About this product: Free Lunch answers the great mystery of our time: How did our strong and growing economy give way to job uncertainty, debt, bankruptcy, and fear for millions of Americans? Acclaimed reporter David Cay Johnston reveals how government policies and spending have reached deep into the wallets of the many to benefit the top 1% of the wealthiest.
He shows exactly who has been getting free lunches from the government—from $100 million to Warren Buffett, to $1.3 billion to the owners of the Yankees and Mets. But of course there’s really no such thing as a free lunch. The taxpayer always picks up the bill. With his in depth reporting, vivid stories, and sharp analysis, Johnston reveals the forces that shape our everyday economic lives—and shows us how we can finally make things better.
About this product: The 2003 Revised Edition to the sold out first edition. Designed as a book to help catch those who cheat on their expenses, it provides hundreds of methods and techniques to help you cheat on your expenses, if you choose, and then provides methods to use in case you get caught.
About this product: This best selling reference lists 30,000 meanings for medical, nursing, pharmaceutical, and other health-related abbreviations, acronyms, symbols, and slang. It is current and comprehensive. Also listed is a cross-reference list of drug generic and trade names. Included in the purchase price of the book is a 1-year single user access license to the internet version of the book which is updated with about 80 new entries each month. You can quickly search for the meaning(s) of an abbreviation (e.g. CHF) or you can search for a word within the meanings of abbreviation (e.g. all the abbreviations which contain the word CONGESTIVE). Introductory chapters stress the dangers which are associated with the use of unfamiliar abbreviations. Examples of errors which have resulted from their use, as well as a list of dangerous abbreviations which should not be used are presented. The book is popular with health professionals, students, coders, transcriptionists, lawyers, insurance companies, clinical research assistants, editors, and medical researchers.
About this product: This book is intended to provide a fundamental introduction to Cost of Quality concepts (often simply referred to as Quality Costs) for executives or those individuals new to quality concepts. In addition, it can help anyone in an organization interested in how this measurement methodology links to business costs. This book is not intended to be used as a handbook or as an in-depth exploration of the underlying methodology, but rather a helpful overview of an approach to maximize value and bottom line impact. If you are an executive wanting to understand more about what Cost of Quality measurements are, you need only look at Chapters 1-3. Chapter 3 is an overview of building a Cost of Quality measure, Chapter 4 includes details of building a Cost of Quality measure, Chapter 5 has recommendations on how to sell a Cost of Quality program, and Chapter 6 discusses pitfalls. Both manufacturing and non-manufacturing firms who are just getting started or contemplating a Quality Cost measurement program will find this book especially valuable. To aid in illustrating the application of these principles to diverse and global businesses, case studies have been selected and included to demonstrate how the general approach can accommodate and enhance different organizations. These examples demonstrate the broad spectrum across which Quality Cost methods can be used as a measurement tool, making improved performance clear in a dollars and cents manner.
About this product: In George Washington's Expense Account -- the best-selling expense account in history -- Kitman shows how Washington brilliantly turned his noble gesture of refusing payment for his services as commander in chief of the Continental Army into an opportunity to indulge his insatiable lust for fine food and drink, extravagant clothing, and lavish accommodations. In a close analysis of the document that financed our Revolution, Kitman uncovers more scandals than you can shake a Nixon Cabinet member at -- and serves each up with verve and wit.
About this product: The book contains 28,000 meanings for 18,000 medically-related abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols. It is current and comprehensive in an easy to read format. Introductory chapters contain a Do Not Use List, a list of contradictory and ambiguous abbreviations, and a Primer listing 275 common abbreviations to help those just starting their careers. The book also contains a cross-referenced list of 3,400 generic and trade name drugs. Included with the purchase of the book, at no extra cost, is a 2-year single-user access to the web-version of the book. This web-version is updated with about 80 new entries per month. Its search engine will allow searches for abbreviations or a word found in the meaning of abbreviations.
About this product: This book provides the reader who has a basic understanding of the concepts and functioning of health insurance with more specific information on medical expense insurance-the most popular kind of health insurance in America. The text begins by describing the two coverages that provide health insurance to most Americans: group major medical insurance and individual hospital-surgical insurance. Subsequent chapters discuss organizational functions and other areas of importance to medical expense insurance products.
Chapter authors all have extensive experience in the health insurance industry, and bring a practical, real-world perspective to their treatment of the subject.
About this product: One of America's most respected and renowned financial planners provides 1001 tips to help everyone--from CEOs to homemakers--save money. Learn which corners to cut in various areas of everyday life. Take the revealing self-test and assess where your money is being spent. Then allow the expert to guide you to the most effective and creative ways to save it.
About this product: A daily scan through the news gives the impression that the world is constantly invaded by virus epidemics. The latest headlines feature the human papillomavirus (HPV) alleged to cause cervical cancer and the avian flu virus, H5N1. The public is also continually terrorized by reports about SARS, BSE, hepatitis C, AIDS, Ebola, and polio. However, this virus mayhem ignores very basic scientific facts: the existence, the pathogenicity and the deadly effects of these agents have never been proven. The authors of Virus Mania, journalist Torsten Engelbrecht and doctor of internal medicine Claus Köhnlein, show that these alleged contagious agents are, in fact, particles produced by the cells themselves as a consequence of certain stress factors such as drugs, malnutrition, pesticides and heavy metals.
The central aim of this book is to steer the discussion back to a real scientific debate and put medicine back on the path of an impartial analysis of the facts. It will put medical experiments, clinical trials, statistics and government policies under the microscope, revealing that the people charged with protecting our health and safety have deviated from this path. To substantiate these statements, the authors cite dozens of highly renowned scientists and present approximately 1,100 pertinent scientific references.
The topic of this book is of pivotal significance. The pharmaceutical companies and top scientists rake in enormous sums of money by attacking germs and the media boosts its audience ratings and circulations with sensationalized reporting (the coverage of the New York Times and Der Spiegel are specifically analyzed). "The primary purpose of commercially-funded clinical research is to maximize financial return on investment, not health," says John Abramson of Harvard Medical School. Virus Mania will inform you on how such an environment took root-and how to empower yourself for a healthy life.
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