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  • Districts, Documentation, and Population in Rupert’s Land (1740-1840)
    Aaron James Henry
    This book interrogates how districts were used in British North America to inspect, and document indigenous people by the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC). In particular, it examines how the HBC utilized districts to create a political geography that allowed for closer surveillance of indigenous people and stabilized debt. An initial examination of how the district was used to rework...
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    73,18 €

  • Districts, Documentation, and Population in Rupert’s Land (1740-1840)
    Aaron James Henry
    This book interrogates how districts were used in British North America to inspect, and document indigenous people by the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC). In particular, it examines how the HBC utilized districts to create a political geography that allowed for closer surveillance of indigenous people and stabilized debt. An initial examination of how the district was used to rework...
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    71,41 €

  • Aaron Henry
    Aaron Henry / Constance Curry
    This book reveals why Aaron Henry (1922-1997) should be acknowledged, in the ranks of Fannie Lou Hamer and Medgar Evers, as a truly influential crusader.Long before many of his contemporaries, he was a civil rights activist, but he preferred to stay out of the limelight. A certified pharmacist and owner of Fourth Street Drug Store in Clarksdale, he considered himself a down-hom...
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    42,66 €

  • Papilio
    Eugene Murray-Aaron / Henry Edwards / New York Entomological Club
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important ...
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    20,74 €

  • A Sermon Delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. William Henry Furness, As Pastor of the First Congregational Unitarian Church in Philadelphia, January 12, 1825
    Aaron Bancroft / Ezra Stiles Gannett / Henry Ware
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important ...
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    14,86 €

  • Reforming Medicare
    Henry Aaron / Jeanne M. Lambrew
    'Everyone agrees on the need to reform Medicare but not on how to do it. Some argue the program is too comprehensive, others that it is not comprehensive enough. Some suggest it pays too much for health care, others, too little. Meanwhile, the financial stakes continue to mount. Medicare spending exceeded $400 billion in 2007, making it more expensive than the entire health sys...
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    46,20 €

  • Can We Say No?
    Henry Aaron / Melissa Cox / William B. Schwartz
    'Over the past four decades, the share of income devoted to health care nearly tripled. If policy is unchanged, this trend is likely to continue. Should Americans decide to rein in the growth of health care spending, they will be forced to consider whether to ration care for the well-insured, a prospect that is odious and unthinkable to many. This book argues that sensible heal...
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    31,82 €

  • Future of Academic Medical Centers
    Henry Aaron
    ' Academic medical centers provide cutting edge acute care, train tomorrow's physicians, and carry out research that will expand the range of treatable and curable illnesses. But these centers themselves may need urgent care—experts generally agree that many are suffering acute—even life-threatening—financial distress. Many academic medical centers are suffe...
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    32,21 €

  • Behavioral Dimensions of Retirement Economics
    Henry Aaron
    'Deciding when and how to retire are among the most important decisions most people make. Can they be depended on to plan with foresight and make sound decisions? According to standard economic analysis the answer is a qualified ''yes.'' But studies by psychologists, sociologists, and economists themselves raise doubts about this comforting appraisal. This volume by analysts tr...
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    36,67 €

  • Problem that Won’t Go Away
    Henry Aaron
    Why did President Clinton's efforts to reform the financing of American health care fail? For years to come, politicians and scholars of public policy will revisit the debate over Clinton's health care plan. What did planners do right? And what did they do wrong? How can the mistakes of that experience be avoided in the future? What steps can now be taken to achieve s...
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    36,66 €

  • Serious and Unstable Condition
    Henry Aaron
    The United States spends more on health care than any other nation in the world, yet millions of Americans cannot afford basic care for acute illnesses, few are insured against the costs of long-term care, and many frequently used medical procedures have never been fully evaluated. The goals of controlling spiraling health care costs and extending insurance coverage or even mai...
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    31,98 €

  • Setting National Priorities
    Henry Aaron
    'Setting National Priorities continues the highly acclaimed and influential series of books that examine domestic and foreign policy choices confronting the United States. Members of the Brookings staff join outside experts to evaluate America's course through the next decade.In clear and nontechnical terms the contributors explain and evaluate options for the United State...
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    33,97 €

  • Can America Afford to Grow Old?
    Barry P. Bosworth / Gary Burtless / Henry Aaron
    Examines the effects of rising social security costs and of measures adopted to deal with them, and discusses possible ways of coping with the shortfall of available money for the aging American population. ...
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    24,22 €

  • Comparable Worth Controversy
    Cameran M. Lougy / Henry Aaron
    The well-documented gap between men's and women's earnings has aroused intense debate over the concept of comparable worth, that is, equal pay for work judged to be of equal value. Government, business, labor unions, and the courts have been forced to consider whether workers in dissimilar jobs of comparable worth—measured by such criteria as working conditions, ...
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    17,27 €

  • Assessing Tax Reform
    Harvey Galper / Henry Aaron
    'Reform of the United States tax system has become a central political issue. Assessing Tax Reform is a concise, nontechnical book to help general readers and students understand the tax reform issues Congress is now debating. Henry Aaron and Harvey Galper lay out the major alternative proposals and analyze principles of taxation that can be used for judging them. They explore ...
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    32,06 €

  • Economic Effects of Social Security
    Henry Aaron
    The social security system affects people throughout most of their lives, at work and in retirement. The supposed effects of social security on saving, labor supply, and the distribution of income figure prominently in current debates about whether and how to change the system. Theorists have developed alternative analytical frameworks for studying social security, but all invo...
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    25,58 €

  • Politics and the Professors
    Henry Aaron
    'In the early 1960s America was in a confident mood and embarked on a series of efforts to solve the problems of poverty, racial discrimination, unemployment, and inequality of educational opportunity. The programs of the Great Society and the War on Poverty were undergirded by a broad consensus about what our problems as a nation were and how we should solve them. But by the e...
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    30,59 €