A revolution in American medicine is in full swing, with the race from fee-for-service to fee-for-value at the front line in an epic battle that will transform healthcare delivery for decades to come. In America’s Healthcare Transformation, eminent physician leader Robert A. Phillips brings together key thought leaders and trail-blazing practitioners, who provide a wide-ranging exploration of the strategies, innovations, and paradigm shifts that are driving this healthcare transfo...

At the height of World War II, a killer preys on the young men of a quiet Texas town. The murders are calculated, vicious, and they are just beginning. Sheriff Tom Rabbit and his men are baffled and the community he serves is terrified of the monster lurking their streets. The only clues the killer leaves behind are painted snuffboxes containing notes written in German. As the panic builds all eyes turn toward a quiet man with secrets of his own.Ernst Lang fled Germany in 1934. Onc...

Tired of being broke and watching every dollar slip through your fingers? In under two hours, Done Being Broke gives you the exact, no-fluff playbook for taking back control of your money, killing debt, and building real wealth - starting today, from wherever you are.Rated 4.7 out of 5 by listeners, this is the beginner-friendly money management guide that skips the jargon and goes straight to what works. Lee Thomas walks you step by step through strategies that turn a paycheck-to-...

A short, calm guided meditation audiobook narrated by Lee Thomas, for anyone whose mind will not slow down.This is not a multi-week meditation course. It is a single quiet session you can press play on right now. You do not need experience. You do not need silence or a special place. You only need a few minutes to come back to center.What you will hear:Breathe Into Calm: a guided breath practice to settle the chest and slow racing thoughts....

Even in a school full of monsters, Molly still feels out of place. No matter what she tries to do her 'sister' snakes are always getting in her way. Mischievous and uncontrollable, they scare away her friends and make everything she does so much more difficult. Molly wants to be in the school talent show, playing her ukulele and winning first prize, but her snakes have other ideas. With help from her friends and a little trial-and-error, Molly finally finds a way to work with her snakes an...

My story has a dark ending that may never change. Now I'm living through grief to unlock the meaning of it all.I've battled the five stages of death. Seeking answers to life, I thought I walked a predetermined path my creator had made until exhaling my last breath.But now, I yearn to know what it all really meant, and I arrive empty.A man waits for me in this strange and dismal place. He comforts me as I struggle to remember any details of my existence. But in addit...

Becoming A Father Women say that men dont know The pain through which a woman go; Maybe this is true, and yet I know its the day hell never forget; When each one came he suffered, too, And prayed it would soon be through; He paced the floor, and dabbed his eyes, Waiting for the very first cry Shes doing fine, the doctor said As she glanced at him from eyes of red Shes doing just fine, he said again Thank you, he said with a phony grin When it came, oh what a joy The Lord gave us a baby boy...

Rebuilding Empires examines, through retail giants Best Buy and Target, how big box chains are constructing a new future by utilizing mobile devices, social media, and the Internet, the same technologies that once pushed them to the brink of irrelevance. This book features interviews with industry leaders and experts, including Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly, Target chief marketing officer Jeff Jones, and several other key players in both companies. Bricks and mortar retailing is not de...

Due to the multitude of bone and joint disorders and their symptomatic similarities, establishing a differential diagnosis is often problematic in daily practice. This book offers invaluable help by showing the diagnostic effectiveness of multimodality imaging across the entire spectrum of bone and joint disorders.Each clinical entity is presented as a unit, with succinct text on the left and high-quality, labeled images on the right. A consistent structure featuring pathology, cli...

between the lines on any stranger’s face, countless love stories needing to be told…There is, across the globe, an ever-growing disconnect. People everywhere are divided by borders and boundaries and walls—if not geographically, then certainly as they pertain to our convictions and the untamed country that is the human heart. Among so much dissonance, how attainable then is harmony? And where, at last, is it to be found? In his debut collection of interconnected personal e...

Soul Tracks III is a collection of nearly 90 poems penned over lifetime of living and loving. Amusing, insightful, heart-wrenching, and brilliant, these reflections will surprise you with their depth of thought and feeling, and a few will leave you sighing and smiling. The author embraces a remarkable range of subjects from being a chocoholic to observing man’s litter to appearing yet again in traffic school to ruminating on the difficulty of listening and to mourning the death of a friend...

As industries transition from the automation focus of Industry 4.0 to the human–AI collaboration of Industry 5.0, artificial intelligence stands at the forefront. Yet the lasting capability of intelligent systems is rooted in a deeper layer: robust data infrastructures. The Data Grid argues that AI’s true scalability and reliability hinge not just on algorithms, but on stable, governed, and semantically structured data systems. Across industries, fragmented and inconsistent data f...