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  BOOKKarzai: The Failing American Intervention and the Struggle for Afghanistan Nick B. Mills $1.65
About this product:  BOOKThe Lost Lawyer : Failing Ideals of the Legal Profession Anthony Kronman $11.38
About this product: Anthony Kronman describes a spiritual crisis affecting the American legal profession, and attributes it to the collapse of what he calls the ideal of the lawyer-statesman: a set of values that prizes good judgment above technical competence and encourages a public-spirited devotion to the law. For nearly two centuries, Kronman argues, the aspirations of American lawyers were shaped by their allegiance to a distinctive ideal of professional excellence. In the last generation, however, this ideal has failed, undermining the identity of lawyers as a group and making it unclear to those in the profession what it means for them personally to have chosen a life in the law. A variety of factors have contributed to the declining prestige of prudence and public-spiritedness within the legal profession. Partly, Kronman asserts, it is the result of the triumph, in legal thought, of a counterideal that denigrates the importance of wisdom and character as professional virtues. Partly, it is due to an array of institutional forces, including the explosive growth of the country's leading law firms and the bureaucratization of our courts. The Lost Lawyer examines each of these developments and illuminates their common tendency to compromise the values from which the ideal of the lawyer-statesman draws strength. It is the most important critique of the American legal profession in some time, and an an enduring restatement of its ideals.  BOOKDropsy, Dialysis, Transplant: A Short History of Failing Kidneys (Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease) Steven J. Peitzman $11.99
About this product: Small and bean shaped, the kidneys are sophisticated organs that filter waste from the blood. A number of diseases and disorders -- including diabetes and hypertension -- can harm the kidneys and cause them to fail. Historian and nephrologist Steven J. Peitzman traces the medical history of kidney disease alongside the personal experience of illness. Drawing on diaries, letters, literary narratives, and scientific writings, Peitzman charts the triumphs of medical innovators like Richard Bright, Thomas Addis, and Belding Scribner as well as the stories of persons, famous and not, who have struggled with the disease. Conditions once known as "Bright's Disease" are now recognized as complex disorders with names such as glomerulopathy and acute tubular necrosis. Treatments have evolved from abdominal tapping and dietetics to hemodialysis and transplantation. Medical advances have improved the well-being and prognosis of persons with failing kidneys. Yet such persons continue on an arduous journey of chronic illness. Peitzman travels with them, from diagnosis to treatment, and witnesses their remarkable ability to cope. Joining the clinician's perspective with the historian's analysis, this fascinating chronicle offers insight into how diseases are defined, categorized, and understood and explains current concepts of how kidney disease behaves and how modern therapy works.  BOOK7 Actions That Make Failing a Non-Option Dr. Vincent Muli Wa Kituku $15.00
About this product: BOOKReorganizing Failing Businesses, Volumes 1 & 2 Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP $260.66
About this product:  BOOKThe Democracy Index: Why Our Election System Is Failing and How to Fix It Heather K. Gerken $12.25
About this product: Despite howls for reform, the only thing separating us from another election disaster of the kind that hit Florida in 2000, and that almost struck again in Ohio in 2004, may simply be another close vote. In this lucid and lively book, Heather Gerken diagnoses what is wrong with our elections and proposes a radically new and simple solution: a Democracy Index that would rate the performance of state and local election systems. A rough equivalent to the U.S. News and World Report ranking of colleges and universities, the Index would focus on problems that matter to all voters: How long does it take to vote? How many ballots get discarded? How often do voting machines break down? And it should work for a simple reason: no one wants to be at the bottom of the list. For a process that is supposed to be all about counting, U.S. elections yield few reliable numbers about anything--least of all how well the voting system is managed. The Democracy Index would change this with a blueprint for quantifying election performance and reform results, replacing anecdotes and rhetoric with hard data and verifiable outcomes. A fresh vision of reform, this book shows how to drive improvements by creating incentives for politicians, parties, and election officials to join the cause of change and to come up with creative solutions--all without Congress issuing a single regulation. In clear and energetic terms, The Democracy Index explains how to realize the full potential of the Index while avoiding potential pitfalls. Election reform will never be the same again.  BOOKDecentralization: Fantasies, Failings, and Fundamentals N. Dean Meyer $1.99
About this product:  BOOKFailing Our Kids: Why the Testing Craze Won't Fix Our Schools Barb Miner $3.67
About this product:  BOOKAngry Parents, Failing Schools Elaine K. McEwan $0.01
About this product: Recently my niece began 6th grade at a private school. She received about 7 different workbooks in addition to 2-3 hardback textbooks. I compared that curriculum to the curriculum used in the same district (Palm Beach, Florida) but at public schools. I agree that education has changed from "hard-core stick-to-the-objective" method to whole language, cooperative learning and higher order thinking skills. However, it isn't always the teachers' desire to do this. It often isn't the principal's or even the superintedent's fault. It lies with each state's and the Federal Boards of Education. Florida gives "bad" schools the title "critically low." These are derived from test scores. Last year I worked at one of the "critical schools." Our former commissioner of education, Frank Brogan, felt those schools weren't doing their job and sent in the troops. One such person ($$$$$$$$) was Dr. Bill Blokker (I hope his name is spelled correctly). Everyone at these schools was under alot of stress. Ironically, all the "critical" schools were in the welfare, low/no income areas with high discipline problems. That creates more stress. Schools often do things in ways that they don't want to in order to please the higher-ups. Add to that the unwillingness for parents to comprehend what goes on in classrooms. Unlike a manager in a fast-food chain, we can't hire and fire who we want, we don't have much say in how our franchise is run and we don't get paid to put up with the mental abuse which comes with working in various geographic areas (not necessarily secondary schools). Imagine running this franchise without napkins, catsup, hamburger, ice or cups. Better yet, imagine having to purchase all these items with your own, "slap-in-the-face" salary. For 9-10 different subjects, I have ONE textbook (I teach 2nd grade) and TWO workbooks which can be written in (all others must be copied). (Each child has their own, thank goodness.) Hey, I don't even have a "workable" curriculum for the areas of Science, Health or Social Studies (I do have a lasar disc and material which can be copied but takes 3 hours to plan one week's lesson). Add into that the potential for unfair administration, conflicting messages for methods of teaching (one day practice sheets are OK, the next day they are forbidden) and, of course, increased class size with lack of assistance. I do agree with the philosophies in this book but blaming the schools and those working in them isn't right. We only do what we are told to do with the information we are given. I love teaching. If I didn't, I wouldn't have taken the time to write what I did. We need to get back to the basics but that will take parents doing something major. It will also take more than writing a best-selling book. If you have anything to respond to, please write me. I only want the best for our children, but as the old saying goes, it takes a village. BOOKHealth Care Meltdown: Confronting the Myths and Fixing Our Failing System [HEALTH CARE MELTDOWN REV/E -OS] Robert H. M. D.(Author) ; White, C. Rocky M. D.(Author) LeBow $18.90
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