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  Your Money or Your Life - Debt...

  Luke Messac

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  A riveting exposé of medical debt collection in America—and the profound financial and physical costs eroding patient trust in medicineFor the crime of falling sick without wealth, Americans today face lawsuits, wage garnishment, home foreclosure, and even jail time.Yet who really profits from aggressive medical debt collection? And how does this predatory system affect patients and doctors responsible for their care?Your Money or Your Life reveals how medical debt collection became a multi-billion-dollar industry and how everyday Americans are made to pay the price. Emergency physician and historian Luke Messac weaves patient stories into a history of law, finance, and medicine to show how debt and debt collection are destroying the foundational trust between doctors and patients at the heart of American healthcare. The fight to stop aggressive collection tactics has brought together people from all corners of the political spectrum. But if we want to better protect the sick from financial ruin, we have to understand how we got here.With wit and clarity, Your Money or Your Life asks us all to rethink the purpose of our modern healthcare system and consider whom it truly serves.

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  Wild Words from Wild Women - An...

  Autumn Stephens

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  Hilarious, inspiring and empowering words from nasty women with something to say—including Billie Holiday, Coco Chanel, Virginia Wolfe and many more. 
   
  This ribald compilation of quotes from powerful women covers everything from bras to babies, menopause to men, and politics to parties. Featuring historically outspoken women like Jane Austen and Billie Jean King, these famous feminists knew how to read between the lines—and then tell it like it is. 
   
  Wild Words from Wild Women features unforgettable wisdom from strippers and CEOs, poets and politicians, and everyone in between. It makes delectable reading for fabulously untamable ladies everywhere.

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  Neurology - Medical School Crash...

  AudioLearn Medical Content Team

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  AudioLearn’s Medical School Crash Courses presents Neurology. Written by experienced professors and professionally narrated by a medical doctor for accuracy, this crash course is a valuable tool both during school and when preparing for the USMLE, or if you’re simply interested in the subject of neurology. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you might expect to learn in a typical medical school neurology course. Included are both capsule and detailed explanations of critical issues and topics you must know to master neurology. The material is accurate, up to date and broken down into bite-sized sections. There are key takeaways following each chapter to drive home key points and quizzes to review commonly tested questions. In this course, we'll cover the following topics: Examinations and testing in neurology, Developmental CNS diseases, Disorders of consciousness, Seizure disorders, Degenerative CNS diseases, Disorders of the special senses, Brain tumors and brain cancer, Encephalitis, meningitis, and brain abscesses, Cerebrovascular accidents, Traumatic brain disorders, Multiple sclerosis, Peripheral nerve diseases, Encephalopathy, Cerebellar disorders. Also included is a comprehensive test containing the top 100 most commonly tested questions in Neurology with the correct answers. To get the most out of this course, we recommend that you listen to the entire audio once while taking notes, then go back and listen to areas you had difficulties with. AudioLearn's medical school crash courses support your studies, help with USMLE preparation and provide a comprehensive audio review of the topic matter for anyone interested in what medical students are taught in a typical medical school neurology course.

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  Capitalists Arise! - End...

  Peter Georgescu, David Dorsey

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  Peter Georgescu arrived in this country as a penniless Romanian refugee and rose to become the CEO of Young & Rubicam. This is why he's so heartsick that with flat wages, disappearing jobs, and a shrinking middle class, his kind of rags-to-riches story doesn't seem possible now. But he has a message for his fellow CEOs: we're the ones who must take the lead in fixing the economy.Marshaling deeply sobering statistics, Georgescu depicts the stark reality of America today: a nation with greater wealth inequality and lower social mobility than just about any other country in the developed world. But the problem isn't that free-market capitalism no longer works—it's that it's been hijacked by shareholder primacy. Where once our business leaders looked to the needs and interests of a variety of stakeholders—employees, community members, the business itself—now they're myopically focused on maximizing their shareholders' quarterly returns. Capitalists Arise! shows how the short-term thinking spawned by shareholder primacy lies at the root of our current economic malaise and social breakdown. But Georgescu offers concrete actions that capitalists themselves can take to create a better future. The irony is that if businesses do this, shareholders will do even better. In the long run, businesses can thrive only when society is healthy and strong. This book is a manifesto calling on capitalists to heal the nation that has given them so much.

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  101 Amazing Facts about the...

  Jack Goldstein

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  Do you know the age of the youngest soldier to receive the Victoria Cross during the First World War? What role did tanks play in the conflict? And how much were Germany ordered to pay in reparations after the war?
  
  In this fascinating audio-book, narrator Lawrence Keefe answers all these questions and more, talking us through over 100 facts about The Great War.
  
  In addition to learning about one of history's worst ever conflicts, listen to Lawrence's moving narration of two famous poems of the time: 'In Flanders Fields' by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae and 'Dulce et Decorum Est' by Wilfred Owen.
  
  ©2017 Jack Goldstein Books (P)2017 Jack Goldstein Books

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  How To Lie With Statistics

  Darrell Huff

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  Now available in audio for the first time! Darrell Huff's celebrated classic "How to Lie With Statistics" is a straight-forward and engaging guide to understanding the manipulation and misrepresentation of information that could be lurking behind every graph, chart, and infographic. Originally published in 1954, it remains as relevant and necessary as ever in our digital world where information is king—and as easy to distort and manipulate as it is to access.     A pre-cursor to modern popular science books like Steven D. Levitt's "Freakonomics" and Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers", Huff runs the gamut of every popularly used type of statistic, probes such things as the sample study, the tabulation method, the interview technique, or the way the results are derived from the figures, and points up the countless number of dodges which are used to full rather than to inform. Critically acclaimed by media outlets like The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal and recommended by Bill Gates as a perfect beach read, "How to Lie With Statistics" stands as the go-to book for understanding the use of statistics by teachers and leaders everywhere. "A hilarious exploration of mathematical mendacity…. Every time you pick it up, what happens? Bang goes another illusion!" — The New York Times"In one short take after another, Huff picks apart the ways in which marketers use statistics, charts, graphics and other ways of presenting numbers to baffle and trick the public. The chapter “How to Talk Back to a Statistic” is a brilliant step-by-step guide to figuring out how someone is trying to deceive you with data." — Wall Street Journal"A great introduction to the use of statistics, and a great refresher for anyone who's already well versed in it." — Bill Gates"Mr. Huff's lively, human-interest treatment of the dry-as-bones subject of statistics is a timely tonic…This book needed to be written, and makes its points in an entertaining, highly readable manner."— Management Review"Illustrator and author pool their considerable talents to provide light lively reading and cartoon far which will entertain, really inform, and take the wind out of many an overblown statistical sail." — Library Journal"A pleasantly subversive little book, guaranteed to undermine your faith in the almighty statistic." — Atlantic

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