Subject(s): Health care reform -- United States | Medical education -- United States | Health insurance -- United States | Pharmaceutical industry Summary: The World Health Organization recently rated America thirty-seventh in health outcomes, on par with Serbia. Tackling head-on the three major myths of American medicine, Dr. Weil shows how me

Subject(s): Science -- Experiments Statistical methods | Technology -- Experiments Statistical methods Summary: "This book has been developed from courses run by Statistics for Industry Limited for the past 30 years and demonstrates the ways in which statistical methods can be applied successfully, each method is introduced and used in a re

Subject(s): Contact mechanics -- Mathematics | Mechanics, Applied -- Mathematics | Mechanics, Analytic | Nonsmooth mathematical analysis | Nonsmooth optimization | Convex sets | Duality theory (Mathematics) Summary: "This book presents a methodology for comprehensive treatment of nonsmooth laws in mechanics in accordance with contemporary t

Subject(s): Architecture -- Composition, proportion, etc | Architectural design | Architecture, Modern | Architecture -- Aesthetics | Architecture -- Themes, motives | Architecture -- Philosophy Summary: In architecture, narrative prioritises human experiences and the need to shape them into stories. It places the emphasis on a building's m

Subject(s): Energy security -- Persian Gulf Region | Petroleum industry and trade -- Political aspects -- Persian Gulf Region | Persian Gulf Region -- Foreign relations | Persian Gulf Region -- Strategic aspects | Iran -- Foreign relations Summary: The strategic and economic characteristics of the Persian Gulf have made it of critical importanc

Subject(s): Learning ability -- Testing | Remedial teaching | Individualized instruction | Portfolios in education Summary: "A comprehensive assessment system for working with underperforming students This book describes a comprehensive assessment system especially appropriate for multilingual and "differentiated" classrooms with l

Subject(s): Organizational change | Communication in organizations Summary: "What is organizational change and how it can be brought about? Organizational Change integrates major empirical, theoretical and conceptual approaches to implementating communication in organizational settings. Laurie Lewis ties together the disparate literatures i

Subject(s): Climatic changes | Climatic changes -- Government policy Summary: "The second edition of Dessler and Parson's acclaimed book provides an integrated treatment of the science, technology, economics, policy, and politics of climate change. Aimed at the educated non-specialist, and at courses in environmental policy or climate c

Subject(s): Nonprofit organizations -- Finance | Nonprofit organizations -- Management Summary: "An authoritative guide for effective investment management and oversight of endowments, foundations and other nonprofit investorsNonprofit Asset Management is a timely guide for managing endowment, foundation, and other nonprofit assets. Taking

Subject(s): Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1945- | Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1914-1945 Summary: "This book takes a novel look at the modern Middle East through the prisms of six cascading negative critical turning points. It identifies the seeds of a potential seventh in the collective dignity deficits generated b