The quality of health care in the US depends on the patient's ability to pay and his or her insurance cover, at an annual cost of $3600 per head of population. In the UK, the quality of care costs less at an annual cost of $1000 per head of population, although care is sometimes delayed through a lack of resources. This book compares the two systems from the viewpoint of primary care, identifying some models of excellence from which both can benefit. It draws on the experience of the NHS r...

A remarkable look at how the growth, technology, and politics of high-frequency trading have altered global financial marketsIn today’s financial markets, trading floors on which brokers buy and sell shares face-to-face have increasingly been replaced by lightning-fast electronic systems that use algorithms to execute astounding volumes of transactions. Trading at the Speed of Light tells the story of this epic transformation. Donald MacKenzie shows how in...

榮獲│公理商業圖書獎Axiom Business Book Awards│商業技術類選書在這個世界，每一個跳動點，都是程式與交易員的無聲較量！高頻交易商與演算法如何撼動當代金融？他們是誰？又如何靠全球市場交易單上的訊號獲利？一個演算法針對股票指數期貨的訊號反應速度有多快（比如說針對價格變動做出反應的速度），即決定了該演算法將能獲利還是虧損。在近二十年的金融市場中，經紀人面對面買賣股票的交易大廳逐漸被閃電般快速的電子交易系統所取代，以演算法執行大量的交易。《光速交易》講述了這個史詩般的轉變。作者展示了如何在一九九〇年代、在當時美國金融體系聲名狼藉的情況下，一種新的交易方法──自動化高頻交易或稱****HFT──如何展露頭角並傳播到世界各地。 HFT...

We live in an ageing society, and for most of us our final years of life will be spent with a degree of frailty. This book provides a practical guide and a Christian perspective on wise use of healthcare for those living with frailty. It is helpful both to those who are already experiencing how age limits their abilities, and also to those who are becoming involved in healthcare decisions for parents or older relatives.Dr Ian Donald has been a specialist in the car...

Nel 1960, all’apertura del testamento del gioielliere Mario Negri, si apprese che questi aveva lasciato parte del suo patrimonio per la fondazione di un Istituto per la ricerca farmacologica designandone il direttore nella persona di Silvio Garattini. Comincia così la straordinaria storia dell’Istituto Mario Negri, una storia di eccellenza, onestà e dedizione verso la scienza in cui l’entusiasmo e l’intraprendenza del prof. Garattini si sono scontrati (e si scontrano!) con numerosi scogli ...

Nothing is simple for the men and women in Donald Antrim's stories. As they do the things we all do—bum a cigarette at a party, stroll with a girlfriend down Madison Avenue, take a kid to the zoo—they're confronted with their own uncooperative selves. These artists, writers, lawyers, teachers, and actors make fools of themselves, spiral out of control, have delusions of grandeur, despair, and find it hard to imagine a future. They talk, they listen, they hope, they dream. They look for com...

Long before Oklahoma became a state in 1907, cattle rustlers, horse thieves, and other criminals saw the land as a place to exploit resources and evade capture. But in the heyday of the outlaw era after the Civil War, Indigenous police officers—mounted Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Muscogee, and Seminole Lighthorse units—brought them to justice. In The Lighthorse Police, Donald L. Fixico weaves a lively history of these Five Tribes’ law enforcement organizations as he explores the...

Uncompromising, often dark, and always insightful, 'Dying Light' explores the mysteries of duty, forgiveness, power, and love through a broad range of narrative voices. We meet a football coach who seeks to avenge his wifes affair, a delusional poet who escapes from a hospital as the bombing of Baghdad begins, a woman whose son was killed in a car accident, and an almost-widower wistful about his first love. In these and other stories, Hays illuminates his characters most secret and human ...

The first English translation of Maria de Naglowska’s essential treatise on the spiritually transformative power of sex, La lumière du sexe• Reveals mystic sexual practices for growth of the soul and enlightenment• Explains the inner workings of the sex magic rituals of La confrérie de la Flèche d’Or [The Brotherhood of the Golden Arrow], the notorious occult order of 1930s Paris• Translated from the original French with an Introduction and Notes b...

In elegant, precise prose Donald Antrim crafts funny, tender stories of men and women disorientated by love, loss, and bouts of sorrow.An unfaithful husband goes out to buy flowers for his wife, while across town a new couple, both survivors of difficult childhoods, find comfort together in other people's apartments. On the edge of a university campus, a group of students are brought together by their ageing drama professor, whose predilection for pot and crush on his star pupil th...

An explosive exposition of Ezekiel's encounter with Almighty GOD concerning what the Elders of the House of Israel were doing, which was an abomination to GOD!Throughout Ezekiel Chapter 8, I endeavour to show, in minute detail, that the practical workings through the various degrees/rituals performed in the Masonic Lodge are identical! Freemasonry is a revival of Baal worship which is abhorrent to GOD!I pray that masons in the Masonic lodges and those in the many other rela...

Earth Light is a collection of original poems that highlight the boundless peace, hope, forgiveness, and everlasting love that God provides. Based on scripture, the purpose of this book is to fill the reader's heart with God's awesome promises and glorious grace.THE CROSSThey hung our Lord upon a cross,A deed that lives in infamy.Now, we hang one 'round our necks,Forgetting not His agony.A symbol known throughout the world,...