Social Security, Medicare & Government Pensions: Get the Most of Your Retirement and Medical Benefits Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Get notified of updates at www.nolo.com/legalupdater. Check www.nolo.com/update to find recent changes in the law that affects the information in this book. Customer service support is available at 800-728-3555.Here are some of the benefits covered in this book:Veterans benefits - free or low cost medical...

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Sickness and Wealth: The Corporate Assault on Global Health Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Sickness and Wealth is an enlightening and in-depth collection of essays on this, perhaps the most central, of corporate assaults. This book will raise any reader's awareness of how health care issues, especially in the third world, are naturally intertwined with the issues of poverty, environmental...

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Workable Sisterhood: The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)My book came on time and was just as the seller described its condition, I was very pleased.Click Here to see more reviews about: Workable Sisterhood: The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDSClick here for more information about Workable Sisterhood: The Political Journey of Stigmatized...

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Biological Weapons Defense: Infectious Disease and Counterbioterrorism (Infectious Disease) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book completely surpassed all of my expectations. It discusses topics from the perspective of microbiology, genetics, pathology, and of course, biological warfare. I'm more interested in the medical aspects of this topic, but the book had so much more than I could have ever expected!My only complaint...

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A Question of Trust: The BBC Reith Lectures 2002 Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)As other authors have pointed out, the American society and those in other countries are less "connected" than ever before. Indeed, there is ample evidence that people trust their government, business leaders, professionals, and each other less. This collection of five lectures explores how the phenomenon...

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Critical Infrastructure: Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I read this book, and honestly, it is ahead of it's time. It covers a ton of ever changing governmental sources. His second book on transportation security is even better than the first book in terms of ideas on securing supply chains. I recommend this book to anyone in the infrastructure and/or security...

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Deadly Medicine: Why Tens of Thousands of Heart Patients Died in America's Worst Drug Disaster Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Ralph Moss wrote an excellent review of this book in the Spring 1997 edition of the Cancer Chronicles. I am writing only to put his review into context. There have been many books written describing the shortcomings of medicine, particularly those questioning claims of the efficacy of medical intervention....

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Chimeras, Hybrids, and Interspecies Research: Politics and Policymaking Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Mythology at times is mistaken for being real, or at least what potentially could be real. The author of this book recognizes this fact, and that mythology should not be the standard for public policy in biotechnology, even approximately. The book sometimes reads as a literature survey, but its contents...

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Bail Enforcer: The Advanced Bounty Hunter Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)"The Advanced Bounty Hunter"?!? I Don't think so. Reading this title leads the reader to believe that Bob Buton is going to share his nitty gritty know how with the readers. Instead Burton shares many a story from yester-year. While entertaining, these stories do not get into the specifics one needs,...

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Healthy Competition: What's Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I enjoyed the book and found it presented a well organized argument for why it is so critical to allow the markets and consumers to experiment with new methods of controlling health care costs and improving access. I also appreciated the author's acknowledgement that health care is a special service...

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Concise Cardiology: An Evidence-Based Handbook Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Newly released Concise Cardiology by Daniels is the best cardiology pocket-book I've seen. It's chapters are easy to read and navigate, filled with nice charts and diagrams. Bullet-points make important concepts easy to review. Literature review summary on each subject make this a useful book even at...

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Virus Alert: Security, Governmentality, and the AIDS Pandemic Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)VIRUS ALERT offers a fine security analysis of the implications of HIV and AIDS and covers evidence to view it as a security issue, with political consequences in response choices and the dangers involved in global efforts to halt the spread of HIV/AIDS through national security policies. College-level...

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Medicine at the Crossroads Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)There are basically two parts of Medicine at the Crossroads, both of which are invaluable reads. The first is a critique of our health care system with an urgent brief for a Canadian/French type of single-payer system. The second part of the book is a review of medical procedures and ethical dilemmas...

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Plague: The Mysterious Past and Terrifying Future of the World's Most Dangerous Disease Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)One of the most difficult and important talents for a scientist is to communicate difficult material in an understandable way. Dr. Orent has an astounding ability to communicate complex material coherently enough for a nonspecialist to understand. She has made sense of an enormous amount of plague history:...

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International Perspectives on Disability Services: The Same but Different Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Yuen gives valuable insight into the disability rights movements throughout the world. Though there is a slight emphasis on the US. The situation in Japan is well covered here. Giving useful comparisons to the reader, on how different societies tackle the problem of providing services to various types...

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Home Front: The Government's War on Soldiers : A Report on How America's Weapons, Medicines, and Bureaucracies of Mass Destruction Harm our Troops and Veterans Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is not a Bush-bashing book but a government-bashing book (White House, Congress, name any year) and deservedly so. It's a timly and telling reminder of how we - our leaders - treat our troops on the war and home fronts. We've all heard about it - here are the sad and gory details.Click Here to see...

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An Introduction to Collective Bargaining and Industrial Relations Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book was the required reading for an introductory class to the subject of industrial relations and collective bargaining. Experienced in the business world, I found this text difficult at best to follow, especially in terms of an historical time-line. I found the material extremely fragmented in...

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