Product Description: This text presents a framework for developing and analysing health sector reform plans in a variety of national circumstances. By focusing on the health care system as a means to an end, the authors provide tools and techniques for designing reforms that should produce real improvements...read more

Product Description: Tracing the history of the American environmental watchdog body, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) since its inception in 1970, this study critically examines its actions on key environmental issues and regulations. The edition includes new chapters on the Bush and Clinton administrations...read more

A concise, up-to-the-minute guide to the health care crisis explains, in lay terms, how the system is supposed to work, why there is a crisis, and what the available alternatives are. Reissue. 40,000 first printing. $40,000 ad/promo. Tour.

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Product Description: This book focuses on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in order to explore critical problems of modern government and democratic politics. The volume chronicles the EPA from its founding in 1970 to the end of the Reagan Administration...read more

Descriptive history of the earth and its inhabitants from its beginnings to the Pleistocene period and modern man