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  • Health at Risk

    America's Ailing Health System—and How to Heal It

    Edited by Jacob Hacker ...
    Series series A Columbia / SSRC Book (Privatization of Risk)
    In this volume, the nation's leading advisors on health policy and financing appraise America's ailing healthcare system and suggest reasonable approaches to its rehabilitation. Each chapter confronts a major challenge to the country's health security, from runaway costs and uneven quality of care to declining levels of insurance coverage, medical bankruptcy, and the growing enthusiasm for health ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Shared Responsibility, Shared Risk

    Government, Markets and Social Policy in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Jacob Hacker, Ann O'Leary ...
    The collapse of the financial markets in 2008 and the resulting 'Great Recession' merely accelerated an already worrisome trend: the shift away from an employer-based social welfare system in the United States. Since the end of World War II, a substantial percentage of the costs of social provision--most notably, unemployment insurance and health insurance--has been borne by employers rather than ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

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  • This Town

    Two Parties and a Funeral--Plus Plenty of Valet Parking!--in America's Gilded Capital

    by Mark Leibovich ...
    **A #1 New York Times bestsellerA gripping expose that delves into the heart of Washington D.C., and the intersection of big politics, big money, big media, and big vanity**Through the eyes of author Mark Leibovich, we discover how the funeral for a beloved newsman becomes the social event of the year; how political reporters are fetishized for their ability to get their names into the predawn e ... Read more

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  • Rediscovering Americanism

    And the Tyranny of Progressivism

    by Mark R. Levin ...
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author and radio host Mark R. Levin comes a searing plea for a return to America’s most sacred values.In Rediscovering Americanism, Mark R. Levin revisits the founders’ warnings about the perils of overreach by the federal government and concludes that the men who created our country would be outraged and disappointed to see where we've ended up.Levin returns to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Secret Mulroney Tapes

    Unguarded Confessions of a Prime Minister

    by Peter C. Newman ...
    The Secret Mulroney Tapes is an outrageous and intimate portrait of a Canadian prime minister, as told in his own words. There has never been a political book like this, and there will almost certainly never be another.Peter C. Newman, the author of books about John Diefenbaker, Lester B. Pearson and Pierre Elliott Trudeau, as well as 2004’s number-one bestselling memoir, Here Be Dragons: Telling ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • It's the Middle Class, Stupid!

    by James Carville, Stan Greenberg ...
    It’s the Middle Class, Stupid! confirms what we have all suspected: Washington and Wall Street have really screwed things up for the average American. Work has been devalued. Education costs are out of sight. Effort and ambition have never been so scantily rewarded. Political guru James Carville and pollster extraordinaire Stan Greenberg argue that our political parties must admit their failures ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Science of Coercion

    Communication Research & Psychological Warfare, 1945–1960

    by Christopher Simpson ...
    Series Book 13 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    A provocative and eye-opening study of the essential role the US military and the Central Intelligence Agency played in the advancement of communication studies during the Cold War era, now with a new introduction by Robert W. McChesney and a new preface by the authorSince the mid-twentieth century, the great advances in our knowledge about the most effective methods of mass communication and ... Read more

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  • Real Change

    The Fight for America's Future

    by Newt Gingrich ...
    Americans don’t just want change this election year, they want real change—but most have no idea where it will come from. Democrats can’t provide it and Republicans won’t. But former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich does. He explains what is wrong with our country and how to solve our problems in his blockbuster new book, Real Change: From the World That Fails to the World That Works. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Dynasties and Interludes

    Past and Present in Canadian Electoral Politics

    by Lawrence LeDuc, Jon H. Pammett ...
    The Hill Times: Best Books of 2016An overview of the history of elections and voting in Canada, including minority governments, dynasties, and social movements.Dynasties and Interludes provides a comprehensive and unique overview of elections and voting in Canada from Confederation to the most recent election. Its principal argument is that the Canadian political landscape has consisted of long ... Read more

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  • The Doctor Crisis

    How Physicians Can, and Must, Lead the Way to Better Health Care

    by Charles C. Kenney, Jack Cochran, MD ...
    Calming fears, alleviating suffering, enhancing and saving lives -- this is what motivates doctors virtually every single day. When the structure and culture in which physicians work are well aligned, being a doctor is a most rewarding job. But something has gone wrong in the physician world, and it is urgent that we fix it.Fundamental flaws in the US health care system make it more difficult and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Our Damaged Democracy

    We the People Must Act

    by Joseph A. Califano Jr. ...
    “A Washington insider draws on decades of experience to deliver a blistering critique of the state of American government” (Kirkus Reviews) in an authoritative scrutiny of the forces that run our society and a call to fix our democracy before it’s too late.If you’ve been watching the news and worrying that our democracy no longer works, this book, “a cri de coeur from one of our wisest Americans” ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Good Doctor

    What Patients Want

    by Ron Paterson ...
    Drawing upon real accounts of negligence, incompetence, and distrust, this book seeks to identify the key competencies of a good doctor, the ways in which medical care fails, and the roadblocks to ensuring that every licensed doctor is capable. Arguing that it is possible to improve patient care—by lifting the veils of secrecy and better informing patients, by establishing more effective ways of ... Read more

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