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Cannibal Capitalism : How Big Business and the Feds are Ruining America
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Subject(s): Income distribution -- United States | Industries -- United States | Capitalism -- United States | Right and left (Political science) | United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century Summary: "People, regular people, many of whom have never shown a previous interest in economics are now eager to understand this economy. Th

War & Conflict in Africa
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Subject(s): Politics and war -- History -- Africa | International cooperation | Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960- Summary: "After the Cold War, Africa earned the dubious distinction of being the world's most bloody continent. But how can we explain this proliferation of armed conflicts? What caused them and what were their main

Fundamentals of Corporate Finance
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Subject(s): Corporations -- Finance Summary: "The book is aimed at the relative newcomer to the subject in that it does not make many assumptions about the prior knowledge of the reader and does not develop the theoretical aspects beyond the level needed to provide the reader with the necessary understanding to apply the concepts in practic

Money Laundering Prevention : Deterring, Detecting, and Resolving Financial Fraud
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Subject(s): Money laundering -- Prevention Summary: "A how-to guide for the discovery and prevention of the illegal transfer of money Written for the private sector--where most money laundering takes place--this book clearly explains shows business professionals how to deter, detect, and resolve financial fraud cases internally. It expertly

Policy Borrowing and Lending in Education
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Subject(s): Education and state | Educational change Summary: The phenomenon of travelling reforms has become an object of great professional interest and intensive academic scrutiny. The fact that the same set of educational reforms is transferred from one country to another made scholars wonder whether policy transfer has increased as a resul

Eating Disorders in Children and Adolescents : a Clinical Handbook
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Subject(s): Eating disorders in children | Eating disorders in adolescence Summary: "Eating disorders typically first appear during childhood and adolescence. Despite this early age of onset, edited volumes on eating disorders have not focused on this age cohort. One of the primary purposes of this book is to redress this imbalance and targ

Quantitative Credit Portfolio Management : Practical Innovations for Measuring and Controlling Liquidity, Spread, and Issuer Concentration Risk
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Subject(s): Credit derivatives | Portfolio management | Investment analysis Summary: "An innovative approach to post-crash credit portfolio management Credit portfolio managers traditionally rely on fundamental research for decisions on issuer selection and sector rotation. Quantitative researchers tend to use more mathematical techniques f

Rock Fractures in Geological Processes
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Subject(s): Rocks -- Fracture | Rock mechanics | Hydrogeology | Geology, Structural | Fluid mechanics Summary: "Rock fractures control many of Earth's dynamic processes, including plate-boundary development, tectonic earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and fluid transport in the crust. An understanding of rock fractures is also essential f

Food Culture in Colonial Asia : a Taste of Empire
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Subject(s): Food -- Social aspects -- Asia | Cooking, Asian -- Social aspects | Food habits -- History -- Asia | Asia -- Social life and customs | Asia -- Colonial influence History Summary: "Presenting a social history of colonial food practices in India, Malaysia and Singapore, this book discusses the contribution that Asian domestic serv

Piles and Pile Foundations
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Subject(s): Piling (Civil engineering) Summary: "Piled foundations are generally designed using empirical methods, in particular the traditional capacity based approach on which the majority of codes of practice are based. However in recent years the analysis of pile groups and piled rafts has undergone substantial development in the light

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