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No-Fault Approaches in the NHS

Raising Concerns and Raising Standards

by Sonia Macleod, Professor Christopher Hodges ...

Series series Civil Justice Systems
This book explores how concerns can be raised about the NHS, why raising concerns hasn't always improved standards, and how a no-fault open culture approach could drive improvements.The book describes a wide range of mechanisms for raising concerns about the NHS, including complaints, the ombudsman, litigation, HSIB, and the major inquiries since 2000, across the various UK jurisdictions. The NHS ... Read more

$48.59 USD

This book explores how concerns can be raised about the NHS, why raising concerns hasn't always improved standards, and how a no-fault open culture approach could drive improvements.The book describes a wide range of mechanisms for raising concerns about the NHS, including complaints, the ombudsman, litigation, HSIB, and the major inquiries since 2000, across the various UK jurisdictions. The NHS
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Redress Schemes for Personal Injuries

by Sonia Macleod, Professor Christopher Hodges ...

Series series Civil Justice Systems
This ground-breaking book takes a fresh look at potential non-litigation solutions to providing personal injury compensation. It is the first systematic comparative study of such a large number – over forty – of personal injury compensation schemes. It covers the drivers for their creation, the frameworks under which they operate, the criteria and thresholds used, the compensation offered, the ... Read more

$109.39 USD

This ground-breaking book takes a fresh look at potential non-litigation solutions to providing personal injury compensation. It is the first systematic comparative study of such a large number – over forty – of personal injury compensation schemes. It covers the drivers for their creation, the frameworks under which they operate, the criteria and thresholds used, the compensation offered, the
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Theology and Star Trek

by Shaun C. Brown, Amanda MacInnis Hackney, Siobhan Benitez, Timothy J. Bertolet, Michael Buttrey, Joshua Canzona, Leah DeJong, Tupá Guerra, Timothy Harvie0, Peter M. J. Hess1, Christopher Hrynkow2, Michael R. MacLeod3, Gabriel Mckee4, Brett David Potter5, James Shire6, Zachary B. Smith7, Michael J. Stell8, W. Craig Streetman9, Robert C. Stroud0, Matthew William Brake1, James F. McGrath2 ...

Series series Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture
After Star Trek: Enterprise concluded in 2005, Star Trek went on hiatus until the 2009 film Star Trek and its sequels. With the success of these films, Star Trek returned to the small screen with series like Discovery, Picard, and Strange New Worlds. These films and series, in different ways, reflect cultural shifts in Western society. Theology and Star Trek gathers a group of scholars from ... Read more

$105.29 USD

After Star Trek: Enterprise concluded in 2005, Star Trek went on hiatus until the 2009 film Star Trek and its sequels. With the success of these films, Star Trek returned to the small screen with series like Discovery, Picard, and Strange New Worlds. These films and series, in different ways, reflect cultural shifts in Western society. Theology and Star Trek gathers a group of scholars from
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Rule of Capture

A Novel

by Christopher Brown ...

Narrated by MacLeod Andrews ...

Series series Dystopian Lawyer
Unabridged

9 hours 15 min

“This one is fresh, intelligent, and emotional with a plot that envisions an alternate reality hard to dismiss as unreal. It’s a legal thriller, with a big twist, stirring and imaginative, brimming with skullduggery, that will have you asking: is this possible?”****-- New York Times bestselling author Steve BerryBetter Call Saul meets Nineteen Eighty-Four in this first volume in an explosive legal ... Read more

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“This one is fresh, intelligent, and emotional with a plot that envisions an alternate reality hard to dismiss as unreal. It’s a legal thriller, with a big twist, stirring and imaginative, brimming with skullduggery, that will have you asking: is this possible?”****-- New York Times bestselling author Steve BerryBetter Call Saul meets Nineteen Eighty-Four in this first volume in an explosive legal
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Failed State

A Novel

by Christopher Brown ...

Narrated by MacLeod Andrews ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Dystopian Lawyer
Unabridged

8 hours 46 min

A PhilipK. Dick Award Nominee""The novel is as tense and thrilling as any of Brown's work, and as full of rage and hope. It's a novel that truly reckons with the enormity of both our climate emergency and the system that produced it - a tale of human imperfection and redemption."" -- Cory Doctorow, bestselling author of WalkawayIn thissecond dystopian legal thriller from the author of the accl... ... Read more

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A PhilipK. Dick Award Nominee""The novel is as tense and thrilling as any of Brown's work, and as full of rage and hope. It's a novel that truly reckons with the enormity of both our climate emergency and the system that produced it - a tale of human imperfection and redemption."" -- Cory Doctorow, bestselling author of WalkawayIn thissecond dystopian legal thriller from the author of the accl...
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A Companion to Mill

Edited by Christopher Macleod, Dale E. Miller ...

Series Book 163 - Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
This Companion offers a state-of-the-art survey of the work of John Stuart Mill — one which covers the historical influences on Mill, his theoretical, moral and social philosophy, as well as his relation to contemporary movements. Its contributors include both senior scholars with established expertise in Mill's thought and new emerging interpreters. Each essay acts as a "go-to" resource for those ... Read more

$181.00 USD

This Companion offers a state-of-the-art survey of the work of John Stuart Mill — one which covers the historical influences on Mill, his theoretical, moral and social philosophy, as well as his relation to contemporary movements. Its contributors include both senior scholars with established expertise in Mill's thought and new emerging interpreters. Each essay acts as a "go-to" resource for those
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Paradise Lost in Cyberspace

A BBC Radio sci-fi comedy

by Colin Swash ...

Narrated by Edna Dore, Peter Serafinowicz, Lewis MacLeod, Christopher Douglas, Melanie Hudson, Full Cast, Lorelei King, Geoffrey McGivern, Stephen Moore ...

Unabridged

2 hours 47 min

Stephen Moore stars in this dystopian comedy set in a future where living beyond 70 is prohibited30th Century Britain, and the calamitous collapse of the pension system means compulsory euthanasia for all 70-year-olds. But a clerical error spells disaster for 69-year-old George Smith, who suddenly finds himself facing his demise a year early. Feisty George isn't going to take this lying down, and ... Read more

$12.28 USD

Stephen Moore stars in this dystopian comedy set in a future where living beyond 70 is prohibited30th Century Britain, and the calamitous collapse of the pension system means compulsory euthanasia for all 70-year-olds. But a clerical error spells disaster for 69-year-old George Smith, who suddenly finds himself facing his demise a year early. Feisty George isn't going to take this lying down, and
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Ascendancies

The Best of Bruce Sterling

by Bruce Sterling ...

Narrated by Pavi Proczko, Brian Nishii, Brian Holden, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Mikael Naramore ...

Unabridged

Two dozen tales of future shock and twisted history from an undisputed king of cyberpunk science fiction, including Nebula Award finalists “Sunken Garden” and “Dori Bangs.”Time magazine describes Bruce Sterling as “one of America’s best-known science fiction writers and perhaps the sharpest observer of our media-choked culture working today in any genre.” Sterling’s abilities are on full display ... Read more

$46.99 USD

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Two dozen tales of future shock and twisted history from an undisputed king of cyberpunk science fiction, including Nebula Award finalists “Sunken Garden” and “Dori Bangs.”Time magazine describes Bruce Sterling as “one of America’s best-known science fiction writers and perhaps the sharpest observer of our media-choked culture working today in any genre.” Sterling’s abilities are on full display
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Convergence Problems

by Wole Talabi ...

Narrated by Ben Arogundade ...

Unabridged

10 hours 28 min

From the Hugo, Nebula, Locus and Nommo award nominated author of Shigidi and The Brass Head Of Obalufon comes a stunning new collection of stories that investigate the rapidly changing role of technology and belief in our lives as we search for meaning, for knowledge, for justice; constantly converging on our future selves.In “An Arc of Electric Skin,” a roadside mechanic seeking justice ... Read more

$25.99 USD

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From the Hugo, Nebula, Locus and Nommo award nominated author of Shigidi and The Brass Head Of Obalufon comes a stunning new collection of stories that investigate the rapidly changing role of technology and belief in our lives as we search for meaning, for knowledge, for justice; constantly converging on our future selves.In “An Arc of Electric Skin,” a roadside mechanic seeking justice
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All Against All

The Long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War

by Paul Jankowski ...

Narrated by Dean Gallagher ...

Unabridged

16 hours 6 min

A narrative history, cinematic in scope, of a process that was taking shape in the winter of 1933 as domestic passions around the world colluded to drive governments towards a war few of them wanted and none of them could control.All Against All is the story of the season our world changed from postwar to prewar again. It is a book about the power of bad ideas—exploring why, during a single winter ... Read more

$32.99 USD

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A narrative history, cinematic in scope, of a process that was taking shape in the winter of 1933 as domestic passions around the world colluded to drive governments towards a war few of them wanted and none of them could control.All Against All is the story of the season our world changed from postwar to prewar again. It is a book about the power of bad ideas—exploring why, during a single winter
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Westside

A Novel

by W.M. Akers ...

Narrated by Bailey Carr ...

Series series A Gilda Carr Tiny Mystery
Unabridged

10 hours 50 min

“Superb . . . his research is excellent . . . his prose sharply crystalline.” -- New York Times***Book Review***“The Alienist meets The City & The City in this brilliant debut that mixes fantasy and mystery. Gilda Carr’s ‘tiny mysteries’ pack a giant punch."" --David Morrell, New York Times bestselling author of Murder As a Fine Art**A yo... ... Read more

$28.99 USD

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“Superb . . . his research is excellent . . . his prose sharply crystalline.” -- New York Times***Book Review***“The Alienist meets The City & The City in this brilliant debut that mixes fantasy and mystery. Gilda Carr’s ‘tiny mysteries’ pack a giant punch."" --David Morrell, New York Times bestselling author of Murder As a Fine Art**A yo...
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Escaping Exodus

A Novel

by Nicky Drayden ...

Narrated by Cherise Boothe, Adenrele Ojo ...

Unabridged

10 hours 8 min

""Don't be alarmed - that dizzy pleasurable sensation you're experiencing is just your brain slowly exploding from all the wild magnificent worldbuilding in Nicky Drayden's Escaping Exodus. I loved these characters and this story, and so will you.""- Sam J. Miller, Nebula-Award-winning author of The Art of Starving and Blackfish CityThe Compton Crook award–winning author of The Prey of Gods and <e ... Read more

$28.99 USD

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""Don't be alarmed - that dizzy pleasurable sensation you're experiencing is just your brain slowly exploding from all the wild magnificent worldbuilding in Nicky Drayden's Escaping Exodus. I loved these characters and this story, and so will you.""- Sam J. Miller, Nebula-Award-winning author of The Art of Starving and Blackfish CityThe Compton Crook award–winning author of The Prey of Gods and <e
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