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Ghost from the Holocaust

By: Barry P. Hall

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The victim, a Jew who had survived the holocaust gets murdered at the harness race track in Peterborough. His friends are war veterans who form an amateur sleuth group to catch the murderer. The police have few clues and give up. The group is made up of retired men, who would rather spend their time fishing and playing golf than be the only ones to track down the killer. During their search for the murderer they come up against a clever thief who leads them a merry but violent chase. This thief is their chief suspect. The leader of the group is a well to do retired school teacher. Part of the pursuit is experienced at his cottage were they run up against an unexpected obstacle. Another of their group, George is an ex-policeman and is a joker who is egged on by the jokes their church secretary unwittingly puts in the church bulletin on Sundays. George provides the comic relief, until they finally solve this puzzling crime. Robert the third member of the core group is an immigrant from Scotland. He flew spitfires in the Battle of Britain and was aloft dog fighting when his family gets wiped out by Nazi bombers. He comes to Peterborough to get away.

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1504951808

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Town and Country Planning in the UK

By: Barry Cullingworth,Vincent Nadin

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Town and Country Planning in the UK

By: Barry Cullingworth,Vincent Nadin

This extensively revised fourteenth edition incorporates the major changes to planning introduced by the 2004 Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act and the government’s mission to change the culture of planning. It provides a critical discussion of the system of planning – the institutions involved, the plans and other instruments that are used, the procedures for controlling development and land use change, and the mechanisms for implementing policy and proposals. It reviews current policy for sustainable development, housing and the Sustainable Communities Plan, the Barker Review, urban renewal and regeneration, the renaissance of city and town centres, the countryside, transport, and the heritage. Contemporary arrangements are explained with reference to their historical development, the influence of the European Union, the Labour government and changing social and economic demands for land use change. Detailed consideration is given to: the nature of planning and its historical evolution policies for managing urban growth and delivering housing sustainable development principles for planning social and economic development of the countryside conserving the heritage changes to the profession and education of planners. Special attention is given to the objective of improving the co-ordination of government policies through the spatial planning approach. The many recent changes to the system are explained in detail, and each chapter ends with notes on further reading, lists of official publications and an extensive bibliography, all of which enhances its reputation as the bible of British Planning.

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Routledge

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1134246080

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9781134246083

The Statue of Liberty

By: Barry Moreno

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The Statue of Liberty

By: Barry Moreno

The world's most famous sculpture, the Statue of Liberty, Liberty Enlightening the World, rises to a height of 305 feet from the base of her pedestal to the top of the golden flame of her torch. Conceived, designed, and originally built in France, she was unveiled on her new island home in 1886. The postcard trade, still in its infancy, embraced the icon, and Miss Liberty's commanding figure soon appeared on millions of postcards. In this book, one will see the statue from many angles--profiles, long shots, close-ups, aerials, torch views, and more.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439659591

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Transforming Leadership, Improving the Patient Experience

Communication Strategies for Driving Patient Satisfaction

By: Alan T. Belasen, Ph.D.,Barry Eisenberg, Ph.D.,Jill Borgos, Ph.D.

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Transforming Leadership, Improving the Patient Experience

Communication Strategies for Driving Patient Satisfaction

By: Alan T. Belasen, Ph.D.,Barry Eisenberg, Ph.D.,Jill Borgos, Ph.D.

This book focuses on the patient experience as a leadership strategy. It explores the relationships between coordinated care, expert leadership, provider-patient communications, and the patient experience. When clinical and nonclinical staff collaborate effectively, healthcare teams can improve patient outcomes, prevent medical errors, improve efficiency, and increase patient satisfaction. Surprisingly, however, healthcare leaders tend to prioritize specific metrics to improve hospital performance and patient satisfaction even though patient experience and provider-patient communications are intertwined. Determining the most effective strategy for achieving higher levels of service quality and patient satisfaction can prove elusive for providers. Consider the evidence: a survey in 2012 of more than 17,000 healthcare leaders in North America, for example, found that leaders’ perceptions did not always match the data, and many hospital leaders overestimated the performance of their hospitals. Over 75% of the hospital leaders reported "quality of care" was something their hospital did well, while their patients, on average, rated them lower on perceived service quality. Ten years later, in 2022, only a few providers integrated best practices to achieve high patient satisfaction which severely impacted CMS Hospital Star Rating. This has significant effects on profit margins since patients consider the star rating differentials in their choices of hospitals and are willing to pay upward of 17% extra for treatments in 5-star hospitals, a revenue generating source of income at times when hospitals have seen falling revenues (down 4.8%) and rising labor (up 37%) from pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels. To reduce the gap between perception and reality, hospital leaders can consider the link between communication goals (e.g., responsiveness of hospital staff, pain management, communication about medicines) and outcomes (e.g., increased adherence and compliance, readmission, healthcare delivery costs, hospital overall ratings) as well as improve the patient experience. When intentions and outcomes are aligned, they create a powerful medium by which healthcare leaders can evaluate the gaps that exist between patient care measures and best practices and mitigate organizational or technological factors relevant to improving the patient experience. When the alignment is optimal, care teams develop a better sense of shared purpose, become more committed and accountable, and work together to improve the patient experience. When accomplished, patients participate more fully and actively in the exchange and are discharged with an enhanced commitment to carry out care management requirements. Key topics in this practical guide include provider-patient communications; demonstrating the value of patient-focused care; how physician and nurse executives use synergy as a strategy; engaging board members in promoting quality and safety goals and in developing hospital community partnerships; building bridges between physicians, administrators, trustees, and hospital staff; and developing a leadership pipeline.

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CRC Press

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1003846084

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9781003846086

Your Clients for Life

The Definitive Guide to Becoming a Successful Financial Life Planner

By: Mitch Anthony,Barry LaValley,Carol Anderson

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Your Clients for Life

The Definitive Guide to Becoming a Successful Financial Life Planner

By: Mitch Anthony,Barry LaValley,Carol Anderson

The financial planing profession is undergoing a transformation from the historical approach of transactions and straight asset accumulation to an integrated financial and life planning strategy for customers. Your Clients for Life: The Definitive Guide to Becoming a Successful Financial Life Planner is a roadmap that financial planners can use to understand how to make the connection between financial planning and life planning. Its premise is that advisors of the future will need to deal more with money as an element of a client's life that cannot be viewed alone.

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Dearborn Trade Publishing

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0793149541

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9780793149544

Congress and Defense Spending

The Distributive Politics of Military Procurement

By: Barry Rundquist,Thomas M. Carsey

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Congress and Defense Spending

The Distributive Politics of Military Procurement

By: Barry Rundquist,Thomas M. Carsey

Since World War II, the U.S. government has spent more than $10 trillion on defense. Although everyone in the United States must pay taxes supporting defense contracts, ten states have obtained 75 percent of all defense contracts and expenditures. In Congress and Defense Spending , Barry S. Rundquist and Thomas M. Carsey examine how the distribution of defense contracts is influenced by the interaction of state and local economies with the organization of Congress and how previous state representation on defense committees has affected current committee representation.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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080613402X

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9780806134024

Ebook: Business Forecasting and Modelling

By: J. Holton Wilson,Barry Keating,John Solutions Inc.

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Ebook: Business Forecasting and Modelling

By: J. Holton Wilson,Barry Keating,John Solutions Inc.

The Sixth Edition of Business Forecasting is the most practical forecasting book on the market with the most powerful software—Forecast X. This edition presents a broad-based survey of business forecasting methods including subjective and objective approaches. As always, the author team of Wilson and Keating deliver practical how-to forecasting techniques, along with dozens of real world data sets while theory and math are held to a minimum. This Sixth Edition includes Forecast X software updated for Excel 2007 and Vista. Forecast X is the most comprehensive software tool available in this market and the new version is also backwards compatible for XP Excel 2003 systems. This Excel-based tool effectively uses wizards and many tools to make forecasting easy and understandable.

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McGraw Hill

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0077172027

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9780077172022

Principles of Operations Management

By: Jay H. Heizer,Barry Render

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Principles of Operations Management

By: Jay H. Heizer,Barry Render

In this textbook, Heizer (business administration, Texas Lutheran U.) and Render (operations management, Rollins College) provide a broad introduction to the field of operations management. A sampling of topics includes operations strategy for competitive advantage, forecasting, design of goods and services, human resources, e- commerce, project management, inventory management, and maintenance. The CD-ROM contains video case studies, lecture notes, Excel OM and Extend software, and additional practice problems. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

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Pearson Educación

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9702605253

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9789702605256

The Grail Legend in Modern Literature

By: John Barry Marino

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The Grail Legend in Modern Literature

By: John Barry Marino

The Grail legends have in modern times been appropriated by a number of different scholarly schools of thought; their approaches are analysed here.

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DS Brewer

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1843840227

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Learning and Physiological Regulation

By: Barry R. Dworkin

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Learning and Physiological Regulation

By: Barry R. Dworkin

Since Pavlov, physiologists have explained homeostasis—the regulation of bodily functions—as the action of fixed negative feedback networks within individual organ systems. However, these standard explanations largely ignore the mechanisms of conditioning and learning. Drawing on the work of Western, East European, and Russian physiologists, Barry R. Dworkin challenges traditional concepts and argues that learning mechanisms of the nervous system are essential to regulation. Dworkin shows how, through experience, learning mechanisms determine dynamic stability and the long-term regulation of heart rate, blood pressure, glucose, electrolytes, and temperature. He argues that "hard wired" mechanisms do not adequately account for the speed and accuracy of physiological adjustments, and supports his contention with detailed analyses and mathematical models of how conditioned and unconditioned reflexes interact. Dworkin reviews a wealth of research on interoceptive conditioning, conditioned drug responses, and visceral adjustment. Combining physiological and behavioral data with mathematical analysis and computer models, he synthesizes the work of Pavlov and W. B. Cannon in a quantitative theory of physiological regulation that will interest researchers and theorists in medicine, physiology, neuroscience, and biopsychology.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226176002

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9780226176000

Sex Addiction

A Critical History

By: Barry Reay,Nina Attwood,Claire Gooder

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Sex Addiction

A Critical History

By: Barry Reay,Nina Attwood,Claire Gooder

The concept of sex addiction took hold in the 1980s as a product of cultural anxiety. Yet, despite being essentially mythical, sex addiction has to be taken seriously as a phenomenon. Its success as a purported malady lay with its medicalization, both as a self-help movement in terms of self-diagnosis, and as a rapidly growing industry of therapists treating the new disease. The media played a role in its history, first with TV, the tabloids and the case histories of claimed celebrity victims all helping to popularize the concept, and then with the impact of the Internet. This book is a critical history of an archetypically modern sexual syndrome. Reay, Attwood and Gooder argue that this strange history of social opportunism, diagnostic amorphism, therapeutic self-interest and popular cultural endorsement is marked by an essential social conservatism: sex addiction has become a convenient term to describe disapproved sex. It is a label without explanatory force. This book will be essential reading for those interested in sexuality studies, contemporary history, psychology, psychiatry, sociology, media studies and studies of the Internet. It will also be of interest to doctors and therapists currently working in this and related fields.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0745698042

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9780745698045

Handbook of Mushroom Poisoning

Diagnosis and Treatment

By: Barry H. Rumack,David G. Spoerke

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Handbook of Mushroom Poisoning

Diagnosis and Treatment

By: Barry H. Rumack,David G. Spoerke

The Handbook of Mushroom Poisoning provides an in-depth examination of mushroom poisoning, including case examples for each toxic class. The book contains specific chapters on mushroom poison pharmacology and approaches to treatment of cases caused by an unknown mushroom or unknown poison. For those who want a broader background, there are sections on gross and microscopic mushroom identification, general information about the types of toxic substances found in various mushroom families, and tables detailing the results of various field and laboratory tests. For those interested in learning more about mushroom poisonings and how to treat them, this book is a must.

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CRC Press

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0849301947

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9780849301940

Principles and Practice of Renal Transplantation

By: Barry D. Kahan

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Principles and Practice of Renal Transplantation

By: Barry D. Kahan

Two leaders in renal transplantation - an American surgeon and a European nephrologist - have collaborated on a text on the state of the art in current therapy, concentrating on the new and recent advances and how they impact upon the clinical management of patients. The exciting prospects from current research are also detailed.

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0203417348

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9780203417348

Tropical Conservation Biology

By: Navjot S. Sodhi,Barry W. Brook,Corey J. A. Bradshaw

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Tropical Conservation Biology

By: Navjot S. Sodhi,Barry W. Brook,Corey J. A. Bradshaw

This introductory textbook examines diminishing terrestrial and aquatic habitats in the tropics, covering a broad range of topics including the fate of the coral reefs; the impact of agriculture, urbanization, and logging on habitat depletion; and the effects of fire on plants and animal survival. Includes case studies and interviews with prominent conservation scientists to help situate key concepts in a real world context Covers a broad range of topics including: the fate of the coral reefs; the impact of agriculture, urbanization, and logging on habitat depletion; and the effects of fire on plants and animal survival Highlights conservation successes in the region, and emphasizes the need to integrate social issues, such as human hunger, into a tangible conservation plan Documents the current state of the field as it looks for ways to predict future outcomes and lessen human impact “Sodhi et al. have done a masterful job of compiling a great deal of literature from around the tropical realm, and they have laid out the book in a fruitful and straightforward manner...I plan to use it as a reference and as supplemental reading for several courses and I would encourage others to do the same.” Ecology, 90(4), 2009, pp. 1144–1145

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1118687469

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Telecommunications Services and Regional Development

The Case of Atlantic Canada

By: Barry Lesser,Pam Hall,Institute for Research on Public Policy

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Telecommunications Services and Regional Development

The Case of Atlantic Canada

By: Barry Lesser,Pam Hall,Institute for Research on Public Policy

Research study on the impact of telecommunications on regional development, focusing on Atlantic Canada. A profile of the Atlantic economyand telecommunications sector, the theoretical framework and case studies oftelecommunications use at Fishery Products International of Newfoundland, Process Technology Ltd. in New Brunwick, Evans, Yeatman and Endal(Associates) Ltd. in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, and the education sector.

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IRPP

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0886450489

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9780886450489

The Political Culture of Planning

American Land Use Planning in Comparative Perspective

By: J Barry Cullingworth,J. Barry Cullingworth

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The Political Culture of Planning

American Land Use Planning in Comparative Perspective

By: J Barry Cullingworth,J. Barry Cullingworth

The Political Culture of Planning is written for two quite distinct readerships. The main body of the book synthesizes a mass of information to provide an overview of a complex and amorphous field. This material is designed to meet the needs of students who require a succinct account of the American system of land use planning. These readers can ignore the notes. For those who are embarking upon a much wider and deeper study of land use planning in the US the notes are crucial: they provide the guideposts to an immensely rich literature. The first four parts of the text present the main issues of land use planning in the US. Part 1 assesses the US zoning system. The introductory chapter discusses the meaning of zoning (and its difference from planning), the primacy of local governments, the constitutional framework and the role of the courts. Chapter two provides the historical background to zoning and an outline of the classic Euclid case. Chapter three discusses the objectives and nature of zoning and the use which local governments have made of its inherently inflexible character. Chapter four acts as a corrective to this view, describing how lawyers and planners have shown remarkable ingenuity in adapting zoning to the demands of a changing society. Part 2 deals with the perennial issues of discrimination, financing infrastructure for new development and the process for negotiating zoning matters. Part 3 presents a discussion of two overlapping issues of increasing significance - aesthetics and historic preservation. Part 4 focusses on the main issue facing land use planners: attempting to channel the forces of development into spatial forms held to be socially desirable. Part 5 consists of a series of broad-ranging essays which discuss land use planning in the US, its institutional and cultural framework and the reasons for its particular character. Part 6 discusses the limited possibilities for land use reform in the US - drawing on the author's considerable experience in both Britain and Canada - in order to interpret the limitations and potentialities of land use planning in the US.

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Routledge

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1134881193

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9781134881192

Biomedical Physics in Radiotherapy for Cancer

By: Loredana Marcu,Eva Bezak,Barry Allen

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Biomedical Physics in Radiotherapy for Cancer

By: Loredana Marcu,Eva Bezak,Barry Allen

The scientific and clinical foundations of Radiation Therapy are cross-disciplinary. This book endeavours to bring together the physics, the radiobiology, the main clinical aspects as well as available clinical evidence behind Radiation Therapy, presenting mutual relationships between these disciplines and their role in the advancements of radiation oncology.

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