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In 2008, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centers (UPMC) hoisted its logo atop the U.S. Steel Building in downtown Pittsburgh, symbolically declaring that the era of big steel had been replaced by the era of big medicine for this once industrial city. More than 1,200 miles to the south, a similar sense of optimism pervaded the public discourse around the relationship between health care and the future of Houston's economy. While traditional Texas industries like oil and natural gas still played a critical role, the presence of the massive Texas Medical Center, billed as "the largest medical complex in the world," had helped to rebrand the city as a site for biomedical innovation and ensu...
Includes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)
Chicano Studies is a comparatively new academic discipline. Unlike well-established fields of study that long ago codified their canons and curricula, the departments of Chicano Studies that exist today on U.S. college and university campuses are less than four decades old. In this edifying and frequently eye-opening book, a career member of the discipline examines its foundations and early years. Based on an extraordinary range of sources and cognizant of infighting and the importance of personalities, Chicano Studies is the first history of the discipline. What are the assumptions, models, theories, and practices of the academic discipline now known as Chicano Studies? Like most scholars w...
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Comparative Regional Systems: West and East Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Developing Countries is a comparative study of regional systems, namely, West and East Europe, North America, the Middle East, and developing countries. This book examines the patterned and unpatterned forms of international activity through which states relate to the most important entities in world politics: their neighbors. The cooperative and conflictual behavior in international politics occurring within regional contexts is discussed, with emphasis on the sources and forms of this behavior as well as the issues that contribute to it and those that it creates. This monograph is comprised of 15 chapte...
Daisy Neems, an attractive and smart young officer in New York City, starts working for the powerful Ricci mafia family, catching the eye of Marco, the charming Ricci's will-be leader, and the Obnizov twins, declared enemies of the Ricci family. Having to balance her professionalism, her growing feelings for Marco, and the flirtation of the twins, Daisy risks triggering an anticipated and explosive mafia war in the city. ** “I should be honest, I really do, but it should be the right time,” the maid replied. “Often we will suffer from the stress of work and routine, and we will not be in the right mood for that. But we will know when the right moment comes when our minds are calmer.” “How will we know?” Marco inquired. “We’ll both know, we’ll feel like it, then we will know,” Daisy replied with a sweet smile. ** Daisy and Her Three Dates is created by Matheus A.M., an EGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.