Since 1972, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has been the nation's largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to health. To further its mission of improving the health and health care of all Americans, the Foundation strives to foster innovation, develop ideas, disseminate information, and enable committed people to devote their energies to improving the nation's well-being. As part of the Foundation's efforts to inform the public, the eleventh volume in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology series, To Improve Health and Health Care, provides an in-depth look into the programs it funds. Written for policymakers and practitioners, as well as interested members of the public, the series offers valuable lessons for leaders and educators developing plans for the coming years.
Globetrotting detective Al Colby makes his debut in this dazzling mystery from the author of To Catch a Thief. Al Colby, an American expatriate working as a private investigator in Mexico City, is contacted by an old acquaintance in Los Angeles who hands him a cold case involving a missing person. Robert Parker’s mysterious disappearance is tying up a family fortune and is enraging his abandoned wife who can’t tap the family coffers without proof of death. The case sounded routine enough, right up his alley, but the trail for the missing Mr. Parker leads Colby down a rabbit hole winding through a number of South American countries, each one a dead end. Running out of funds and clean shirts, Colby is ready to throw in the towel, but the stakes are too high and his client fuels the search with additional cash. The deeper Colby digs the more entangled he becomes in a decades old mystery of misplaced loyalties, family secrets, and riches in nitrate ore. In between tequila shots and beautiful women, Al Colby has a case that drags him in deeper with each step. But can he piece it all together before the quicksand swallows him whole?
This globe-spanning treasure-hunt adventure is filled with “action, suspense, and excitement . . . Pure escape” (San Francisco Chronicle). Al Colby should never have said yes. When asked to smuggle a package from Chile to Peru, he should have run in the other direction. But he needed money, and he wanted the adventure. Now a man is dead, and two beautiful women seem out to seduce Al or kill him—or maybe both. A handful of gunmen, however, definitely aren’t planning on seducing him first. And it all has something to do with that package, an ancient manuscript that reads like a treasure map . . . From the bestselling author of the classic To Catch a Thief—the basis for the Hitchcock film—this is an entertaining, fast-paced story of international intrigue and danger.
To further its mission of improving the health and health care of all Americans, the RWJF strives to foster innovation, develop ideas, disseminate information, and enable committed people to devote their energies to improving the nation's well-being. As part of the Foundation's efforts to inform the public, To Improve Health and Health Care, the on-going anthology of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, provides an in-depth look into the programs it funds. Written for policy makers and practitioners, the series offers valuable lessons for developing plans for the coming years.
This reception history of the Gospel of Matthew utilizes theoretical frameworks and literary sources from two typically distinct disciplines, patristic studies and Valentinian (a.k.a. “Gnostic”) studies. The author shows how in the second and third centuries, the Valentinians were important contributors to a shared culture of early Christian exegesis. By examining the use of the same Matthean pericopes by both Valentinian and patristic exegetes, the author demonstrates that certain Valentinian exegetical innovations were influential upon, and ultimately adopted by, patristic authors. Chief among Valentinian contributions include the allegorical interpretation of texts that would become part of the New Testament, a sophisticated theory of the historical and theological relationship between Christians and Jews, and indeed the very conceptualization of the Gospel of Matthew as sacred scripture. This study demonstrates that what would eventually emerge from this period as the ecclesiological and theological center cannot be adequately understood without attending to some groups and individuals that have often been depicted, both by subsequent ecclesiastical leaders and modern scholars, as marginal and heretical.
TO IMPROVE HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE, VOLUME XV The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology For forty years, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has been dedicated to improving the health and health care of all Americans. To reach this ambitious goal, the Foundation strives to foster innovation, develop ideas, disseminate information, and enable committed people to devote their energies to improving health and health care. As part of the Foundation's efforts to inform the public, To Improve Health and Health Care, the anthology series of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, offers an in-depth look into the programs it funds. Created for policy makers and practitioners, as well as interested members of the public, the series offers valuable lessons for those developing plans and programs in the health field and related fields. To Improve Health and Health Care is written by some of the country's leading health and health care journalists, as well as experts from universities and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. To celebrate the Foundation's fortieth year, this special volume includes: A forty-year retrospective look at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and its activities A conversation with the president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Reprints of chapters from previous volumes that illuminate the philosophy and inner workings of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Chapters on noteworthy programs funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, including: Project ECHO The Food Trust The Health & Society Scholars and Young Epidemiology Scholars programs Child FIRST County Health Rankings & Roadmaps
Whether you are planning a California pleasure or business trip & want to do a little fishing, have dreamt about fishing the legendary Baja, Mexico waters, or plan to use proven California methods to catch more fish in your waters, this book is for you. FISHING CALIFORNIA fully covers the incredible variety of California & Baja, Mexico fishing opportunities. Your choices range from huge largemouth bass, over 21 lbs., to rainbow colored golden trout in pristine high country lakes, the great topwater striped bass action just 15 minutes away from the gaming tables of Las Vegas, to battling striped marlin off southern California not far from Disneyland. The book "FISHING CALIFORNIA" provides quick & easy access to proven tackle & technique. It covers proven, consistent fish runs & hot spots for 45 major sport fish. Detailed maps & phone numbers for current information, boat rentals, partyboat reservations, & the best guides allow you to easily set up a great fishing trip from any place with a phone. Fully indexed. Includes glossary.
The US intelligence community as it currently exists has been deeply influenced by the press. Although considered a vital overseer of intelligence activity, the press and its validity is often questioned, even by the current presidential administration. But dating back to its creation in 1947, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has benefited from relationships with members of the US press to garner public support for its activities, defend itself from its failures, and promote US interests around the world. Many reporters, editors, and publishers were willing and even eager to work with the agency, especially at the height of the Cold War. That relationship began to change by the 1960s when the press began to challenge the CIA and expose many of its questionable activities. Respected publications went from studiously ignoring the CIA's activities to reporting on the Bay of Pigs, CIA pacification programs in Vietnam, the CIA's war in Laos, and its efforts to use US student groups and a variety of other non-government organizations as Cold War tools. This reporting prompted the first major congressional investigation of the CIA in December 1974. In The Rising Clamor: The American Press, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Cold War, David P. Hadley explores the relationships that developed between the CIA and the press, its evolution over time, and its practical impact from the creation of the CIA to the first major congressional investigations of its activities in 1975–76 by the Church and Pike committees. Drawing on a combination of archival research, declassified documents, and more than 2,000 news articles, Hadley provides a balanced and considered account of the different actors in the press and CIA relationships, how their collaboration helped define public expectations of what role intelligence should play in the US government, and what an intelligence agency should be able to do.
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