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Cover -- Sino-American Relations -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Why Does America Need Enemies? -- 2 America's Discovery: the Globalization of Trade and Misery -- 3 Enemies Become Strategic Partners -- 4 Clinton and Bush: Contrasts in World View -- 5 China as an Economic Threat -- 6 Human Rights - a Tool of Diplomacy -- 7 China as a Security Threat -- 8 Conclusion -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

This Primer provides city administrators with exactly what they need to know about the complex and compelling challenges of climate change. The books helps local government in developing countries create training, capacity building and capital investment programs for building sustainable, resilient communities. A step by step self assessment challenges policy makers to think about the resources needed to combat natural disasters through an innovative Hot Spot risk and vulnerability identification tool.

Summary While the scholarly literature is abound with discussions of technology and its proliferation in different social work domains, evidence about what types of technologies are being used in various social work practice domains remains limited. The present study aimed to identify the larger trends in how technology has permeated the profession. The study sample comprised of 892 articles from a journal known for its contribution in publishing research on technology use in human services. Two methods were used—topic modeling and human-assisted analyses. Topic modeling was performed using MALLET, a machine learning tool which employs latent Dirichlet allocation over a fixed vocabulary for the corpus of text. Human-assisted analyses were performed using QDA Miner and MS-Excel to assist in the manual analyses. Findings In all, 29 topics in social work and 27 topics in technology domains were obtained. Social work education and mental health and clinical social work appeared as two of the top five social work domains in both topic modeling and human-assisted analyses. Management information system, communication technology, generic technology usage, and education technology were the top common topics in both types of analyses. Applications The present study findings have two applications. First, the descriptive analysis of technology adoption across diverse social work areas of research provides the first concrete evidence of how technology has been spread throughout social work. Second, the patterns of technology adoption across social work practice fields indicate some fields have limited research regarding technology.

Social work has historically engaged in pioneering interventions to improve the financial well-being of people. India is an interesting case as it has the highest number of unbanked people on one side and numerous policy interventions on the other. Using systematic review and Gioia methodology, we analyzed 24 years of financial inclusion policies. Our analysis revealed that the efficacy of policies was impeded by flawed designs, as the policymakers preferred 'quick fixes' over long-term solutions. Our study highlights the need for learning from the past and organizing complex information in a way that helps policymakers in taking informed policy design decisions.