Meticulously gleaned from the 128 volumes of the great reference work commonly referred to as the Official Records, the The Army of the Cumberland is meant to serve as a unique resource that hopefully will be a useful tool for those who wish to delve deeper into the structural and statistical history of the great Union army that served primarily in Tennessee, Georgia, and the Carolinas during the American Civil War. Organized into three sections, this work provides extensive detail regarding that army's evolving organization, its constantly fluctuating strength, and the heart-breaking sacrifices suffered during its many campaigns and battles.
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• Preface Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1: Graduation Rates
• 101
• Chapter 2: The College Completion Agenda
• Chapter 3: The Politics of College Rankings
• Chapter 4: College Attrition and the "Value Added" Proposition
• Chapter 5: HBCUs, MSIs, and the College Completion Game
• Chapter 6: Case Studies: Stories of College Attrition and Student Success
• Chapter 7: College Attrition and the Popular Culture
• Chapter 8: Half-Full and Half-Empty: The Completers vs. the Non-Completers
• Chapter 9: It's Not a Deficit Model: Increasing Retention and Fostering Completion
• Chapter 10: What's Next: Changing the Paradigm About the Author.
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Despite the Great Recession and looming "student loan debt crisis", college education remains the most proven, invaluable lifetime investment and serves as the most reliable path to upward mobility and socioeconomic class reassignment. Mfume suggests that "the value added" of even one year of college can be transformative. As higher education professionals and partners continue to advocate for new and improved college retention and graduation measures, The College Completion Glass-Half-Full or Half-Empty? Exploring the Value of Postsecondary Education presents a new paradigm for higher education, one that focuses on "the value added" of postsecondary education as well as on student success beyond the traditional measure of college graduation rates, a model which merges conventional practices and supports for students with non-traditional partnerships with, and advocacy from, successful non-completers.
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• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. The
• 3 Percent Game
• 2. Dominance and Chance
• 3. Tournament Rules
• 4. Pioneers
• 5. Coming to America
• 6. Interwarriors
• 7. Bantam Ben and Slammin' Sam
• 8. The King, Some Queens, and a Black Prince
• 9. The Golden Bear Market
• 10. Metallurgy
• 11. Millennials
• 12. Still on the Course
• Afterword
• Appendix
• Glossary
• Notes
• Index.
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Ever wonder whether Tiger Woods in his prime would have beaten Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, or Jack Nicklaus in their primes? And could any of them have beaten Babe Zaharias? Obviously, if Bobby Jones were returned to life and health and then given his old hickory-shafted mashie, persimmon-headed driver, and rubber-core ball in a match against Jordan Spieth, the outcome would be foreordained. But what if the impact of the training, equipment, courses, and traveling conditions could be neutralized in order to create a measurement? Now for the first time, questions are answered about the relative abilities of the greatest players in the history of professional golf. In The Hole Truth Bill Felber provides a relativistic approach for evaluating and comparing the performance of golfers while acknowledging the game's changing nature. The Hole Truth analyzes the performances of players relative to their peers, creating an index of exceptionality that automatically factors the changing nature of the game through time. That index is based on the standard deviation of the performances of players in golf's recognized major championships dating back to 1860. More than two hundred players are rated in comparison with one another, more than sixty of them in detail with profiles providing context on their ranking. For the dedicated golf fan, The Hole Truth is an engaging way to see in the numbers where their favorite golfers rank across eras and where current players like Rory McIlroy and Inbee Park compare to the game's greats.
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• Adressing labour-market disruptions from trade and automation / Douglas Sutherland
• The decline of US labour force participation: some insights from regional divergence / Stephanie Guichard
• The impact of the Nurse Licensing Compact on inter-state job mobility in the United States / Aimi Abdul Ghani
• Assessing household financial vulnerability: empirical evidence from the U.S. using machine learning / Damien Azzopardi, Fozan Fareed, Patrick Lenain, and Douglas Sutherland.

"This volume collects four studies that were prepared as background research to the 2018 OECD Economic Survey of the United States. Using micro-data survey responses, regional and sectorial data, these studies seek to provide insights into how employment responds to labour market disruption and the drivers of household financial vulnerability in the United States. This volume represents a collaborative effort by a team of OECD and academic researchers."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction
• Shanghai in Four Steps
• Part 1: Charting the Course of the Population of Shanghai
• 1 General and Vital Statistics
• 2 Populations in Movement
• 3 Social Structures
• Population: The Lessons of Shanghai
• Part 2: The Population of Shanghai in Figures: A Selection of Source Tables List of Sources and Tables
• References
• Index.
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The present volume is the first systematic reconstruction of the demographic series of the population of Shanghai from the mid-nineteenth century to 1953. Designed as a reference and source book, it is based on a thorough exploration of all population data and surveys available in published documents and in archival sources. The book focuses mostly on the pre-1949 period and extends to the post-1949 period only in relation to specific topics. Shanghai is probably the only city in China where such a reconstruction is possible over such a long period due to the wealth of sources and its particular administrative history, especially the existence of two foreign settlements.
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• Le vécu de l'adolescence au bénin
• Accès aux mass media et utilisation des technologies de l'information/communication
• Exposition aux mass media
• Utilisation d'internet
• Accès aux media et utilisation d'internet selon le genre
• Synthèse et recommandations programmatiques
• Le bien-être des adolescents
• Relation entre conditions objectives et perceptions
• Domaines de satisfaction
• Le bien-être dans le futur
• Synthèse et recommandations programmatiques
• VIH/SIDA et comportement sexuel
• Connaissance de la transmission du VIH
• Connaissance des résultats du test de dépistage
• Comportement sexuel lié à la transmission du VIH
• Synthèse et recommandations programmatiques
• Consommation de tabac et d'alcool
• Consommation de tabac
• Consommation d'alcool
• Synthèse et recommandations programmatiques
• Attitudes sur la discipline des enfants et les violences conjugales
• Attitudes des adolescents face à la discipline des enfants
• Attitudes face aux violences conjugales
• Synthèse et recommandations programmatiques
• Le travail des adolescents
• Participation des adolescents à des activités économiques
• Implication des adolescents dans les tâches ménagères
• Conditions de travail dangereuses
• Synthèse et recommandations programmatiques
• Mariage des enfants et grossesses précoces
• Mariage des enfants
• Entrée en union précoce des femmes
• Entrée en union précoce des hommes
• Écart d'âgé et polygamie
• Synthèse et recommandations programmatiques
• Grossesses précoces et soins prénatals des mères adolescentes
• Entrée dans la vie féconde et grossesses précoces
• Soins prénatals
• Synthèse et recommandations programmatiques
• Poids à la naissance et allaitement de l'enfant
• Faible poids à la naissance
• Allaitement précoce et exclusif
• Synthèse et recommandations programmatiques
• Les conditions sociodémographiques du dividende
• Fécondité des adolescentes et dividende démographique
• Introduction : les indicateurs nécessaires à l'analyse du dividende
• La fécondité au Bénin en 2014 et son évolution (1996-2014)
• La fécondité des adolescentes
• Synthèse et recommandations programmatiques
• Contraception et dividende démographique
• Les méthodes traditionnelles : problèmes méthodologiques
• Utilisation de la contraception moderne
• Besoins non satisfaits de contraception
• Synthèse et recommandations programmatiques
• Soins postnatals et vaccination des enfants
• Introduction : santé des nouveau-nés et dividende
• Examens de santé post-natals
• La couverture vaccinale, un problème de vulnérabilité intergénérationnelle ?
• Synthèse et recommandations programmatiques
• Préparer l'avenir de la petite enfance
• Introduction: les apprentissages préscolaires
• L'implication des adultes du ménage
• Score de l'indice de développement du jeune enfant Synthèse et recommandations programmatiques
• Education, genre et dividende démographique
• Introduction : quelles relations entre éducation et dividende démographique ?
• Alphabétisation des filles et des garçons
• Fréquentation du cycle secondaire

• Synthèse et recommandations programmatiques
• La vulnérabilité sanitaire des ménages : eau et assainissement
• Eau non potable
• Accès à l'eau et contribution des adolescents
• Évacuation des matières fécales et utilisation de savon
• Synthèse et recommandations programmatiques.

"L'adolescence est devenue, au Bénin comme dans tous les pays d'Afrique sub-saharienne, une question de société. Ce livre, première grande synthèse sociodémographique sur ce sujet au Bénin, est fondé sur des analyses originales des données de l'enquête nationale réalisée par l'Institut National de la Statistique et de l'Analyse Economique en collaboration avec la représentation de l'UNICEF. Trois grands thèmes sont traités. 1/ Le vécu de l'adolescence : accès à la globalisation ; bien-être subjectif ; VIH/SIDA et sexualité ; tabagisme et consommation d'alcool ; discipline des enfants et violences conjugales. 2/ Le début de la vie féconde : mariages des enfants ; grossesses précoces ; soins prénatals ; poids à la naissance et allaitement. 3/ L'adolescence et la préparation du dividende démographique : fécondité et contraception ; soins postnatals et vaccination des enfants ; apprentissages préscolaires ; éducation et genre ; vulnérabilité sanitaire des ménages (eau et assainissement). La richesse des analyses et la rigueur méthodologique n'excluent pas une grande clarté, ce qui rend ce livre accessible aussi bien aux spécialistes qu'aux non spécialistes intéressés par cette question cruciale pour l'avenir du Bénin et de l'Afrique."--Page 4 of cover.

• Preface: Thank you for the laugh
• Prologue: The judge
• Chapter 1: Gut feels
• Chapter 2: The nerd cave
• Chapter 3: Graceful beast
• Chapter 4: Growth mindset
• Chapter 5: Peyton Manning on a surfboard
• Chapter 6: Summer of setbacks
• Chapter 7: In search of Carlos Beltrán
• Chapter 8: Two seconds to spare
• Chapter 9: The series
• Conclusion: Astroworld.

"When Sports Illustrated declared on the cover of a June 2014 issue that the Houston Astros would win the World Series in 2017, people thought Ben Reiter, the article's author, was crazy. The Astros were the worst baseball team in half a century, but they were more than just bad. They were an embarrassment, a club that didn't even appear to be trying to win. The cover story, combined with the specificity of Reiter's claim, met instant and nearly universal derision. But three years later, the critics were proved improbably, astonishingly wrong. How had Reiter predicted it so accurately? And, more important, how had the Astros pulled off the impossible?" -- Amazon.com.