Histoire de Henri III, Roi de France et de Pologne par Ed. De La Barre Duparcq.

Bibliographical footnotes.

Colección de los artículos de La Esperanza contra la historia del réinado de Carlos III en España,

Mode of access: Internet.

König Friedrich Wilhelm III., sein anteil an der konvention von Tauroggen und an der reform von 1807-1812.

"Sonderabzug aus den Forschungen zur brandenburgischen und preussischen geschichte. Bd. XVIII."

The essays of a prentise, in the divine art of poesie : Edinburgh. 1585. A counterblast to tobacco. London, 1604 ...

With reproduction of original t.-p.

New poems by James I of England : from a hitherto unpublished manuscript (Add. 24195) in the British museum /

Vita.

Charakter-züge und historische fragmente aus dem leben des königs von Preussen Friedrich Wilhelm III.

Volumes 2 and 3 each in two parts, each part having separate title-page.

Beiträge zur charakteristik Friedrich Wilhelms III.

Mode of access: Internet.

Storia del regno di Carlo III di Borbone : recattolico delle Spagne e dell' Indie /

Master microform held by: MoSU.

George the Third, his court, and family.

Includes index.

Gobierno del Señor rey Don Carlos III, ó, Instruccion reservada para direccion de la Junta de estado que creó este monarca;

"El autor de la Instruccion fué el conde de Floridablanca."--p. [105]

Reinado de Carlos III,

Some of the plates are folded.

Poland and the minority races,

Mode of access: Internet.

Michigan Playing Card, King of Clubs with Michigan Letterman

(Original loaned to library for scanning)

Social inequalities in male mortality, and in male mortality from smoking: indirect estimation from national death rates in England and Wales, Poland, and North America

Background There are substantial social inequalities in adult male mortality in many countries. Smoking is often more prevalent among men of lower social class, education, or income. The contribution of smoking to these social inequalities in mortality remains uncertain. Methods The contribution of smoking to adult mortality in a population can be estimated indirectly from disease-specific death rates in that population (using absolute lung cancer rates to indicate proportions due to smoking of mortality from certain other diseases). We applied these methods to 1996 death rates at ages 35-69 years in men in three different social strata in four countries, based on a total of 0.6 million deaths. The highest and lowest social strata were based on social class (professional vs unskilled manual) in England and Wales, neighbourhood income (top vs bottom quintile) in urban Canada, and completed years of education (more than vs less than 12 years) in the USA and Poland. Results In each country, there was about a two-fold difference between the highest and the lowest social strata in overall risks of dying among men aged 35-69 years (England and Wales 21% vs 43%, USA 20% vs 37%, Canada 21% vs 34%, Poland 26% vs 50%: four-country mean 22% vs 41%, four-country mean absolute difference 19%). More than half of this difference in mortality between the top and bottom social strata involved differences in risks of being killed at age 35-69 years by smoking (England and Wales 4% vs 19%, USA 4% vs 15%, Canada 6% vs 13%, Poland 5% vs 22%: four-country mean 5% vs 17%, four-country mean absolute difference 12%). Smoking-attributed mortality accounted for nearly half of total male mortality in the lowest social stratum of each country. Conclusion In these populations, most, but not all, of the substantial social inequalities in adult male mortality during the 1990s were due to the effects of smoking. Widespread cessation of smoking could eventually halve the absolute differences between these social strata in the risk of premature death.

Corporate governance and finance in Poland and Russia

This book provides a comparative analysis of the emerging corporate control structures in the transition economies. It details characteristics of corporate governance in the two largest transition economies: Russia and Poland. It explores what kind of ownership structures are emerging in these two countries and to what degree they are they path-dependent and conditional on the initial choice of privatisation methods - fast ownership transfer through the mass privatisation programme and loans-for-equity scheme in Russia, and a more 'organic' growth of the new private sector in Poland. It examines the directions of the subsequent, post-privatisation, secondary ownership flows in both countries and the impact of the government on corporations, implied both by the residual shareholding of the state and by its regulatory and administrative actions.