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    The Chastity Belt Experiment, #0

    Series Book 0 - The Chastity Belt Experiment
    When Liliana Reyes does something, she does it right. If her friend and lab partner Michael Pagano wants to find out what it's like to be locked in a chastity belt when someone else has the keys, well, he's going to learn. (This is a prequel/introduction to The Chastity Belt Experiment series.)Michael has been working on developing a chastity belt for himself and has gotten to the point where he's ... Read more

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  • Managing Financial Institutions

    An Integrated Valuation Approach

    Series Book 3 - World Scientific Series in Modern Finance: Advanced Topics in Finance for the Academician and Practitioner
    This book takes a novel approach to solving a financial manager's problems by applying a valuation focus to the firm's risk management decisions. Rather than concentrating solely on defining and measuring a bank's risks, our book goes a step further by explicitly considering how these risks can impact the market value of the bank from a shareholder's perspective. The book uses an integrated ... Read more

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  • The Chastity Belt Experiment, Book 1: The Christmas Present

    The Chastity Belt Experiment, #1

    Series Book 1 - The Chastity Belt Experiment
    Engineering student Michael Pagano has two gorgeous housemates, an awesome girlfriend, and a lab partner who adores him. Is adding a chastity belt to the mix icing on the cake or over-egging the pudding?Inspired by one of his and Julie's erotic roleplaying games where he pretends to be wearing a chastity belt, Michael decides to design and build one for himself for real. He waits for the Christmas ... Read more

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  • Understanding Health Care in America

    Culture, Capitalism, and Communication

    This book examines the current state of American health care using a social science lens to focus on the interdependent, intercultural, economic, and communication aspects of access and delivery.This text explores how the cultures of health care organizations, health professions, governments, and capitalism, as well as communication, all contribute to a disease-focused, economically driven, ... Read more

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  • Unwinding Privatization

    Cities and the Restoration of Public Power

    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
    How remunicipalization can be implemented to restructure urban governance.Across North America, Europe, and the Global South, public services such as water and energy that were once privatized have returned to public sector functions—an intriguing new development known as remunicipalization. Unwinding Privatization, edited by Alba Alexander, Larry Bennett, Evan McKenzie, and Michael Pagano, ... Read more

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  • Saving Words

    20 Redemptive Words Worth Rescuing

    What words from our Christian vocabulary would you miss if you could no longer use them? If you pronounced them and no one understood? If you spoke and people gave them a meaning at odds with your conviction? What words do you fear are falling into misuse? If you could save some word or phrase from disuse or misuse what would it be? Saving Words is a collection of personal, provocative essays by ... Read more

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  • Health Communication for Health Care Professionals

    An Applied Approach

    Promotes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of health communicationAccording to the Joint Commission, over 75% of all serious medical errors in this country result from miscommunication. Based in these adverse realities and the author philosophy that communication is a clinical skill integral to effective health care delivery, this comprehensive text addresses thetheories and abilities ... Read more

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  • Communication Case Studies for Health Care Professionals, Second Edition

    An Applied Approach

    PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION:"Öallows students and faculty to explore real-life health communication behaviors through role-playing, interactive exercises, and examplesÖeasily adapted for use in many situations, sensitivity and diversity trainingÖvery worthwhile book for every medical faculty member working to instill professionalismÖin students."óVincent Carr, DO, MSA, FACC, FACP, Uniformed ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • Liquidity, Markets and Trading in Action

    An Interdisciplinary Perspective

    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This open access book addresses four standard business school subjects: microeconomics, macroeconomics, finance and information systems as they relate to trading, liquidity, and market structure. It provides a detailed examination of the impact of trading costs and other impediments of trading that the authors call “frictions”. It also presents an interactive simulation model of equity market ... Read more

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  • The People's Money

    Pensions, Debt, and Government Services

    Series series The Urban Agenda
    American cities continue to experience profound fiscal crises. Falling revenues cannot keep pace with the increased costs of vital public services, infrastructure development and improvement, and adequately funded pensions. Chicago presents an especially vivid example of these issues, as the state of Illinois's rocky fiscal condition compounds the city's daunting budget challenges. In The People's ... Read more

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  • Are We There Yet?

    The Myths and Realities of Autonomous Vehicles

    Series series The Urban Agenda
    Autonomous vehicle (AV) technology represents a possible paradigm shift in our way of life. But complex challenges and obstacles impose a reality at odds with the utopian visions propounded by AV enthusiasts in the private and public sectors.The new volume in the Urban Agenda series examines the technological questions still surrounding autonomous vehicles and the uncertain societal and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Jobs and the Labor Force of Tomorrow

    Migration, Training, Education

    Series series The Urban Agenda
    The new volume in the Urban Agenda series addresses the challenges shaping the development of human capital in metropolitan regions. The articles, products of the 2016 Urban Forum at the University of Illinois at Chicago, engage with the overarching idea that a dynamic metropolitan economy needs a diverse, trained, and available workforce that can adapt to the needs of commerce, industry, ... Read more

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