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![]() ![]() Reid visits industrialized democracies around the world-France. a rich tour of health care around the world.' Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times Bringing to bear his talent for explaining complex issues in a clear, engaging way, New York Times bestselling author T. For all the scope of his research and his ability to mint neat rebuttals to the common American misconception that universal health care is “socialized” medicine, Reid neglects to address the elephant in the room: just how are we to sell these changes to the mighty providers and insurers? (Sept. A New York Times Bestseller, with an updated explanation of the 2010 Health Reform Bill 'Important and powerful. Seeking treatment for the flareup of an old shoulder injury, he visits doctors in the U.S., France, Germany, Japan and England-with a stint in an Ayurvedic clinic in India-in a quest for treatment that dovetails with his search for a “cure” for America's health-care crisis, a narrative device that sometimes feels contrived, but allows him valuable firsthand experience. ![]() not only spends more money on health care than any other nation but also leaves 45 million residents uninsured, allowing about 22,000 to die from easily treatable diseases. Neither financial prudence nor concern for the commonweal explains the American position, according to Reid, whose findings divulge that the U.S. remains the only first world nation to refuse its citizens universal health care. ![]() ) explores health-care systems around the world in an effort to understand why the U.S. Correspondent Reid ( The United States of Europe ![]() ![]() ![]() Renaissance Florence was a thriving, but not a peaceful city: different opposing factions continually struggled for dominance there. Politics as well as love deeply influenced Dante's literary and emotional life. Dante attributed all the heavenly virtues to her soul and imagined, in his masterpiece The Divine Comedy, that she was his guardian angel who alternately berated and encouraged him on his search for salvation. In fact, Beatrice married another man, Simone di' Bardi, and died when Dante was 25, so their relationship existed almost entirely in Dante's imagination, but she nonetheless plays an extremely important role in his poetry. ![]() He first saw the woman, or rather the child, who was to become the poetic love of his life when he was almost nine years old and she was some months younger. ![]() Dante Alighieri was born in the city-state Florence in 1265. Dante Alighieri, or simply Dante (May 14/J– September 13/14, 1321), is one of the greatest poets in the Italian language with the comic story-teller, Boccaccio, and the poet, Petrarch, he forms the classic trio of Italian authors. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One of the most celebrated fantasy sequences of all time, The Dark Is Rising is a searing, epic rendering of the eternal conflict between good and evil. These six fight fear and death in a quest through time and space interwoven with the most ancient myths of the islands of Britain-until, at last, Will and Bran find the weapon that will ultimately vanquish the Dark. Soon Will is swept up in the great battle, along with his ageless master, Merriman the three Drew children, who are mortal but have their own vital part to play and a strange boy named Bran. He finds that he is no ordinary boy, but the last-born of the Old Ones, immortals dedicated to keeping mankind free from the Dark. Will Stanton's ordinary life is shattered with the dreadful revelation that the Dark-the source of all evil-is rising in its last and greatest bid to control the world. The complete Dark Is Rising Sequence is now available as one keepsake collection. ![]() ![]() The following is a comprehensive listing of books covering a wide variety of topics related to perinatal mental illnesses. ![]()
![]() ![]() I squinted into the tiny light someone was shining in my eyes. In that dream, I tried to lift my hand to shield me from the light.Įxcept when I went to raise my hand, I couldn’t. Dreams of walking in a tunnel and seeing an oncoming train. Not the usual losing teeth or naked in front of the class dreams. I went to sleep, and from there, shit got weird. ![]() It was a Tuesday, and Tuesdays were all work, no play. Not exactly the life of the party, but hey. I came home after a long day of working the drive-thru teller window at the bank, nuked a Lean Cuisine, ate it while watching TV, and dozed off on the couch before stumbling to bed. Today? Today’s a very different sort of story. Oh, sure, there were all kinds of possibilities out there in the universe, but if someone would have told me that little green men were hanging around Earth in flying saucers, just waiting to abduct people? I would have told them they were crazy. Up until yesterday, I Georgie Carruthers, never believed in aliens. Subscribe to my newsletter and never miss a new release! Because now, the aliens are having ship trouble, and they’ve left their cargo of human women – including me – on an ice planet.Īnd the only native inhabitant I’ve met? He’s big, horned, blue, and really, really has a thing for me… ![]() You’d think being abducted by aliens would be the worst thing that could happen to me. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She turned around and ran down the stairs leading from my loft suite to the rest of the warehouse we used as our home and place of business.Īugustine was absolutely the last person I expected at two o’clock in the morning. “Why?” Why in the world would the Head of House Montgomery be downstairs, in the middle of the night? I snapped out of my relief back to full alert. She wore an old, stained Sailor Moon T-shirt, and her basketball shorts were on backward. It caused me no end of anxiety.Īrabella’s face was flushed, and her blond hair stuck out from her head in weird directions. ![]() Our older sister, Nevada her husband and her mother-in-law were flying to Spain for a funeral. I sagged against the door frame in relief. I jumped out of the bed, sprinted across the bedroom, and flung the door open. ![]() The alarm clock on my nightstand glowed with bright red. Slowly the familiar contours of my bedroom came into focus through the gloom. The dream tore like wet tissue, and for a disorienting moment I didn’t know where I was. The bright little fishes following me scattered, the crystal-clear water vanished, and I landed on the sand. I was swimming through the warm water of the Gulf when someone knocked on the sky. ![]() ![]() It was also found in ancient Greece (in Corinth), and in Italy in the Baths of Titus and the ruins of Pompeii. Cloth dyed with madder root dye was found in the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun and on an Egyptian tomb painting from the Graeco-Roman period, diluted with gypsum to produce a pink color. Madder has been cultivated as a dyestuff since antiquity in Central Asia, South Asia, and Egypt, where it was grown as early as 1500 BC. As a paint, it has been described as a fugitive, transparent, nonstaining, mid valued, moderately dull violet red pigment in tints and medium solutions, darkening to an impermanent, dull magenta red in masstone. ![]() Madder lake contains two organic red dyes: alizarin and purpurin. Rose madder (also known as madder) is a red paint made from the pigment madder lake, a traditional lake pigment extracted from the common madder plant Rubia tinctorum. ![]() ![]() Rubia tinctorum, from whose root the colour is extracted ![]() ![]() After enduring 12 months of physical therapy, Leandro is now physically able to race, but his mind is keeping him from the track. At the top of his game as a Formula One driver, Leandro Silva had everything - until an accident on the track left him staring death in the face. Now, at the age of 30, she's a highly respected therapist. Wanting to give her son the life she never had, she put herself through school and graduated with honors. Then, at a young age, a relationship with the wrong man left India pregnant. Abandoned as a baby, she and her twin brother, Kit, spent their lives in foster care, only having each other to rely on. India Harris didn't have the best start in life. Revived is a standalone, contemporary romance novel from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today best-selling author of Revved. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Fagin focuses his research on cancer hot spots and how they affect the development of local children, but he also delves deeper into the region’s tragic history by tracing the arrival of chemical plants in the early 1950s and chronicling the massive contamination of waterways, soil, and air that followed shortly thereafter. In a well-documented exposé of toxic industrial plants, corporate greed, and government neglect, Fagin (Toxic Deception, coauthor) plays detective to reveal the excessive human cost of chemical manufacturing hubs in the Jersey pinelands. But Fagin, an associate professor of journalism and the director of the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program at New York University, reveals an earlier, less conspicuous disaster in the region. ![]() Most people know Toms River, N.J., as one of the areas devastated by Superstorm Sandy. ![]() |