Demetrius J. Porche

Pristine paperback copy with unbroken spine and no markings except for a tastefully embossed Ex Libris stamp on dedication page.

Health care providers frequently engage in setting policy agenda at the individual, systems, institutional, or public level. Health Policy: Application for Nurses and Other Health Care Professionals, Second Edition provides an overview of the policy making process within a variety of settings including academia, clinical practice, communities, and various health care systems. By including both policy evaluation and research, the author provides a comprehensive and multi-perspective approach to developing and formulating effective health care policy. The Second Edition has been updated to include new chapters on the following topic areas: board governance and policy leadership, institutional and organizational and association policy, healthcare systems and global health policy. In addition, the text provides key information on the process of policy search process and offers and expanded policy institute listing. New to the Second Edition Updated references Additional figures, tables and templates New case studies Key Point Boxes in each chapter highlight key concepts Primary source referencing for definitions (Black’s Law Dictionary) Instructor Resources: Manual Transition Guide Case studies Test bank PowerPoint slides

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Washington

Social Studies

Application for Nurses and Other Health Care Professionals

Health Policy: Application for Nurses and Other Healthcare Professionals, Second Edition provides an overview of the policy making process within a variety of settings including academia, clinical practice, communities, and various health care systems.

Health Policy, 2d Ed.

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Donna M. Nickitas

Donna J. Middaugh

Nancy Aries

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Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professionals: Advocacy and Action, Third Edition reflects a well-honed vision of what nursing and health professionals need to know to both understand and influence health policy. Through their focus on relevant issues, the authors discuss how healthcare professionals can prepare themselves to engage in the economic, political, and policy dimensions of health care. The Third Edition focuses on the most relevant health policy issues while taking an interdisciplinary approach to create an understanding of healthcare practice and policy across interprofessional teams. In addition, global and population health issues such as war, terrorism, disease and natural disasters that impact health professionals are also covered in detail. New to the Third Edition: • Case studies which close the gap in understanding how policy and politics impacts health systems • Updated content on the Affordable Care Act • Enhanced Primary Care Roles (new chapter) • Health Information Technology and the Intersection of Health Policy (new chapter) • Political Power of Nurses: Harnessing Our Values & Voices (new chapter)

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Advocacy and Action

Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professionals: Advocacy and Action, Third Edition reflects a well-honed vision of what nursing and health professionals need to know to both understand and influence health policy. Through their focus on relevant issues, the authors discuss how healthcare professionals can prepare themselves to engage in the economic, political, and policy dimensions of health care.The Third Edition focuses on the most relevant health policy issues while taking an interdisciplinary approach to create an understanding of healthcare practice and policy across interprofessional teams. In addition, global and population health issues such as war, terrorism, disease and natural disasters that impact health professionals are also covered in detail. New to the Third Edition: * Case studies which close the gap in understanding how policy and politics impacts health systems* Updated content on the Affordable Care Act * Enhanced Primary Care Roles (new chapter) * Health Information Technology and the Intersection of Health Policy (new chapter) * Political Power of Nurses: Harnessing Our Values & Voices (new chapter)

Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professionals

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This paperback book is an excellent shape, with a unbroken spine. Light highlighting on one or two pages and an embossed Ex Libris stamp on the title page. NOTE: Online access code not included.

Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professionals, Second Edition focuses on the idea that all health care providers require a fundamental understanding of the health care system including but not limited to knowledge required to practice their discipline. The text discusses how health care professionals must also prepare themselves to engage in the economic, political and policy dimensions of health care. The Second Edition offers a nursing focus with an interdisciplinary approach intertwined to create an understanding of health care practice and policy. The text is enriched through the contributions from nurses and other health professionals including activists, politicians, and economists who comprehend the forces of healthcare in America how their impact on the everyday provider. The new edition features key updates on the current health care environment including the Affordable Care Act.

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Each new print copy includes Navigate 2 Advantage Access that unlocks a comprehensive and interactive eBook, student practice activities and assessments, a full suite of instructor resources, and learning analytics reporting tools. Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professionals, Second Edition focuses on the idea that all health care providers require a fundamental understanding of the health care system including but not limited to knowledge required to practice their discipline. The text discusses how health care professionals must also prepare themselves to engage in the economic, political and policy dimensions of health care. The Second Edition offers a nursing focus with an interdisciplinary approach intertwined to create an understanding of health care practice and policy. The text is enriched through the contributions from nurses and other health professionals including activists, politicians, and economists who comprehend the forces of healthcare in America how their impact on the everyday provider. The new edition features key updates on the current health care environment including the Affordable Care Act. Instructor Resources include: Test Bank Web Link Resources PowerPoint(TM) Slides

James Monaco

Excellent paperback copy with only markings on the title page (see pic).

Richard Gilman referred to How to Read a Film as simply "the best single work of its kind." And Janet Maslin in The New York Times Book Review marveled at James Monaco's ability to collect "an enormous amount of useful information and assemble it in an exhilaratingly simple and systematic way." Indeed, since its original publication in 1977, this hugely popular book has become the definitive source on film and media.

Now, James Monaco offers a special anniversary edition of his classic work, featuring a new preface and several new sections, including an "Essential Library: One Hundred Books About Film and Media You Should Read" and "One Hundred Films You Should See." As in previous editions, Monaco once again looks at film from many vantage points, as both art and craft, sensibility and science, tradition and technology. After examining film's close relation to other narrative media such as the novel, painting, photography, television, and even music, the book discusses the elements necessary to understand how films convey meaning, and, more importantly, how we can best discern all that a film is attempting to communicate. In addition, Monaco stresses the still-evolving digital context of film throughout--one of the new sections looks at the untrustworthy nature of digital images and sound--and his chapter on multimedia brings media criticism into the twenty-first century with a thorough discussion of topics like virtual reality, cyberspace, and the proximity of both to film.

With hundreds of illustrative black-and-white film stills and diagrams, How to Read a Film is an indispensable addition to the library of everyone who loves the cinema and wants to understand it better.

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Movies, Media, and Beyond

A new edition of a genuine classic in film studies, featuring a new preface and several new sections. 'Against Art' suggests restoring the balance between the virtual world of art and the real world. 'Morphing' discusses the untrustworthy nature of digital images and sounds. 'The Virtual World' describes contemporary culture where everyone is connected to each other's images, and how the ring-tone market rivals the feature film business.

How to Read a Film

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Berel Lang

Excellent hardcover copy with no markings or defects. 

In What Is Called Thinking, Martin Heidegger wrote, "Man speaks by being silent." Berel Lang demonstrates that Heidegger's own silence spoke consciously and deliberately in response to what has been called the "Jewish Question." Posed simply, the Jewish Question, as it gained currency in the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries, asked how (or if) the Jews were to live among the nations. The Holocaust radically altered the significance of the Jewish Question and, still, the great philosopher did not speak.

Lang interrogates Heidegger's silence for its possible meanings. He asks: What does it tell us about someone who prided himself on his ability to think that Heidegger never felt compelled to address the Jewish Question or to respond to the Nazi genocide? Lang demonstrates that Heidegger's silence after the Holocaust had its foundation in his silence on the Jewish Question before its occurrence. That earlier silence, he suggests, was based in the conceptual and historical role Heidegger ascribed to the Volk and in particular to the German Volk. Heidegger's silence, Lang concludes, was thus not simply an expression of prejudice or of his public persona. It derived from his philosophical thought and becomes, therefore, a necessary consideration in assessing Heidegger as a thinker. In this context, Lang suggests, Heidegger's silence still speaks

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Preface p. ix Chapter 1 From the Jewish Question to the ""Jewish Question"": a History of Silence p. 1 Chapter 2 The ""Jewish Ouestion"" in Heidegger's Post-Holocaust p. 13 Chapter 3 Heidegger When the Jewish Question Still Was p. 31 Chapter 4 Inside and outside Heidegger's Antisemitism p. 61 Chapter 5 Heidegger and the Very Thought of Philosophy p. 83 Appendix: A Conversation about Heidegger with Eduard Baumgarten p. 101 Notes p. 113 Index p. 127.

Heidegger's Silence

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Sara T. Fry

Robert M. Veatch

Carol R. Taylor

Pristine, like New paperback copy with no markings and an unbroken spine.

As the healthcare professional in closest contact with both the patient and the physician, nurses face biomedical ethical problems in unique ways. Accordingly, Case Studies in Nursing Ethics presents basic ethical principles and specific guidance for applying these principles in nursing practice, through analysis of over 150 actual case study conflicts that have occurred in nursing practice. Each case study allows readers to develop their own approaches to the resolution of ethical conflict and to reflect on how the traditions of ethical thought and professional guidelines apply to the situation. The Fourth Edition has been completely revised and updated. It includes two new chapters, one on Moral Integrity and Moral Distress which contains AACN model of moral distress and work and one on Respect which addresses several aspects of the general problem of showing respect for patients and others. It's also been updated with new case studies, new "Critical Thinking Questions" and "Research Briefs" boxes throughout, as well as citations, glossary, and web resources in health care ethics.

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Science

A new and updated version of this best-selling resource! Jones and Bartlett Publisher's 2011 Nurse's Drug Handbook is the most up-to-date, practical, and easy-to-use nursing drug reference! It provides: Accurate, timely facts on hundreds of drugs from abacavir sulfate to Zyvox; Concise, consistently formatted drug entries organized alphabetically; No-nonsense writing style that speaks your language in terms you use everyday; Index of all generic, trade, and alternate drug names for quick reference. It has all the vital information you need at your fingertips: Chemical and therapeutic classes, FDA pregnancy risk category and controlled substance schedule; Indications and dosages, as well as route, onset, peak, and duration information; Incompatibilities, contraindications; interactions with drugs, food, and activities, and adverse reactions; Nursing considerations, including key patient-teaching points; Vital features include mechanism-of-action illustrations showing how drugs at the cellular, tissue, or organ levels and dosage adjustments help individualize care for elderly patients, patients with renal impairment, and others with special needs; Warnings and precautions that keep you informed and alert.

Case Studies in Nursing Ethics

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Raymond L. Goldsteen

Karen Goldsteen

Pristine paperback copy with no marking in book except a tasteful embossed ex libris stamp on title page.

There are many books on the U.S. healthcare system, but few have the longevity of this one. It is easy to read and straightforward in its approach to difficult subjects such as the rise of the Tea Party and how that movement has impacted healthcare. This update is certainly needed as the landscape has changed dramatically since the previous edition was published in 2007."--Doody's Medical Reviews

This best-selling textbook remains the most concise and balanced introduction to the United States health care system. Providing an accessible overview of the basic components of the system, this latest edition is also entirely updated to address the health care reform bill of 2010 and subsequent changes to health care services, delivery, and financing.

Like its predecessors, Jonas' Introduction to the U.S. Health Care System includes an overview of health care personnel, hospitals and other institutions, the federal government, financing and payment mechanisms, and managed care. It has been updated to offer insights into the 2010 health care reform bill and its resulting political and medical fallout, and a new chapter on health care system trends and consequences has been added. All students of health care administration and policy, as well as practicing health care professionals seeking a clear and concise overview of our health care system, will benefit from this resource.

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Seventh Edition

Jonas' Introduction to the U. S. Health Care System

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Daniel Callahan

Clean paperback copy in excellent condition with no markings in book except for a tasteful ex libris embossed stamp on the title page. 

Callahan (director, the Hastings Center) asks the right questions (e.g. how much and what kind of health is necessary for a decent life?) and offers thoughtful answers: America's obsession with open-ended medical progress distorts the meaning of good health; prolonging life beyond reasonable expectations causes the neglect of general healthcare, and shortchanges other crucial needs such as education and housing.

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A Challenging Exploration of the Goals of Medicine in Our Changing Society

What Kind of Life?

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Janie B. Butts

Karen L. Rich

Like new copy of the fourth edition. No markings in book. DOES NOT CONTAIN ONLINE ACCESS CODE.

Nursing Ethics: Across the Curriculum and Into Practice, Fourth Edition integrates the concept of nursing ethics across the curriculum by preparing students and professionals for the moral issues encountered in practice. The Fourth Edition has been revised to reflect the evolution of nursing ethics within healthcare The text is divided into three sections: Foundational Theories, Concepts and Professional Issues; Moving into Ethics Across the Lifespan and Ethics Related to Special Issues focused on specific populations and nursing roles. Key Features: Coverage of the ANA code of Ethics with Interpretive statements as appendix Legal features sections included in most chapters Appendix of case studies and suggestions for discussion Ethical reflections questions in each chapter Author recommendations for additional supplemental information per chapter

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Philosophy

Each new print copy includes Navigate 2 Advantage Access that unlocks a comprehensive and interactive eBook, student practice activities and assessments, a full suite of instructor resources, and learning analytics reporting tools

Nursing Ethics: Across the Curriculum and Into Practice, Fourth Edition integrates the concept of nursing ethics across the curriculum by preparing students and professionals for the moral issues encountered in practice. The Fourth Edition has been revised to reflect the evolution of nursing ethics within healthcare The text is divided into three sections: Foundational Theories, Concepts and Professional Issues; Moving into Ethics Across the Lifespan and Ethics Related to Special Issues focused on specific populations and nursing roles.

Key Features:
Coverage of the ANA code of Ethics with Interpretive statements as appendix
Legal features sections included in most chapters
Appendix of case studies and suggestions for discussion
Ethical reflections questions in each chapter
Author recommendations for additional supplemental information per chapter

Nursing Ethics Across the Curriculum and into Practice

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Augusto Boal

Adrian Jackson

Paperback is in good condition with light pencil markings through book (see pic). 

Rainbow of Desire is a handbook of exercises with a difference. It is Augusto Boal's bold and brilliant statement about the therapeutic ability of theatre to liberate individuals and change lives. Now translated into English and comprehensively updated from the French, Rainbow of Desire sets out the techniques which help us `see' for the first time the oppressions we have internalised.
Boal, a Brazilian theatre director, writer and politician, has been confronting oppression in various forms for over thirty years. His belief that theatre is a means to create the future has inspired hundreds of groups all over the world to use his techniques in a multitude of settings. This, his latest work, includes such exercises as:
* The Cops in the Head and their anti-bodies
* The screen image
* The image of the future we are afraid of
* Image and counter-image
....and many more.
Rainbow of Desire will make fascinating reading for those already familiar with Boal's work and is also completely accessible to anyone new to Theatre of the Oppressed techniques.

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The Boal Method of Theatre and Therapy

Rainbow of Desire is a handbook of exercises with a difference. It is Augusto Boal's bold and brilliant statement about the therapeutic ability of theatre to liberate individuals and change lives. Now translated into English and comprehensively updated from the French, Rainbow of Desire sets out the techniques which help us `see' for the first time the oppressions we have internalised.
Boal, a Brazilian theatre director, writer and politician, has been confronting oppression in various forms for over thirty years. His belief that theatre is a means to create the future has inspired hundreds of groups all over the world to use his techniques in a multitude of settings. This, his latest work, includes such exercises as:
* The Cops in the Head and their anti-bodies
* The screen image
* The image of the future we are afraid of
* Image and counter-image
....and many more.
Rainbow of Desire will make fascinating reading for those already familiar with Boal's work and is also completely accessible to anyone new to Theatre of the Oppressed techniques.

The Rainbow of Desire

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Ronald Bayer

Good, clean hardcover copy without dust jacket. Highlighting on a few pages but it doesn’t affect the book’s readability.

Since public health seeks to protect the health of populations, it inevitably confronts a range of ethical challenges having to do primarily with the friction between individual freedoms and what might be perceived as governmental paternalism. This volume brings together twenty-five articles by leading thinkers in the field, writing on topics that concern both classic and novel problems. They open up new terrain in each area, including tobacco and drug control, infectious disease, environmental and occupational health, the effect of new genetics on the publics health, and the impact of social inequalities on patterns of morbidity and mortality. The volume editors offer a context for discussion with introductory essays for each of the books five sections.

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Theory, Policy, and Practice

As it seeks to protect the health of populations, public health inevitably confronts a range of critical ethical challenges. This volume brings together 25 articles that open up the terrain of the ethics of public health. It features topics such as tobacco and drug control, and infectious disease.

Public Health Ethics

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Good, clean copy with moderate shelf wear on book jacket. No markings except for a tasteful embossed ex libris stamp on title page. Pages are slightly yellowed with age but its many color and black-and-white illustrations are sharp and vibrant.

This book deals with medical ethics under the Hippocratic physicians of ancient Greece, for whom good health was perfection in nature, the brilliant archiaters and their schools of the later Roman Empire and after, the medical clergy who introduced a new attitude to suffering, and the laboratory doctors of emergent industrial society. In the author's view, modern treatment, whether state or private, has yet to alter radically the requirements of a successful doctor-patient the difference lies only in how these requirements are met.

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Doctor and Patient

Liat Ben-Moshe

Good copy with moderate shelf wear (see pics). 

This book is a result of an interdisciplinary effort by Syracuse University’s Future Professoriate Program (FPP) who invited authors to explore ideas on how institutions can better focus on the needs and perspectives of scholars and students with disabilities. The authors come from a variety of disciplines and have engaged in disability scholarship, activism, and accommodation in their classes. Further, it provides their personal experiences and methods for creating accessible and challenging learning environments. The book includes a resource guide, which makes classrooms inclusive, and integrates the disability perspective into the curricula.

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Incorporating Disability in the University Classroom and Curriculum

This book is a result of an interdisciplinary effort by Syracuse University’s Future Professoriate Program (FPP) who invited authors to explore ideas on how institutions can better focus on the needs and perspectives of scholars and students with disabilities. The authors come from a variety of disciplines and have engaged in disability scholarship, activism, and accommodation in their classes. Further, it provides their personal experiences and methods for creating accessible and challenging learning environments. The book includes a resource guide, which makes classrooms inclusive, and integrates the disability perspective into the curricula.

Building Pedagogical Curb Cuts

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Pristine paperback copy with no markings in book and an unbroken spine. New Edition

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a So remarkable and so ground-breaking ... [it is] the most important [book] on the theatre in modern times.a George Wellwarth"

Theater of the Oppressed

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John Hick

Pristine hardcover copy with no markings in book. Book jacket has been covered in archival clear Mylar that is removable.

This is a collection of John Hick's essays on the understanding of the world's religions as different human responses to the same ultimate transcendent reality. He is in dialogue with contemporary philosophers (some of whom contribute new responses); with Evangelicals; with the Vatican and other both Catholic and Protestant theologians. The book is alive with current argument for all those interested in contemporary philosophy of religion and theology.

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This is a collection of John Hick's essays on the understanding of the world's religions as different human responses to the same ultimate transcendent reality. He is in dialogue with contemporary philosophers (some of whom contribute new responses); with Evangelicals; with the Vatican and other both Catholic and Protestant theologians. The book is alive with current argument for all those interested in contemporary philosophy of religion and theology.

Dialogues in the Philosophy of Religion

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Tom Morris

Like new paperback copy with no markings in book.

The comic book naratives of superheroes wrestle with profound and disturbing issues in original ways: the definitions of good and evil, the limits of violence as an effective means, the perils of enforcing justice outside the law, the metaphysics of personal identity, and the definition of humanity.
Superheroes and Philosophy tackles these and other philosophical questions in an intellectual yet engaging way suitable for any comic book fan.

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Truth, Justice, and the Socratic Way

The comic book naratives of superheroes wrestle with profound and disturbing issues in original ways: the definitions of good and evil, the limits of violence as an effective means, the perils of enforcing justice outside the law, the metaphysics of personal identity, and the definition of humanity.
Superheroes and Philosophy tackles these and other philosophical questions in an intellectual yet engaging way suitable for any comic book fan.

Superheroes and Philosophy

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Kathryn H.  Kavanagh

Patricia H. Kennedy

Some light highlighting through the book, but it does not affect readability.

Increasingly, health care professionals work in settings composed of ethnically, socially and economically disparate populations. Kavanagh and Kennedy analyze the issues that surround cultural, gender, ideological and experiential diversity, and focus on communication skills and intervention strategies that are effective in situations characterized by diversity. They also present a repertoire of experiential strategies and aids for learning about diversity and offer scenarios, collages and extensive case studies to illustrate and encourage the analysis of real life situations.

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Strategies for Health Care Professionals

Increasingly, health care professionals work in settings composed of ethnically, socially and economically disparate populations. Kavanagh and Kennedy analyze the issues that surround cultural, gender, ideological and experiential diversity, and focus on communication skills and intervention strategies that are effective in situations characterized by diversity. They also present a repertoire of experiential strategies and aids for learning about diversity and offer scenarios, collages and extensive case studies to illustrate and encourage the analysis of real life situations.

Promoting Cultural Diversity

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Niccolò Machiavelli

Paperback copy in excellent shape with little shelf wear.

This is the Notion Critical Edition (2d Ed.) translated and edited by Professor Robert M. Adams.

Robert M. Adams’s superb translation of Machiavelli’s best-known work is again the basis for this Norton Critical Edition.

Accurate, highly readable, and thoroughly revised for the Second Edition, this translation renders Machiavelli’s 1513 political tract into clear and concise English.

"Backgrounds" relies entirely upon Machiavelli’s other writings to place this central Florentine in his proper political and historical context. Included are excerpts from The Discourses, a report from a diplomatic mission, a collection of private letters, and two poems from Carnival Songs.

"Interpretations" retains three of the previous edition’s seminal essays while adding five selections by Felix Gilbert, Federico Chabod, J. H. Whitfield, Isaiah Berlin, and Robert M. Adams.

"Marginalia" is an eclectic collection of writings germane to both Machiavelli and The Prince. Of the eight selections represented, five of them are new to the Second Edition, including Pasquale Villari’s comic portrayal of Machiavelli’s first diplomatic post in 1499, Francesco Guicciardini’s lofty rebuttal to Machiavelli, and a collection of Tuscan Sayings to further the reader’s understanding of this timeless text.

An updated Selected Bibliography is also included.

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Prince

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Michael Sims

Like new copy with very little shelf wear on the book jacket. 

A cultural history of the perceptions, exploitations, and celebrations of the human body discusses such topics as Achilles' heel, dreadlocks, fingerprints, breast-feeding, navel rings, and back pain

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A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form

Drawing on evolution and the mechanics of human anatomy, a science writers conducts an engaging tour of the human form--where biology and culture intersect.

Adam's Navel

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Warren T. Reich

Complete 5 volume set of the revised edition of the Encyclopedia of Bioethics. In excellent, library de-accessioned, used condition. Has library spine stickers and stamp on page edges, but the pages are clean, no markings or dog ears. This set is big and pretty heavy. 10” wide x 11.5” tall x 9” deep.

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Revised edition

This 5 volume revision of the 1979 Dartmouth Medal-winner provides balanced, informative articles on the moral and ethical dimensions of modern medicine, science and technology.

Encyclopedia of Bioethics

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George Lakoff

Paperback copy in excellent condition but for a tasteful embossed ex libris on title page (see pic)

In 2004, George Lakoff published the bestselling “Don't Think of an Elephant!” Its account of the conservative monopoly on effective framing touched off a national discussion about political language. It also gave rise to a chorus of pleas for more:

* What is the progressive vision of America;
* Why progressive values are America's values;
* How frames are necessary to serve the truth;
* Why sloganeering alone doesn't work;
* How progressives trap themselves and how they can escape those traps; and
* How political arguments and narratives can be put together to counter the Right.

Thinking Points satisfies that call with a bold, concise, and systematic explanation of how conservatives think and use language―and how progressives can fight back . Lakoff and the Rockridge Institute offer a new understanding of the so-called political center and explain why the most effective way to appeal to those who identify themselves as moderates or conservatives is to remain true to progressive values.

This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to participate in shaping an America that serves the common good.

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Communicating Our American Values and Vision

Thinking Points

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Umberto Eco

Martin McLaughlin

Clean, like new paperback copy with no markings and only very minimal shelf wear

Umberto Eco (born 5 January 1932) is an Italian novelist, medievalist, semiotician, philosopher, and literary critic.

He is the author of several bestselling novels, The Name of The Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, The Island of The Day Before, and Baudolino. His collections of essays include Five Moral Pieces, Kant and the Platypus, Serendipities, Travels In Hyperreality, and How To Travel With a Salmon and Other Essays.

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In this collection of essays and addresses delivered over the course of his illustrious career, Umberto Eco seeks "to understand the chemistry of [his] passion" for the word. Eco's luminous intelligence and encyclopedic knowledge dazzle throughout. And when he reveals his own ambitions and superstitions, his authorial anxieties and fears, one feels like a secret sharer in the garden of literature to which he so often alludes. Illuminating, accessible, stimulating, this collection exhibits Eco's diversity of interests and depth of knowledge in pieces such as these and many more: A Reading of the Paradiso On the Style of The Communist Manifesto Wilde: Paradox and Aphorism A Portrait of the Artist as Bachelor Borges and My Anxiety of Influence On Symbolism On Style The American Myth in Three Anti-American Generations Umberto Eco is a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna. His collections of essays include Kant and the Platypus, Serendipities, Travels in Hyperreality, and How to Travel with a Salmon. He is also the author of the bestselling novels The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, and Baudolino. His most recent novel is The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana. He lives in Milan. Translated from the Italian by Martin McLaughlin

On Literature

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Kenneth J. Rothman

Like new, clean paperback copy of this first edition introductory text. Has unbroken spine and very minimal shelf wear.

In the past thirty years epidemiology has matured from a fledgling scientific field into a vibrant discipline that brings together the biological and social sciences, and in doing so draws upon disciplines ranging from statistics and survey sampling to the philosophy of science. These areas of knowledge have converged into a modern theory of epidemiology that has been slow to penetrate into textbooks, particularly at the introductory level. Epidemiology: An Introduction closes the gap. It begins with a brief, lucid discussion of causal thinking and causal inference and then takes the reader through the elements of epidemiology, focusing on the measures of disease occurrence and causal effects. With these building blocks in place, the reader learns how to design, analyze and interpret problems that epidemiologists face, including confounding, the role of chance, and the exploration of interactions. All these topics are layered on the foundation of basic principles presented in simple language, with numerous examples and questions for further thought.

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An Introduction

In the past thirty years epidemiology has matured from a fledgling scientific field into a vibrant discipline that brings together the biological and social sciences, and in doing so draws upon disciplines ranging from statistics and survey sampling to the philosophy of science. These areas of knowledge have converged into a modern theory of epidemiology that has been slow to penetrate into textbooks, particularly at the introductory level. Epidemiology: An Introduction closes the gap. It begins with a brief, lucid discussion of causal thinking and causal inference and then takes the reader through the elements of epidemiology, focusing on the measures of disease occurrence and causal effects. With these building blocks in place, the reader learns how to design, analyze and interpret problems that epidemiologists face, including confounding, the role of chance, and the exploration of interactions. All these topics are layered on the foundation of basic principles presented in simple language, with numerous examples and questions for further thought.

Epidemiology

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Saul Bellow

Janis Freedman Bellow

James Wood

Hardcover edition in good condition with only moderate shelf wear on top off book jacket’s spine (see pics.) 

Filled with wisdom, wit, and insight, a groundbreaking collection of short works, selected by the author, traces his illustrious literary career and includes such celebrated stories as "Leaving the Yellow House", "What Kind of Day Did You Have?," and the novella The Bellarosa Connection.

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This collection of short fiction is both a handsome anthology Bellow's avid readers will treasure and a superb introduction to those unacquainted with his genius.

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Demetrius J. Porche

Health Policy, 2d Ed.

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Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professionals

Donna M. Nickitas; Nancy Aries; Donna J. Middaugh

Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professionals

James Monaco

How to Read a Film

Berel Lang

Heidegger's Silence

Sara T. Fry; Robert M. Veatch; Carol R. Taylor

Case Studies in Nursing Ethics

Raymond L. Goldsteen; Karen Goldsteen

Jonas' Introduction to the U. S. Health Care System

Daniel Callahan

What Kind of Life?

Janie B. Butts; Karen L. Rich

Nursing Ethics Across the Curriculum and into Practice

Augusto Boal; Adrian Jackson

The Rainbow of Desire

Ronald Bayer

Public Health Ethics

P. Lain Entralgo

Doctor and Patient

Liat Ben-Moshe

Building Pedagogical Curb Cuts

Augusto Boal

Theater of the Oppressed

John Hick

Dialogues in the Philosophy of Religion

Tom Morris

Superheroes and Philosophy

Kathryn H. Kavanagh; Patricia H. Kennedy

Promoting Cultural Diversity

Niccolò Machiavelli

Prince

Michael Sims

Adam's Navel

Warren T. Reich

Encyclopedia of Bioethics

George Lakoff

Thinking Points

Umberto Eco; Martin McLaughlin

On Literature

Kenneth J. Rothman

Epidemiology

Saul Bellow; Janis Freedman Bellow; James Wood

Collected Stories

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