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In Competing Orders of Medical Care in Ethiopia, Pino Schirippa illustrates the complexity of pharmaceuticals and remedies in Ethiopia. Schirripa details how these cures are produced and distributed and how their proliferation is influenced by local politics, financial resources, social relations, and neoliberal beliefs.

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An examination of the problems of designing effective and humane service care delivery systems for the seriously mentally ill. The focus throughout the book is on the development of practical problem-solving strategies for professionals, advocates, patients and their families.

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With health care reform at the top of the domestic agenda, this volume assesses the Clinton administration's proposals and several alternative plans by discussing how six other countries have organised health care finance and delivery to achieve universal access to comparable quality care at much lower costs.

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Competing Stories: Modernist Authors, Newspapers, and the Movies examines the relationship between modernist authors, newspapers, and movies, and explores the disconnect between the positive benefits and potential authors found in media and the negative portrayals of those same media in these authors' fiction.

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This presents an in-depth study of the large Muslim population in Los Angeles County. It examines an array of issues facing the American Muslim population, ranging from gender and ethnicity to political and dac wa (missionary) activities.

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This books examines social aspects of information-oriented society in the United States. Areas covered include: understanding the extent of information work in the United States; defining information in an information-oriented society; and social attitudes and values toward information technology.

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A unique, carefully-chosen selection of short, stimulating primary-source accounts describes controversial moments in Native American history since 1492, sharing both Native and non-Native viewpoints.

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This book examines the reshaping of Cuba following the Revolution, the Bay of Pigs invasion, Cuba's role in the Cold War, the Mariel boatlift, the economic rise and fall given by Cuba's membership of COMECON, the changeability of the ongoing relationship between Cuba and the US;

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Suitable for students and readers with a general interest in medieval history, this anthology juxtaposes the recorded experiences and views of participants on the opposing sides in the Crusades. Each chapter focuses on an event, such as the Crusader massacre of the inhabitants of Jerusalem in 1099 and the Siege of Damascus in 1148.

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A unique compilation of diverse sources, many in English translation for the first time, this book documents the Mexican Revolution, explains its popular and agrarian nature, and helps to clarify its often perplexing conflicts, alliances, and issues.

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Key decisions and events of the Pacific War are explored in this work by juxtaposing Allied and Japanese accounts, giving voice to both sides in this epic confrontation.

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This new collection of documents helps students understand the complex texture of Russian public rhetoric and popular debate during World War I and the 1917 Revolution.

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Highlights the different perspectives and views of those in the military arena, as well as describing the impact of the war on daily life. This book begins in 1939 (with the invasion of Poland) and ends in 1945 (with Germany's surrender).

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This work develops conceptual and normative frameworks to better understand national non-proliferation efforts, then examines competing US and Australian strategies of capability denial and non-possession norm building.

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In Competition and Chaos, Robert W. Crandall analyzes the impact of the 1996 Telecommunications Act on economic welfare in the United States and how the act and its antecedents affected the major telecommunications providers.

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An explanation of how Taiwan's remarkable economic growth happened. Using the Global Commodity Chains perspective and applying it to Taiwan's information technology industry, the author illuminates not just the outcomes of development processes but the processes themselves.

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This volume offers a conceptual approach to the study of competition as a dynamic process. It critically examines the dynamic character of modern competition, appraises the inadequacies of equilibrium theory, and suggests a new approach to the study and interpretation of competitive activities in the economy.

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This study synthesizes and summarizes the theoretical arguments and empirical evidence that suggest that competition works remarkably well to reduce costs and improve efficiency and innovation, even in an arena where competition has typically been ignored--government-financed services.

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Considers the possible effects of competition in the natural gas pipeline industry. Contrary to government reports, the study concludes that federal regulation is no longer needed to limit the power of pipeline suppliers, but that potential entry by nearby suppliers should promote competition.

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This authoritative book offers an unparalleled analysis of the emerging law and economics of competition policy in Latin America.

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Using numerous practical examples, this book examines the evolution of EC telecommunications law following the achievement of liberalisation.

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