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The author relates his family's history of surviving on the edge of poverty on the outskirts of the Florida Everglades
From an impoverished childhood in fascist Italy to her Oscar-winning performance in Two Women, learn of the legendary career of actress Sophia Loren in this fascinating biography by Warren G. Harris. Raised in the back streets of Naples, Sophia Loren grew out of fascist Italy into one of the most beloved movie stars in the world. Launched into stardom at the age of nineteen after a chance meeting with legendary producer Carlo Ponti put her into the international spotlight, Loren made the world fall in love with her captivating beauty and never looked back. Sharing many new facts about Loren’s starlit personal life, Warren G. Harris tells the story of one of cinema’s greatest beauties and the romance that changed her life.
This landmark study provides an integrated analysis of China's unexpected economic boom of the past three decades. The authors combine deep China expertise with broad disciplinary knowledge to explain China's remarkable combination of high-speed growth and deeply flawed institutions. Their work exposes the mechanisms underpinning the origin and expansion of China's great boom. Penetrating studies track the rise of Chinese capabilities in manufacturing and in research and development. The editors probe both achievements and weaknesses across many sectors, including China's fiscal, legal, and financial institutions. The book shows how an intricate minuet combining China's political system with sectorial development, globalization, resource transfers across geographic and economic space, and partial system reform delivered an astonishing and unprecedented growth spurt.
Reviews the origins of molecular oncology, including technologies for cancer analysis, key pathways in human malignancies, and available pharmacologic therapies.
Includes field staffs of Foreign Service, U. S. missions to international organizations, Agency for International Development, ACTION, U.S. Information Agency, Peace Corps, Foreign Agricultural Service, and Department of Army, Navy and Air Force.
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Includes maps of the U.S. Congressional districts.