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Originally published in 1972. Hoover's first publication, his
doctoral dissertation, set the stage for a life-long preoccupation
with spatial economics from when it was a relatively new field. His
work developed the subject and lead him into the area of regional
economics, in which he became well known for his contributions to
the New York Metropolitan Region Study. In this book his colleagues
and a host of former students and admirers present chapters written
within his areas of interest in honor of his work, at the end of
his academic career, during which he mostly taught at the
University of Michigan and the University of Pittsburgh.
Originally published in 1972. Hoover's first publication, his
doctoral dissertation, set the stage for a life-long preoccupation
with spatial economics from when it was a relatively new field. His
work developed the subject and lead him into the area of regional
economics, in which he became well known for his contributions to
the New York Metropolitan Region Study. In this book his colleagues
and a host of former students and admirers present chapters written
within his areas of interest in honor of his work, at the end of
his academic career, during which he mostly taught at the
University of Michigan and the University of Pittsburgh.
Reflecting the surge of critical interest in Eliot renewed in
recent years, A Companion to T.S. Eliot introduces the 'new' Eliot
to readers and educators by examining the full body of his works
and career. Leading scholars in the field provide a fresh and fully
comprehensive collection of contextual and critical essays on his
life and achievement. * It compiles the most comprehensive and
up-to-date treatment available of Eliot's work and career * It
explores the powerful forces that shaped Eliot as a writer and
thinker, analyzing his body of work and assessing his oeuvre in a
variety of contexts: historical, cultural, social, and
philosophical * It charts the surge in critical interest in T.S.
Eliot since the early 1990s * It provides an illuminating insight
into a poet, writer, and critic who continues to define the
literary landscape of the last century
Reflecting the surge of critical interest in Eliot renewed in
recent years, A Companion to T.S. Eliot introduces the 'new' Eliot
to readers and educators by examining the full body of his works
and career. Leading scholars in the field provide a fresh and fully
comprehensive collection of contextual and critical essays on his
life and achievement. It compiles the most comprehensive and
up-to-date treatment available of Eliot's work and career It
explores the powerful forces that shaped Eliot as a writer and
thinker, analyzing his body of work and assessing his oeuvre in a
variety of contexts: historical, cultural, social, and
philosophical It charts the surge in critical interest in T.S.
Eliot since the early 1990s It provides an illuminating insight
into a poet, writer, and critic who continues to define the
literary landscape of the last century
Someone is Sick..uses a series of humorous tales to expose the dark
underside of medicine. The function of specific body parts is
meticulously avoided and the text is written in simple language
that even physicians can understand.
Tony Rawlins does not think he is a stupidly gullible man. Forlorn
and desperate to extricate himself from the aftereffects of a bad
marriage, he attempts to find romance by answering a provocative
personal ad. Unfortunately, Rawlins is about to find himself
victimized by the woman he had hoped would cure his loneliness. Now
she has accused him of killing her husband. Innocent but convicted
on her convincing testimony, Rawlins heads to jail. Soon, and much
to his relief, new evidence is uncovered that casts his accuser's
story in doubt. She vanishes, and the conviction is set aside until
she can be found. Vindicated at least for the time being, Rawlins
returns to work where he unwittingly uncovers an illegal business
that soon reveals the real reason for the murder. But now others
are turning up dead-including the woman who accused him of murder.
In a mystery trilogy of novellas filled with surprising twists and
turns, Rawlins must decide who he can trust-and who he cannot-as he
attempts to untangle himself from a dangerous and very determined
web of fatal females.
Tony Rawlins does not think he is a stupidly gullible man. Forlorn
and desperate to extricate himself from the aftereffects of a bad
marriage, he attempts to find romance by answering a provocative
personal ad. Unfortunately, Rawlins is about to find himself
victimized by the woman he had hoped would cure his loneliness. Now
she has accused him of killing her husband. Innocent but convicted
on her convincing testimony, Rawlins heads to jail. Soon, and much
to his relief, new evidence is uncovered that casts his accuser's
story in doubt. She vanishes, and the conviction is set aside until
she can be found. Vindicated at least for the time being, Rawlins
returns to work where he unwittingly uncovers an illegal business
that soon reveals the real reason for the murder. But now others
are turning up dead-including the woman who accused him of murder.
In a mystery trilogy of novellas filled with surprising twists and
turns, Rawlins must decide who he can trust-and who he cannot-as he
attempts to untangle himself from a dangerous and very determined
web of fatal females.
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Keonah Days (Paperback)
M. Paul Chinitz
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Retired engineer Emmett Borden is emotionally drained as he drives
away from his home in Mamaroneck, New York. As he heads west toward
his childhood roots in Iowa, he just wants to escape from the
surroundings that remind him of his beloved wife, who has just died
from cancer. But Emmett is about to discover that life is full of
surprises. After an exhaustive day of driving, Emmett stops at a
lodge to spend the night and strikes up a friendship with the
lodge's owner. Edie Adamson shows him her grandfather's exotic
artifact collection that includes a bizarre-looking spittoon made
from an elephant's right foot. After the two exchange goodbyes,
Emmett eventually makes his way to Keonah, Iowa, where he accepts a
job as a handyman for Elmer Diehl's hardware store. A short time
later, while Emmett is making repairs at an antique shop, he
stumbles upon the elephant's missing left foot and is unexpectedly
embroiled in the midst of what appears to be a robbery. Suddenly,
Emmett's quiet life becomes one spontaneous adventure after the
other. In a small town surrounded by corn fields in Iowa, Emmett
rediscovers love, friendship, and most importantly, his life's
purpose.
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Six Countries, Six Reform Models: The Healthcare Reform Experience Of Israel, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland And Taiwan - Healthcare Reforms "Under The Radar Screen" (Hardcover)
Kieke G Okma, Iva Bolgiani, Tim Tenbensel, Toni Ashton, Hans Maarse, …
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This book presents the healthcare reform experiences of six small-
to mid-sized, but dynamic, economies spanning the Asia-Pacific, the
Middle East and Europe. Usually not given serious consideration in
major international comparisons because of their small size, each
in fact provides a fascinating case study that illuminates the
understanding of the dynamics of healthcare reform. Although
dissimilar in historical and cultural backgrounds, they share some
important features: all faced very similar pressures for change in
the 1970s and 1980s; all considered a very similar range of policy
options; and all did not only discuss but actually implemented
fundamental changes in their healthcare funding, organization,
contracting and governance structures with strikingly different
outcomes.All of the authors have lived and worked in one or more of
the countries studied in this volume. The analytic frameworks they
use reflect their broad range of professional and disciplinary
backgrounds in health economics and political science. Beyond mere
descriptions of reform processes and superficial analyses based on
aggregate data from the usual OECD or WHO sources, they seek to
understand - and explain - the variations in country experiences by
examining the politico-socio-economic factors driving health reform
as seen through the respective country lenses. In coming together
in this unique international collaboration, they make an important
contribution to the growing field of international comparative
health policy studies.Contributors: Tsung-Mei Cheng (Princeton
University, USA), David Chinitz (The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, Israel), Luca Crivelli and Iva Bolgiani (University of
Lugano, Switzerland), Meng-Kin Lim (National University of
Singapore, Singapore), Kieke G H Okma and Hans Maarse (Maastricht
University, The Netherlands), Toni Ashton and Tim Tenbensel
(University of Auckland, New Zealand).
The modernist poet T. S. Eliot has been applauded and denounced for
decades as a staunch champion of high art and an implacable
opponent of popular culture. But Eliot's elitism was never what it
seemed. "T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide" refurbishes this
great writer for the twenty-first century, presenting him as the
complex figure he was, an artist attentive not only to literature
but to detective fiction, vaudeville theater, jazz, and the songs
of Tin Pan Alley.
David Chinitz argues that Eliot was productively engaged with
popular culture in some form at every stage of his career, and that
his response to it, as expressed in his poetry, plays, and essays,
was ambivalent rather than hostile. He shows that American jazz,
for example, was a major influence on Eliot's poetry during its
maturation. He discusses Eliot's surprisingly persistent interest
in popular culture both in such famous works as "The Waste Land"
and in such lesser-known pieces as "Sweeney Agonistes," And he
traces Eliot's long, quixotic struggle to close the widening gap
between high art and popular culture through a new type of public
art: contemporary popular verse drama.
What results is a work that will persuade adherents and detractors
alike to return to Eliot and find in him a writer who liked a good
show, a good thriller, and a good tune, as well as a "great" poem.
Which Sin To Bear? mines Langston Hughes's creative work, newspaper
columns, letters, and unpublished papers to reveal a writer who
faced a daunting array of dicey questions and intimidating
obstacles, and whose triumphs and occasional missteps are a
fascinating and telling part of his legacy. David E. Chinitz
explores Hughes's efforts to negotiate the problems of identity and
ethics he faced as an African American professional writer and
intellectual, tracing his early efforts to fashion himself as an
"authentic" black poet of the Harlem Renaissance and his later
imagining of a new and more inclusive understanding of authentic
blackness. He also examines Hughes's lasting yet self-critical
commitment to progressive politics in the mid-century years and
shows how, in spite of ambivalence-and, at times, anguish-Hughes
was forced to engage in ethical compromises to achieve his personal
and social goals.
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Six Countries, Six Reform Models: The Healthcare Reform Experience Of Israel, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland And Taiwan - Healthcare Reforms "Under The Radar Screen" (Paperback)
Kieke G Okma, Iva Bolgiani, Tim Tenbensel, Toni Ashton, Hans Maarse, …
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R1,618
Discovery Miles 16 180
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This book presents the healthcare reform experiences of six small-
to mid-sized, but dynamic, economies spanning the Asia-Pacific, the
Middle East and Europe. Usually not given serious consideration in
major international comparisons because of their small size, each
in fact provides a fascinating case study that illuminates the
understanding of the dynamics of healthcare reform. Although
dissimilar in historical and cultural backgrounds, they share some
important features: all faced very similar pressures for change in
the 1970s and 1980s; all considered a very similar range of policy
options; and all did not only discuss but actually implemented
fundamental changes in their healthcare funding, organization,
contracting and governance structures with strikingly different
outcomes.All of the authors have lived and worked in one or more of
the countries studied in this volume. The analytic frameworks they
use reflect their broad range of professional and disciplinary
backgrounds in health economics and political science. Beyond mere
descriptions of reform processes and superficial analyses based on
aggregate data from the usual OECD or WHO sources, they seek to
understand - and explain - the variations in country experiences by
examining the politico-socio-economic factors driving health reform
as seen through the respective country lenses. In coming together
in this unique international collaboration, they make an important
contribution to the growing field of international comparative
health policy studies.Contributors: Tsung-Mei Cheng (Princeton
University, USA), David Chinitz (The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, Israel), Luca Crivelli and Iva Bolgiani (University of
Lugano, Switzerland), Meng-Kin Lim (National University of
Singapore, Singapore), Kieke G H Okma and Hans Maarse (Maastricht
University, The Netherlands), Toni Ashton and Tim Tenbensel
(University of Auckland, New Zealand).
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