Chaos and Organization in Health Care

Two leading physicians' prescription for solving our health care problems: organizing the fragmented system that delivers care.One of the most daunting challenges facing the new U.S. administration is health care reform. The size of the system, the number of stakeholders, and ever-rising costs make the problem seem almost intractable. But in Chaos and Organization in Health Care, two leading ph…

Design Things

Thomas Binder, Giorgio De Michelis, Pelle Ehn, Giulio Jacucci, Per Linde, and Ina Wagner."A new perspective on design thinking and design practice: beyond products and projects, toward participatory design things.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

When the Lights Went Out: A History of Blackouts in America

Where were you when the lights went out? At home during a thunderstorm? During the Great Northeastern Blackout of 1965? In California when rolling blackouts hit in 2000? In 2003, when a cascading power failure left fifty million people without electricity? We often remember vividly our time in the dark. In When the Lights Went Out, David Nye views power outages in America from 1935 to the prese…

World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities

Here, experts examine ways in which the use of increasingly powerful and versatile digital information and communication technologies are transforming research activities across all disciplines.

Nanoscale: Visualizing an Invisible World

The world is made up of structures too small to see with the naked eye, too small to see even with an electron microscope. Einstein established the reality of atoms and molecules in the early 1900s. How can we see a world measured in fractions of nanometers? (Most atoms are less than one nanometer, less than one-billionth of a meter, in diameter.) This beautiful and fascinating book gives us a …

Offshoring of American jobs: What response from U.S. economic policy?

Two leading economists discuss a range of issues relating to the "offshoring" of American jobs, from free trade to unemployment levels.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

The future of Spain : Spanish Carlism before the world

It is evident to us, Spaiiisli Carlists, that the foreign public opinion is erroneously informed about our history, our program and our deeds. We know we have been victims of an evil-minded propaganda, based on falsehood and confusion; the Black Legend that throws upon Spain, our Countrj', the whole responsibility of obscurantism and tyranny is even darker, gloomier, where our Party is conce…

The manse garden, or, Pleasant culture of fruit trees, flowers, and vegetable…

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Structuring an Energy Technology Revolution

An argument for a major federal program to stimulate innovation in energy technology and a proposal for a policy approach to implement it.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Immigration and Labor Market Mobility in Israel, 1990 to 2009

A study of the labor market integration of highly skilled Soviet immigrants to Israel that formulates dynamic models of job search and human capital investment.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.