Surviving Globalization? Perspectives for the German Economic Model / edited by Stefan Beck, Frank Klobes, Christoph Scherrer. by Beck, Stefan

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Health financing policy : the macroeconomic, fiscal, and public finance context / Cheryl Cashin. by Cashin, Cheryl

Table of Contents: “…Measures and Resources to Understand the Budget Process and Priority-SettingKey Questions and Resources to Understand the Budget Process and Priority-Setting; Note; Chapter 4 Assessing Options for Raising Revenue for the Health Sector; Key Questions; Assessing Alternative Sources of Revenue; Earmarked Taxes and Revenue; Innovative Revenue Sources; Key Questions and Resources to Assess Options for Sources of Government Revenue for Health; Chapter 5 Opportunities for Better Aligning Health Spending with Health System Objectives; Key Questions; Opportunities to Improve Pooling.…”
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Obesity : health and economic consequences of an impending global challenge / Meera Shekar and Barry Popkin, editors.

Table of Contents: “…The Cost of Overweight/Obesity for Climate Co-Benefits and Water Use -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Factors Affecting Overweight/Obesity Prevalence -- Global Factors Associated with Increased Overweight/Obesity -- Factors Linked to Weight Gain and Overweight/Obesity at the Individual and Community Levels -- The Role of Changing Diets and Food Systems -- Impetus for Action -- References -- Chapter 5: Addressing Overweight/Obesity: Lessons for Future Actions -- Typology of Actions to Prevent Overweight/Obesity -- Approaches to Reducing Overweight/Obesity…”
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Wiley not-for-profit GAAP 2017 : interpretation and application of generally accepted accounting principles for not-for-profit organizations / Richard F. Larkin, Marie DiTommaso. by Larkin, Richard F., DiTommaso, Marie

Table of Contents: “…When Accrual-Basis Reporting Should Be UsedLegal Requirements; Conclusion; Part 2: Basic Financial Statements; 3: Statement of Financial Position; Perspective and Issues; Concepts, Rules, and Examples; Liquidity; Offsetting Assets and Liabilities; Acceptable Formats; Disclosure Requirements; 4: Statement of Activities; Perspective and Issues; Concepts, Rules, and Examples; Elements of the Change in Net Assets; Classification of Revenues, Expenses, Gains and Losses, and Reclassifications; Information about Gross Amounts of Revenues and Expenses; Information about an Organization's Operations.…”
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Commodity trader's almanac 2013 : for active traders of futures, forex, stocks and ETFs / Jeffrey A. Hirsch and John L. Person. by Hirsch, Jeffrey A.

Table of Contents: “…Patrick's DayMarch British Pound Invasion; April Almanac; April Tax Time Takes a Bite out of Gold; Bonds Can Go Up When Stocks Go Down; Beef Prices Head South before Summer; May Almanac; Copper Tops in May; Silver Slips in May; Coffee Buzz Fades in Summer; June Almanac; Short Soybeans for Summer; Sugar's Summer Sweet Spot; Summer BBQ Season Gives Beef a Bounce; Mother Nature Makes Corn Pop; July Almanac; Last-Half of July Short S&P 500; Summer Air Conditioning Heats Up Natural Gas; Swiss Franc Follows Gold Higher; August Almanac; August Gives Coffee a Lift…”
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Wynne Godley A Biography / by Alan Shipman. by Shipman, Alan

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The encyclopedia of libertarianism / editor Ronald Hamowy.

Table of Contents: “…. -- La Boétie, Étienne de -- Labor Unions -- Laissez-Faire Policy -- Lane, Rose Wilder -- Lao Tzu -- Las Casas, Bartolomé de -- Law and Economics -- Law Merchant -- LeFevre, Robert -- Left Libertarianism -- Leggett, William -- Levellers -- Liability -- Liberal Critique of Libertarianism -- Liberalism, Classical -- Liberalism, German -- Liberty, Presumption of -- Liberty in the Ancient World -- Limited Government -- Locke, John -- Macaulay, Thomas Babington -- MacBride, Roger Lea -- Madison, James -- Magna Carta -- Maine, Henry Sumner -- Mandeville, Bernard -- Market Failure -- Marriage -- Marxism -- Mason, George -- Material Progress -- Mencken, H.L. -- Menger, Carl -- Mercantilism -- Meyer, Frank S. -- Military-Industrial Complex -- Mill, John Stuart -- Milton, John -- Minimal State -- Mises, Ludwig von -- Molinari, Gustave de -- Money and Banking -- Montaigne, Michel de -- Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat de -- Mont Pelerin Society -- Murray, Charles -- Nathan, Tonie -- Nationalism -- Natural Harmony of Interests -- Natural Law -- New Deal -- Nietzsche, Friedrich -- Nock, Albert Jay -- Nonaggression Axiom -- Nozick, Robert -- Objectivism -- Oppenheimer, Franz -- Ortega y Gasset, José -- Orwell, George -- Ostrom, Vincent and Elinor -- Paine, Thomas -- Paternalism -- Paterson, Isabel -- Paul, Ron -- Peace and Pacifism -- Philosophic Radicals -- Physiocracy -- Political Parties -- Popper, Karl -- Pornography -- Positive Liberty -- Posner, Richard A. -- Pound, Roscoe -- Praxeology -- Price, Richard -- Price Controls -- Privacy -- Private Property -- Privatization -- Progress -- Progressive Era -- Prohibition of Alcohol -- Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph -- Psychiatry -- Public Choice Economics -- Puritanism -- Pursuit of Happiness -- Racism -- Rand, Ayn -- Rawls, John -- Read, Leonard E. -- Regulation -- Religion and Liberty -- Rent Seeking -- Republicanism, Classical -- Responsibility -- Restitution for Crime -- Retribution for Crime -- Revolution, Right of -- Ricardo, David -- Rights, Natural -- Rights, Theories of -- Right to Bear Arms -- Röpke, Wilhelm -- Rothbard, Murray -- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques -- Rule of Law -- Say, Jean-Baptiste -- Scholastics/School of Salamanca -- Schumpeter, Joseph -- Secessionism -- Self-Interest -- Senior, Nassau William -- Separation of Church and State -- Sexuality -- Shaftesbury, Third Earl of -- Sidney, Algernon -- Simon, Julian -- Slavery, World -- Slavery in America -- Smith, Adam -- Social Darwinism -- Socialism -- Socialist Calculation Debate -- Social Security -- Sociology and Libertarianism -- Sowell, Thomas -- Spencer, Herbert -- Spontaneous Order -- Spooner, Lysander -- State -- Stigler, George J. -- Stirner, Max -- Stoicism -- Subsidiarity -- Sumner, William Graham -- Szasz, Thomas -- Taft, Robert A. -- Taxation -- Tax Competition -- Term Limits -- Thoreau, Henry David -- Tocqueville, Alexis de -- Tracy, Destutt de -- Transportation -- Tucker, Benjamin R. -- Tullock, Gordon -- Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques -- Urban Planning -- Utilitarianism -- Virtue -- Voltaire -- Voluntarism -- Voluntary Contract Enforcement -- War -- War on Terror -- War Powers -- Washington, George -- Wealth and Poverty -- Welfare State -- Whiggism -- Wicksell, Knut -- Wilberforce, William -- Wollstonecraft, Mary.…”
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Women in the Canadian academic tundra : challenging the chill / [edited by] Elena Hannah, Linda Joan Paul, Swani Vethamany-Globus.

Table of Contents: “…Paying the inequity tax / Jennifer Bankier -- A nurse educator's experience in Academia / Suzan Banoub-Baddour -- Women in Canadian universities: an insider's view from outside; an outsider's view from inside / Helen J. …”
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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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Fundamentals of Engineering FE Civil All-in-One Exam Guide, 2nd Edition / Indranil Goswami. by Goswami, Indranil

Table of Contents: “…Thin-Walled Sections -- 6.11 Thermal Stress and Strain -- 6.12 Mohr's Circle: Normal (?) and Shear (?) …”
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Confronting finance : mobilizing the 99 per cent for economic and social progress / edited by Nicolas Pons-Vignon and Phumzile Ncube ; International Labour Office.

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Effective Product Control : Controlling for Trading Desks. by Nash, Peter

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Risk arbitrage : an investor's guide / Keith M. Moore. by Moore, Keith M., 1952-

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The FinTech book : the financial technology handbook for investors, entrepreneurs and visionaries / edited by Susanne Chishti, Janos Barberis. by Barberis, Janos, 1988-

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A guide to starting your hedge fund / Erik Serrano Berntsen and John P. Thompson. by Serrano Berntsen, Erik, 1983-

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Leaders and innovators : how data-driven organizations are winning with analytics / Tho H. Nguyen. by Nguyen, Tho H., 1972-

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Managing water for all : an OECD perspective on pricing and financing.

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The Battle of Yorktown 1781 / Pathé cinéma (France).

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Climate Change from a Criminological Perspective edited by Rob White. by White, Rob

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Procedural Content Generation for C++ Game Development. by Green, Dale

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- About the Author -- Acknowledgment -- About the Reviewer -- www.PacktPub.com -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: An Introduction to Procedural Generation -- Procedural generation versus random generation -- Procedural generation -- Random generation -- Introducing randomness -- Pseudorandom number generation -- Why computers can't generate truly random numbers -- Generating random numbers in C++ -- Generating random numbers within a range -- Seeds -- Defining seeds -- Using seeds -- Generating random seeds during the runtime -- Controlled randomness is the key to generating random numbers -- The use of procedural generation in games -- Saving space -- Map generation -- Texture creation -- Animation -- Sound -- Benefits of procedural generation -- Larger games can be created -- Procedural generation can be used to lower budgets -- An increase in gameplay variety -- An increase in replayability -- The drawbacks of procedural generation -- More taxing on the hardware -- Worlds can feel repetitive -- You sacrifice quality control -- You may generate an unplayable world -- It is hard to script set game events -- A brief history of rogue-like games -- How we'll implement procedural generation -- Populating environments -- Creating unique game objects -- Creating unique art -- Audio manipulation -- Behavior and mechanics -- Dungeon generation -- Component-based design -- The complete game -- Exercises -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Project Setup and Breakdown -- Choosing an IDE -- Microsoft Visual Studio -- Code::Blocks -- Other IDEs -- Build systems -- Breaking down the game template -- Download templates -- The class diagram -- The object hierarchy -- Level data -- Collision -- Input -- Simple and Fast Multimedia Library (SFML) -- Defining SFML -- Why we'll be using SFML -- Learning SFML -- Alternatives.…”
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