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In the no-holds-barred tradition of The Valachi Papers and Wiseguy, this insider expose of mob boss Sam Giancana, written by his brother Chuck and his godson Sam, blows the lid off some of the Mafia's most shocking secrets. Includes stunning first-time revelations concerning the deaths of JFK, Marilyn Monroe, and RFK. 16 pages of photographs..
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During the second half of the 1950s, folks derisively referred to the Kansas City A's as a "farm team" of the New York Yankees Trades between the two--often lopsided--were commonplace, and it seemed every time the Yankees needed that one final piece for yet another pennant run, the A's filled the gap.

While most knew that A's owner Arnold Johnson was somewhat affiliated with Yankee owners Dan Topping and Del Webb through his joint ownership of Yankee Stadium, The Kansas City A's and the Wrong Half of the Yankees digs into the deeper business entanglements among the three. In addition to the questionable trades and his earlier purchase of "The House that Ruth Built," Johnson's purchase of the then-Philadelphia A's shows signs of Yankees clout.

Through periodicals, letters, conversations with contemporary players and executives, and an analysis of player records, author Jeff Katz has compiled a chronological account of how, through the hands of a friend and business partner, the Yankees controlled two of the eight American League teams during the second half of the 1950s.

A publication of Maple Street Press, distributed by Potomac Books, Inc..
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A concise review of pharmacy law -- ideal for coursework and MPJE� exam prep!

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This accessible, real-world guide gets you ready for the practice of pharmacy, while giving you the proper training to be compliant with the law. To that end, the book expertly covers relevant laws, rules, and regulations, and it highlights the distinctions between state and federal law where appropriate. In no other reference can you find such a succinct, yet thorough, review of the full range of federal pharmacy laws, including the Controlled Substances Act; the Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act; the new Dietary Supplement Health Education Act; the FDA Modernization Act; and the Medicare Modernization Act.

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. Opening chapter on drug regulation and standards provides you with a practical legal framework for subsequent chapter material .

Overview of the drug approval process and federal reporting programs.

Chapter on internet sales and FDA authority to act .

Coverage of opioid addiction treatment and narcotic treatment programs.

Comprehensive set of 450+ MPJE(R)-format practice questions and answers .

A CD-ROM that reprises the practice questions to provide a board-simulating interface. . . . . (20081118).
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The movie director says, “Find me a star! Make it hairy and scary!” He gets more than he’d bargained for when a parade of monsters come trouping into the studio. Among them are Tail Smasher who breaks cameras, Dragon Breath who belches flames, and Near-Monster Ned, who likes to chew heads. These and other monsters can be projected on a wall as kids create scary stories of their own. . Flashlight Books are funny and a little scary, but their most unusual features are the illustrations, with die-cut shapes that glow in the dark. Better yet, when kids turn out the lights, then hold one of the book’s die-cut paper monsters so that it catches a flashlight beam, a monster silhouette is projected on the wall behind the picture. Kids can make their own shadow monster movies after they’ve read each book’s humorously rhymed story..
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In this groundbreaking study, Gail Cooper shows that, from the outset, air conditioning has been the focus of conflict and controversy--well predating today's concerns about fluorocarbons and global warming. While a technical elite of designers, inventors, and corporate pioneers articulated a comprehensive vision of the new technology, their ideas were challenged by workers, consumers, government regulators, business competitors, and rival professionals.

Beginning with two famous air-conditioning installations in 1904--the New York Stock exchange and the Sackett-Wilhelms Printing Company--Cooper describes the efforts of engineers to achieve artificial climate indoors. Such "man-made weather" helped transform the new motion picture theaters of the teens and twenties into sumptuous palaces of luxury and comfort. With a sign claiming "Twenty-degrees colder inside!" and icicles hanging from the marquee, theaters educated the public about comfort air conditioning and created a formidable set of expectations for the first residential systems to appear in the 1930s. Only when builders in the postwar era learned to redesign the suburban home around air conditioning did consumers get man-made weather at affordable prices. Until then Americans experimented with the ultimate consumer luxury, the window air conditioner, which followed them wherever they went.

Consumer acceptance of artificial indoor climate was hard won, however. Just as mechanical ventilation became complex enough to successfully imitate the natural climate, a group of physicians, teachers, principals, and parents known as the "open air crusaders," attempted to ban all mechanical ventilation from public schools in favor of the open window. Cooper chronicles how the lure of the open air was always air conditioning's biggest rival, from roof-top school rooms to open air theaters to the front porch. Americans were slow to give up the social rituals of hot weather living--the cold drink, the cool clothes, the summer vacation--for the comforts of either the window air conditioner or the central system.

Air-conditioning America is the story of how the grand vision of a new technology was shaped by the realities of the changing world of mass production, engineering professionalism, and consumer demand. It provides new insight into how engineers and technical expertise fit into these complex forces of modern life..
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Program evaluations can play an important role in public policy debates and in oversight of government programs, potentially affecting decisions about program design, operation, and funding. One technique that has received significant recent attention is the randomized controlled trial (RCT). There are also many other types of evaluation, including the observational and qualitative designs..
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