Engineering student Michael Pagano has two gorgeous housemates, an awesome girlfriend, and a lab partner who adores him. Is adding a chastity belt to the mix icing on the cake or over-egging the pudding?Inspired by one of his and Julie's erotic roleplaying games where he pretends to be wearing a chastity belt, Michael decides to design and build one for himself for real. He waits for the Christmas break to hand the keys over to her. What he doesn't bargain on is her ingenuity - or ...

This book examines the current state of American health care using a social science lens to focus on the interdependent, intercultural, economic, and communication aspects of access and delivery.This text explores how the cultures of health care organizations, health professions, governments, and capitalism, as well as communication, all contribute to a disease-focused, economically driven, technology-centered health care system. It seeks to understand 21st century health care from...

When Liliana Reyes does something, she does it right. If her friend and lab partner Michael Pagano wants to find out what it's like to be locked in a chastity belt when someone else has the keys, well, he's going to learn. (This is a prequel/introduction to The Chastity Belt Experiment series.)Michael has been working on developing a chastity belt for himself and has gotten to the point where he's giving it trial runs. When Liliana points out that it's not a real trial run unless s...

This book takes a novel approach to solving a financial manager's problems by applying a valuation focus to the firm's risk management decisions. Rather than concentrating solely on defining and measuring a bank's risks, our book goes a step further by explicitly considering how these risks can impact the market value of the bank from a shareholder's perspective. The book uses an integrated valuation framework which quantifies the costs and benefits of how a bank should manage its main ris...

How remunicipalization can be implemented to restructure urban governance.Across North America, Europe, and the Global South, public services such as water and energy that were once privatized have returned to public sector functions—an intriguing new development known as remunicipalization. Unwinding Privatization, edited by Alba Alexander, Larry Bennett, Evan McKenzie, and Michael Pagano, explores the sources, scale, and implications of transferring owne...

American cities continue to experience profound fiscal crises. Falling revenues cannot keep pace with the increased costs of vital public services, infrastructure development and improvement, and adequately funded pensions. Chicago presents an especially vivid example of these issues, as the state of Illinois's rocky fiscal condition compounds the city's daunting budget challenges. In The People's Money, Michael A. Pagano curates a group of essays that emerged from discussions at ...

Von allen dramatischen Künsten hat einzig die Oper keinen handwerklichen Kanon entwickelt, den man beherrschen muss, um die Kunst überhaupt ausüben zu können. In der Oper gilt: jeder darf mal. Anything goes. Der bekannte Regisseur Michael Hampe ist mit seinen Schülern in aller Welt der Frage nachgegangen, ob es einen solchen Kanon an Techniken und Regeln auch für die Oper geben könnte. Es gibt ihn. Michael Hampe stellt ihn erstmalig vor - ein Handwerk für die Oper. Gemeinsam mit dem Bühnen...

PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION:"Öallows students and faculty to explore real-life health communication behaviors through role-playing, interactive exercises, and examplesÖeasily adapted for use in many situations, sensitivity and diversity trainingÖvery worthwhile book for every medical faculty member working to instill professionalismÖin students."óVincent Carr, DO, MSA, FACC, FACP, Uniformed Services University of the Health Scienc...

This open access book addresses four standard business school subjects: microeconomics, macroeconomics, finance and information systems as they relate to trading, liquidity, and market structure. It provides a detailed examination of the impact of trading costs and other impediments of trading that the authors call “frictions”. It also presents an interactive simulation model of equity market trading, TraderEx, that enables students to implement trading decisions in different market scenar...

Promotes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of health communicationAccording to the Joint Commission, over 75% of all serious medical errors in this country result from miscommunication. Based in these adverse realities and the author philosophy that communication is a clinical skill integral to effective health care delivery, this comprehensive text addresses thetheories and abilities needed by all health care providers. The only text written spec...

A city's infrastructure influences the daily life of residents, neighborhoods, and businesses. But uniting the hard infrastructure of roads and bridges with the soft infrastructure of parks and public art creates significant political challenges. Planners at all stages must work at an intersection of public policy, markets, and aesthetics--while also accounting for how a project will work in both the present and the future.The latest volume in the Urban Agenda series looks at press...

Ein tödlicher Sommer, der alles verändert ... Addie Blackwood bereut nichts so sehr wie jene Nacht letzten Sommer. Nachdem sie ihrer Schwester Fiona scheußliche Dinge an den Kopf geworfen hatte, wurde diese tot am Grund einer Schlucht gefunden. Die Polizei spricht von einem Unfall, aber Addie ist sich sicher: Fiona wurde gestoßen - und zwar von Thatcher Montgomery, dem reichen Nachbarsjungen, der unglücklich in Fiona verliebt war. Doch dann wird Thatchers Leiche ein Jahr später in derselbe...