Insiders' Guide to Austin


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An illustrated guide to Austin, Texas.




An Insider's Guide to the UN


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This guidebook illustrates the UN system while covering issues as diverse as terrorism, peacekeeping, human rights, climate change, and UN reform.




An Insider's Guide to the UN


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Thoroughly revised and updated, a new edition of the most popular guide to the UN for students and interested readers Prominent NPR journalist Linda Fasulo’s guide to the United Nations has established a reputation as the most lively, authoritative, and insightful book on its subject. The fourth edition comes at a time when nuclear proliferation has moved to the top of the Security Council’s agenda, followed closely by the Syrian crisis, the effects of climate change, and international terrorism. Thoroughly revised and updated, with many new profiles and interviews with the organization’s current diplomats, this edition remains an indispensable resource for anyone wishing to understand the role and structure of the UN.




Where Texas Meets the Sea


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Demonstrating how the growth of a midsized city can illuminate urban development issues across an entire region, this exemplary history of Corpus Christi explores how competing regional and cosmopolitan influences have shaped this thriving port and leisur







Insiders Guide to Key Committee Staff of the U. S. Congress 2009


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"The Almanac of the Unelected" is the leading source for information about Congressional staff: the essential individuals who help elected officials establish political positions on issues, craft legislation, and put policies in place. This new edition features in-depth profiles of more than 600 senior Congressional committee staff members.




An Insider's Guide to Clinical Trials


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This book serves as an invaluable guide on how clinical trials are designed and run, how to interpret the results, and what to make of them in general. The book includes shopping guides for trials, a list of common abbreviations used by trialists, and tools for patients for deciding if or when to enroll in a clinical trial.




Insider's Guide to Key Committee Staff of the U.S. Congress 2010


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The Insider's Guide to Key Committee Staff of the U.S. Congress contains in-depth profiles on key congressional staff members that you will not find elsewhere. The information provided on these personnel gives you not only the contact information and other pertinent data but also the inside track to those people. These are the staffers who work with and support the representatives and senators in various important roles that help to enact change or refine existing laws and codes that govern our nation.




Managing Corporate Information Systems Evolution and Maintenance


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This book addresses the recent developments in systems maintenance research and practices ranging from technicality of systems evolution to managerial aspects of the topic, including issues such as evolving legacy systems to e-business, applying patterns for reengineering legacy systems to web, architectural recovery of legacy systems, evolving legacy systems into software components.




Transforming Futures: The Brooklyn Program Facilitators ManualSecond Edition.


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Transforming Futures: the Brooklyn Program Facilitator's Manual, Second Edition; updates the First Edition manual for the award-winning Brooklyn Program, a new, non-confrontational approach to substance use treatment. In its pages you will be led step-by-step through the procedures for recreating the program. You will discover the logic that informs the procedures and clear descriptions of the tools from Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) that make it work. The Brooklyn Program was used for seven years by the United States Probation Department in Brooklyn, New York as a major treatment modality for substance use disorders. Over that period, hundreds of clients were treated who achieved high program attendance, significant one year abstinence rates and significant levels of personal growth. This new edition adds additional introductory materials on the nature of addiction, more complete scripts and a complete index.