How often do you hear a doctor saying doctors need to be more accountable, Medicare needs more support and family medicine deserves more respect? Dissident Doctor bristles with refreshingly frank criticisms from inside the health sector, and its author is not just any doctor but a distinguished scientific researcher, veteran medical administrator, Professor Emeritus, recipient of the Order of Canada and lifelong gadfly.In Dissident Doctor, Michael C. Klein intersp...

An analysis of the operation and consequences of exchange rate regimes in an era of increasing international interdependence.The exchange rate is sometimes called the most important price in a highly globalized world. A country's choice of its exchange rate regime, between government-managed fixed rates and market-determined floating rates has significant implications for monetary policy, trade, and macroeconomic outcomes, and is the subject of both academic and po...

Winner of the 2021 Lionel Gelber Prize: A provocative look at how today’s trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers“The authors weave a complex tapestry of monetary, fiscal and social policies through history and offer opinions about what went right and what went wrong . . . Worth reading for their insights into the history of trade and finance.”—George Melloan, Wall Street Jou...

A provocative look at how today's trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers.Trade disputes are usually understood as conflicts between countries with competing national interests, but as Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis show in this book, they are often the unexpected result of domestic political choices to serve the interests of the rich at the expense of workers and ordinary retirees.Klein and...

Darwinian Evolution and Classical Liberalism canvasses an array of thinkers from the past to the present as it examines fundamental political, philosophical, ethical, economic, anthropological, and scientific aspects of the ferment between Darwinian biology and classical liberalism. Early chapters focus on classical thinkers like John Locke and Adam Smith, while later chapters provide analyses of present-day classical liberals, focusing especially on F.A. Hayek, Thomas Sowell, and Larry Ar...

An anthology that asks, “What does it mean to be church where Black lives matter?”Prophetic imagination would have us see a future in which all Christians would be free of the soul-warping belief and practice of racism. This collection of reflections is an incisive look into that future today. It explains why preaching about race is important in the elimination of racism in the church and society, and how preaching has the ability to transform hearts. While program...

Mit Vehemenz und Sprachwitz – Unbekannte Glanzstücke von Charles Dickens // „Zwischen uns beiden sei’s gesagt: bewunderungswürdig!“, frohlockt Charles Dickens in einem Brief an einen Freund und kann sich in dieser Äußerung der Begeisterung über einen eigenen Text, den er gerade für seine Zeitschrift „Household Words“ geschrieben hat, nicht enthalten. Dickens war zeitlebens ein journalistischer Schriftsteller, verdankte seinen frühen Erfolg den Skizzen und Erzählungen, die er in Zeitungen v...

A young economic professor's adventures in his quest for a tenure-track position and a well-balanced life.David Fox (Ph.D. Economics, Columbia, Visiting Assistant Professor at Kester College, Knittersville, New York) is having a stressful year. He has a temporary position at a small college in a small town miles from everything except Albany. His students have never read Freakonomics. He thinks he is getting the hang of teaching, but a smart and beautiful ...

In the past two decades, new modeling efforts have gradually incorporated more molecular and structural detail in response to environmental and technical interests. Molecular Modeling in Heavy Hydrocarbon Conversions introduces a systematic molecule-based modeling approach with a system of chemical engineering software tools that can automate the e

Departing from the traditional German school of music theorists, Michael Klein injects a unique French critical theory perspective into the framework of music and meaning. Using primarily Lacanian notions of the symptom, that unnamable jouissance located in the unconscious, and the registers of subjectivity (the Imaginary, the Symbolic Order, and the Real), Klein explores how we understand music as both an artistic form created by "the subject" and an artistic expression of a culture that ...

This instructional atlas addresses the issues of patient selection, and looks at how to choose the appropriate implant design. It also provides step-by-step instructions for the technique of implantation through detailed illustrations. Coverage includes diagnosis, determination of the treatment plan, surgical principles, surgical procedure, patient follow-up and care.

A quarter of a million readers have relaxed in the workplace thanks to author Darrin Zeer and now it’s your turn. This three-book bundle includes Office Yoga, Travel Yoga, and Everyday Calm and it contains all the strategies and stretches you need to reclaim your workplace calm. Office Yoga brings the ancient Indian art to the modern-day office with a fully illustrated, easy-to-use guide offering 75 stress-relieving stretches perfect for the cube environ...