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BEST OF THE 2022 RUSA Book & Media AWARDS One of Biblioracle's
8 favorite nonfiction books of 2021 in the Chicago Tribune The New
York Post's BEST BOOKS OF 2021 USA Today's 5 BOOKS NOT TO MISS
Alexander nimbly and grippingly translates the byzantine world of
American health care into a real-life narrative with people you
come to care about. --New York Times Takes readers into the world
of the American medical industry in a way no book has done before.
--Fortune By following the struggle for survival of one small-town
hospital, and the patients who walk, or are carried, through its
doors, The Hospital takes readers into the world of the American
medical industry in a way no book has done before. Americans are
dying sooner, and living in poorer health. Alexander argues that no
plan will solve America's health crisis until the deeper causes of
that crisis are addressed. Bryan, Ohio's hospital, is losing money,
making it vulnerable to big health systems seeking domination and
Phil Ennen, CEO, has been fighting to preserve its independence.
Meanwhile, Bryan, a town of 8,500 people in Ohio's northwest
corner, is still trying to recover from the Great Recession. As
local leaders struggle to address the town's problems, and the
hospital fights for its life amid a rapidly consolidating medical
and hospital industry, a 39-year-old diabetic literally fights for
his limbs, and a 55-year-old contractor lies dying in the emergency
room. With these and other stories, Alexander strips away the
wonkiness of policy to reveal Americans' struggle for health
against a powerful system that's stacked against them, but yet so
fragile it blows apart when the pandemic hits. Culminating with
COVID-19, this book offers a blueprint for how we created the
crisis we're in.
Museum Finance: Issues, Challenges, and Successes looks at why
museum finance is inherently challenging and how difficult it is to
balance the need to generate adequate funding while providing
accessible, meaningful mission-based services. The book's purpose
is to help museum leaders at all levels recognize and avoid certain
financial minefields and realize that while there are financial
hurdles in the museum world, they are solvable. The book is filled
with numerous examples illustrating the range of challenges faced
by museums and how institutions met these challenges along with
advice on how institutions can be successful in the face of
financial difficulty.
Museum Finance: Issues, Challenges, and Successes looks at why
museum finance is inherently challenging and how difficult it is to
balance the need to generate adequate funding while providing
accessible, meaningful mission-based services. The book's purpose
is to help museum leaders at all levels recognize and avoid certain
financial minefields and realize that while there are financial
hurdles in the museum world, they are solvable. The book is filled
with numerous examples illustrating the range of challenges faced
by museums and how institutions met these challenges along with
advice on how institutions can be successful in the face of
financial difficulty.
What is the role that norms play in the U.S. Congress? At a time of
unprecedented partisanship and high-profile breaches of legislative
norms in the modern Congress, the relationship between norms and
the functioning of the institution is a growing and pressing
concern. Despite the importance of the topic, recent scholarship
has not focused on congressional norms. Meanwhile, previous
research leaves open many relevant questions about the role of
norms in the Congress of the twenty-first century. A Social Theory
of Congress brings norms back in to the study of Congress by
defining what are legislative norms, identifying which norms
currently exist in the U.S. Congress, and examining the effects
that congressional norms have. This book provides a new research
approach to study congressional norms through a comprehensive
review of previous scholarship and a combination of interviews,
survey research, and analysis of member behavior. What's more, an
innovative theoretical framework - a social theory of Congress -
provides new perspectives in the study of legislatures and
political behavior. The findings are striking. Norms of cooperation
are surprisingly alive and well in an otherwise partisan Congress.
But norms of conflict are on the rise. In addition, norms of a
changing culture are affecting how members understand their role as
lawmakers and in their interactions among one another. Together,
these findings suggest that norms play an important role in the
functioning of the legislature and as norms evolve so too does the
performance of Congress in American democracy.
Are you a non-native English speaker? Are you often confronted with
manuscript rejections because of poor language impeding
comprehension of your paper? A Practical Guide to Scientific and
Technical Translation is your solution. In this one-stop guide, two
authors with extensive experience as reviewers and translators in a
vast medley of scientific fields assist you to produce professional
quality documents, whether through direct authoring in a language
foreign to you or translation from an existing text. The book is
not intended as a text on English grammar but as a troubleshooting
guide to linguistic and style errors. We will help you overcome at
least the most common problems here. Technical terminology
searching and choice will also be covered with examples from a
number of scientific (physics, chemistry) and engineering
disciplines (aviation, transport, nuclear, environment, etc.), with
advice on how to choose the right term for the right job. While the
emphasis is on producing documents in English (the lingua franca of
modern scientific literature), general translation concepts are
also discussed. Hence, this book will also be useful to
translators, and scientists who need to present their work in
languages other than English.
What is the role that norms play in the U.S. Congress? At a time of
unprecedented partisanship and high-profile breaches of legislative
norms in the modern Congress, the relationship between norms and
the functioning of the institution is a growing and pressing
concern. Despite the importance of the topic, recent scholarship
has not focused on congressional norms. Meanwhile, previous
research leaves open many relevant questions about the role of
norms in the Congress of the twenty-first century. A Social Theory
of Congress brings norms back in to the study of Congress by
defining what are legislative norms, identifying which norms
currently exist in the U.S. Congress, and examining the effects
that congressional norms have. This book provides a new research
approach to study congressional norms through a comprehensive
review of previous scholarship and a combination of interviews,
survey research, and analysis of member behavior. What's more, an
innovative theoretical framework - a social theory of Congress -
provides new perspectives in the study of legislatures and
political behavior. The findings are striking. Norms of cooperation
are surprisingly alive and well in an otherwise partisan Congress.
But norms of conflict are on the rise. In addition, norms of a
changing culture are affecting how members understand their role as
lawmakers and in their interactions among one another. Together,
these findings suggest that norms play an important role in the
functioning of the legislature and as norms evolve so too does the
performance of Congress in American democracy.
Are you a non-native English speaker? Are you often confronted with
manuscript rejections because of poor language impeding
comprehension of your paper? A Practical Guide to Scientific and
Technical Translation is your solution. In this one-stop guide, two
authors with extensive experience as reviewers and translators in a
vast medley of scientific fields assist you to produce professional
quality documents, whether through direct authoring in a language
foreign to you or translation from an existing text. The book is
not intended as a text on English grammar but as a troubleshooting
guide to linguistic and style errors. We will help you overcome at
least the most common problems here. Technical terminology
searching and choice will also be covered with examples from a
number of scientific (physics, chemistry) and engineering
disciplines (aviation, transport, nuclear, environment, etc.), with
advice on how to choose the right term for the right job. While the
emphasis is on producing documents in English (the lingua franca of
modern scientific literature), general translation concepts are
also discussed. Hence, this book will also be useful to
translators, and scientists who need to present their work in
languages other than English.
Set in the year 2030, The Mailman is a fast paced roller coaster
ride in the World of the Supernatural. My main character, Gary
Wright, has always been the type of guy who can't get what he wants
from life. While trying to find a solution to his plight---at the
cross roads of his dead end career---he meets a strange new postal
worker on his mail route. The Mailman's name is Lou Beelzer. And he
seems to have all the answers Gary's been looking for. First, this
postal carrier gives him an investment magazine recommending stock
options that turn him into a millionaire overnight. Then he begins
a friendship with Gary; in which he mentors him in strategies that
finally enable him to rise in the ranks of the corporate world.
When the path Lou leads him on becomes a maze, compelling him to
commit unspeakable acts, he starts to wonder who the Mailman really
is. Eventually, Gary learns that if he doesn't come to terms with
Lou's true identity soon---the price of his newfound success might
be his very soul
How does love begin? How can a man say he loves his wife, yet still cheat on her? Why do we stay in relationships even after the romance fades? How is it possible to fall in love with the "wrong" person?
Physical attraction, jealousy, infidelity, mother/infant bonding--all the behaviors that so often leave us befuddled--are now being demystified by today's social neuroscience. Larry Young, one of the world's leading experts in the field, and journalist Brian Alexander explain how those findings apply to you and boldly attempt to create a "grand unified theory" of love.
The Anchor Hocking Glass Company, once the world's largest maker of
glass tableware, was the base on which Lancaster's society was
built. As Glass House unfolds, bankruptcy looms. With access to the
company and its leaders, and Lancaster's citizens, Alexander shows
how financial engineering took hold in the 1980s, accelerated in
the 21st Century, and wrecked the company. We follow CEO Sam
Solomon, an African-American leading the nearly all-white town's
biggest private employer, as he tries to rescue the company from
the New York private equity firm that hired him. Meanwhile,
Alexander goes behind the scenes, entwined with the lives of
residents as they wrestle with heroin, politics, high-interest
lenders, low wage jobs, technology, and the new demands of American
life: people like Brian Gossett, the fourth generation to work at
Anchor Hocking; and Eric Brown, a local football hero-turned-cop
who comes to realise that he can never arrest Lancaster's real
problems.
The Middle Ages covers the period between the fall of Rome (476)
and 1453 (the year in which several important developments -
notably the proliferation of documents issuing from the newly
invented printing press, the end of the Hundred Years' War, and the
fall of Constantinople). The time frame draws a dividing line
between the late Middle Ages and the early modern world. Within
this period, the events are arranged strictly chronologically,
essentially forming a time line without regard to region. Hence,
students can trace world history comparatively, with events in
Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas comingled. To facilitate
location of time periods within the publication, right-hand pages
contain date-range tabs.
This engaging text offers a brief, readable description of our
common Western heritage as it began in the first human societies
and developed in ancient Greece and Rome, then through the Middle
Ages. Providing a tightly focused narrative and interpretive
structure, Brian A. Pavlac covers the basic historical information
that all educated adults should know. His joined terms "supremacies
and diversities" develop major themes of conflict and creativity
throughout history. "Supremacies" centers on the use of power to
dominate societies, ranging from warfare to ideologies. Supremacy,
Pavlac shows, seeks stability, order, and incorporation.
"Diversities" encompasses the creative impulse that produces new
ideas, as well as efforts of groups of people to define themselves
as "different." Diversity creates change, opportunity, and
individuality. These concepts of historical tension and change,
whether applied to political, economic, technological, social, or
cultural trends, offer a cohesive explanatory organization. The
text is also informed by five other topical themes: technological
innovation, migration and conquest, political and economic
decision-making, church and state, and disputes about the meaning
of life. Throughout, judicious "basic principles" present summaries
of historical realities. Written with flair, this easily accessible
yet deeply knowledgeable text provides all the essentials for a
course on Western civilization. More information, study guides, and
links to sources can be found on the book's website,
www.concisewesternciv.com.
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