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Remedy and Reaction

The Peculiar American Struggle Over Health Care Reform, Revised Edition

By: Paul Starr

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Remedy and Reaction

The Peculiar American Struggle Over Health Care Reform, Revised Edition

By: Paul Starr

Recounts the history of health care policy in the United States, and argues that the country became entrapped through policies that satisfied enough of the public and so enriched the health-care industry as to make the system difficult to change. Reprint.

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Yale University Press

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030018915X

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9780300189155

Ringo

With a Little Help

By: Michael Seth Starr

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Ringo

With a Little Help

By: Michael Seth Starr

Ringo: With a Little Help is the first in-depth biography of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, who kept the beat for an entire generation and who remains a rock icon over fifty years since the Beatles took the world by storm. With a Little Help traces the entire arc of Ringo's remarkable life and career, from his sickly childhood to his life as The World's Most Famous drummer to his triumphs, addictions, and emotional battles following the breakup of the Beatles as he comes to terms with his legacy. Born in 1940 as Richard Starkey in the Dingle, one of Liverpool's most gritty, rough-and-tumble neighborhoods, he rose from a hardscrabble childhood – marked by serious illnesses, long hospital stays, and little schooling – to emerge, against all odds, as a locally renowned drummer. Taking the stage name Ringo Starr, his big break with the Beatles rocketed him to the pinnacle of worldwide acclaim in a remarkably short time. He was the last member of the Beatles to join the group but also the most vulnerable, and his post-Beatles career was marked by chart-topping successes, a jet-setting life of excess and alcohol abuse, and, ultimately, his rebirth as one of rock's revered elder statesman.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1617136328

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9781617136320

World Politics

The Menu for Choice

By: Bruce M. Russett,David Kinsella,Harvey Starr

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World Politics

The Menu for Choice

By: Bruce M. Russett,David Kinsella,Harvey Starr

WORLD POLITICS, 10E, International Edition continues to be a sophisticated and broad theoretical orientation to the study of world politics, giving students the tools they need to adapt to the rapid change associated with international relations. The 10th Edition features 15 chapters, instead of 17, increased coverage of international law and organization, and a new feature on ethics.

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Wadsworth Publishing Company

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111182780X

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9781111827809

Endangered Dreams

The Great Depression in California

By: Kevin Starr

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Endangered Dreams

The Great Depression in California

By: Kevin Starr

History of California in the 1930s, discussing topics that include the depression, Utpon Sinclair's campaign for governor, Harry Bridges and the San Francisco general strike, and the public and private relief programs for the more than one million emigrants from the dust bowl.

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Americans and the California D

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0195100808

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9780195100808

The Social Transformation of American Medicine

The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry

By: Paul Starr

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The Social Transformation of American Medicine

The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry

By: Paul Starr

“A monumental achievement” (New York Times) and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark history of the American health care system. Considered the definitive history of the American health care system, The Social Transformation of American Medicine examines how the roles of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs have evolved over the last two and a half centuries. How did the financially insecure medical profession of the nineteenth century become a prosperous one in the twentieth? Why was national health insurance blocked? And why are corporate institutions taking over our medical system today? Beginning in 1760 and coming up to the present day, renowned sociologist Paul Starr traces the decline of professional sovereignty in medicine, the political struggles over health care, and the rise of a corporate system. Updated with a new preface and an epilogue analyzing developments since the early 1980s, The Social Transformation of American Medicine is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future of our fraught health care system.

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Basic Books

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0465093035

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9780465093038

Golden Dreams

California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963

By: Kevin Starr

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Golden Dreams

California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963

By: Kevin Starr

Explores the social, cultural, and economic history of California from 1950 through 1963, and discusses such topics as demography, water, freeways, development in the major cities and suburban areas, race relations, and more.

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OUP USA

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0195153774

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9780195153774

Material Dreams

Southern California Through the 1920s

By: Kevin Starr

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Material Dreams

Southern California Through the 1920s

By: Kevin Starr

In Material Dreams, Starr turns to one of the most vibrant decades in the Golden State's history, the 1920s, when some two million Americans migrated to California, the vast majority settling in or around Los Angeles. Although he treats readers to intriguing side trips to Santa Barbara and Pasadena, Starr focuses here mainly on Los Angeles, revealing how this major city arose almost defiantly on a site lacking many of the advantages required for urban development, creating itself out of sheer will, the Great Gatsby of American cities. He describes how William Ellsworth Smyth, the Peter the Hermit of the Irrigation Crusade, propounded the importance of water in Southern California's future, and how such figures as the self-educated, Irish engineer William Mulholland (who built the main aquaducts to Los Angeles) and George Chaffey (who diverted the Colorado River, transforming desert into the lush Imperial Valley) brought life-supporting water to the arid South. He examines the discovery of oil ("Yes it's oil, oil, oil / that makes LA boil," went the official drinking song of the Uplifters Club), the boosters and land developers, the evangelists (such as Bob Shuler, the Methodist Savanarola of Los Angeles, and Aimee Semple McPherson), and countless other colorful figures of the period. There are also fascinating sections on the city's architecture (such as the remarkably innovative Bradbury Building and its eccentric, neophyte designer, George Wyman), the impact of the automobile on city planning, the great antiquarian book collections, the Hollywood film community, and much more. By the end of the decade, Los Angeles had tripled in population and become the fifth largest city in the nation. In Material Dreams, Kevin Starr captures this explosive growth in a narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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019507260X

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9780195072600

Interior Castle

The Soul's Spiritual Journey to Union With God

By: Saint Teresa of Avila

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Interior Castle

The Soul's Spiritual Journey to Union With God

By: Saint Teresa of Avila

Interior Castle is an enduring classic unveiling a spiritual vision given to Teresa of Avila. It's a vision of profound mystical content, full of maxims on such subjects as humility, self-knowledge, detachment from worldly desires, abandonment to God, and experiencing the cleansing fires of the Holy Spirit.

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Bridge Logos Foundation

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0882704648

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9780882704647

Sharing Shalom

A Process for Local Interfaith Dialogue Between Christians and Jews

By: Philip A. Cunningham,Arthur F. Starr

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Sharing Shalom

A Process for Local Interfaith Dialogue Between Christians and Jews

By: Philip A. Cunningham,Arthur F. Starr

A Stimulus book." Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-115).

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Paulist Press

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0809138352

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9780809138357

Golden Gate

The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge

By: Kevin Starr

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Golden Gate

The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge

By: Kevin Starr

A passionate chronicle of the Golden Gate Bridge's construction by a National Humanities Medal-winning historian reveals influences from culture and nature that shaped its development while offering insight into its role as a national symbol of American engineering and innovation.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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159691534X

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9781596915343

The Killer of Little Shepherds

A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science

By: Douglas Starr

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The Killer of Little Shepherds

A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science

By: Douglas Starr

Winner of the Gold Dagger Award A fascinating true crime story that details the rise of modern forensics and the development of modern criminal investigation. At the end of the nineteenth century, serial murderer Joseph Vacher terrorized the French countryside, eluding authorities for years, and murdering twice as many victims as Jack The Ripper. Here, Douglas Starr revisits Vacher's infamous crime wave, interweaving the story of the two men who eventually stopped him—prosecutor Emile Fourquet and Dr. Alexandre Lacassagne, the era's most renowned criminologist. In dramatic detail, Starr shows how Lacassagne and his colleagues were developing forensic science as we know it. Building to a gripping courtroom denouement, The Killer of Little Shepherds is a riveting contribution to the history of criminal justice.

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Vintage

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0307279081

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9780307279088

The Network Nation

Human Communication Via Computer

By: Starr Roxanne Hiltz,Murray Turoff

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The Network Nation

Human Communication Via Computer

By: Starr Roxanne Hiltz,Murray Turoff

The defining document and standard reference for the field of computer mediated communication (CMC)

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MIT Press

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0262581205

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9780262581202

Louis Moreau Gottschalk

By: S. Frederick Starr

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Louis Moreau Gottschalk

By: S. Frederick Starr

Innovating American composer, virtuoso pianist, and swashbuckling Romantic hero, Louis Moreau Gottschalk produced immensely popular works combining the French, Hispanic, and African influences of his native New Orleans. Many of his syncopated compositions anticipated ragtime by half a century. S. Frederick Starr's biography, originally published as Bamboula!, is the most extensive chronicle available of Gottschalk's eventful life. Starr examines Gottshalk's music, his frenetic life on the road, his virtuosity as a performer, his effect on his audiences, and the scandals surrounding his romantic dalliances. He also reveals a generous and compassionate man who sponsored a host of young musicians and provided financial support for his many siblings.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252068769

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9780252068768

Human Biology

By: Cecie Starr,Beverly McMillan

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Human Biology

By: Cecie Starr,Beverly McMillan

The Fifth Edition of Starr and McMillan's best-selling HUMAN BIOLOGY is designed to help students understand human biology by engaging them in learning in every way possible. The book's extensive array of multimedia resources enriches the book's hallmark features: unique visuals on every page, applications in every chapter that show how human biology is inextricably linked to everyday life, and activities and resources throughout the book that encourage critical thinking. Segments on the FREE accompanying interactive CD-ROM, as well as the CNN Today Videos, Web links, and reading from the InfoTrac College Edition library are all integrated with the text to support, illuminate, and reinforce the text. Starr and McMillan's visuals work hand in hand with the authors' clear writing. Each basic concept appears as a one- or two-page Concept Spread. This format helps students focus on information in manageable easy-to-understand segments. Main points are laid out clearly, summarized, and reinforced by visuals. The carefully written transitions between Concept Spreads help students grasp how each concept fits into the whole story of the remarkable human body.

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Cengage Learning

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0534387977

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9780534387976

The Everything Rock & Blues Piano Book

Master Riffs, Licks, and Blues Styles from New Orleans to New York City

By: Eric Starr

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The Everything Rock & Blues Piano Book

Master Riffs, Licks, and Blues Styles from New Orleans to New York City

By: Eric Starr

Written by an experienced musician, recording artist, and music journalist, The Everything Rock & Blues Piano Book with CD offers the basics of rock and blues piano playing in a fun, easy-to-follow manner. This practical guide is packed with advice on playing in this exciting style, including how to: play with soul; learn basic and advanced techniques for playing rock and roll; and perform 12 Bar Blues, Shuffle, and Boogie-Woogie. The accompanying audio CD includes over 50 examples of rock and blues piano, played by the author. Music lovers and students will enjoy learning the rich history and development of blues and rock music while mastering the art and science of piano playing.

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Simon and Schuster

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1605502596

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9781605502595

Equity-Based Leadership

Leveraging Complexity to Transform School Systems

By: Joshua P. Starr

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Equity-Based Leadership

Leveraging Complexity to Transform School Systems

By: Joshua P. Starr

With a visionary approach to school improvement, Equity-Based Leadership proposes a framework to support system leaders seeking to organize change and achieve more equitable education. In this ambitious yet pragmatic work, Joshua P. Starr makes the case that intentional and attentive district leadership can bring about continuous improvement in schools. When district reforms are conceived with social justice in mind, Starr explains, schools move toward fulfilling the longstanding promise of equitable education in America. Starr asserts that the essential goal of good system leadership lies in designing, implementing, and sustaining comprehensive strategies for school reform, in collaboration with school leaders, educators, and community shareholders. Drawing on his own experiences and those of other distinguished superintendents, he offers core practices that system leaders can use to ensure that the mission of their district is upheld throughout any change process and that precious time and funding are used judiciously. Recognizing that there is no single path to transformation, Starr sets forth a flexible, customizable agenda for district reform that concentrates on six elements, or entry points. Starr's first entry point is curriculum content, as teaching and learning are the fundamental goals of a school system. But he goes further to advocate for a deep dive into the organization and alignment of the system itself, via deliberate support of shared values; explicit and transparent decision-making; resource allocation in line with vision and need; talent management to achieve new levels of educator performance; and nourishment of school culture. Additionally, Starr brings together a wide range of real-world examples, evidence-based practices, and sensible advice to guide district leaders in aligning their systems around a coherent equity strategy. This bold new approach to transforming educational systems confidently guides the higher-level decision-making of leaders—not only superintendents but also school board members, cabinet members, and central office administrators—within the context of district-wide efforts to make education better for all students.

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Harvard Education Press

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1682537293

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9781682537299

Religious Liberty in Crisis

Exercising Your Faith in an Age of Uncertainty

By: Ken Starr

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Religious Liberty in Crisis

Exercising Your Faith in an Age of Uncertainty

By: Ken Starr

What was unfathomable in the first two decades of the twenty-first century has become a reality. Religious liberty, both in the United States and across the world, is in crisis. As we navigate the coming decades, We the People must know our rights more than ever, particularly as it relates to the freedom to exercise our religion. Armed with a proper understanding of this country’s rich tradition of religious liberty, we can protect faith through any crisis that comes our way. Without that understanding, though, we’ll watch as the creeping secular age erodes our freedom. In this book, Ken Starr explores the crises that threaten religious liberty in America. He also examines the ways well-meaning government action sometimes undermines the religious liberty of the people, and how the Supreme Court in the past has ultimately provided us protection from such forms of government overreach. He also explores the possibilities of future overreach by government officials. The reader will learn how each of us can resist the quarantining of our faith within the confines of the law, and why that resistance is important. Through gaining a deep understanding of the Constitutional importance of religious expression, Starr invites the reader to be a part of protecting those rights of religious freedom and taking a more active role in advancing the cause of liberty.

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Encounter Books

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164177181X

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9781641771818

Biology

The Unity and Diversity of Life

By: Cecie Starr,Ralph Taggart

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Biology

The Unity and Diversity of Life

By: Cecie Starr,Ralph Taggart

CD-ROM contains: quizzes, flash cards, and other study materials for the text; media animations illustrating concepts.

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Brooks Cole

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0534575463

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9780534575465

Biology Today and Tomorrow with Physiology

By: Cecie Starr,Christine Evers,Lisa Starr

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Biology Today and Tomorrow with Physiology

By: Cecie Starr,Christine Evers,Lisa Starr

Strike the perfect balance between level of detail and accessibility! Written for a one-semester, non-Biology majors course, BIOLOGY TODAY AND TOMORROW is packed with applications that are relevant to a student's daily life. The clear, straightforward writing style, in-text learning support, and trendsetting art engage students and help them understand key concepts. The accompanying MindTap for Biology is the most engaging and easiest to customize online solution in Biology. Overall, this accessible introduction helps students develop an understanding of biology and the process of science while building the critical-thinking skills they need to become responsible citizens of the world. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

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Cengage Learning

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1305117352

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9781305117358

Biology Today and Tomorrow without Physiology

By: Cecie Starr,Christine Evers,Lisa Starr

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Biology Today and Tomorrow without Physiology

By: Cecie Starr,Christine Evers,Lisa Starr

Succeed in your biology course with BIOLOGY TODAY AND TOMORROW WITHOUT PHYSIOLOGY! Packed with applications that are relevant to your daily life, the book offers a clear, straightforward writing style, in-text learning support, and trendsetting art to help you understand key biological concepts. The accompanying MindTap for Biology includes assessments, videos, study tools, and more. With this accessible, engaging introduction, you'll develop an understanding of biology and the process of science while you build the critical-thinking skills you need to succeed! Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

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Cengage Learning

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1305117395

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9781305117396

Production and Operations Management Systems

By: Sushil Gupta,Martin Starr

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Production and Operations Management Systems

By: Sushil Gupta,Martin Starr

Since the beginning of mankind on Earth, if the "busyness" process was successful, then some form of benefit sustained it. The fundamentals are obvious: get the right inputs (materials, labor, money, and ideas); transform them into highly demanded, quality outputs; and make it available in time to the end consumer. Illustrating how operations relate to the rest of the organization, Production and Operations Management Systems provides an understanding of the production and operations management (P/OM) functions as well as the processes of goods and service producers. The modular character of the text permits many different journeys through the materials. If you like to start with supply chain management (Chapter 9) and then move on to inventory management (Chapter 5) and then quality management (Chapter 8), you can do so in that order. However, if your focus is product line stability and quick response time to competition, you may prefer to begin with project management (Chapter 7) to reflect the continuous project mode required for fast redesign rapid response. Slides, lectures, Excel worksheets, and solutions to short and extended problem sets are available on the Downloads / Updates tabs. The project management component of P/OM is no longer an auxiliary aspect of the field. The entire system has to be viewed and understood. The book helps students develop a sense of managerial competence in making decisions in the design, planning, operation, and control of manufacturing, production, and operations systems through examples and case studies. The text uses analytical techniques when necessary to develop critical thinking and to sharpen decision-making skills. It makes production and operations management (P/OM) interesting, even exciting, to those who are embarking on a career that involves business of any kind.

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CRC Press

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1466507330

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9781466507333

Blood

An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce

By: Douglas Starr

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Blood

An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce

By: Douglas Starr

Essence and emblem of life--feared, revered, mythologized, and used in magic and medicine from earliest times--human blood is now the center of a huge, secretive, and often dangerous worldwide commerce. It is a commerce whose impact upon humanity rivals that of any other business--millions of lives have been saved by blood and its various derivatives, and tens of thousands of lives have been lost. Douglas Starr tells how this came to be, in a sweeping history that ranges through the centuries. With the dawn of science, blood came to be seen as a component of human anatomy, capable of being isolated, studied, used. Starr describes the first documented transfusion: In the seventeenth century, one of Louis XIV's court physicians transfers the blood of a calf into a madman to "cure" him. At the turn of the twentieth century a young researcher in Vienna identifies the basic blood groups, taking the first step toward successful transfusion. Then a New York doctor finds a way to stop blood from clotting, thereby making all transfusion possible. In the 1930s, a Russian physician, in grisly improvisation, successfully uses cadaver blood to help living patients--and realizes that blood can be stored. The first blood bank is soon operating in Chicago. During World War II, researchers, driven by battlefield needs, break down blood into usable components that are more easily stored and transported. This "fractionation" process--accomplished by a Harvard team--produces a host of pharmaceuticals, setting the stage for the global marketplace to come. Plasma, precisely because it can be made into long-lasting drugs, is shipped and traded for profit; today it is a $5 billion business. The author recounts the tragic spread of AIDS through the distribution of contaminated blood products, and describes why and how related scandals have erupted around the world. Finally, he looks at the latest attempts to make artificial blood. Douglas Starr has written a groundbreaking book that tackles a subject of universal and urgent importance and explores the perils and promises that lie ahead.

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Knopf

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0307823563

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9780307823564

May B.

By: Caroline Starr Rose

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May B.

By: Caroline Starr Rose

When a failed wheat crop nearly bankrupts the Betterly family, Pa pulls twelve-year-old May, who suffers from dyslexia, from school and hires her out to a couple new to the Kansas frontier.

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Random House Digital, Inc.

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158246393X

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9781582463933

Lost Enlightenment

Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane

By: S. Frederick Starr

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Lost Enlightenment

Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane

By: S. Frederick Starr

The forgotten story of Central Asia's enlightenment—its rise, fall, and enduring legacy In this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enlightenment through the eventful lives and astonishing accomplishments of its greatest minds—remarkable figures who built a bridge to the modern world. Because nearly all of these figures wrote in Arabic, they were long assumed to have been Arabs. In fact, they were from Central Asia—drawn from the Persianate and Turkic peoples of a region that today extends from Kazakhstan southward through Afghanistan, and from the easternmost province of Iran through Xinjiang, China. Lost Enlightenment recounts how, between the years 800 and 1200, Central Asia led the world in trade and economic development, the size and sophistication of its cities, the refinement of its arts, and, above all, in the advancement of knowledge in many fields. Central Asians achieved signal breakthroughs in astronomy, mathematics, geology, medicine, chemistry, music, social science, philosophy, and theology, among other subjects. They gave algebra its name, calculated the earth's diameter with unprecedented precision, wrote the books that later defined European medicine, and penned some of the world's greatest poetry. One scholar, working in Afghanistan, even predicted the existence of North and South America—five centuries before Columbus. Rarely in history has a more impressive group of polymaths appeared at one place and time. No wonder that their writings influenced European culture from the time of St. Thomas Aquinas down to the scientific revolution, and had a similarly deep impact in India and much of Asia. Lost Enlightenment chronicles this forgotten age of achievement, seeks to explain its rise, and explores the competing theories about the cause of its eventual demise. Informed by the latest scholarship yet written in a lively and accessible style, this is a book that will surprise general readers and specialists alike.

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Princeton University Press

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0691165858

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9780691165851

Embattled Dreams

California in War and Peace, 1940-1950

By: Kevin Starr

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Embattled Dreams

California in War and Peace, 1940-1950

By: Kevin Starr

The sixth volume in one of the great ongoing works of American cultural history--Kevin Starr's monumental Americans and the California Dream--Embattled Dreams is a peerless work of cultural history following California in the years surrounding World War II. During the 1940s California ascended to a new, more powerful role in the nation. Starr describes the vast expansion of the war industry and California's role as the "arsenal of democracy" (especially the significant part women played in the aviation industry). He examines the politics of the state: Earl Warren as the dominant political figure, the anti-Communist movement and "red baiting," and the early career of Richard Nixon. He also looks at culture, ranging from Hollywood to the counterculture, to film noir and detective stories. And he illuminates the harassment of Japanese immigrants and the shameful treatment of other minorities, especially Hispanics and blacks. In Embattled Dreams, Starr again provides a spellbinding account of the Golden State, narrating California's transformation from a regional power to a dominant economic, social, and cultural force. "With a novelist's eye for the telling detail, and a historian's grasp of the sweep of grand events.... [Starr's] got it all down.... I read the book with absorbed admiration."--Herman Wouk, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Caine Mutiny and The Winds of War "The scope of Starr's scholarship is breathtaking."--Atlantic Monthly "A magnificent accomplishment."--Los Angeles Times Book Review "Brilliant and epic social and cultural history."--Business Week "Ebullient, nuanced, interdisciplinary history of the grandest kind."--San Francisco Chronicle

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Oxford University Press

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0199728712

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9780199728718

The Author's Odyssey: Oscar J. Starr III's Journey to Literary Excellence

A Compelling Story told by Oscar J. Starr III

By: Oscar J. Starr III

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The Author's Odyssey: Oscar J. Starr III's Journey to Literary Excellence

A Compelling Story told by Oscar J. Starr III

By: Oscar J. Starr III

The Author’s Odyssey: Oscar J. Starr III’s Journey to Literary Excellence Embark on an inspiring journey with Oscar J. Starr III, a celebrated author whose words have touched the hearts and minds of readers worldwide. In “The Author’s Odyssey,” Oscar unveils the captivating story behind his rise to literary prominence, sharing the trials, triumphs, and transformative moments that shaped his career. From his early days of grappling with self-doubt to becoming a beacon of wisdom and insight, Oscar’s narrative is a testament to the power of perseverance and passion. This book delves into the creative process, offering a rare glimpse into the mind of a master storyteller. Readers will discover the secrets behind his most acclaimed works, the challenges he faced, and the lessons learned along the way. But “The Author’s Odyssey” is more than just a memoir. It’s a guide for aspiring writers and dreamers, filled with practical advice, motivational anecdotes, and a roadmap to achieving literary success. Oscar’s dedication to his craft and his unwavering commitment to making a difference shine through every page. Join Oscar J. Starr III on this odyssey of self-discovery, creativity, and excellence. Whether you’re a seasoned writer or just starting your literary journey, this book will inspire you to chase your dreams and write your own story of success.

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