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  • Best Care Anywhere

    Why VA Health Care Would Work Better For Everyone

    by Phillip Longman ...
    "An outstanding book . . . documents how the VA's system of integrative care outperforms the models used by private insurers." — USW Blog (United Steelworkers)NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATEDPhillip Longman tells the amazing story of the turnaround of the Department of Veterans Affairs health-care system from a dysfunctional, scandal-prone bureaucracy into the benchmark for high-quality medicine ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Phishing for Phools

    The Economics of Manipulation and Deception

    by George A. Akerlof, Robert J. Shiller ...
    Why the free-market system encourages so much trickery even as it creates so much goodEver since Adam Smith, the central teaching of economics has been that free markets provide us with material well-being, as if by an invisible hand. In Phishing for Phools, Nobel Prize–winning economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller deliver a fundamental challenge to this insight, arguing that markets harm ... Read more

    $23.09 CAD

  • Better Now

    Six Big Ideas to Improve Health Care for All Canadians

    by Dr. Danielle Martin ...
    Longlisted for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2018Dr. Danielle Martin sees the challenges in our health care system every day. As a family doctor and a hospital vice president, she observes how those deficiencies adversely affect patients. And as a health policy expert, she knows how to close those gaps. A passionate believer in the value of fairness that underpins the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • An American Sickness

    How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

    by Elisabeth Rosenthal ...
    **A New York Times bestseller • A Washington Post Notable Book • Named a Best Book of the Year by The Wall Street Journal and NPR"This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The GeneAt a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Super Crunchers

    Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart

    by Ian Ayres ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER• With new information on crunching your own numbers to get the edge the experts haveAn international sensation—and still the talk of the relevant blogosphere—this Wall Street Journal and New York Times business bestseller examines the “power” in numbers. Today more than ever, number crunching affects your life in ways you might not even imagine. Intuition and experience ... Read more

    Was $10.99 CAD Now $7.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • The Cost Disease: Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn't

    by William J. Baumol, Monte Malach, Ariel Pablos-Mendez, Lillian Gomory Wu ...
    The exploding cost of health care in the United States is a source of widespread alarm. Similarly, the upward spiral of college tuition fees is cause for serious concern. In this concise and illuminating book, well-known economist William J. Baumol explores the causes of these seemingly intractable problems and offers a surprisingly simple explanation. Baumol identifies the "cost disease" as a ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • When Chicken Soup Isn't Enough

    Stories of Nurses Standing Up for Themselves, Their Patients, and Their Profession

    Edited by Suzanne Gordon ...
    Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
    The reassuring bromides of "chicken soup for the soul" provide little solace for nurses—and the people they serve—in real-life hospitals, nursing homes, schools of nursing, and other settings. In the minefield of modern health care, there are myriad obstacles to quality patient care—including work overload, inadequate funds for nursing education and research, and poor communication between and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Truth About Getting Sick in America

    The Real Problems with Health Care and What We Can Do

    by Tim Johnson ...
    In today’s world, there are many hot-button topics that generate equal parts debate and confusion. At the top of that list is healthcare. For most Americans, finding out “the truth” about current problems or possible fixes is virtually impossible amidst all the emotionally charged rhetoric. Dr. Tim Johnson has been reporting on health matters for ABC since the mid-seventies, but in recent years he ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Sick

    The True Story of How American

    by Jonathan Cohn ...

    $11.99 CAD

  • The American Health Care Paradox

    Why Spending More is Getting Us Less

    by Elizabeth H. Bradley, Lauren A Taylor ...
    Foreword by Harvey V. Fineberg, President of the Institute of MedicineFor decades, experts have puzzled over why the US spends more on health care but suffers poorer outcomes than other industrialized nations. Now Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor marshal extensive research, including a comparative study of health care data from thirty countries, and get to the root of this paradox: We've ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Cigarette Century

    The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America

    by Allan M. Brandt ...
    The invention of mass marketing led to cigarettes being emblazoned in advertising and film, deeply tied to modern notions of glamour and sex appeal. It is hard to find a photo of Humphrey Bogart or Lauren Bacall without a cigarette. No product has been so heavily promoted or has become so deeply entrenched in American consciousness. And no product has received such sustained scientific scrutiny. ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Deadly Monopolies

    The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself--And the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future.

    by Harriet A. Washington ...
    From the award-winning author of Medical Apartheid, an exposé of the rush to own and exploit the raw materials of life—including yours.Think your body is your own to control and dispose of as you wish? Think again. The United States Patent Office has granted at least 40,000 patents on genes controlling the most basic processes of human life, and more are pending. If you undergo surgery in many ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $8.99 CAD