The American Joe Miller A Collection of Yankee Wit and Humor

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Joe Strong, the Boy Fish or Marvelous Doings in a Big Tank by Barnum, Vance

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Joe Strong the Boy Fire-Eater Or, The Most Dangerous Performance on Record by Barnum, Vance

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Joe Strong on the Trapeze or The Daring Feats of a Young Circus Performer by Barnum, Vance

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Japan's bubble, deflation, and long-term stagnation

Table of Contents: “…Weinstein -- The Japanese asset price bubble : a heterogeneous approach / Robert Barsky -- Time of troubles : the yen and Japan's economy, 1985-2008 / Maurice Obstfeld -- The Japan-US exchange rate, productivity, and the competitiveness of Japanese industries / Robert Dekle and Kyoji Fukao, with the Assistance of Murat Ungor -- International financial integration and Japanese economic performance / Philip R. Lane -- Consumption, land prices, and the monetary transmission mechanism in Japan / John Muellbauer and Keiko Murata -- The Japanese employment system after the bubble burst : new evidence / Ryo Kambayashi and Takao Kato -- Labor immobility in Japan : its causes and consequences / Kenn Ariga and Ryosuke Okazawa -- The changing role of main banks in aiding distressed firms in Japan / Joe Peek -- Corporate restructuring in Japan during the lost decade / Takeo Hoshi, Satoshi Koibuchi, and Ulrike Schaede -- An exploration of Japan's 1990 slowdown / Diego Comin.…”

The democratisation of disempowerment the problem of democracy in the Third World

Table of Contents: “…Schraeder -- The Democratisation of Disempowerment in Africa / Claude Ake -- Problems and Chances of Democracy in Central America / Xabier Gorostiaga -- Pathology and Power: The Failure of Democracy in the Caribbean / Niala Maharaj -- Communalism and the Democratic Process in India / Achin Vanaik, Praful Bidwai -- Oil, Islam and Israel: US Policy and Democratic Change in the Middle East / Joe Stork -- Democratisation in the Middle Eastern Context / Azmy Bishara -- Democracy and Development in the 1990s / Basker Vashee -- The World Bank and its Concept of Good Governance / Susan George -- Whose Democracy? …”