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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

$38.99 USD

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
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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

$5.99 USD

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

$100.99 USD

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

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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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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 Curiosity

A Novel

by Stephen P. Kiernan ...

Narrated by Kate Udall, Erik Bergmann, George Guidall, Jason Culp ...

Unabridged

15 hours 38 min

The Curiosity, Stephen Kiernan’s debut novel, is a gripping, poignant, and thoroughly original thriller that raises disturbing questions about the very nature of life and humanity—man as a scientific subject, as a tabloid plaything, as a living being, as a curiosity.…Dr. Kate Philo and her scientific exploration team make a breathtaking discovery in the Arctic: the body of a man buried deep in the ... Read more

$32.99 USD

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The Curiosity, Stephen Kiernan’s debut novel, is a gripping, poignant, and thoroughly original thriller that raises disturbing questions about the very nature of life and humanity—man as a scientific subject, as a tabloid plaything, as a living being, as a curiosity.…Dr. Kate Philo and her scientific exploration team make a breathtaking discovery in the Arctic: the body of a man buried deep in the
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Etta and Otto and Russell and James

A Novel

by Emma Hooper ...

Narrated by Robert G. Slade ...

Unabridged

8 hours 2 min

This “poetic, poignant” (US Weekly) debut features last great adventures, unlikely heroes, and a “sweet, disarming story of lasting love” (The New York Times Book Review).Eighty-three-year-old Etta has never seen the ocean. So early one morning she takes a rifle, some chocolate, and her best boots and begins walking the 3,232 kilometers from rural Saskatchewan, Canada eastward to the sea. As Etta ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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This “poetic, poignant” (US Weekly) debut features last great adventures, unlikely heroes, and a “sweet, disarming story of lasting love” (The New York Times Book Review).Eighty-three-year-old Etta has never seen the ocean. So early one morning she takes a rifle, some chocolate, and her best boots and begins walking the 3,232 kilometers from rural Saskatchewan, Canada eastward to the sea. As Etta
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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

$20.99 USD

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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
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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

$23.99 USD

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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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Disclaimer

A Novel

by Renée Knight ...

Narrated by Laura Paton, Michael Pennington ...

Unabridged

8 hours 25 min

Don't miss the Apple TV+ series starring Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline, streaming now!“Disclaimer is something special. . . an outstandingly clever and twisty tale that’s been perfectly engineered to make heads spin.” — Janet Maslin, New York TimesA brilliantly conceived, deeply unsettling psychological thriller about a woman haunted by secrets, the consuming desire for revenge, and the terrible ... Read more

$25.99 USD

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Don't miss the Apple TV+ series starring Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline, streaming now!“Disclaimer is something special. . . an outstandingly clever and twisty tale that’s been perfectly engineered to make heads spin.” — Janet Maslin, New York TimesA brilliantly conceived, deeply unsettling psychological thriller about a woman haunted by secrets, the consuming desire for revenge, and the terrible
... Read more

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