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Looking for Andy Griffith

A Father's Journey

By: Evan Dalton Smith

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Andy Griffith (1926-2012) is one of North Carolina's most beloved exports, capturing America's heart as Sheriff Andy Taylor. Evan Dalton Smith was born in the North Carolina Piedmont over four decades after Andy, just an hour south of Griffith's hometown of Mount Airy. Both were small-town boys who grew up in similar places, where the counties were dry and the churches plentiful. But for both, there was darkness, crushed hopes, and tragedy, hidden just below the surface. For Smith and many generations in North Carolina, Andy Griffith was like the air—everywhere, all the time, a part of daily life. Even after he left the state, Smith always felt the pull of home and the lingering ghost of Andy alongside it. This is an exploration on celebrity and the self, on home and what that means when you leave it, and why we love and admire the people we do—even if we've never met them—all told through the entwined lives of iconic actor Andy Griffith and writer Evan Dalton Smith. It is through Smith's telling of Griffith's life that he finds his own story, one that is both informed by and freed from the legacy of one of North Carolina's most famous sons.

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9798890887498

Manatee Summer

By: Evan Griffith

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Manatee Summer

By: Evan Griffith

In this poignant middle grade contemporary debut that New York Times bestselling author Katherine Applegate calls “by turns heartbreaking and heart-healing,” Evan Griffith beautifully captures all the tenderness and uncertainty that come with caring for family, friends, and the natural world. Peter and his best friend, Tommy, have a goal for their last summer before middle school: finish their Discovery Journal, a catalog of the wildlife around their Florida town. When they spot a manatee in a canal, Peter knows they’ve found something special—and when the manatee is injured by a boat, something to protect! As Peter joins the fight to save Florida manatees, he also finds himself taking care of his ailing grandfather and facing an unwelcome surprise that jeopardizes his friendship with Tommy. Soon Peter is adrift, navigating shifting tides and realizing that he has as much to discover about himself as he does about the world around him.

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HarperCollins

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0063094932

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The Casualty Issue in American Military Practice

The Impact of World War I

By: Evan A. Huelfer

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The Casualty Issue in American Military Practice

The Impact of World War I

By: Evan A. Huelfer

Huelfer examines the casualty issue in American military thought and practice during the years between the World Wars. He argues that Americans exhibited a distinct aversion to combat casualties duirng the Interwar Period, a phenomenon that visibly influenced the military establishment and helped shape strategic planning, force modernization, and rearmament for World War II. In a broad topical approach, Huelfer's main theme—casualty aversion—is woven into discussions about military strategy and policies, doctrinal and technological development, the military education system, and how the American officer corps emerged from World War I and prepared for World War II. As Huelfer makes clear, aversion to combat casualties is not just a post-Vietnam War phenomenon, but rather has long been embedded within the American national heritage. Conventional wisdom link today's exacerbated aversion to combat casualties as fallout from the Vietnam debacle. In fact, this Vietnam Syndrome has remained at the forefront of contemporary strategic thinking. Huelfer shows that American political and military leaders have held lasting concerns about risking soldiers' lives in combat, even pre-dating U.S. involvement in World War II. The grim experiences of World War I had a profound impact upon the U.S. officer corps and how it viewed potential future conflicts. The casualty issue permeated the officers' strategic culture during the Interwar Period and colored their thinking about improving training, doctrinal evolution, force modernization, and technological development. Even though one cannot find the terms casualty issue, casualty aversion, or sensitivity to casualties directly stated in the speeches and writings of the era, this awareness clearly emerged as a subtext for the entire American effort in preparation for World War II. Huelfer highlights how casualty aversion shaped American strategy for World War II by incorporating ideas about the use of overwhelming force, air power, and mechanization—all designed to minimize losses.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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031305956X

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9780313059568

The Secret Life of Families

Making Decisions About Secrets: When Keeping Secrets Can Harm You, When Keeping Secrets Can Heal You-And How to Know the Difference

By: Evan Imber-Black

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The Secret Life of Families

Making Decisions About Secrets: When Keeping Secrets Can Harm You, When Keeping Secrets Can Heal You-And How to Know the Difference

By: Evan Imber-Black

Secrets come in all shapes and sizes. And for families as well as individuals, they are built on a complex web of shifting motives and emotions. But today, when personal revelations are posted on the Internet or sensationalized on afternoon talk shows, we risk losing touch with how important secrets are--how they are used and abused, their power to harm and heal. In this important work, Evan Imber-Black explores the nature of secrets, helping us understand: The distinction between healthy privacy and toxic secrecy What to tell--and not to tell--young children How to safely confront a family "zone of silence" Why adolescents need to have some secrets--and where to draw the line The effect of "official" secrets, like sealed adoption records and medical testing What to consider before revealing an important secret And much more Filled with moving first-person stories, The Secret Life of Families provides perspective on some of today's most sensitive personal and social issues. Giving voice to our deepest fears and to our power to overcome them, this is a book that will be talked about for years to come.

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Bantam

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0307423352

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9780307423351

McAllister's Scottish Law of Leases

By: Lorna Richardson,Craig Evan Anderson

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McAllister's Scottish Law of Leases

By: Lorna Richardson,Craig Evan Anderson

Covering residential, commercial and agricultural leases the fifth edition provides guidance on a wide range of topics including local authority tenancies, crofts, the Agricultural Holdings Acts and valuations of market rent. The fifth edition: - Takes full account of recent legislative changes including the Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016 and the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (Scotland) Act 2013. - Details relevant new case law and the many changes in residential leases including legislation to abolish sales of public sector housing (the 'Right to Buy' scheme) and the introduction of the new 'private residential tenancy' covering renting rights. - Covers the Scottish Law Commission's review of commercial leases regarding how leases are terminated. - Covers the new Modern Limited Duration Tenancy for agricultural tenants, introduced by the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1526513927

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9781526513922

Atlas of Essential Orthopaedic Procedures, Second Edition

By: Evan Flatow,Alexis C. Colvin

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Atlas of Essential Orthopaedic Procedures, Second Edition

By: Evan Flatow,Alexis C. Colvin

Covering more than 100 fundamental orthopaedic techniques, Atlas of Essential Orthopaedic Procedures, 2nd edition offers a highly illustrated, step-by-step guide to the wide variety of conditions you’re most likely to see in practice. The easy-to-follow format begins with patient selection, walks you through a detailed, step-by-step description of the procedure, and concludes with the author’s surgical pearls—all heavily illustrated with radiographs, intraoperative photographs, and line drawings for optimal visualization of the procedure. This technique-focused reference is an essential resource for busy orthopaedic surgeons and a must-have reference for orthopaedic residency.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975124871

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9781975124878

Guns and Game

By: Evan G. Mackenzie

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Guns and Game

By: Evan G. Mackenzie

Guns and Game" is a comprehensive and timeless handbook on hunting with a gun, with chapters on everything from how to go about learning how to shoot, to breeding game, ethics, and beyond. This fantastic volume will appeal to those with a practical interest in rural sports of this ilk, and it would make for a worthy addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: "Shouting Or Fishing", "The Best Way Of Learning How To Shoot", "The Teaching Of Shooting", "A Modern Shooting School", "Gun-fitting", "The Shooter's Walk", "Style In Shooting", "Form In The Field", "Science And Shooting", "Technical Knowledge In Shooting", "Sporting Ammunition", "The Standard Cartridge", "The Best Cartridge", "Accidents To Guns", etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality addition complete with the original text and artwork.

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Read Books Ltd

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1473344271

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9781473344273

Trans-Atlantic Partners

Canadian Approaches to the European Union

By: Evan H. Potter

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Trans-Atlantic Partners

Canadian Approaches to the European Union

By: Evan H. Potter

The study concentrates on changes in Canada's approach to European integration after the watershed of 1989, examining the 1990 EC-Canada Transatlantic Declaration and the emergence of a Single European Market in 1993. Finally, it outlines the choices available to Canadian policy makers in the late 1990s as they sought to widen relations with the EU by proposing a trans-Atlantic free trade zone. This book details important stages in the evolution of Canada-EU economic, political, and security relations, a bilateral relationship that is destined to grow closer in the years ahead.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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077357414X

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9780773574144

Secrets of the Sea

The Story of Jeanne Power, Revolutionary Marine Scientist

By: Evan Griffith

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Secrets of the Sea

The Story of Jeanne Power, Revolutionary Marine Scientist

By: Evan Griffith

The curiosity, drive, and perseverance of the nineteenth-century woman scientist who pioneered the use of aquariums to study ocean life are celebrated in this gorgeous, empowering picture book. How did a nineteenth-century dressmaker revolutionize science? Jeanne Power was creative: she wanted to learn about the creatures that swim beneath the ocean waves, so she built glass tanks and changed the way we study underwater life forever. Jeanne Power was groundbreaking: she solved mysteries of sea animals and published her findings at a time when few of women's contributions to science were acknowledged. Jeanne Power was persistent: when records of her research were lost, she set to work repeating her studies. And when men tried to take credit for her achievements, she stood firm and insisted on the recognition due to her. Jeanne Power was inspiring, and the legacy of this pioneering marine scientist lives on in every aquarium.

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Clarion Books

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0358244323

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A Minimal Libertarianism

Free Will and the Promise of Reduction

By: Christopher Evan Franklin

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A Minimal Libertarianism

Free Will and the Promise of Reduction

By: Christopher Evan Franklin

In this book, Christopher Evan Franklin develops and defends a novel version of event-causal libertarianism. This view is a combination of libertarianism--the view that humans sometimes act freely and that those actions are the causal upshots of nondeterministic processes--and agency reductionism--the view that the causal role of the agent in exercises of free will is exhausted by the causal role of mental states and events (e.g., desires and beliefs) involving the agent. Franklin boldly counteracts a dominant theory that has similar aims, put forth by well-known philosopher Robert Kane. Many philosophers contend that event-causal libertarians have no advantage over compatibilists when it comes to securing a distinctively valuable kind of freedom and responsibility. To Franklin, this position is mistaken. Assuming agency reductionism is true, event-causal libertarians need only adopt the most plausible compatibilist theory and add indeterminism at the proper juncture in the genesis of human action. The result is minimal event-causal libertarianism: a model of free will with the metaphysical simplicity of compatibilism and the intuitive power of libertarianism. And yet a worry remains: toward the end of the book, Franklin reconsiders his assumption of agency reductionism, arguing that this picture faces a hitherto unsolved problem. This problem, however, has nothing to do with indeterminism or determinism, or even libertarianism or compatibilism, but with how to understand the nature of the self and its role in the genesis of action. Crucially, if this problem proves unsolvable, then not only is event-causal libertarianism untenable, so also is event-causal compatibilism.

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Oxford University Press

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0190682809

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9780190682804

Oz Before the Rainbow

L. Frank Baum's the Wonderful Wizard of Oz on Stage and Screen to 1939

By: Mark Evan Swartz

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Oz Before the Rainbow

L. Frank Baum's the Wonderful Wizard of Oz on Stage and Screen to 1939

By: Mark Evan Swartz

Swartz reminds us in that various stage and screen dramatizations of Baum's story preceded and influenced the 1939 film. This richly illustrated book contains many rare photographs, film stills, sketches, theater programs, and movie advertisements from the different productions. Piecing together the Chicago and Broadway stage productions (1902-3) from contemporary reviews, surviving script pages, and published song lyrics, Swartz shows how Baum and his many collaborators worked to transform the book into a popular theatrical attraction -- often requiring significant alterations to the original story.

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JHU Press

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0801864771

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9780801864773

Fan in Chief

Richard Nixon and American Sports, 1969–1974

By: Nicholas Evan Sarantakes

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Fan in Chief

Richard Nixon and American Sports, 1969–1974

By: Nicholas Evan Sarantakes

Some presidents throw out baseball’s first pitch of the season. Some post picks for college basketball’s March Madness. One might tweet about a football player kneeling. President Richard M. Nixon phoned Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula to suggest plays for the Super Bowl. He hosted players in the 1969 Major League All-Star game for a party deemed the strangest since the mob scene during Andrew Jackson's inauguration. He attended a Washington Redskins practice to boost moral; altered the NFL’s policy for televising home games; introduced the practice of calling teams after Super Bowl or World Series wins. The list goes on, but the point is clear: Richard Nixon was the nation’s first sports super fan to occupy the Oval Office. And this, Nicholas Evan Sarantakes suggests, may explain why Nixon, so despised for all his faults and failings, was nonetheless also widely loved by the American public. In Fan in Chief Sarantakes sets out to show how Richard Nixon’s passion for sports, more than policy positions or partisan politics, engaged the American people—and how Nixon used this passion to his political advantage. Fan in Chief takes place in the realm of political theater, a theater in which the president’s role was perfectly genuine. A true fan, Nixon exposed core elements of his personality, character, and values in the world of sports; through sport he could connect and communicate with the character and values of his fellow Americans. Fan in Chief is thus a story of both personality and politics; but more than that, it is an in-depth exploration of what Richard Nixon’s love of sport can tell us about the man and his times.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700628533

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9780700628537

Sovereignty's Promise

The State as Fiduciary

By: Evan Fox-Decent

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Sovereignty's Promise

The State as Fiduciary

By: Evan Fox-Decent

Political theory is traditionally concerned with the justification and limits of state power. It asks: Can states legitimately direct and coerce non-consenting subjects? If they can, what limits, if any, constrain sovereign power? Public law is concerned with the justification and limits of judicial power. It asks: On what grounds can judges 'read down' or 'read in' statutory language against the apparent intention of the legislature? What limits, if any, are appropriate to these exercises of judicial power? This book develops an original constitutional theory of political authority that yields novel answers to both sets of questions. Fox-Decent argues that the state is a fiduciary of its people, and that this fiduciary relationship grounds the state's authority to announce and enforce law. The fiduciary state is conceived of as a public agent of necessity charged with guaranteeing a regime of secure and equal freedom. Whereas the social contract tradition struggles to ground authority on consent, the fiduciary theory explains authority with reference to the state's fiduciary obligation to respect legal principles constitutive of the rule of law. This obligation arises from the state's possession of irresistible public powers. The author begins with a discussion of Hobbes's conception of legality and the problem of discretionary power in administrative law. Drawing on Kant, he sketches a theory of fiduciary relations, and develops the argument through three parts. Part I shows that it is possible for the state to stand in a public fiduciary relationship to its people through a discussion of Crown-Native fiduciary relations recognized by Canadian courts. Part II sets out the theoretical underpinnings of the fiduciary theory of the state. Part III explores the implications of the fiduciary theory for administrative law and common law constitutionalism. The final chapter situates the theory within a broader philosophical discussion of the rule of law.

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OUP Oxford

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0191630217

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Ethical Considerations When Preparing a Clinical Research Protocol

By: Evan DeRenzo,Eric A. Singer,Joel Moss

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Ethical Considerations When Preparing a Clinical Research Protocol

By: Evan DeRenzo,Eric A. Singer,Joel Moss

Ethical Considerations When Preparing a Clinical Research Protocol, Second Edition, provides a foundation for improving skills in the understanding of ethical requirements in the design and conduct of clinical research. It includes practical information on ethical principles in clinical research, how to design appropriate research studies, how to consent and assent documents, how to get protocols approved, special populations, confidentiality issues, and the reporting of adverse events. The book's valuable appendix includes a listing of web resources about research ethics, along with a glossary, making it an invaluable resource for scientists collaborating in clinical trials, physician investigators, clinical research fellows, and more.

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0123869358

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An Introduction to Labor Law

By: Michael Evan Gold

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An Introduction to Labor Law

By: Michael Evan Gold

An Introduction to Labor Law is a useful and course-tested primer that explains the basic principles of the federal law regulating the relationship of employers to labor unions. In this updated third edition, which features a new introduction, Michael Evan Gold discusses the law that applies to union organizing and representation elections, the duty to bargain in good faith, economic weapons such as strikes and lockouts, and the enforcement of collective bargaining agreements. Gold describes the structure and functions of the National Labor Relations Board and of the federal courts in regard to labor cases and also presents a number of legal issues presently in contention between labor and management.

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Cornell University Press

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0801470544

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Exploring and Shaping International Futures

By: Barry B. Hughes,Evan E. Hillebrand

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Exploring and Shaping International Futures

By: Barry B. Hughes,Evan E. Hillebrand

People who run cities like to play Simcity to find out how impossible their jobs are. Hughes gives everyone a chance to play a kind of Simplanet, with outcomes far more complex and uncertain. In the process, the book and the computer program provide a coherent path to understanding an anarchic world." --Ronald A. Francisco, University of Kansas "What will be the future of human demographic, economic, environmental, and political-social systems throughout the 21st century? Where do current changes appear to be taking us? What kind of future would we prefer? How much leverage do we have to bring about the future we prefer? Do YOU share these interests of the book? If yes, you should study the book and learn how to cope with the future with the International Futures approach (IFs) developed by the authors. This large-scale integrated global simulation modeling system is a user-friendly, professional tool for long-term policy analysis and an educational tool in universities. I had a pleasure to learn it personally by cooperating with Barry Hughes." --Pentti Malaska, Professor of MS, DrTech, futurist Honorary member of the Club of Rome What will be the long-term impact of AIDS in Africa or concentration of global oil production in the Middle East? Exploring and Shaping International Futures helps readers understand such global trends in demographic, economic, energy, food, environmental, and socio-political systems. It allows businesspeople, government officials, and others to think concretely about global futures in each of these areas. It is the only book on the market that allows readers to use a computer simulation to track global trends and to develop alternative scenarios around those trends. It is one of relatively few books that really brings computer technology into the classroom, boardroom, or policy planning commission. The International Futures (IFs) computer simulation, around which the book is built, is now widely used in policy analysis as well as education. It has been instrumental in projects undertaken by such groups as the European Commission, the U.S. National Intelligence Council, and the United Nations. After three decades of development and refinement, the computer model is now easy to access and use. Readers can access the website with the IFs computer model at www.ifs.du.edu

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1317259866

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Looking for Andy Griffith

Looking for Andy Griffith

Manatee Summer

Manatee Summer

The Casualty Issue in American Military Practice

The Casualty Issue in American Military Practice

The Secret Life of Families

The Secret Life of Families

McAllister's Scottish Law of Leases

McAllister's Scottish Law of Leases

Atlas of Essential Orthopaedic Procedures, Second Edition

Atlas of Essential Orthopaedic Procedures, Second Edition

Guns and Game

Guns and Game

Trans-Atlantic Partners

Trans-Atlantic Partners

Secrets of the Sea

Secrets of the Sea

A Minimal Libertarianism

A Minimal Libertarianism

Oz Before the Rainbow

Oz Before the Rainbow

Fan in Chief

Fan in Chief

Sovereignty's Promise

Sovereignty's Promise

Ethical Considerations When Preparing a Clinical Research Protocol

Ethical Considerations When Preparing a Clinical Research Protocol

An Introduction to Labor Law

An Introduction to Labor Law

Exploring and Shaping International Futures

Exploring and Shaping International Futures

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