Wales.…”
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China and the Global Financial Crisis : a Comparison with Europe. by Cabestan, Jean-Pierre

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / by Jean-Pierre Cabestan, Jean-François Di Meglio & Xavier Richet -- First part: China's adaptation, reforms, and their limits -- The global financial crisis and China's domestic and international political options / Jean-Pierre Cabestan -- Labor pains : Chinese economic policy in an age of a shrinking work force / Arthur Kroeber -- An assessment of China's relative fiscal strength / Jean-Charles Sambor -- An assessment of China's banking system reform / Alicia Garcia-Herrero, & Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria -- Three Chinese banks among top ten banks worldwide : illusion or reality? …”
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Economics for Lovers of Literature by Geraint Johnes. by Johnes, Geraint

Table of Contents: “…From Small Things, Big Things Come (modern approaches to macroeconomics) -- 18. Growing Pains (economic growth).…”
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Modern Money Theory A Primer on Macroeconomics for Sovereign Monetary Systems / by L. Randall Wray. by Wray, L. Randall

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Fifty years of justice : a history of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida / James M. Denham. by Denham, James M.

Table of Contents: “…Middle District of Florida, first years, 1962-1968 -- The Middle District and civil rights, 1962-1968 -- Adjudicating equality continues: the Middle District and school desegregation, 1968-1976 -- The Middle District and the war on crime, 1968-1976 -- Growing pains, constitutional questions, and bankruptcy, 1976-1980 -- A new era begins: the Reagan years, 1980-1988 -- Drugs, drugs, and more drugs, 1980-1988 -- Mad dogs, spies, and international weapons dealers -- Income tax evasion, the death penalty, the environment, the aids epidemic, desegregation, and voting and employment discrimination, 1980-1988 -- New judges, new challenges, 1988-1992 -- The court expands and confronts antigovernment activity, 1992-2000 -- Bankruptcy in the Middle District, 1984-2000 -- First amendment, abortion rights, employment discrimination, and school desegregation litigation runs its course, 1992-2000 -- Drugs, outlaws, fraud, pollution, endangered species, and a baby named Sabrina -- "It's a tidal wave ... and I"m not kidding about it!" …”
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The little book of economics : how the economy works in the real world / Greg Ip ; foreword by Mohamed A. El-Erian. by Ip, Greg, 1964-

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Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World. by Van Parijs, Philippe

Table of Contents: “…; 1.3 Probability-driven language learning; 1.4 Maxi-min language use; 1.5 The maxi-min dynamics; 1.6 Deviation from maxi-min: didactic and symbolic; 1.7 Maxi-min dynamics and power relationships; 1.8 Power and the rise of English; 1.9 Lingua franca and justificatory community; 1.10 Lingua franca and trans-national demos; 1.11 A vector of ideological domination?…”
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Boosting paychecks : the politics of supporting America's working poor / Daniel P. Gitterman. by Gitterman, Daniel Paul

Table of Contents: “…Bush and the return of across-the-board tax relief -- Toward a new bargain? -- The past and future politics of boosting paychecks.…”
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The predictable surprise : the unraveling of the U.S. retirement system. by Schieber, Sylvester J.

Table of Contents: “…We've Killed the Goose, Let's Gild the Eggs; 24. Tax Benefits and Benefit Taxes; 25. Retiree Health Benefits. …”
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Against the profit motive : the salary revolution in American government, 1780-1940 / Nicholas R. Parrillo. by Parrillo, Nicholas R.

Table of Contents: “…The old regime : lawful bargaining for public services -- Bargaining outlawed -- A regulatory nightmare : salaries as a remedy for corrupt exchange and official lucre -- A government capable of saying "no" : salaries as a reaction against customer service -- State and local taxation : the tax ferrets -- Federal taxation : the moiety men -- Criminal prosecution : cash for convictions -- Incarceration : jailors' fees and penitentiary profits -- Naval warfare : prize money and blood money -- Epilogue : American state-building and the critique of bureaucracy.…”
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Special economic zones : progress, emerging challenges, and future directions / edited by Thomas Farole, Gokhan Akinci.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Thomas Farole and Gokhan Akinci -- The thin end of the wedge : unlocking comparative advantage through EPZs in Bangladesh / Mustafizul Hye Shakir and Thomas Farole -- Success and statis in Honduras' free zones / Michael Engman -- China's investment in special economic zones in Africa / Deborah Brautigam and Tang Xiaoyang -- Partnership agreements in the China-Singapore (Suzhou) industrial park : lessons for joint economic zone development / Min Zhao and Thomas Farole -- SEZs in the context of regional integration : creating synergies for trade and investment / Naoko Koyama -- When trade preferences and tax breaks are no longer enough : the challenge of adjustment in the Dominican Republic's free zones / Jean-Marie Burgaud and Thomas Farole -- Fostering innovation in developing economies through SEZs / Justine White -- Early reform zones : catalysts for dynamic market economies in Africa / Richard Auty -- Planned obsolescence? …”
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Capital, coercion, and postcommunist states / Gerald M. Easter. by Easter, Gerald, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Toward a fiscal sociology of the post-communist state -- Fiscal crisis of the old regime -- Politics of tax reform : making (and unmaking) revenue bargains -- State meets society in the transitional tax regime -- Building fiscal capacity in post-communist states -- Taxation and the reconfiguration of state and society.…”
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