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Addresses the serious problem of rising health care costs.... More

"Le Grand's main themes revolve around the provision of genuine choice to users of public services and the incentives for improved service delivery that such provision puts in place. Provision of choice to users--especially in health and education--is controversial, partly because of doubts about us... More

An account of the application of powerful ideas to the problem of managing the Department of Defense, this book details the hisotry of the controversies inspired by that effort.... More

THE WORLD'S OLDEST AND MOST WIDELY READ GUIDE to the pleasures and techniques of sex, the Kama Sutra was compiled in the fourth century A.D. by a Brahmin and religious scholar named Vatsyayana, who worked from texts dating back to the fourth century B.C. Until the present, the only English translati... More

The volume contains of Alain Willaume's striking visual images and an introductory essay and also the text of 2 probing discussions. The discussion engage with a range of questions and issues thrown up by the photographs.Paperback... More

Health care costs in America are skyrocketing, with premium increases of thirty to forty percent not unheard of for some insurers and some consumers. And what does the system have to show for it? More than forty million uninsured citizens, inconsistent and unaccountable care, and the fastest growing... More

"Toward a 21st Century Health System's"contributors include George Avery, M.P.H., University of Minnesota School of Public Health and University of Minnesota-Duluth Department of Psychology Robert A. Berenson, M.D., F.A.C.P., The Urban Institute Donald M. Berwick, M.D., M.P.P., Institute for Heal... More