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Donald L. Barlett,James B. Steele

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Broadway(2005-10-11)
Usually ships in 24 hours customer 's reviewExposing the most controversial, little-known practices of America’s most flawed system,Timemagazine’s Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative team pulls back the curtain on the health care industry to explain exactly how things grew so out of control.
Dirty examination and operating rooms in doctor’s offices and hospitals . . . Health care executives pulling in millions in bonuses for denying treatment to the sick . . . More than 100 million people with inadequate or no medical coverage . . . This may sound like the predicament of a third-world nation, but this is America’s health care reality today. The U.S. spends more on health care thanany other nation, yet our benefits are shrinking and life expectancy is shorter here than in countries that spend significantly less per capita. Meanwhile, HMOs, pharmaceutical companies, and hospital chains reap tremendous profits, while politicians—beholden to insurers and drug companies—enact legislation for the benefit of the few rather than the many, while the entire system is on the verge of collapse.
In Critical Condition, award-winning investigative journalists Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele expose the horror of what health care in America has become. They profile patients and doctors trapped by the system and offer startling personal stories that illuminate what’s gone wrong. Doctors tell of being second-guessed and undermined by health care insurers; nurses recount chilling tales of hospital meltdowns; patients explain how they’ve been victimized by a system that is meant to care for them. Drug companies profit by selling pills in the same manner that Madison Avenue sells soap, while Wall Street rakes in billions by building up and then tearing down health care businesses. And politicians pass legislation perpetuating the injustices and out-right fraud the system encourages.
By analyzing the industry and offering an insightful prescription for getting it back on the right track, Critical Condition is an enormously compelling investigative work that addresses the concerns of every American. Rerations < Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business--and Bad Medicine >
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Stephen White

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Signet(1999-01-01)
Usually ships in 24 hours customer 's reviewFromNew York Timesbestselling authorStephen Whitecomes the sixth suspense thriller featuring psychologist Dr. Alan Gregory. Summoned to the hospital to learn the motives behind a teenage girl's suicide attempt, Alan discovers that the girl's young stepsister lies near death in another hospital with a heart disease. Denied an experimental new treatment that could save her life by her parent's managed-care provider, the stepsister has become a symbol of a health care system more concerned with costs than with the lives of its patients. And when a wealthy executive of the family's HMO is found dead, Alan and Denver detective Sam Purdy uncover the truth that links the teenage girl to his death, and the truth behind a family willing to kill in the name of love...and revenge. Rerations < Critical Conditions: An Alan Gregory Thriller >
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< The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change >
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David Harvey

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Wiley-Blackwell
Usually ships in 24 hours customer 's reviewIn this new book, David Harvey seeks to determine what is meant by the term in its different contexts and to identify how accurate and useful it is as a description of contemporary experience. The Condition of Postmodernityis David Harvey's seminal history of our most equivocal of eras. What doespostmodernismmean? Where did it come from? Harvey, a professor of geography and a key mover behind extending the scope and influence of the discipline of geography itself, does a thorough job here delineating the passage through to postmodernity and the economic, social, and political changes that underscored and accompanied it. As he clearly states, the rise in postmodernist cultural forms is related to a new intensity in what Harvey terms "time-space compression," but this new intensity is a qualitative rather than quantitative change in social organization, and it does not point to an era beyond capitalism as "the basic rules of capitalistic accumulation" remain unchanged. Unlike Fredric Jameson (whose equally rewardingPostmodernismstands as the twin pillar to Harvey's critique), who explicitly relies on Ernest Mandel's periodization of late capitalism, Harvey eschews a narrowly economic focus, the limits and contradictions of production that have led to the rise in the service sector, and takes a more multidisciplinary approach to his history. As comfortable discussing Manet as he is labor markets, Harvey is an excellent writer, andThe Condition of Postmodernityis an exceptionally informative and enjoyable read.--Mark Thwaite, Amazon.co.uk Rerations < The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change >
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Friedrich Engels

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Oxford University Press, USA
Usually ships in 24 hours customer 's reviewThis, the first book written by Engels during his stay in Manchester from 1842 to 1844, is the best known and in many ways the most astute study of the working class in Victorian England. The fluency of his writing, the personal nature of his insights, and his talent for mordant satire all combiine to make Engels's account of the lives of the victims of early industrial change an undeniable classic.
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Friedrich Engels

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Qontro Classic Books
Usually ships in 24 hours customer 's reviewThe Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 - with a Preface written in 1892 is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Friedrich Engels is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Friedrich Engels then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. Rerations < The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 - with a Preface written in 1892 >
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(2011-03-24)
customer 's reviewThis book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. Rerations < The Academy Keeper Or Variety of useful Directions Concerning the Management of an Academy, The Terms, Diet, Lodging, Recreation, Discipline, and Instruction ... and Guardians of all Ranks and Conditions >
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Cameron Davis

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customer 's reviewThere is no greater subject of inquiry than that of humanity. Who is it? Where did it come from? Why does it make that awful noise while it's eating? All will be revealed in this reasonably priced and treasured volume. This book presents an in-depth and correct analysis of man's obsessions with sex, violence, money, sex, war, breasts and sex. Rerations < The Human Condition >
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Case Adams PhD

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Logical Books(2011-09-18)
customer 's reviewThe mucosal membranes that cover our skin, sinuses, airways, digestive tracts and many other regions are critical to our health. Not only do they help protect our bodies from intruders and environmental toxins. They also provide many other critical functions, such as helping us digest our foods and helping us breathe. As a result, faulty or damaged mucosal membranes is also at the root of many serious health conditions, including allergies, asthma, COPD, GERD and others. This book illustrates the science behind our mucosal membranes: how they cause disease, how they can become damaged, and what we can do to repair them and keep them healthy.
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Karen Howard,Julie Jones

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customer 's reviewKillian DeClan awakens from a bone-chilling nightmare and finds huge blanks in his memory. As he fills them in, he finds he left Earth in 2010 and spent 300 years in cryo-freeze on his way to a planet called Eden somewhere in the Sirius system. Quarantined aboard a scientific station orbiting the planet, he begins dealing with the loss of his pregnant wife Lizzie, younger sister Tessa, and older brother Josh.
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Wherever Swagger goes, he draws others to him, among them beautiful Ali; salvagers Flynn and Cookie; and young, enthusiastic EMT (Electrical Mechanical Technician) Gunner. When someone from his past shows up, Swagger is sure he’s been given a second chance at life. He’s happy in his job and able to reconcile all that he’s lost on Earth.
But the forces responsible for putting him into cryo-freeze on Earth and sending him to another galaxy still lurk in the shadows. A mysterious Faction has a secret agenda that puts the lives of Swagger and his crew in danger.
It is a game-changing, life-altering, clash between the dark and the light, and Swagger Vasa is caught in the middle of the struggle. Swagger learns little by little what role someone has chosen him to play. The consequences are unimaginable, and Swagger must determine why he was chosen, who took him, and why he is so crucial to both sides.
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Lin Pardey,Larry Pardey

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Pardey Books(2008-07-01)
Usually ships in 24 hours customer 's reviewIn a storm at sea, luck is highly biased toward the sailor who has a plan. So write Lin and Larry Pardey in this, the third edition of their highly regarded Storm Tactics Handbook. As in the first two editions of this book, they describe their concerns about the tendency of modern sailors to discard the classic methods used to bring sailing vessels of all sizes from vast clipper ships to tiny yachts through amazingly strong winds and heavy seas. There is only one storm tactic that has the ability to sap the power of breaking seas, they explain. With clear and concise diagrams, they proceed to show how heaving-to works and how even the most modern of yachts can be made to heave-to, whether with only sail power or with the assistance of a sea anchor. A discussion of the many ways heaving-to can be useful at sea as a way to help the crew keep well rested, to effect repairs, to steady a vessel should outside assistance ever be necessary will convince even those who plan to run before their imagined ultimate storm that heaving-to is still a must know. A series of user-friendly checklists will help sailors from the moment they start looking for their perfect offshore boat, through outfitting, and as they encounter their first storms at sea. Highly readable stories of the Pardeys encounters with storms, and of experiences related by several other modern sailors, help illustrate and expand the points made in this book. Since writing the previous edition of Storm Tactics Handbook, Lin and Larry have voyaged an additional 35,000 miles. This has taken them as far north as Norway, twice across the Atlantic, south to Argentina, into the Pacific, around Cape Horn against the prevailing winds, and then on a circuit of the North Pacific. With insights gained from these recent voyages, they have fully revised and expanded this text by more than 40 percent, including nine completely new chapters. New material includes: Lessons from Cape Horn An interview with the late Sir Peter Blake, on storm survival and heaving-to Heaving-to using a Galerider on 55-foot Morgan s Cloud Adding rudder protection stops Discussions on avoiding chafe, building and using storm staysails, choosing storm gear, deploying para-anchors, avoiding the worst areas of cyclonic storms, and many more have been expanded to answer many questions posed by readers and seminar attendees. Mario Vittone, a U.S. Coast Guard rescue swimmer for 14 years, in an unsolicited testimony, wrote: I have been on several rescues (and heard of many more) that would have been completely unnecessary if the sailboat captains aboard would have . . . practiced the skills taught by Lin and Larry Pardey. Not knowing how to heave-to in bad weather is as inexcusable as not knowing red, right, return . Previous editions of Storm Tactics Handbook have sold more than 32,000 copies worldwide. As recently as November 2007, the second edition ten years after its publication was consistently #1 on Amazon.com for instructional sailing books and #2 for atmospheric science. The companion DVD, Storm Tactics is also available through Amazon Rerations < Storm Tactics Handbook: Modern Methods of Heaving-to for Survival in Extreme Conditions, 3rd Edition >
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