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Transforming Health Care Leadership

A Systems Guide to Improve Patient Care, Decrease Costs, and Improve Population Health

by Michael Maccoby, Clifford L. Norman, C. Jane Norman, Richard Margolies ...

Health care organizations are challenged to improve care at the bedside for patients, learn from individual patients to improve population health, and reduce per capita costs. To achieve these aims, leaders are needed in all parts of the organization need positive solutions. Transforming Health Care Leadership provides healthcare leaders with the knowledge and tools to master the unprecedented ... Read more

$69.99 CAD

Health care organizations are challenged to improve care at the bedside for patients, learn from individual patients to improve population health, and reduce per capita costs. To achieve these aims, leaders are needed in all parts of the organization need positive solutions. Transforming Health Care Leadership provides healthcare leaders with the knowledge and tools to master the unprecedented
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Innovative Measurement and Evaluation of Community Development Practices

Edited by Norman Walzer, Jane Leonard, Mary Emery ...

Series series Community Development – Current Issues Series
Finding innovative and useful measurement practices for community development projects is gaining in importance as policymakers increase the demands for accountability. This book examines some of the latest efforts to document the effectiveness of local development efforts. The types of documentation differ by types of project, jurisdiction, and country but they have a common focus of recognizing ... Read more

$97.55 CAD

Finding innovative and useful measurement practices for community development projects is gaining in importance as policymakers increase the demands for accountability. This book examines some of the latest efforts to document the effectiveness of local development efforts. The types of documentation differ by types of project, jurisdiction, and country but they have a common focus of recognizing
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Maternal and Infant Deaths

Chasing Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5

Edited by Sean Kehoe, James Neilson, Jane Norman ...

Series series Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Study Group
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 and 5, created under the auspices of the United Nations, challenged political, financial, medical and civil society leaders to improve both child and maternal health. The 58th RCOG Study Group brought together a range of experts - including midwives, obstetricians and gynaecologists, anaesthetists and paediatricians - to provide an up-to-date review of ... Read more

$181.99 CAD

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 and 5, created under the auspices of the United Nations, challenged political, financial, medical and civil society leaders to improve both child and maternal health. The 58th RCOG Study Group brought together a range of experts - including midwives, obstetricians and gynaecologists, anaesthetists and paediatricians - to provide an up-to-date review of
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Emma

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation

by Jane Austen ...

Narrated by Norman Rodway, Robert Bathhurst, Eve Best, Marcia Warren, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

1 hour 54 min

In this BBC radio full-cast dramatisation, Jane Austen introduces us to the handsome, clever and very flawed Emma Wodehouse.While she is perfectly content with her life and has no interest in love or marriage for herself, she enjoys nothing more than matchmaking those around her. Mr Knightly tries to talk Emma Woodhouse out of this but when she pushes on anyway, her life, and the lives of the ... Read more

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In this BBC radio full-cast dramatisation, Jane Austen introduces us to the handsome, clever and very flawed Emma Wodehouse.While she is perfectly content with her life and has no interest in love or marriage for herself, she enjoys nothing more than matchmaking those around her. Mr Knightly tries to talk Emma Woodhouse out of this but when she pushes on anyway, her life, and the lives of the
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Anchorages of the British Isles

Over 100 beautiful havens, coves and escapes

by Jane Cumberlidge, Norman Kean, Jonty Pearce, Dag Pike, Mr Dick Durham ...

A curated collection of the most beautiful and remote spots in bays, rivers and harbours around the UK and Ireland.The UK and the Irish coastlines boast some of the most stunning and varied places in the world for dropping anchor. But it's not always easy to find anchorages that are sheltered and secure with beautiful scenery. Authored by a panel of highly experienced cruisers, this guide offers ... Read more

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A curated collection of the most beautiful and remote spots in bays, rivers and harbours around the UK and Ireland.The UK and the Irish coastlines boast some of the most stunning and varied places in the world for dropping anchor. But it's not always easy to find anchorages that are sheltered and secure with beautiful scenery. Authored by a panel of highly experienced cruisers, this guide offers
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Autistic Adults at Bittersweet Farms

by Norman Giddan, Jane J Giddan ...

Autistic Adults at Bittersweet Farms is a touching view of an inspirational residential care program for autistic adolescents and adults. This compelling book focuses on adult autism treated through the concepts used at Bittersweet Farms, an 80-acre farm in northwest Ohio. Through historical rationale for a therapeutic community, a comparison between the Bittersweet Farms model and treatment ... Read more

$101.68 CAD

Autistic Adults at Bittersweet Farms is a touching view of an inspirational residential care program for autistic adolescents and adults. This compelling book focuses on adult autism treated through the concepts used at Bittersweet Farms, an 80-acre farm in northwest Ohio. Through historical rationale for a therapeutic community, a comparison between the Bittersweet Farms model and treatment
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Why I Like This Story

by Jackson R. Bryer, Diana Wagman, Doris Betts, Doris Grumbach, E. Annie Proulx, Edmund Keeley, Edward Kelsey Moore, Elizabeth Spencer, Ellen Douglas, Elliot Ackerman0, Frederick Busch1, A. R. Gurney2, George Garrett3, Herbert Gold4, Howard Norman5, Jack Greer6, Jane Hamilton7, Jill McCorkle8, Joan Silber9, Joanna Scott0, Joyce Kornblatt1, Alan Cheuse2, Julia Alvarez3, Julia Glass4, Kao Kalia Yang5, Kate Christensen6, Lee K. Abbott7, Leslie Pietrzyk8, Mako Yoshikawa9, Mary Kay Zuravleff0, Mary Lee Settle1, Maud Casey2, Alice McDermott3, Molly Giles4, Nicholas Delbanco5, Olga Grushin6, Pamela Erens7, R. H. W. Dillard8, Richard Bausch9, Rilla Askew0, Rion Amilcar Scott1, Sabina Murray2, Susan Coll3, Andre Dubus4, William H. Gass5, Andrea Barrett6, Ann Beattie7, Beverly Lowry8, Clarence Major9 ...

On the assumption that John Updike was correct when he asserted, in a 1978 letter to Joyce Carol Oates, that "Nobody can read like a writer," Why I Like This Story presents brief essays by forty-eight leading American writers on their favorite American short stories, explaining why they like them. The essays, which are personal, not scholarly, not only tell us much about the story selected, they ... Read more

$27.99 CAD

On the assumption that John Updike was correct when he asserted, in a 1978 letter to Joyce Carol Oates, that "Nobody can read like a writer," Why I Like This Story presents brief essays by forty-eight leading American writers on their favorite American short stories, explaining why they like them. The essays, which are personal, not scholarly, not only tell us much about the story selected, they
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Seven Summer Weekends

by Jane L. Rosen ...

Narrated by Emily Norman ...

Series series
Unabridged

7 hours 41 min

**Named An Anticipated Summer Read by Bustle ∙ Katie Couric Media ∙ SheReads ∙ New York Live ∙ Woman’s World ∙ and more!A woman inherits a beach house, along with a series of weekend guests, while butting heads with the irritable (and irritatingly handsome) man next door, in this sparkling new escape from Jane L. Rosen.**When a Zoom disaster upends Addison Irwin’s decade-long career at a posh ... Read more

$27.99 CAD

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**Named An Anticipated Summer Read by Bustle ∙ Katie Couric Media ∙ SheReads ∙ New York Live ∙ Woman’s World ∙ and more!A woman inherits a beach house, along with a series of weekend guests, while butting heads with the irritable (and irritatingly handsome) man next door, in this sparkling new escape from Jane L. Rosen.**When a Zoom disaster upends Addison Irwin’s decade-long career at a posh
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Nursing Practice and Health Care 5E

A Foundation Text

by Susan Hinchliff, Sue Norman, Jane Schober ...

Nursing Practice and Health Care is an essential companion to pre-registration nursing education programmes, for those studying at degree and diploma level, and for students on post-registration courses. This fifth edition has been completely revised to reflect the current professional and educational requirements for those preparing for ... Read more

$79.69 CAD

Nursing Practice and Health Care is an essential companion to pre-registration nursing education programmes, for those studying at degree and diploma level, and for students on post-registration courses. This fifth edition has been completely revised to reflect the current professional and educational requirements for those preparing for
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Tackling the Wicked Challenge of Strategic Change

The Story of How a University Changed Itself

by Pamela Baker, Norman Jackson, Jane Longmore ...

The aim of this book is to make better sense of a long, complex, messy, change process through the stories of those who were involved. Over fifty participants were interviewed during the course of the study and their uniquely personal perspectives have been woven into a compelling story of organisational change. This book describes their ingenuity and effort in bringing about change that they and ... Read more

$6.99 CAD

The aim of this book is to make better sense of a long, complex, messy, change process through the stories of those who were involved. Over fifty participants were interviewed during the course of the study and their uniquely personal perspectives have been woven into a compelling story of organisational change. This book describes their ingenuity and effort in bringing about change that they and
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Audiobook

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare, E.A. Copen, Pierre Arthur Laure, Tom Wheelwright ...

Narrated by Simon Russell Beale, Imogen Stubbs, a full cast, Bob Peck, Jane Lapotaire, Norman Rodway ...

Series series The Arkangel Shakespeare Collection
Unabridged

3 hours 25 min

Shakespeare’s most famous play is one of the greatest stories in the literature of the world.Distressed by his father’s death and his mother’s over-hasty remarriage, Hamlet, prince of Denmark is faced by a specter from beyond the grave bearing a grim message of murder and revenge. The young prince is driven to the edge of madness by his struggle to understand the situation he finds himself in and ... Read more

$20.99 CAD

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Shakespeare’s most famous play is one of the greatest stories in the literature of the world.Distressed by his father’s death and his mother’s over-hasty remarriage, Hamlet, prince of Denmark is faced by a specter from beyond the grave bearing a grim message of murder and revenge. The young prince is driven to the edge of madness by his struggle to understand the situation he finds himself in and
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Extreme Pets!

by Jane Harrington ...

Narrated by Norman Dietz ...

Unabridged

4 hours 13 min

Are you curious about slithery snakes, loungey lizards, spooky spiders, fuzzy ferrets, and freckled frogs? If so, this book is for you! Extreme Pets! introduces all the coolest creatures you've been wanting to know more about. You'll learn about corn snakes, leopard geckos, blue-tongued skinks, veiled chameleons, bearded dragons, green anoles, ferrets, hedgehogs, chinchillas, sugar gliders, rats, ... Read more

$21.97 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Are you curious about slithery snakes, loungey lizards, spooky spiders, fuzzy ferrets, and freckled frogs? If so, this book is for you! Extreme Pets! introduces all the coolest creatures you've been wanting to know more about. You'll learn about corn snakes, leopard geckos, blue-tongued skinks, veiled chameleons, bearded dragons, green anoles, ferrets, hedgehogs, chinchillas, sugar gliders, rats,
... Read more

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