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This is an explanation of how thieves exploit the U.S. health system and steal more than $100 billion each year. The author examines the effects of managed care on the problem, the government's attempts to grapple with fraud, and the campaign by provider associations to undermine those efforts.

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A lucid and surprisingly accurate introduction to the field of astrobiology and a thoughtful response to the Rare Earth hypothesis."--James R. Kasting, Penn State Astrobiology Research Center

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James M. Glass provides a provocative new answer to the questions about the Holocaust that bedevil us to this day: How and why did so many ordinary German participate in the Final Solution And how did they come to regard Jews as less than human and 'deserving' of extermination

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How the noisy atomic cloud gives rise to the orderly world of the molecular machine-and to life itself

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Compelling scientific evidence that participating in hands-on activities can actually alter the stress responses that lead to depression

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Similar to the I Ching, this new translation from best-selling Chinese historian and translator Ralph Sawyer presents a popular divination tool for attaining self-knowledge and wisdom in the authentic Chinese tradition

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"One of the few unquestioned greats of twentieth-century science, Linus Pauling was the only person to receive two unshared Nobel Prizes--one in chemistry, for deciphering the quantum physics of large m"

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A young scholar goes to Grandmother's house--and beyond--to uncover the surprisingly complex and contradictory morals we've learned from this seemingly simple folk tale

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This landmark book examines the most urgent social problem facing us today: the welfare of America's children.

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A superstar scholar reinterprets the historical significance of key figures in African-American history reveals their enduring relevance for a new generation.

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The story of the woman who, with unprecedented enthusiasm and openness, helped forge a new foreign policy for America.

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American cities and states pay to subsidize new stadiums and arenas, but are regularly shut out from sharing the profits. The threat of a team leaving town results in offers of land, investment opportunities, luxury suites, prime office space, and practice facilities financed by the tax payers.

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A political scientist at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government analyses how public policy is made in this country, and why the system works so much better than most observers believe.

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Can America's faith in public education be restored As they analyse the ways in which public school leaders successfully formed and transformed American education, historian Tyack and political scientist Hansot conclude that the main challenge facing today's leaders is to create a new community of commitment to public education as a common good.

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Chosen by the American College of Healthcare Executives as the James A. Hamilton book of the year, Market-Driven Health Care is a must read for everyone concerned about the U.S. health care system.

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Mass Hate explores why the brutality of humankind erupted and flowed more expansively in the twentieth century than ever before. Psychologist Neil Kressel recommends specific steps to help stem this

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CSI meets John Allen Paulos-ten cases of the uses and abuses of mathematics in the courtroom

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The parallel lives of two compelling and competitive artists and their recurrent engagements with desire and mortality

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"An astonishingly detailed account of the Geodesic Mission.... Gripping, authoritative, and fair."-Washington Post

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This study of the effect on women and families of the organizing principles of health care shows the consequences of the assumption that women are solely responsible for family problems and demonstrates the medical superiority of a clinical relationship based on communication rather than control.

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Containing a new introduction, this book on corporate power offers a theory of the effects of power and powerlessness within the corporation. The theory is updated by considering attitudes and practices in the corporate power structure of the 1990s.

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A widely acclaimed reassessment of the remarkable life, art, struggles, and death of an American icon, from the celebrated author of Holler If You Hear Me.

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Migrations and Cultures goes beyond the political view of immigration and presents the whole phenomena of migration and immigration and the major role it plays in the general advancement of the human race.