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Book Torn Between Two Systems

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
  • Publisher : DIANE Publishing
  • Release : 1998-10
  • ISBN : 0788172522
  • Pages : 178 pages

Download or read book Torn Between Two Systems written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998-10 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes statements of members of the Senate Subcommittee on Aging, & witness testimony by representatives from health care & government agencies. Addresses Alzheimer's disease, the lack of home-care management, cost shifting to provide acute care for nursing home patients, patient transfers between hospitals & subacute units to maximize Medicare payments, social HMOs, the Program of All Inclusive Care for the Elderly, the Chronic Care Act, & more. Includes a copy of the report: Medicare & Medicaid: Meeting Needs of Dual Eligibles Raises Difficult Cost & Care Issues.

Book Torn Between Two Cultures

Download or read book Torn Between Two Cultures written by Maryam Qudrat Aseel and published by Capital Books. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Exceptionally useful are (Aseel's) reflections on what it has meant to be a Muslim in America after September 11 . . . A fascinating multicultural coming-of-age story."--"Booklist."

Book Torn Between Two Lovers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carl Weber
  • Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
  • Release : 2012-06-12
  • ISBN : 0758289480
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Torn Between Two Lovers written by Carl Weber and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Delves into the romantic conflicts of these Richmond Virginians with a robust relish and soap-opera intense insights." —Publishers Weekly One of Richmond, Virginia's, hottest, most successful women, plus-sized diva Loraine Farrow finally wants to settle down with her husband, Leon, and focus on her marriage. Trouble is, her ex-lover, Michael, isn't about to let her go so easily. But things aren't so simple with Leon either. Painful issues from his childhood are starting to surface in the bedroom. Leon's seeing a therapist, but what he's uncovering could destroy their marriage for good—unless Michael does it first. As Loraine deals with her relationship drama, her best friend, Jerome, is left alone to deal with Peter, a stalker who will stop at nothing to destroy him. Now, four indomitable people torn between love and lust, secrets and lies, will have some momentous decisions to make. "Weber fills his books with lifelike characters—flawed, confused, frustrated, and sometimes plus-sized." —Booklist

Book Lord  I m Torn Between Two Masters

Download or read book Lord I m Torn Between Two Masters written by Kay Arthur and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2000-11-21 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy the expanded and updated editions of the best-selling "Lord" Bible Study Series from Kay Arthur. The "Lord" study series is an insightful, warm-hearted Bible study series designed to meet readers where they are--and help them discover God's answers to their deepest needs. Does It Sometimes Feel Impossible to Measure Up to God's Standards? On a hillside overlooking the Sea of Galilee, Jesus opened the doorway to the kingdom of God. He challenged His followers to pursue a faith without compromise. Without anxiety. Without judgmentalism. He encouraged them to build a faith that bears fruit. A faith built on rock. A faith that would be true to the only Lord and Master. Is that the kind of faith you want? It sounds impossible. It feels unreachable. How can you possibly measure up? Let Kay Arthur lovingly guide you through the life-changing Sermon on the Mount in her devotional study, Lord, I'm Torn Between Two Masters. It will minister to you in intimate ways. And these are truths you can share easily with others in small groups.

Book Inheriting the City

    Book Details:
  • Author : Philip Kasinitz
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009-12-11
  • ISBN : 9780871544780
  • Pages : 442 pages

Download or read book Inheriting the City written by Philip Kasinitz and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-11 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the publisher: Inheriting the City examines five immigrant groups to disentangle the complicated question of how they are faring relative to native-born groups, and how achievement differs between and within these groups. While some experts worry that these young adults would not do as well as previous waves of immigrants due to lack of high-paying manufacturing jobs, poor public schools, and an entrenched racial divide, Inheriting the City finds that the second generation is rapidly moving into the mainstream--speaking English, working in jobs that resemble those held by native New Yorkers their age, and creatively combining their ethnic cultures and norms with American ones. Far from descending into an urban underclass, the children of immigrants are using immigrant advantages to avoid some of the obstacles that native minority groups cannot.

Book The Bulgarian Pension System  Caught Between Adequacy and Sustainability

Download or read book The Bulgarian Pension System Caught Between Adequacy and Sustainability written by Mr. Jean-Jacques Hallaert and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2024-06-24 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bulgarian authorities increased pensions substantially to support pensioners’ living standards and aggregate demand. These increases have become permanent and improved the adequacy of pensions. However, not matched by revenue measures, they have widened the deficit of the pension system. Reforms that increase the incentives to contribute to the pension system and thus revenue would improve the financial sustainability of the pension system and reduce fiscal risks.

Book Spiral Dynamics in Action

Download or read book Spiral Dynamics in Action written by Prof. Don Edward Beck and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A more effective leadership model for the new business environment. Spiral Dynamics in Action explores the evolution of modern business, and provides a model for moving forward amidst ever-increasing complexity and change. Only by truly understanding other people's perspectives can you bring them together to achieve the extraordinary, and this book provides a field guide to the different motivations, behaviours and talents in your team to help you lead diverse groups more effectively. Focused on action over theory, the Spiral Dynamics model includes cutting-edge leadership practices, management systems, processes, procedures and techniques to help you bring about real-world results. The nature of change is consistent, but that doesn't make it any less enormous or complex to deal with. As a business leader, you are tasked with not only navigating change yourself, but also guiding others through the maze successfully. This book shows you how to shift your perspective, hone your focus and deliver what your people need by: Understanding the reasoning behind different perspectives. Helping people play off one another's strengths to achieve a shared goal. Adopting cutting-edge practices, processes and procedures for improvement. Taking action to re-connect an increasingly fragmented environment. The marketplace has gone truly global, workforces are increasingly diverse and companies are taking on powerful new social responsibilities. It's a lot to take in, let alone manage, but the responsibility of leadership is to gather disparate parts and make them into a whole. It's your job to turn anchors into rocket fuel, and motivate and inspire your team to the top. By digging to the core of each person, each culture and each problem, you uncover a roadmap to high performance; Spiral Dynamics in Action shows you how to guide your people through any changes and emerge stronger than before.

Book Unselfing

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michaela Hulstyn
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2022-08-31
  • ISBN : 1487543778
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Unselfing written by Michaela Hulstyn and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Altered states of consciousness – including experiences of deprivation, pain, hallucination, fear, desire, alienation, and spiritual transcendence – can transform the ordinary experience of selfhood. Unselfing explores the nature of disruptive self-experiences and the different shapes they have taken in literary writing. The book focuses on the tension between rival conceptions of unselfing as either a form of productive self-transcendence or a form of alienating self-loss. Michaela Hulstyn explores the shapes and meanings of unselfing through the framework of the global French literary world, encompassing texts by modernist figures in France and Belgium alongside writers from Algeria, Rwanda, and Morocco. Together these diverse texts prompt a re-evaluation of the consequences of the loss or the transcendence of the self. Through a series of close readings, Hulstyn offers a new account of the ethical questions raised by altered states and shows how philosophies of empathy can be tested against and often challenged by literary works. Drawing on cognitive science and phenomenology, Unselfing provides a new methodology for approaching texts that give shape to the fringes of conscious experience.

Book Torn Between Two Systems  Improving Chronic Care In Medicar    Hrg    S  Hrg  105 58    Special Comm  On Aging    U S  Sen    105th Cong   1st Sess   04

Download or read book Torn Between Two Systems Improving Chronic Care In Medicar Hrg S Hrg 105 58 Special Comm On Aging U S Sen 105th Cong 1st Sess 04 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 1997* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sketches in the Theory of Culture

Download or read book Sketches in the Theory of Culture written by Zygmunt Bauman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sketches in the Theory of Culture is a remarkable work by all measures. Written by Zygmunt Bauman when he was still a professor in Poland, and originally intended for publication in 1968, it was suppressed by the Polish government in the wave of repression following the protests in March of that year. For decades, it was thought to be lost. Astonishingly, it survived in the form of an uncorrected set of proofs which was recently discovered, and is the basis of this edition. Now published in English for the first time, this book sheds new light on Bauman’s work prior to his emigration and illuminates the intellectual climate of Poland in the late 1960s. Bauman’s pursuit of a semiotic theory of culture includes a discussion of processes of individualization and the intensification of global ties, anticipating themes that became central to his later work. Though this book stands as a testament to a historical moment, it also transcends it. ‘[W]e live in an age that seems, for the first time in human history, to acknowledge cultural multiplicity as an innate and fixed feature of the world, one which gives rise to new forms of identity that are at ease with plurality, like a fish in water’, writes Bauman – a statement that is as true today as it was when he penned it in the 1960s. Sketches in the Theory of Culture is a strikingly prescient reflection on culture and society by one of the most influential social thinkers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It will appeal to students and scholars across the social sciences and humanities and to the many readers of Bauman’s work.

Book Zacharias 2 in 1 Jesus Among Other Gods   Deliver Us from Evil

Download or read book Zacharias 2 in 1 Jesus Among Other Gods Deliver Us from Evil written by Ravi Zacharias and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus Among Other Gods: In his most important work to date, apologetics scholar and popular speaker Ravi Zacharias shows how the blueprint for life and death itself is found in a true understanding of Jesus. With a simple yet penetrating style, Zacharias uses rich illustrations to celebrate the power of Jesus Christ to transform lives.Jesus Among Other Godscontrasts the truth of Jesus with founders of Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, strengthening believers and compelling them to share their faith with our post-modern world. Deliver Us From Evil: With clarity and insight, Zacharias shows how many of today's most popular ideas, thoughts, and beliefs are vandalizing our culture. He shows how it is there, "in the depths of our innermost being, That the work of God changes what we want to do. This is not an ethical system calling us to civility. This is the transforming work of the grace of God, who calls us His children." He shows how: Secularization has led us to a loss of shame, generating evil even against those we love Pluralization has led us to a loss of reason, generating evil toward those we choose to hate Privatization has led us to loss of meaning, generating evil against ourselves

Book Global Management

Download or read book Global Management written by Stewart R Clegg and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1999-02-22 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book re-examines management theory `after Globalization'. Combining key names and studies from across the world, it explores the local realities that resist universal theories and that permeate the daily lives of practising managers. The book provides a comprehensive and critical reflection on the widely documented phenomenon of globalization in business. It assesses the implications of the diversity of individual economies and enterprises for general theories of management and concludes by presenting new approaches to the study and research of management and organizations.

Book Publications List

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1961-02
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 48 pages

Download or read book Publications List written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 1961-02 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Legitimization of Violence

Download or read book The Legitimization of Violence written by David E. Apter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence is a more and more ubiquitous phenomenon. While a great deal of attention has been paid to certain aspects, terrorism for example, it has not been studied as a political phenomenon in and of itself. In The Legitimization of Violence eight well-known specialists explore various types of violence, from ideological to fundamentalist movements, within a framework of comparative theory.

Book Macau

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christina Miu Bing Cheng
  • Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
  • Release : 1999-06-01
  • ISBN : 9622094864
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book Macau written by Christina Miu Bing Cheng and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macau, on the threshold of the twentieth-first century, is perhaps a harbinger of a new urban culture. Having been nurtured by the sharply constrasting legacies of China and Portugal, this unique city manages to meld cultural differences and avoid the destructiveness of ethnic clashes. It is thus likened here to the Roman deity Janus, who is usually depicted with two faces looking in opposite directions. By concentrating on the ambivalent history of Macau, the author reveals the historical reality of cultural vacillation between two political entities and the emergence of a creole minority - the Macanese. With a judicious use of English, Chinese, and Portuguese sources, she has provided a pathbreaking, multi-focal perspective of the last Portuguese outpost in Asia. In light of the 'decolonization' of Macau in December 1999, the author's analysis challenges the easy assumptions of the causal sequence: colonialism/postcolonialism, and opens up an interdisciplinary purview of a local instance in cross-cultural studies.