THE NEW POLITICAL ECONOMY OF URBAN EDUCATION

The city has emerged in recent years as an indispensable concept for many of the struggles for social justice we are all engaged in—it’s a place where theory meets practice, where the neighborhood organizes against global capitalism, where unequal divisions based on race and class can be mapped out block by block and contested, where the micropolitics of gender and sexual orientation are su…

TRADE SECRECY AND INTERNATIONAL TRANSACTIONS

Ask any business, large or small, to identify one of its most important assets and it is bound to identify its confidential and proprietary information or ‘trade secrets’. This is because it is in the nature of businesses to try to secure a competitive advantage over rivals and inventing the proverbial ‘better mouse- trap’ is one way to do so. Frequently, businesses that invent or crea…

The rise of The Global South

South–South Cooperation (SSC), through enhanced collaboration amongst the countries comprising the Global South, has often been on the front pages since early 1970s, when the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTD) promoted the New International Economic Order (NIEO). However, the birth of the Global South as an entity could perhaps be traced to a 1949 speech, when US Presi…

Prevention of Late-Life Depression

Prevention of depression and its associated common mental disorders is a priority across the life cycle, and particularly in older adults. Currently available data from randomized clinical trials show that the rate of these disorders can be reduced on average 20–25 % over 1–2 years of follow-up. This is important with respect to: (1) reducing the current burden of suffering, even in the con…

Environmental Ethics

Environmental Ethics is one of my three texts on applied ethics that is now being pub- lished by Wiley-Blackwell. The idea behind each of the books, in general, is to present some of the most pressing questions in applied ethics through a mixture of classic essays and some new essays commissioned precisely for these volumes. The result is a dialogue that I think readers will find enriching. …

Communicating to Manage Health and Illness

Our experience of health and illness is shaped by our personal background, social networks, cultural context, and community affiliations. We undertook this edited volume because we believe communication processes are a link between personal, social, cultural, and institutional factors and various fac- ets of health and illness. For example, social networks and the social support they can prov…

The Global New Deal

In March 2009, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for a “global new deal whose impact can stretch from the villages of Africa to reforming the financial institutions of London and New York—and giving security to hard-working families in every country.” The prime minister proclaimed the need to “work for a more stable world where we defeat not only global terrorism but global pov…

Experimental Ethics

Academic philosophy has experienced a major upheaval in the last decade. Venturous young philosophers, psychologists, and economists have begun to challenge the traditional stance that philosophy is an undertaking best pursued from the safety and calm of an arm-chair. Instead, they took the gloves off and tried to bring philosophical ques- tions to the experimental laboratory. To date, more th…

InternatIonal PolItIcal economy

International Political Economy (IPE) is a central component of the interdisciplinary field of International Studies. Its current version is only about three decades old. IPE combines primarily the relevant parts of the disciplines of Political Science and Economics. It also draws on relevant facets of other disciplines such as Sociology, Geography, and Women’s Studies to deepen and broaden t…

Power Eating

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Managing Risk and Information Security

Given that security breaches and intrusions continue to be reported daily across organizations of every size, is information security really effective? Given the rapid evolution of new technologies and uses, does the information security group even need to exist? Obviously, this is a somewhat rhetorical question. I cannot imagine that any sizeable organization would operate well without an info…

CAPITALISM AND FREEDOM

ITIS WIDELY BELIEVED that politics and economics are separate and largely unconnected; that individual freedom is a political problem and material welfare an economic problem; and that any kind of political arrangements can be combined with any kind of economic arrangements. The chief contemporary man- ifestation of this idea is the advocacy of "democratic socialism" by many who condemn out of …

How to deal with your manager

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EATING DISORDERS THE ULTIMATE TEEN GUIDE

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Mac® Application Development

T he Apple Macintosh personal computer ushered in an age of powerful computer capabilities combined with elegant user experience. More than a quarter-century later, the Macintosh is still going strong, with even more powerful features and more usability, allowing all kinds of users to take advantage of their computers in new and productive ways. The engineers at Apple could not achieve this all…

Building Secure Wireless Networks with 802.11

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From Oikonomia to Political Economy

How did Western economic learning come to claim status as a separate discipline? When – and how – did it begin to define and organize its own field of specialization, vocabulary, areas of interest and methods of study? What kind of methodological problems were raised by the attempt to make economic knowledge a real science? What ties were there between the study of production, exchange and …

Theory of Accumulation and Imperialism

The subject of this study is Rosa Luxemburg’s contribution to economic theory. It arose out of materials gathered for a broader monograph, on the economic views of the Polish–German socialist, that was abandoned by the author. Such a narrowing of the subject-matter may nevertheless have some practical advantages. At a certain stage of research, one of the fundamental duties of the historian…

LINQ

By the time you are holding this book in your hands, I will have 30 years in since the first time I wrote some code. That code was ROM-BASIC on a TRS-80 in Washington grammar school in Owosso, Michigan, and I was in the fifth grade. Making the “tank” slide back and forth shooting blips across the screen was neat. Changing the code to change blip speeds and numbers of targets was exhilaratin…

ENTERPRISE RISK MANAGEMENT AT UNITED HEALTH GROUP

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Aviation Safety- The Basics

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Leaves from the tree of life

To know and cooperate with the laws of health in order to retain, or regain, health is most important. The study of disease takes a secondary place to the study of the laws of life. To know how to employ every rational means at our disposal in order to avert sickness should be our constant study and goal. Life’s activities are centered in the home. Parents should be an example of good h…

Has the Basel Accord Improved Risk Management During the Global Financial Cri…

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Cost Analysis: Managerial And Cost Accounting

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awomansplace lets have a constructive conversation

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ON PEACE AND HAPPINESS

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NATURAL DISASTERS: Protecting the Public’s Health

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Markets, Money and Capital

One important premise of Hicks’s theoretical framework is the distinction between the structure of reality and the purpose-oriented arrangement of human actions. There are reasons to believe that, at an early stage of his development as an economist, Hicks came across the distinction between an ‘order of being’ and an ‘order of doing,’ as discussed by Maffeo Pantaleoni (Pantaleoni, 19…

Creating Resilient Supply Chains: A Practical Guide

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Learning the vi and Vim

Text editing is one of the most common tasks on any computer system, and vi is one of the most useful standard text editors on a system. With vi you can create new files or edit any existing text-only file. vi, like many of the classic utilities developed during the early years of Unix, has a reputation for being hard to navigate. Bram Moolenaar’s enhanced clone, Vim (“vi Improved”), has …