Effective Healthcare Leadership or Global Structures Local Cultures

Effective Healthcare Leadership

Author: Mansour Jumaa

Leadership skills are required to implement and sustain change in healthcare. This book integrates theory and practice to distil the reality of leadership in healthcare. It addresses the context of leadership in healthcare today, explores strategies for leadership, and presents an evidence-based approach for effective change in health and social care organisations.

Book about: Communist Manifesto and Other Writings or The Power of Full Engagement

Global Structures, Local Cultures

Author: Mary Hawkins

Global Structures, Local Cultures covers the major areas conventionally introduced to first year students of sociology and social theory, from the classical to the contemporary; gender; ethnicity social stratification; media and communications; social movements and social action--but does so within a narritive framework, making extensive use of comparative material and building a strong cross-cultural argument.

Table of Contents:

Ch1: Culture, structure and society

Ch2: Conceptualising 'one world': theoretical frameworks

Ch3: Making the world one: imperialism, the emergence of capitalism Ch4: One world structure: the globilisation of capitalism and the emergence of global institutions of governance Ch5: One world culture: print, electronic media and the imagined community

Ch6: Ethnicity and nationalisms

Ch7: Gender and sexuality

Ch8: Religion, secularism and new fundamentalisms

Ch9: Tourism and the reinvention of culture

Ch10: Citizens and others

Ch11: Resistance and reaction: global social activism

Italians Then Mexicans Now or Office Procedures in Managed Health Care

Italians Then, Mexicans Now: Immigrant Origins and Second-Generation Progress, 1890 to 2000

Author: Joel Perlmann

"In Italians Then, Mexicans Now, Joel Perlmann offers a sustained comparison of immigrant and second-generation wellbeing over the past hundred years. Using the latest immigration data from the census and other recent studies - as well as a century of census data - Perlmann paints a more optimistic picture of immigrant prospects than is envisioned by many other scholars of immigration." Rich with historical data, Italians Then, Mexicans Now persuasively argues that today's Mexican immigrants are making slow but steady socioeconomic progress and may one day reach parity with earlier immigrant groups who moved up into the heart of American middle-class society.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Toward a population history : a basis for comparisons	7
Ch. 2	Immigrant wages then and now	37
Ch. 3	Second-generation schooling	60
Ch. 4	Second-generation economic outcomes	90

See also: The Fat Burning Bible or Anger Kills

Office Procedures in Managed Health Care

Author: Patricia M Boyd

The emphasis of this text-workbook, designed for use in medical office procedures courses, is on managed health care environments. However, the chapters also cover traditional medical office tasks and functions. The 10 chapters provide insights into functions of administrative support personnel and describe changes in today's health care environments. Workplace competencies, technology, medical ethics, licensing, and insurance are among the key topics covered.

The Labors of Sisyphus or Internet Business Intelligence

The Labors of Sisyphus: The Economic Development of Communist China

Author: Maria Chang

Maria Hsia Chang's The Labors of Sisyphus is a reassessment of the meaning and purpose of the Chinese communist revolution. In it, she discusses the thought of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, reform and its dilemmas, regionalism in greater China and autonomous areas, and nationalism. She also examines China's immediate present and uncertain future. If it manages to transform economic growth into development, China - filled with natural resources and a large, capable labor force - has the potential to become a world superpower. It could also collapse under the weight of its own problems: regionalism, a flawed state sector, corruption, and a pronounced decline in state capacity. If China succeeds, an imposing new economic power will enter the global stage, one that is often arbitrary and prone to despotism and xenophobia, unless it is tempered by political reform. Maria Hsia Chang lends structure, meaning, and purpose to the very complex recent political and historical past of Communist China. With greater access to more accurate information, Chang is able to analyze objectively, without political motive or intention, providing readers with a fresh look at the People's Republic. Her pathbreaking work will be of interest to scholars of international economics and politics, sinologists, and historians.

Book review: Fish Drying and Smoking or The Story of Crisco

Internet Business Intelligence: How to Build a Big Company System on a Small Company Budget

Author: David Vin

Business Intelligence-the acquisition, management, and utilization of information-is crucial in the global marketplace of the 21st-century. This savvy handbook explains how even the smallest firm can use inexpensive Web resources to create an Internet Business Intelligence System (IBIS) that rivals the multimillion-dollar systems of Fortune 500 companies. IBIS tracks competitors, explore markets, and evaluates opportunities and risks. It can also be used to launch a business, find customers, test new products, and increase sales. David Vine owns and operates a computer technology company and contributes to Internet World magazine. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.