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Getting Health Reform Right

A Guide to Improving Performance and Equity

by Marc Roberts, William Hsiao, Peter Berman, Michael Reich ...

This book provides a multi-disciplinary framework for developing and analyzing health sector reforms, based on the authors' extensive international experience. It offers practical guidance - useful to policymakers, consultants, academics, and students alike - and stresses the need to take account of each country's economic, administrative, and political circumstances. The authors explain how to ... Read more

$49.49 USD

This book provides a multi-disciplinary framework for developing and analyzing health sector reforms, based on the authors' extensive international experience. It offers practical guidance - useful to policymakers, consultants, academics, and students alike - and stresses the need to take account of each country's economic, administrative, and political circumstances. The authors explain how to
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Tracking Resources For Primary Health Care: A Framework And Practices In Low- And Middle-income Countries

by Hong Wang, Peter Berman ...

Series Book 8 - World Scientific Series In Global Health Economics And Public Policy
The global health community is broadly in agreement that achievement of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) hinges upon both an escalation of the financial resources dedicated to primary health care (PHC) and a more effective use of those resources: more money, better spent. This book introduces and explicates the end-to-end resource tracking and management (RTM) framework, ... Read more

$106.19 USD

The global health community is broadly in agreement that achievement of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) hinges upon both an escalation of the financial resources dedicated to primary health care (PHC) and a more effective use of those resources: more money, better spent. This book introduces and explicates the end-to-end resource tracking and management (RTM) framework,
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The Discipline of Innovation is the Author's Summary of Innovation and Entrepreneurship for HBR

by Peter Drucker ...

Narrated by Samantha Berman ...

Series series Peter Drucker
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27 min

Steve Job’s favorite business book; summed up by the phrase simpler & cheaper wins. ... Read more

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Steve Job’s favorite business book; summed up by the phrase simpler & cheaper wins.
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Zapped

From Infrared to X-rays, the Curious History of Invisible Light

by Bob Berman ...

Narrated by Peter Ganim ...

Unabridged

8 hours 10 min

How much do you know about the radiation all around you?Your electronic devices swarm with it; the sun bathes you in it. It's zooming at you from cell towers, microwave ovens, CT scans, mammogram machines, nuclear power plants, deep space, even the walls of your basement. You cannot see, hear, smell or feel it, but there is never a single second when it is not flying through your body. Too much of ... Read more

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How much do you know about the radiation all around you?Your electronic devices swarm with it; the sun bathes you in it. It's zooming at you from cell towers, microwave ovens, CT scans, mammogram machines, nuclear power plants, deep space, even the walls of your basement. You cannot see, hear, smell or feel it, but there is never a single second when it is not flying through your body. Too much of
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Underdogs

The Philadelphia Eagles' Emotional Road to Super Bowl Victory

by Zach Berman ...

Narrated by Peter Coleman ...

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8 hours 39 min

Following a season with incredible highs and heartbreaking lows, the Philadelphia Eagles went on to do what fans had all but written off as impossible: for the first time in the franchise's history, Philly won a Super Bowl.Philadelphia Inquirer Eagles beat reporter Zach Berman takes fans on a journey through the action-packed season -- from the preseason and midseason player pickups that shaped a ... Read more

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Following a season with incredible highs and heartbreaking lows, the Philadelphia Eagles went on to do what fans had all but written off as impossible: for the first time in the franchise's history, Philly won a Super Bowl.Philadelphia Inquirer Eagles beat reporter Zach Berman takes fans on a journey through the action-packed season -- from the preseason and midseason player pickups that shaped a
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The Book of the Dead

An Anthology

by Jonathan Strahan ...

Narrated by Johnathan McClain, Heath Miller, Deepti Gupta, Simon Vance, Victoria Villareal, Fred Berman, Peter Ganim, Ron Butler, Emily Woo Zeller, Shayna Small, Ewan Chung, Nicola Barber ...

Unabridged

19 hours 5 min

This collection is a multicast production, narrated by Johnathan McClain, Heath Miller, Deepti Gupta, Simon Vance, Victoria Villareal, Fred Berman, Peter Ganim, Ron Butler, Emily Woo Zeller, Shayna Small, Ewan Chung, and Nicola BarberWe are all going to die. But how? Will it hurt? Where will we go? What will we find there? What will happen to the people we leave behind? Jonathan Strahan, award ... Read more

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This collection is a multicast production, narrated by Johnathan McClain, Heath Miller, Deepti Gupta, Simon Vance, Victoria Villareal, Fred Berman, Peter Ganim, Ron Butler, Emily Woo Zeller, Shayna Small, Ewan Chung, and Nicola BarberWe are all going to die. But how? Will it hurt? Where will we go? What will we find there? What will happen to the people we leave behind? Jonathan Strahan, award
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Earth-Shattering

Violent Supernovas, Galactic Explosions, Biological Mayhem, Nuclear Meltdowns, and Other Hazards to Life in Our Universe

by Bob Berman ...

Narrated by Peter Ganim ...

Unabridged

9 hours 43 min

A heart-pumping exploration of the biggest explosions in history, from the Big Bang to mysterious activity on Earth and everything in betweenThe overwhelming majority of celestial space is inactive and will remain forever unruffled. Similarly, more than 90 percent of the universe's 70 billion trillion suns had non-attention-getting births and are burning through their nuclear fuel in steady, ... Read more

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A heart-pumping exploration of the biggest explosions in history, from the Big Bang to mysterious activity on Earth and everything in betweenThe overwhelming majority of celestial space is inactive and will remain forever unruffled. Similarly, more than 90 percent of the universe's 70 billion trillion suns had non-attention-getting births and are burning through their nuclear fuel in steady,
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A History of Pi

by Petr Beckmann ...

Narrated by Stephen R. Thorne ...

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6 hours 42 min

The history of pi, says the author, though a small part of the history of mathematics, is nevertheless a mirror of the history of man. Petr Beckmann holds up this mirror, giving the background of the times when pi made progress—and also when it did not, because science was being stifled by militarism or religious fanaticism. ... Read more

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The history of pi, says the author, though a small part of the history of mathematics, is nevertheless a mirror of the history of man. Petr Beckmann holds up this mirror, giving the background of the times when pi made progress—and also when it did not, because science was being stifled by militarism or religious fanaticism.
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The Copernicus Complex

Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities

by Caleb Scharf ...

Narrated by Caleb Scharf ...

Unabridged

9 hours 2 min

The Sunday Times (UK) Best Science Book of 2014A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2014An NBC News Top Science and Tech Book of 2014A Politics & Prose 2014 Staff PickIn the sixteenth century, Nicolaus Copernicus dared to go against the establishment by proposing that Earth rotates around the Sun. Having demoted Earth from its unique position in the cosmos to one of mediocrity, Cope... ... Read more

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The Sunday Times (UK) Best Science Book of 2014A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2014An NBC News Top Science and Tech Book of 2014A Politics & Prose 2014 Staff PickIn the sixteenth century, Nicolaus Copernicus dared to go against the establishment by proposing that Earth rotates around the Sun. Having demoted Earth from its unique position in the cosmos to one of mediocrity, Cope...
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The Iron Sea

How the Allies Hunted and Destroyed Hitler¿s Warships

by Simon Read ...

Narrated by Raphael Corkhill ...

Unabridged

10 hours 53 min

From the acclaimed military history author, this action-packed World War II history describes the Allies' brutal naval engagements and daring harbor raids to destroy the backbone of Hitler's surface fleet.The sea had become a mass grave by 1941 as Hitler's four capital warships -- Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Tirpitz, and Bismarck, the largest warship on the ocean -- roamed the wind-swept waves, ... Read more

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From the acclaimed military history author, this action-packed World War II history describes the Allies' brutal naval engagements and daring harbor raids to destroy the backbone of Hitler's surface fleet.The sea had become a mass grave by 1941 as Hitler's four capital warships -- Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Tirpitz, and Bismarck, the largest warship on the ocean -- roamed the wind-swept waves,
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Unfinished Business

Notes of a Chronic Re-reader

by Vivian Gornick ...

Narrated by Vivian Gornick ...

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4 hours 28 min

One of our most beloved writers reassess the electrifying works of literature that have shaped her life.“I sometimes think I was born reading…I can’t remember the time when I didn’t have a book in my hands, my head lost to the world around me.”Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader is Vivian Gornick’s celebration of passionate reading, of returning again and again to the books that have ... Read more

$14.99 USD

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One of our most beloved writers reassess the electrifying works of literature that have shaped her life.“I sometimes think I was born reading…I can’t remember the time when I didn’t have a book in my hands, my head lost to the world around me.”Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader is Vivian Gornick’s celebration of passionate reading, of returning again and again to the books that have
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Zoom

From Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees: How Everything Moves

by Bob Berman ...

Narrated by Bob Berman, Dan Woren ...

Unabridged

9 hours 41 min

From the speed of light to moving mountains -- and everything in between -- Zoom explores how the universe and its objects move.If you sit as still as you can in a quiet room, you might be able to convince yourself that nothing is moving. But air currents are still wafting around you. Blood rushes through your veins. The atoms in your chair jiggle furiously. In fact, the planet you are sitting on ... Read more

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From the speed of light to moving mountains -- and everything in between -- Zoom explores how the universe and its objects move.If you sit as still as you can in a quiet room, you might be able to convince yourself that nothing is moving. But air currents are still wafting around you. Blood rushes through your veins. The atoms in your chair jiggle furiously. In fact, the planet you are sitting on
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