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Regulating Patient Safety

The End of Professional Dominance?

by Oliver Quick ...

Series Book 35 - Cambridge Bioethics and Law
Systematically improving patient safety is of the utmost importance, but it is also an extremely complex and challenging task. This illuminating study evaluates the role of professionalism, regulation and law in seeking to improve safety, arguing that the 'medical dominance' model is ill-suited to this aim, which instead requires a patient-centred vision of professionalism. It brings together ... Read more

$43.99 CAD

Systematically improving patient safety is of the utmost importance, but it is also an extremely complex and challenging task. This illuminating study evaluates the role of professionalism, regulation and law in seeking to improve safety, arguing that the 'medical dominance' model is ill-suited to this aim, which instead requires a patient-centred vision of professionalism. It brings together
... Read more
The Vicar of Wakefield: A Quick Read edition

by Quick Read, Oliver Goldsmith ...

Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.- Reading time of the complete text: about 6 hours- Reading time of the summarized text: 29 minutes"The Vicar of Wakefield" is a novel written by Oliver Goldsmith and published in 1766. It tells the story of Dr. Charles Primrose, a vicar who lives a peaceful life ... Read more

$6.99 CAD

Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.- Reading time of the complete text: about 6 hours- Reading time of the summarized text: 29 minutes"The Vicar of Wakefield" is a novel written by Oliver Goldsmith and published in 1766. It tells the story of Dr. Charles Primrose, a vicar who lives a peaceful life
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Lacey, Wells and Quick Reconstructing Criminal Law

Text and Materials

by Celia Wells, Oliver Quick ...

Series series Law in Context
Since the publication of the first edition, this textbook has offered one of the most distinctive and innovative approaches to the study of criminal law. Looking at both traditional and emerging areas, such as public order offences and corporate manslaughter, it offers a broad and thorough perspective on the subject. Material is organised thematically and is clearly signposted at the beginning of ... Read more

$112.99 CAD

Since the publication of the first edition, this textbook has offered one of the most distinctive and innovative approaches to the study of criminal law. Looking at both traditional and emerging areas, such as public order offences and corporate manslaughter, it offers a broad and thorough perspective on the subject. Material is organised thematically and is clearly signposted at the beginning of
... Read more
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The Good Luck Of Right Now

by Matthew Quick ...

Narrated by Oliver Wyman ...

Unabridged

7 hours 51 min

From Matthew Quick, the New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook, comes The Good Luck of Right Now, a funny and tender story about family, friendship, grief, acceptance, and Richard Gere—an entertaining and inspiring tale that will leave you pondering the rhythms of the universe and marveling at the power of kindness and love.For thirty-eight years, Bartholomew Neil has ... Read more

$32.99 CAD

From Matthew Quick, the New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook, comes The Good Luck of Right Now, a funny and tender story about family, friendship, grief, acceptance, and Richard Gere—an entertaining and inspiring tale that will leave you pondering the rhythms of the universe and marveling at the power of kindness and love.For thirty-eight years, Bartholomew Neil has
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Love May Fail

A Novel

by Matthew Quick ...

Narrated by Cris Dukehart, Jim Meskimen, Lorna Raver, Tonya Campos, Tim Fannon ...

Unabridged

12 hours 2 min

An aspiring feminist and underappreciated housewife embarks on an odyssey to find human decency and goodness—and her high school English teacher—in New York Times bestselling author Matthew Quick’s offbeat masterpiece, a quirky ode to love, fate, and hair metal.Portia Kane is having a meltdown. After escaping her ritzy Florida life and her cheating pornographer husband, she finds herself back in ... Read more

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An aspiring feminist and underappreciated housewife embarks on an odyssey to find human decency and goodness—and her high school English teacher—in New York Times bestselling author Matthew Quick’s offbeat masterpiece, a quirky ode to love, fate, and hair metal.Portia Kane is having a meltdown. After escaping her ritzy Florida life and her cheating pornographer husband, she finds herself back in
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How to Build a Girl

A Novel

by Caitlin Moran ...

Narrated by Louise Brealey ...

Unabridged

9 hours 31 min

Now a major motion picture starring Beanie Feldstein!The New York Times bestselling author hailed as “the UK’s answer to Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, and Lena Dunham all rolled into one” (Marie Claire) makes her fiction debut with a hilarious yet deeply moving coming of age novel.What do you do in your teenage years when you realize what your parents taught you wasn’t enough? You must go out and ... Read more

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Now a major motion picture starring Beanie Feldstein!The New York Times bestselling author hailed as “the UK’s answer to Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, and Lena Dunham all rolled into one” (Marie Claire) makes her fiction debut with a hilarious yet deeply moving coming of age novel.What do you do in your teenage years when you realize what your parents taught you wasn’t enough? You must go out and
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The Reading Circle

by Ashton Lee ...

Narrated by Kate Baldwin ...

Series series Cherry Cola Book Club
Unabridged

7 hours 50 min

Lovers of small town fiction are going to fall in love with The Reading Circle ." --Marie Bostwick, author of Between Heaven and Texas Welcome to the quirky town of Cherico, Mississippi, where potluck meetings at the local library provide a feast for mind and stomach alike. . . If some folks had their way, the Cherico library would have shut down long ago. Councilman Durden Sparks aims to divert ... Read more

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Lovers of small town fiction are going to fall in love with The Reading Circle ." --Marie Bostwick, author of Between Heaven and Texas Welcome to the quirky town of Cherico, Mississippi, where potluck meetings at the local library provide a feast for mind and stomach alike. . . If some folks had their way, the Cherico library would have shut down long ago. Councilman Durden Sparks aims to divert
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The Receptionist

An Education at The New Yorker

by Janet Groth ...

Narrated by Judith West ...

Unabridged

8 hours 14 min

Thanks to a successful interview with the painfully shy E.B. White, a beautiful, 19-year-old, blue-eyed blonde from the cornfields of Iowa lands a job as a receptionist at The New Yorker magazine. There she stays two decades, becoming general all-around factotum—watching and registering the comings and goings, marriages and divorces, scandalous affairs, failures, triumphs, and tragedies of the ... Read more

$28.99 CAD

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Thanks to a successful interview with the painfully shy E.B. White, a beautiful, 19-year-old, blue-eyed blonde from the cornfields of Iowa lands a job as a receptionist at The New Yorker magazine. There she stays two decades, becoming general all-around factotum—watching and registering the comings and goings, marriages and divorces, scandalous affairs, failures, triumphs, and tragedies of the
... Read more

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The Bees

A Novel

by Laline Paull ...

Narrated by Orlagh Cassidy ...

Unabridged

10 hours 16 min

Read by Orlagh Cassidy**Kirkus Reviews raves about her performance calling it "enchanting" and writes "The success of this audiobook lies in Cassidy's respectful yet lively narration, which enables listeners to connect with the story on a number of levels."The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Hunger Games in this brilliantly imagined debut set in an ancient culture where only the queen may breed... ... Read more

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Read by Orlagh Cassidy**Kirkus Reviews raves about her performance calling it "enchanting" and writes "The success of this audiobook lies in Cassidy's respectful yet lively narration, which enables listeners to connect with the story on a number of levels."The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Hunger Games in this brilliantly imagined debut set in an ancient culture where only the queen may breed...
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Unless

A Novel

by Carol Shields ...

Narrated by Joan Allen ...

Unabridged

7 hours 14 min

For all of her days, Reta Winters has enjoyed the useful monotony of happiness: a loving family, good friends, growing success as a writer of light fiction, novels 'for summertime.' This placid existence cracks open one fearful day when her beloved oldest daughter, Norah, drops out of life to sit on a gritty street corner, silent but for the sign around her neck that reads 'GOODNESS.' Reta's ... Read more

$28.99 CAD

For all of her days, Reta Winters has enjoyed the useful monotony of happiness: a loving family, good friends, growing success as a writer of light fiction, novels 'for summertime.' This placid existence cracks open one fearful day when her beloved oldest daughter, Norah, drops out of life to sit on a gritty street corner, silent but for the sign around her neck that reads 'GOODNESS.' Reta's
... Read more
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The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing

A Novel

by Mira Jacob ...

Narrated by Mira Jacob ...

Unabridged

15 hours 8 min

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A winning, irreverent debut novel about a family wrestling with its future and its past“With wit and a rich understanding of human foibles, [Mira] Jacob unspools a story that will touch your heart.”—PeopleONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Boston Globe, The Millions, Kirkus Reviews**With depth, heart, and agility, debut novelist Mira Jacob takes us on a deftly plotted ... Read more

$29.99 CAD

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**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A winning, irreverent debut novel about a family wrestling with its future and its past“With wit and a rich understanding of human foibles, [Mira] Jacob unspools a story that will touch your heart.”—PeopleONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Boston Globe, The Millions, Kirkus Reviews**With depth, heart, and agility, debut novelist Mira Jacob takes us on a deftly plotted
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Bellefleur

by Joyce Carol Oates ...

Narrated by Xe Sands ...

Series series Gothic Saga
Unabridged

27 hours 28 min

A wealthy and notorious clan, the Bellefleurs live in a region not unlike the Adirondacks, in an enormous mansion on the shores of mythic Lake Noir. They own vast lands and profitable businesses, they employ their neighbors, and they influence the government. A prolific and eccentric group, they include several millionaires, a mass murderer, a spiritual seeker who climbs into the mountains looking ... Read more

$48.99 CAD

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A wealthy and notorious clan, the Bellefleurs live in a region not unlike the Adirondacks, in an enormous mansion on the shores of mythic Lake Noir. They own vast lands and profitable businesses, they employ their neighbors, and they influence the government. A prolific and eccentric group, they include several millionaires, a mass murderer, a spiritual seeker who climbs into the mountains looking
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