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National Finance Center Government - HOME National Finance Center Government The New Public Finance: Responding to Global Challenges The world's agenda of international cooperation has changed. The conventional concerns of foreign affairs, international trade, and development assistance, are increasingly sharing the political center stage with a new set of issues. These include trans-border concerns such as global financial stability and market efficiency, risk of global climate change, bio-diversity conservation, control of resurgent and new communicable diseases, food safety, cyber crime and e-commerce, control of drug trafficking, and international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. ...

American Political Party - HOME American Political Party Political Parties in America by Congressional Quarterly, Political Parties in America is part of a CQ Press collection of books that offer fingertip facts and are designed to assist librarians and patrons who need information in a hurry. CQ editors have drawn on an array of data from our archives to create this handy resource of more than forty encyclopedic entries on American political parties and related subjects. Although not specifically mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, political parties quickly established themselves in the early years of the Republic ...

Local Government Center New Hampshire - HOME Local Government Center New Hampshire The Art of Governance Tens of thousands of individuals serve as trustees on the board of directors of local and national arts groups across the United States each year. The disciplines are diverse (dance, theater, ballet, opera, symphony, museums), but the challenges for those who serve are the same. This book provides the framework and practice of governance to make trustees more informed and better qualified to fulfill their responsibilities. Contributors include: Todd London, New Dramatists; Zelda Fichandler, New York University and The Juilliard School; Gigi Bradford, arts consultant; Roche Schulfer, Goodman Theatre; Ronnie Brooks, consultant, Minnesota; Joan Channick, TCG; Nancy Sasser, Center Stage; Dawn Rains and Christine O'Connor, Seattle Repertory Theatre. Nancy Roche ...

Health New Policy Politics State - HOME Health New Policy Politics State The New Politics of State Health Care Policy by Robert B. Hackey, With the collapse of national health care reform efforts in the early 1990s, states emerged as a focal point for new policy and administrative developments in U.S. health care. This book provides a timely overview of the key issues facing states as they have responded to this challenge. It tells how states are making decisions about health policies and then putting them into action -- and how legislatures, executives, courts, and bureaucracies all participate in ...

Activism Aids Future Politics Queer - HOME Activism Aids Future Politics Queer Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics In "Melancholia and Moralism, Douglas Crimp confronts the conservative gay politics that replaced the radical AIDS activism of the late 1980s and early 1990s. He shows that the cumulative losses from AIDS, including the waning of militant response, have resulted in melancholia as Freud defined it: gay men's dangerous identification with the moralistic repudiation of homosexuality by the wider society.With the 1993 march on Washington for lesbian and gay rights, it became clear that AIDS no ...

Canada Center Employment Government - HOME Canada Center Employment Government Employment Relations in a Changing World Economy by Richard Locke, To address contemporary issues, industrial relations as a field of study will have to take an increasingly international and comparative dimension. Accordingly, "Employment Relations in a Changing World Economy looks at the critical role employment relations play in firm performance and industry competitiveness worldwide. The essays employ a common framework to examine changes in the employment practices of eleven OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) countries: the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Austria, and Japan. They constitute the first phase in a large ongoing project at the Center for Industrial Performance at MIT to update our understanding of comparative industrial relations and human resource policies.The authors, scholars in economics, political science, sociology, industrial relations and law, first identify a representative set of employment practices and then look at the outcomes of those ...

Lincoln City Community Center - HOME Lincoln City Community Center Empire on the Hudson: Entrepreneurial Vision and Political Power at the Port of New York Authority by Jameson W. Doig, Revered and reviled in almost equal amounts since its inception, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has been responsible for creating and maintaining much of New York and New Jerseys transportation infrastructure -the things that make the region work. Doig traces the evolution of the Port Authority from the battles leading to its creation in 1921 through its conflicts with the railroads and its expansion ...

Center Mortgage State - HOME Center Mortgage State Crisis, Miracles and Beyond: Negotiated Adoption of the Danish Welfare State by Erik Albaek, How did Denmark avoid a macro-economic catastrophe in the 1980s and 1990s and still manage not only to maintain but also expand its welfare state? Denmark's macro-economic troubles apparently derived from a number of vices identified by critics of the welfare state: it had an enormous, thoroughly unionized, and unresponsive public sector; large numbers of people relied on the state for their livelihood, making programmatic cuts politically difficult; many programs had the characteristic of property rights and were hard to modify. Taxes to sustain this welfare state compressed investment, eroding both fiscal and current account balances. Yet by the mid 1990s, public support for the welfare state was as high as ever, ...

Political Party and Congress - HOME Political Party and Congress Political Parties in America by Congressional Quarterly, Political Parties in America is part of a CQ Press collection of books that offer fingertip facts and are designed to assist librarians and patrons who need information in a hurry. CQ editors have drawn on an array of data from our archives to create this handy resource of more than forty encyclopedic entries on American political parties and related subjects. Although not specifically mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, political parties quickly established themselves in the early years of the ...

Drama Hospital Taiwanese - ... the pressure, joy and guilt are often overwhelming. This critically acclaimed series, which won three Emmys during its third season, including Oustanding Drama Series, is now available in a 22 episode, 6 disc collector's set. Season Four - Created by best-selling author Michael Crichton, this series centers on the medical personnel in the emergency room of a Chicago county hospital. "ER" tracks the inner workings of County General Hospital, a Level One Trauma Center where heroic doctors and nurses are faced with life-and-death decisions on a daily basis. In its fourth season, "ER" received 16 Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Drama Series. Watch the fourth season, which begins with the critically acclaimed documentary episode that aired 'live.' Season ...

Finance Center - HOME Finance Center Offshore Finance Centers and Tax Havens: The Rise of Global Capital by Mark Hampton, X At present over forty jurisdictions offer a variety of facilities for offshore finance and tax evasion. According to one estimate, as much as half of the world's stock of money either resides in or is flowing through one of these "tax havens." Offshore finance centers have lifted a host of small countries from poverty and facilitated the growth of global financial markets. There are, however, disadvantages to this system, and in recent years the ...

Washington County Health Center - HOME Washington County Health Center Streamlining Health Care Operations: How Lean Logistics Can Transform Organizations by Audie G. Lewis, Using the success of other industries as a model, this book promotes methodologies, indicators, and ideas that health care organizations can use to streamline their practices and maintain strong profit margins. Based on the core principles embodied in lean logistics-the systematic process of removing waste and inefficiency throughout the purchasing, supply, distribution, and business operations chain-Streamlining Health Care Operations shows health care leaders how to fundamentally restructure their organizations and effectively balance costs ... new economy and of today's health care industry. He is a true pioneer in his field and his ideas are innovative, principled and soundly pragmatic: they work." --Dr. Stephen R. Covey, best-selling author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and chairman, Covey Leadership Center "I recommend this thoughtful and innovative book to those who care about the American health care system-both in Washington, D.C. and around the country. As we continue to seek ways to improve theefficiency and quality of health care delivery in America, sometimes we ...

Canada Business Service Center - HOME Canada Business Service Center It Services: Costs, Metrics, Benchmarking and Marketing by Anthony F. Tardugno, Unleashing the Power of Integrated Service Delivery Harris Kern's Enterprise Computing Institute Solutions for IT Professionals Delighting IT customers: the real-world, start-to-finish guide IT Services is the first 100% customer-focused guide to satisfying the consumers of your company's IT services -- and building the loyalty your IT organization needs. In this book, three leading IT professionals present a fully integrated, comprehensive approach to service delivery in today's global, distributed environments. You'll ... by-step Gaining buy-in from management, internal customers, and external suppliers Building stable, predictable and cost-effective application support infrastructures Structuring support services for maximum effectiveness Applicable to both in-house and outsourced operations, IT Services offers a total roadmap for executives building enterprise-wide operations centers; practical help for managers seeking to deliver cost-effective support; and invaluable insight for IT "customers" who need to know what they can expect from their technology professionals. Getting New Clients by Richard A. Connor, Getting New Clients Second Edition It’ s the single most ...

Top Political Science University - HOME Top Political Science University Medicaid and Devolution: A View from the States by Frank J. Thompson, How much responsibility for providing health care to the poor should be devolved from the federal government to the states? Any answer to this critical policy question requires a careful assessment of the Medicaid program. Drawing on the insights of leading scholars and top state health care officials, this volume analyzes the policy and management implications of various options for Medicaid devolution. Proponents of devolution typically express confidence that states can meet the challenges it will ...

Center City Toronto - HOME Center City Toronto The Places Where Men Pray Together: Cities in Islamic Lands, Seventh Through the Tenth Centuries by Paul Wheatley, What makes a city an economic, political, and cultural center? In The Places Where Men Pray Together, Paul Wheatley draws on two decades of astonishingly wide-ranging research to demonstrate that Islamic cities are defined by function rather than form -- by what they do rather than what they are. Focusing on the roles of cities during the first four centuries of Islamic expansion, Wheatley explores interconnected cultural, historical, economic, political, and ...

Lincoln Regional Center - HOME Lincoln Regional Center Empire on the Hudson: Entrepreneurial Vision and Political Power at the Port of New York Authority by Jameson W. Doig, Revered and reviled in almost equal amounts since its inception, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has been responsible for creating and maintaining much of New York and New Jerseys transportation infrastructure -the things that make the region work. Doig traces the evolution of the Port Authority from the battles leading to its creation in 1921 through its conflicts with the railroads and its expansion to ...

Center Health Midwest - HOME Center Health Midwest Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest: Black Club Women in Illinois by Wanda A. Hendricks, During the 30-year period from 1890 to 1920, African American club women in Illinois helped the largest national network of black club women in the country. Hendricks focuses on the Progressive Era, a period of challenges not replicated in other regions of the country. Club women successfully met these challenges by becoming social and political agents of reform and community uplift. Through volunteerism and fundraising they combatted the homelessness, unemployment, illiteracy, high ...

Canada Center Mortgage - HOME Canada Center Mortgage A Place for God: A Guide to Spiritual Retreats and Retreat Centers by Timothy K. Jones, These days more and more people are scheduling getaways to retreat centers for their spiritual well-being--over 1.2 million Catholics alone during 1997. Located throughout the United States and Canada, these centers cater to the needs of people seeking quiet time, regardless of religious affiliation. Retreat possibilities range from one day of solitude surrounded by nature, to a few days of quiet time under the guidance of a resident spiritual director, ...

Political Control of the Economy - HOME Political Control of the Economy Arsenal of World War II: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1940-1945 Prolific munitions production keyed America's triumph in World War II but so did the complex economic controls needed to sustain that production. Artillery, tanks, planes, ships, trucks, and weaponry of every kind were constantly demanded by the military and readily supplied by American business. While that relationship was remarkably successful in helping the U.S. win the war, it also raised troubling issues about wartime economies that have never been fully resolved. Focusing ...

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - HOME Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service IN THE WAR AGAINST DISEASES, THEY ARE THE SPECIAL FORCES. They always keep a bag packed. They seldom have more than twenty-four hours' notice before they are dispatched. The phone calls that tell them to head to the airport, sometimes in the middle of the night, may give them no more information than the country they are traveling to and the epidemic they will tackle when they get there. The universal human instinct is to run from an outbreak of disease. These doctors run toward it. They are the disease detective corps of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the federal agency that tracks and tries to prevent disease outbreaks and bioterrorist attacks around the world. They are formally called the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) -- a group founded more than fifty years ago out of fear that the ...

Stock Research Center - HOME Stock Research Center Asymptote by Hani Rashid, Asymptote, an award-winning New York City -- based architectural firm, expands the boundaries of traditional architectural practice with work that ranges from buildings and urban design to computer-generated environments. Recognized internationally as both leading-edge architects and virtual-reality artists as well as sought-after critics and teachers, Asymptote partners Lise Anne Couture and Hani Rashid have emphasized research into cultural trends and technological influences as the core of their practice. The firm has completed or is overseeing projects around the world, with commissions as diverse as a trading floor for the New York Stock Exchange; a multimedia research park in Kyoto, Japan; a modular furniture system for the Knoll furniture company; a music theater in Graz, Austria; and a new center for art and technology for the Guggenheim Museum in SoHo, New York. Designed and written by the partners, Asymptote is the first book to fully document their "real world" (as opposed to virtual) projects. In mathematical terms, the word "asymptote" is defined as a line ...