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"Erik Ruhling assembles an unmatched array of torture tools invented exclusively for the infliction of pain and the ending of life, each carefully researched with an accompanying full-color, highly detailed rendering."--BOOK JACKET

Medievalist and Francophile despite himself / John W. Baldwin -- A mid-Atlantic identity / Robert O. Paxton -- Tough love for France / Herman Lebovics -- Fantasy meets reality : a Midwesterner goes to Paris / Lynn Hunt -- Défense d'afficher-- / Steven Laurence Kaplan -- France for Belgium / Gabrielle M. Spiegel -- Why Paris? / Barbara B. Diefendorf -- Catholic connections, Jewish relations, French religion / Thomas Kselman -- Europe without personal angst / Jan Goldstein -- France, a political romance / Edward Berenson -- Choosing history, discovering France / Herrick Chapman -- An African American in Paris / Tyler Stovall -- Writing at the margins / Leonard V. Smith -- It's not about France / Ken Alder -- Pilgrim's progress : from suburban Canada to Paris (via Montreal, Tokyo, and Tehran) / Clare Haru Crowston -- Between Douai and the U.S.A. / Todd Shepard

Motherhood -- Calling -- Migration -- Prohibitions -- Education -- Civics -- Conventions

Conflicting theories of the nonprofit firm have existed for several decades yet empirical research has not resolved these debates, partly because the theories are not easily testable but also because empirical research generally considers organizations in isolation rather than in markets. Here we examine three types of hospitals -- nonprofit, for-profit, and government -- and their spillover effects. We look at the effect of for-profit ownership share within markets in two ways, on the provision of medical services and on operating margins at the three types of hospitals. We find that nonprofit hospitals' medical service provision systematically varies by market mix. We find no significant effect of for-profit market share on the operating margins of nonprofit hospitals. These results fit best with theories in which hospitals maximize their own output.

Migration of intangible assets from the United States to foreign countries has become easier due to the ability of U.S. firms to create hybrid entities in their affiliates abroad and to reach favorable cost sharing agreements with them. This strategy was particularly encouraged by the U.S. adoption of "check-the-box" regulations in 1997. Rather than receive royalties from affiliates abroad, US parent firms have an incentive to retain abroad in low-tax countries a greater share of the return to their US R&D. Evidence from several sources for years that span the 1997 policy change indicate a significant response by US corporations in utilizing this strategy. BEA data indicate affiliate earnings and profits grew more rapidly than royalty payments to US parents. Payments to U.S. parents for technical services rose even faster, as would be called for under cost sharing agreements. Regression analysis of affiliate data shows that parent R&D was a more important determinant of royalty payments to U.S. parents than it was for affiliate earnings and profits in 1996, but by 2002 it played a larger role in earnings and profits than in royalties. Cost sharing payments from affiliates in Ireland and from pure tax havens (Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, and Luxembourg) are particularly significant, both economically and statistically.