Author: Alexander S. Preker ; Xingzhu Liu ; Edit V. Veleny
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: strategic, public, means, private, ends, services, purchasing, health
Number of Pages: 436
Published: 2007-04-19
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0821365479
ISBN-13: 9780821365472
Great progress has been made in recent years in securing better access and financial protection against the cost of illness through collective financing of health care. Managing scarce resources effectively and efficiently is an important part of this story. Experience has shown that, without strategic policies and focused spending, the poor are likely to get left out. The use of purchasing to enhance public sector performance is well-documented in other sectors. Extension to the health sector of lessons from this experience is now successfully implemented in many developing countries. Pub
Author: Laura Wiess
Publisher: MTV
Keywords: ends
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2009-08-04
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 1416546634
ISBN-13: 9781416546634
Laura Wiess, the acclaimed author who once brought us "a girl to walk alongside Harper Lee’s Scout and J. D. Salinger’s Phoebe" (Luanne Rice), brings us another memorable young woman, this one at the center of an extraordinary novel of how love ends, how it begins, and what it’s worth to protect it... All Hanna’s wanted since sophomore year is Seth. She’s gone out with other guys, even gained a rep for being a flirt, all the while hoping cool, guitar-playing Seth will choose her. Then she gets him -- but their relationship is hurtful, stormy and critical, not at
Author: Guy Cullen
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: ends, loose
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 2008-08-04
List price: $14.49
ISBN-10: 1434390381
ISBN-13: 9781434390387
How far would you go to keep your family, your liberty or even your life?Doorman Sammy Jackson is finding out the hard way. A decision made in haste is coming back to haunt his every waking hour and push him to limits he never knew he had. As his life unravels amidst a deluge of drug money and horrific violence, a hitherto untapped, darker side of his personality emerges as his morality and self perception are stretched to breaking point.
Author: R. Crumb
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Keywords: ends, amp, odds
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 2001-05-04
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1582341362
ISBN-13: 9781582341361
A never-before-compiled collection from the most influential underground artist of our time. Robert Crumb is a cartoonist with an instantly recognizable style who emerged in the 1960s with strips in the underground press. He founded Zap Comix in 1968 and created Fritz the Cat, Devil Girl, Mr. Natural, Keep on Truckin’ and hundreds of other characters that instantly struck a nerve with people everywhere.Odds & Ends is a unique book of Robert Crumb’s previously unpublished, autobiographical, favorite, and most successful strips. It also contains photographs, portraits, and text b
Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Ivy Book
Keywords: earth, ends
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1994-04-02
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0804111227
ISBN-13: 9780804111225
"Travel writing at its best."THE HOUSTON POSTAuthor and travel writer Paul Theroux does what no one else can: he travels to the isolated, unusual, and fascinating spots of the world, and creates an elegy to them that makes readers feel they are traveling with him. Evocative, breathtaking, intriguing, here is the armchair traveler’s guide to the sites of the world he makes us feel we know.
Author: Charles Marti
Publisher: Broadway
Keywords: ends, river
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2009-06-23
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0767926994
ISBN-13: 9780767926997
A powerfully emotional and beautifully written story of heartbreaking loss and undying love He was a fishing guide and struggling artist from a south George trailer park. She was the beautiful only child of South Carolina’s most powerful senator. Yet once Doss Michaels and Abigail Grace Coleman met by accident, they each felt they’d found their true soul mate. Ten years into their marriage, when Abbie faces a life-threatening illness, Doss battles it with her every step of the way. And when she makes a list of ten things she hopes to accomplish before she loses the fight for good, Doss is
Author: Chris Impey
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: universe, ends
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2010-04-19
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0393069850
ISBN-13: 9780393069853
The fascinating science behind the eventual end to everything—from the individual to all existence. Although we may try to keep it tucked at the back of our minds, most of us are aware of our own mortality. But few among us know what science, with the help of insights yielded from groundbreaking new research, has to say about death on a larger scale. Enter astronomer Chris Impey, who chronicles the death of the whole shebang: individual, species, biosphere, earth, sun, Milky Way, and, finally, the entire universe. With a healthy dose of humor, How It Ends illuminates everything from th
