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The US healthcare system desperately needs radical reform to rein in costs, reduce harm, expand access, and become customer centric...Imagine what real change in our healthcare system would mean for you, the economy, and our future. Real change requires disruptive innovation. As citizens, employers, entrepreneurs, healthcare workers, elected officials, and patients, it is time for us to drive the change. Authors Aaron Fausz and Terry Howell explain how we can disrupt, dismantle, and rebuild.

A short story collection including two very personal glimpses into the author's life and a number of westerns. "Edd Voss is an American original. His unique voice rises from the heartland, and his diverse anthology of stories is as sprawling and charming as is the vast country that he explores from the cab of his 18-wheeler." (Robert Bidinotto, author of the best selling Dylan Hunter novels)

The Bicycle Shop is a front for running a safe house in Kansas. The visitors coming and going are humans from other worlds and visit this world to learn and move forward. The “ranch” is run by a colorful older woman, and the program manager is the owner of the bicycle shop.

The Aging Mastery Playbook is your starting point for making the most of your gift of time with practical tips for aging well across six dimensions: Gratitude and Mindfulness; Health and Well-Being; Finances and Future Planning; Connections and Community; Learning and Creativity; and, Legacy and Purpose. Each dimension has specific guideposts (activities) that you are encouraged to incorporate into your life as daily practices. Build your own personal playbook for aging - and living! - well, starting today.

The Power of Perception: Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, and the Gender Divide serves as a practical guide to educate women, men, and organizations on the barriers that keep women from fully contributing in the workplace. These include differences in leadership style and emotional intelligence, gender bias and stereotypes, breadwinner and caregiver responsibilities, and differences in gender culture that show up every day at work and home.

For the holiday season, long-haul trucker Edd Voss offers this classic, heartwarming tale of big trucks, of Christmas...and of America itself. Climb up in the cab with Ken Rainey, a truck driver with a love for Christmas, the country he travels, and his life on the road. Along the way, even his passenger - cynical bureaucrat Robert Anjer - finds himself caught up in the spirit of the season as they make the long journey from the little mountain town of Leavenworth, Washington, to the nation's capitol. All to deliver a very special tree...a tree for all Americans.

This audiobook iincludes 20 of the 50 Things to Know audiobooks in one to give you tips on having a healthy lifestyle.

50 Things to Know brings you 10 books in one called 500 Things to Know About Marriage by authors with years of personal experience.

50 Things to Know Books bring you 10 books in one called 500 Things to Know About Saving Money by authors with experience from around the world. This book includes: 50 Things to Know About Saving Money When You Are Shopping For Food: Ways to Start Saving At the Check-Out to Stay Out of Debt, 50 Things to Know About Couponing: Getting the Most Out of Your Money, 50 Things to Know about Cooking on a Budget: Eating Healthy and Delicious Meals without Spending Too Much Money, and seven more titles.

After battling the elements to cross the Great Plains to Colorado then fighting horse rustlers and a vengeful killer, the Jakes family hopes to finally settle down on their new ranch and breed horses. But a wedding celebration provides the cover for Frank Jakes' young daughter Franny to be kidnapped by a young man known only as Jack. Unless Frank and his family can do something fast, the terrified girl will be sold to the Comanches as a slave. Frank and his family must turn once again to the only man who can help: Frank's new brother-in-law, rugged mountain man Roy Scuggins.

The “Skills Gap” is real in today’s customer-oriented workplace. While technical or hard skills will differ by job description and industry, there are some universal soft skills that everyone needs to do well in order to succeed in their chosen careers - be they STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) or non-technical occupations. These skills include all aspects of the work setting - completing projects and commitments as promised, showing up to work on time, being kind to others, listening well, and solving problems in a timely, fair, and effective manner.

Fresh from his self-imposed exile in New York, Black makes his long-awaited return, reuniting with his brothers Junie and Dee to handle the family business-moving mad weight, expanding their drug empire, and eliminating any and everything that gets in their way. Unfortunately, such wheeling and dealing always comes with a price, and for Black, Junie, and Dee, it's no different.

Angela grew up in an all-black upper-class neighborhood in Virginia Beach. Being raised by conservative parents, street life was almost nonexistent. Her college years at Hampton University would truly educate her; not only in school, but also in life. She never imagined the attention her body and beauty would bring her. Angela finds herself torn between Mac, a successful real estate broker, and Damien, a young Jamaican hustler from Brooklyn. Both show Angela love in their own way, and her choice will be her destiny.

Beginning with the Great Depression, this life story contains all of the emotional rollercoaster experiences a long life can endure, deny, and finally embrace and enjoy. "What would happen if I told my story?" Oberle ponders - but finds the courage within to not only share herself, but reclaim her life and complete the puzzle it had always been.

In Future Driven, David Geurin describes how to conquer the status quo, create authentic learning, and help your students thrive in an unpredictable world. He shares how to simultaneously be more committed to your mission while being more flexible with your methods.

Fresh out of the Academy at West Point, Lt. Sheridan is leading his first patrol. But soon he will learn what it means to be a leader Like many young men, Sgt. O'Connell left his native Ireland to find his fortune. Instead, he found himself in the U.S. Cavalry during the Civil War. Now he's in the Arizona desert, chasing a marauding band of Apaches Pablito is leading that band on what will be one last raid before they all disappear into the Superstition Mountains.

You've seen them in print before, and their books are hot, hot, hot! Now see what Edd McNair, Keisha Ervin, and Brenda Hampton can do when they join forces to bring you three stories in the latest installment of Girls from da Hood. Being married to notorious gangsta rapper Sean Pynn isn't as glamorous as it appears to be. Behind closed doors, Queen is dealing with knock-down drag-out fights, verbal abuse, and neglect. When her bodyguard, Ahsim, comes into the picture, things change in a hurry.

It all started with a storm, a real gully washer, the type that comes racing across the plains with driving rain, howling winds, and hail as big as your fist. If it hadn't been for the stranger in buckskins, the Jakes family would have been in serious trouble. Little did they know, the storm was just the beginning of their struggles. They'd come to Colorado to raise a new breed of horse. Along the trail they would follow were new friends, old enemies, and the land. At times it was hard to tell which ones were the most dangerous.

Have you ever wondered, "When will I be good enough?" Like millions of other women, educator/author Barbara Jaffe was faced with that question, but for her, as a "replacement child," the barriers to acceptability were higher than for most of us. Barbara, like many others, was born to fill the vacancy left by her little brother, who died at the age of two.

In this case study, you will learn seven way to unleash learning management to support a permance model of traning. These seven lessons are drawn from a case study which included the deployment of Blackboard as a learning management tool for training background investigators to support assigned work for the Office of Personnel Management.