Code stoned. Debug sober. Document drunk. And never trust the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.Michael Luis Bolaño is the scion of Mexican oil wealth gone to rut in Texas. Sherman Spartacus Katz is the hyperliterate son of evangelical eccentrics from the North Georgia mountains. One hopes to restore what's been lost, the other to attain what never was. Together at an elite Institute of Technology they train as engineers. Together in the dark they study forbidden teachings. By graduati...

The countryside between Mobile and New Orleans teems with memorials, but few historic spots occasion pause for reflection like the Old Biloxi Cemetery. Burials go back to the eighteenth-century French settlement, when Biloxi was the planned capital of the Louisiana territory. Secrets abound in the old cemetery--not exactly buried, since many prominent inhabitants sealed unsolved mysteries with their final remains in the aboveground tombs developed here. Author John Cuevas explores the fasc...

Code stoned. Debug sober. Document drunk. And never trust the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.Michael Luis Bolaño is the scion of Mexican oil wealth gone to rut in Texas. Sherman Spartacus Katz is the hyperliterate son of evangelical eccentrics from the North Georgia mountains. One hopes to restore what's been lost, the other to attain what never was. Together at an elite Institute of Technology they train as engineers. Together in the dark they study forbidden teachings. By graduati...

Incompetent surgeons, corrupt royal colleges, nepotism and quackery. The medical establishment - a small coterie of self-serving doctors - went unchallenged.Until 1823, when a young surgeon, son of a farmer, who'd survived being at sea, mastered bare-knuckle fighting, and escaped assassination, did what no doctor had dared.Risking ruin, Thomas Wakley established The Lancet, an uncompromising radical journal which scandalized the establishment and initiated modern health car...

The world of fundraising is changing.In an increasingly digital world, traditional in-person fundraising events are bringing in less and less support for nonprofits. And yet charitable giving is on the rise! People want to be able to donate to causes conveniently and on the social platforms where they spend their time. Through their donation, they wish to share in a nonprofit’s mission and connect with a community of supporters like themselves. This–and much more–i...

Westminster Hall, 13 December 1828. Midnight. Thousands are massed outside. Newspapers are holding their presses. James Lambert, a young apothecary-surgeon, has accused a leading surgeon at Guy's Hospital of killing a patient. Never before has a doctor's competence been challenged in a court. What drove him to take on the medical establishment, risking everything he'd always wanted? For two centuries his contribution to the making of modern health care has lain unrecognised. This novel, ba...

Highly Commended, BMA Medical Book Awards 2013The history of health care is complex, confusing, and contested. It involves more than just the creation of hospitals and dispensaries, infirmaries, and health centers. There are also royal colleges, trades unions, medical schools, nurses’ homes, coroners’ courts, nursing sisterhoods, ambulance stations, patients’ organizations, and medical missions.Usually, to enhance our understanding we sit and read books, or...

Research into the delivery and organisation of health care is a vital component in the improvement of health services. A wide range of disciplines and methods needs to be deployed to address research questions in this field. This unique reader brings together thirty examples of high-quality SDO research using a range of disciplines, including organisational studies, epidemiology, sociology, history, health economics, anthropology and policy studies, illustrating the use of qualitative and ...

First Published in 2001. This is the first book to combine research methods from a range of social science disciplines and apply them to health service research**.** Health service delivery and organisation is a growing and increasingly important area of research not readily amenable to methods used to evaluate health technologies.

The second book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford.The discovery of Elizabeth Nightingale's broken body in the woods near her home could not have come as a bigger shock. Called in to investigate, Chief Inspector Wexford quickly determines that the Nightingales were considered the perfect couple - wealthy, attractive and without an enemy in the world.However, someone must have been alone with Elizabeth that night in the woods. Someone who...

Francis Hatton has gone to the University town of Exbridge to attend a committee meeting, at St. Oswald's College. At the luncheon adjournment Hatton remains behind to eat his sandwiches, to read the report of the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Monuments, and to meet death—for death, swift and unforeseen, which strikes him down in that brief hour - but who killed him? And why?An intriguing, fun mystery by Victor L. Whitechurch.

In the last years of the nineteenth century the Morlands' fortunes are changing for the better, as Henrietta and Jerome find a true home at Morland Place, and Teddy ploughs his profits into restoring it to its former glory. But the reverses and cruelties of the Boer War and the death of Queen Victoria shake the foundations of a confident nation. The accession of King Edward seems to mark the end of the old, familiar England. Old certainties are being questioned, everything is changing, and...