Product Description: The author describes the ecosystem of health care financing and delivery and some of the interactions among the components of the system. His contention is that improved understanding of how the health care system arrived at its current sorry state of affairs is a critical first step in changing it so that it serves all of the shareholders more effectively...read more

Product Description: This book mainly discusses the representation theory of the special linear group 8L(2, 1R), and some applications of this theory. In fact the emphasis is on the applications; the working title of the book while it was being writ­ ten was "Some Things You Can Do with 8L(2)...read more

Product Description: This book introduces a systematic new approach to the construction and analysis of semisimple $p$-adic groups. The basic construction presented here provides an analogue in certain cases of the Harish-Chandra homomorphism, which has played an essential role in the theory of semisimple Lie groups...read more