Product Description: In his first book "Moral Ambiguity," Patrick Brown told the story of world-famous singer Kevin Gregory who harbored a lurid secret that he had shared for decades with famous televangelist Jimmy Standridge. This time around, we encounter the world of daytime television just as Sheila Wozniak gets booted from the long-running soap opera "The Edge of Conflict...read more

Product Description: We have wisdom in the pages of the Bible, yet millions fail to do the one thing that will nourish their souls; read it. America is no longer the Christian nation that it started out to be and now the results can be clearly seen. One reason for this is false doctrine...read more

This new textbook opens up the policy-making process for students, uncovering how government decisions around health are really made. Starting from more traditional insights into how ministers and civil servants develop policy with limited knowledge and money, the book goes on to challenge the conception of policy as a rational process, revealing it to be something quite different. Knee-jerk reactions to disasters, keeping voters satisfied, the powerful leverage of interest groups, and the skewing of debate through ideology and the media are each considered in turn. These processes render policy far from rational or at least require a much broader approach for considering policy ‘logic’, one that is open to different rationalities of values, norms and pragmatism. The book draws on historical and contemporary examples to highlight that though challenges to policy-makers may seem in some ways novel, in many senses key processes endure and indeed are rooted in historical contexts. Although the examples are drawn from UK health and social care, the book’s theory-driven approach is applicable across national contexts Ð especially for countries where uncertainty, risk and resource pressures create significant dilemmas for policy-makers. The book’s multi-perspective, thematic approach will be especially relevant to students, as will the broad range of case study examples used. Making Health Policy will be essential reading for students of health policy, social policy, social work, and the sociology of medicine, health and illness.

Product Description: Within the pages of Moral Ambiguity, author Patrick Brown weaves a tale of international scandal. Kevin Gregory has decided that it’s time to tell the world his story whether or not it costs him his reputation as one of the most beloved singers of his generation...read more

Product Description: In this politically astute and revelatory memoir, Patrick Brown weaves together three stories: the first is his 25-year education as a journalist and his parallel struggle with alcoholism; the second, the momentous situations he’s found himself in as a reporter; and the third is China, which he first visited during the Tiananmen Square protests...read more

Product Description: Doug Carlson is over-privileged, mean spirited, self centered, egotistical and evil. He will stop at nothing to get what he wants. He approaches every aspect of his life with the same level of insatiable greed. Business, friends, women are all the same to Doug; just there to satisfy his current need or desire...read more

Product Description: All is fair in love and war.Sophie, a sixty-five year old woman who devoted her life to her husband, Juanita, a thirty-two year old woman living in Brooklyn, married for ten years and the mother of four children, each are caught in the unrelenting cycle of love, lust, sex, cheating and abuse...read more

The truths about the multi-billion dollar underground industry that drives wildlife depletion are uncovered in this photojournalistic account that demands awareness and action to stop the wholesale massacre of Asia's once abundant wildlife. Original.

Product Description: Prepares readers to take Novell certification Test 050-638, covering areas including upgrading NetWare 4.11 and 3.1x servers to NetWare 5, using virtual memory, the graphical Java console, choosing between traditional and NSS file services, and installing NDPS print services...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)