BOOKS

Essential Operational Components for High-Performing Healthcare Enterprises (ACHE Management)

Jon Burroughs, MD, FACHE

August 1, 2018

The future of healthcare is clear. The move toward value-based care is happening at an unprecedented rate and requires healthcare enterprises to build delivery models that focus on clinical and business outcomes, not on volume. In this book, Jon Burroughs and other nationally respected experts highlight the operational building blocks necessary to engage, align, and transform healthcare organizations into integrated delivery systems capable of delivering population healthcare outcomes in new ways. They must marshal cutting-edge tools, including cloud-based data storage, disruptive innovation technologies, and strategic partnerships that span the globe.

Shi'i Jurisprudence and Constitution: Revolution in Iran (Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law)

Amirhassan Boozari

March 1, 2011

Focusing substantially on the relation between the concept of constitutionalism and Islamic Law in general and how such relation is specifically reflected in the Shiite jurisprudence, this volume explores the juristic origins of constitutionalism, especially in the context of 1905 Constitutional Revolution in Iran.

Windows NT Device Driver Development (OSR Classic Reprints)

W. Anthony Mason, et al

January 1, 2006

For years, this has been the definitive and comprehensive technical reference for software engineers, systems programmers, and any engineer who needs to understand Windows NT systems internals. While this text has a fresh new look on the outside, the text, pictures, code samples and references on the inside are vintage 1998. Nevertheless, the book retains a tremendous amount of value in its clear (erudite even) descriptions of the Windows NT operating system architecture and internals; information on the implementation of standard Windows NT kernel mode drivers; Key details on the workings of Windows NT I/O Manager; and detailed technical discussions on interrupt management and synchronization issues.

Chemical Sensitivity: The Truth About Environmental Illness

Ronald E Gots, MD, PhD, et al

April 1, 1998

Chemical sensitivity (or "multiple chemical sensitivity") describes people with numerous troubling symptoms attributed to environmental factors, from simple housepaint to complex building structures and materials in offices and schools. The authors explore the speculations about environmental exposure in the light of scientific knowledge of human physiology, allergy and immunology, pathology, toxicology, and clinical medicine.

Structural Fire Engineering

Kevin J. LaMalva, PE

2018

This book provides best practices for the field of performance-based structural fire engineering design. When structural systems are heated by fire, they experience thermal effects that are not contemplated by conventional structural engineering design.

Reputation Reboot: What Every Business Leader, Rising Star, & VIP Needs to Know

Shannon Wilkinson

February 25, 2019

If so, you have a reputation on the Internet whether you want to or not. If you are not actively managing it, you aren’t in control of it, leaving others the opportunity to control it for you—with potentially dangerous results. You are also missing out on a wealth of resources to better represent yourself online. In this succinct insider’s guide, Reputation Communications CEO, Shannon Wilkinson enlightens you on what you need to know…and do.

The Handbook of Healthcare Value: How Self-Insured Employers and Employees Can Contain US Healthcare Costs

Bill Mohlenbrock MD

October 19, 2018

The Handbook describes the Medical informatics with which healthcare purchasers and providers can assess the relative quality and cost efficiencies of hospitals’ and physicians' performances. The Medical Value Index uses six industry-standard outcomes of clinical quality and cost efficiencies for inpatient and ambulatory facility medical care. Private and public purchasers use the MVI to assess the relative value of US hospitals and their Clinical Services (cardiology etc.) using public Medicare data. Individual physicians’ quality and efficiencies are quantified using each hospital’s All-Payer data.

Piping Systems Manual

Brian Silowash, PE, CEM

October 5, 2019

Filled with examples drawn from years of design and field experience, this practical guide offers comprehensive information on piping installation, repair, and rehabilitation. This book explains the reasons behind the designs. You will get full coverage of materials, components, calculations, specifications, safety, and much more. Hundreds of detailed illustrations make it easy to understand the best practices presented in the book.

Multicultural Law Enforcement: Strategies for Peacekeeping in a Diverse Society (7th Edition) (What's New in Criminal Justice)

Aaron T. Olson, et al

Februray 10, 2018

A classic text in peacekeeping, cultural awareness, and diversity in law enforcement. It provides practical information and insight to prepare officers for culturally sensitive policing. The content explores the pervasive influences of culture, race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation in the workplace and in multicultural communities.

Multicultural and Diversity Strategies for the Fire Service

Aaron T. Olson, et al

May 29, 2008

As the fire service becomes a microcosm of American society, this book provides a useful tool to effectively address key issues and challenges of cultural diversity. It offers valuable lessons on cultural competence, the value of cultural differences, and the acquisition of cross-cultural skills to be used in fire science college courses or fire academies at the city, fire-district, state or federal level.