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  • Health Services

    Policy and Systems for the Therapists

    by Robert W. Sandstrom, Helene L. Lohman, James D. Bramble ...
    This new edition of Health Services: Policy and Systems for the Therapists provides a comprehensive introduction to the structure and organization of the U.S. health care system, and the application of private and government insurance programs across a range of clinical practice areas.The book provides an essential introduction to the latest policy developments, exploring issues such as access, ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Should We Maximize Utility?

    A Debate about Utilitarianism

    by Ben Bramble, James Lenman ...
    Series series Little Debates about Big Questions
    Utilitarianism directs us to act in ways that impartially maximize welfare or utility or at least aim to do that. Some find this view highly compelling. Others object that it has intuitively repugnant results, that it condones evildoing and injustice, that it is excessively imposing and controlling, that it is alienating, and that it fails to offer meaningful, practical guidance.In this ‘Little ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Multigrid Methods

    by James H Bramble ...
    Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC Research Notes in Mathematics Series
    Multigrid methods are among the most efficient iterative methods for the solution of linear systems which arise in many large scale scientific calculations. Every researcher working with the numerical solution of partial differential equations should at least be familiar with this powerful technique. This invaluable book presents results concerning the rates of convergence of multigrid iterations. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • Aging in Canada

    by Neena L. Chappell, Marcus J. Hollander ...
    Canada, like other countries, is aging. The media has reported on a "grey tsunami," a demographic change reflecting longer life expectancy and the retirement of the so-called baby boomer generation. The numbers and percentages of older adults within our population continue to increase. In 2010, 15.3 percent of Canada's population was over 65; in 2030, it will be 24.1 percent. Many commentators ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Reasons and Persons

    by Derek Parfit ...
    This book challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity. The author claims that we have a false view of our own nature; that it is often rational to act against our own best interests; that most of us have moral views that are directly self-defeating; and that, when we consider future generations the conclusions will ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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  • Running Randomized Evaluations

    A Practical Guide

    by Rachel Glennerster, Kudzai Takavarasha ...
    A comprehensive guide to running randomized impact evaluations of social programs in developing countriesThis book provides a comprehensive yet accessible guide to running randomized impact evaluations of social programs. Drawing on the experience of researchers at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, which has run hundreds of such evaluations in dozens of countries throughout the world, it ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics

    A Short Introduction to Ethics

    by Simon Blackburn ...
    It is not only in our dark hours that scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and nihilism dog ethics. Whether it is a matter of giving to charity, or sticking to duty, or insisting on our rights, we can be confused, or be paralysed by the fear that our principles are groundless. Many are afraid that in a Godless world science has unmasked us as creatures fated by our genes to be selfish and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Art of Computer Programming, The

    Seminumerical Algorithms, Volume 2

    by Donald Knuth ...
    The bible of all fundamental algorithms and the work that taught many of today's software developers most of what they know about computer programming.–Byte, September 1995I can't begin to tell you how many pleasurable hours of study and recreation they have afforded me! I have pored over them in cars, restaurants, at work, at home... and even at a Little League game when my son wasn't in the line ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Jonas and Kovner's Health Care Delivery in the United States, 12th Edition

    Edited by James R. Knickman, PhD, Brian Elbel, PhD, MPH ...
    This fully updated and revised 12th edition of the highly acclaimed textbook on health care delivery provides graduate and undergraduate students with a comprehensive survey of health care in the United States ranging in topics from the organization of care, the politics surrounding healthcare in the United States, to population health and vulnerable populations, healthcare costs and value, health ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • The Posthuman

    by Rosi Braidotti ...
    The Posthuman offers both an introduction and major contribution to contemporary debates on the posthuman. Digital 'second life', genetically modified food, advanced prosthetics, robotics and reproductive technologies are familiar facets of our globally linked and technologically mediated societies. This has blurred the traditional distinction between the human and its others, exposing the non ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Designing and Conducting Health Surveys

    A Comprehensive Guide

    by Lu Ann Aday, Llewellyn J. Cornelius ...
    Designing and Conducting Health Surveys is written for students, teachers, researchers, and anyone who conducts health surveys. This third edition of the standard reference in the field draws heavily on the most recent methodological research on survey design and the rich storehouse of insights and implications provided by cognitive research on question and questionnaire design in particular. This ... Read more

    $81.00 USD

  • Ethics

    The Fundamentals

    by Julia Driver ...
    Series series Fundamentals of Philosophy
    Ethics: The Fundamentals explores core ideas and arguments in moral theory by introducing students to different philosophical approaches to ethics, including virtue ethics, Kantian ethics, divine command theory, and feminist ethics.The first volume in the new Fundamentals of Philosophy series.Presents lively, real-world examples and thoughtful discussion of key moral philosophers and their ideas ... Read more

    $30.00 USD