Throughout the nation, innovators in health care quality improvement are trying desperately to engage consumers to give a damn about quality. Right now most consumers are foolishly believing that broad access to physicians is a proxy for quality - not knowing the poor state of quality-driven medicine these days. In our market-driven health care system it is essential to involve the consumers much more in the whole process of decision making and accountability for performance. Purchasers in particular are eager to engage consumers, in the hope they will support purchasers putting pressure on health plans, physicians, and hospitals for higher quality.

In this book, Dr. David Nash, a highly respected expert, conveys useful information on how to truly connect with the consumer. The book goes through the new ways many consumers are getting involved in health care decision making and tells the reader how best to leverage these opportunities.

This is a really spectacular book. Training was made alot easier with using this book. Hard task were brought to the surface and made alot easier. I would recommend this book for the beginner and the advanced computer users. University of Kentucky uses this book in trainings that they give to their employees so that must make it a really great book. GO UK!!@@

I found this cookbook to be very helpful in finding recipes for health-minded individuals without being too extreme. It concentrates on whole foods, natural substitutes, good nutrition, etc. I have recommended it many of my friends.

Realiza un repaso sistemático del maltrato al anciano, con ricas referencias bibliográficas comentadas. Es realista y aplicaple a otros paises,cuestión no siempre posible con otros textos sobre dicho tema. Como médico especialista en geriatría he de aplaudir a las autoras. Gracias.

There were lots of hands-on activities for individuals and in groups. Getting the students to do the work was the best part in their learning process. These particular students were LEP students, late transition, and they did quite well with this material.

Macaulay thoughtfully and concisely introduces us to a living education, to the world of Charlotte Mason, where children are valued and encouraged through play, literature, and warm relationships with the world. Perfect as an aid in awakening thoughts towards education as a 'joyous adventure and celebration of life, as well as a solid preparation for living', "For the Children's Sake" is an excellent stepping stone on the way to how life and education should be.

Once upon a time, falling volcanic ash might have hurt community crops and led a brave teen to scale sacred Mount Ampato. Within the last decade, ash and smoke from Nevado Sabancaya melted slopes and led mountain climbers Johan Reinhard and Miguel Zarate to the 14-year-old's mummified body. Author Susan Vande Griek starts each chapter of her suspenseful short story with facts about finding Juanita. A GIFT FOR AMPATO also works as cultural background to Janet Buell's ICE MAIDEN OF THE ANDES, David Getz's FROZEN GIRL, Harriet Griffey's SECRETS OF THE MUMMIES, Nova's FROZEN IN HEAVEN video, and Dr Reinhard's DISCOVERING THE INCA ICE MAIDEN.

In our society, God is typically portrayed as male. What we tend to ignore is that God is indefinable, a mystery, and not a specific gender. "Heart Talks..." gives us another viewpoint of God- the feminine, nurturing side of God that loves us no matter what-like a mother or grandmother. Beautifully illustrated, the book has 10 Bible-Based prayer stories: "God Birthing the World" (Genesis1:1); "Mother God Watches Over You" (not even one sparrow will fall without God knowing it. Matthew 6:26); "Grandmother God" (Psalm 128:5-6). The adults' preparation guide gives suggestions for making these stories more meaningful for childen- related play activities, questions for reflection and sharing of feelings. Children are invited to jump up in Mother God's lap as she tells them a story from her wonderful book the Bible. As the story and reflection come to a close, they are invited to give Mother God a hug and whisper "I'll be back" as they slide off Her lap. This is a nurturing and comforting book for adults as well. "I'll be back, too".

For anyone interested in both Japanese Art and European Art at the turn of the last century, this book will become the most satisfying reference book in your collection.

"Japonisme" is the term used to describe the Victorian fascination with all things Japanese. Wichmann's book successfully demonstrates the influence of this fascination on the fine art of the era. Lavishly illustrated with over a thousand images, Wichmann's essays are informed both historically and artistically on the detailed ins and outs of the sharing of the two cultures of East and West. Topics include the Asian influence in composition, pictoral space, design, choice of material, and subject matter in the visual art and architechture of turn of the century fin de siecle Europe and America. Visual examples are given from a wealth of artists including Van Gogh, Manet, Cassatt, Whistler, Degas, Mucha, Klimt, the architechs Frank Lloyd Wright and Richard Neutra, and Japanese artists such as Hiroshige and Hokusai, just to name a few.

Being a visual artist from the west trained in the Western tradition and yet fascinated with Japanese fine art and in particular the tradition of ukiyo-e, discovering this book for me was like finding the holy grail, a book filled to the brim with stunning visual compromises between the traditions of East and West from which to take my own influences. Fantastic.

In this volume Mary Ann must deal with her beloved father's
attraction to a young, conniving woman named Yvonne, who,
along with her conspiring mother, plot to woo Mike away from
Lizzie and the family.

Mike, flattered by the attention, ignores pleas to show the
two women the door, and continues the dangerous association,
forcing a wedge between himself and his loving daughter.

Against the backdrop of their Michael's wedding to Sarah
Flanagan, Mary Ann once again must find a way to bring Mike
back to his senses and into the family's loving fold.

It's good to see Mary Ann's fiery spirit still intact; the convent school may have smoothed out some of her rough edges but
nothing will ever change her true character, and her fierce
loyalties to her family and her benefactor Mr. Lord. Once more
she displays the courage to act on her own instinct, which never
steers her wrong in the end.

I enjoyed seeing young Michael and Sarah's love changing them
both for the better. I sympathized with poor dear Lizzies' problems with one-of-a-kind Mike Shaughnessy. I worried along
with Mary Ann as she gets cold feet before her marriage to Corny, will she really be able to live away from her beloved
home, her family, and be known from now on as Mary Ann Boyle?

Let's not forget the irrepressible character of hearty, poverty-stricken Fanny McBride. Read the novel of the same name for more of this tough, delightful old woman.

I was once again taken across the water to North Country England
listening to Susan Jameson's excellent reading of this terrific
book.