Concise, actionable advice in plain English from a healthcare attorney to help you save big on healthcare by being a proactive, engaged "E-Patient".  This book will educate and empower you to price-shop treatments, spot expensive billing overcharges and errors, win insurance appeals, negotiate medical bills down and take back control of your healthcare. As a bonus, the book includes sample letters and worksheets to help in your patient advocacy for yourself or l...

Primary arts - art, music, dance and drama - is gaining recognition as a subject, and support in the value it offers primary children. This text examines the problems and opportunities, faced by educators, resulting from recent educational reforms and the implementation of the National Curriculum.

James King is back, in this sequel that pits man against beast-again. Flashback: the year is 1973 and the W.A.R facility has deposited highly toxic and radioactive waste on a secret base in central Florida. From the 1960's thru the 1980's, another top secret genetic research facility near Welaka releases hundreds of test subjects into the wild near the toxic dumping ground.Since 1973, strange wildlife attacks upon humans have taken place; but suddenly stopped in the year 1992 when ...

'A vivid, visceral and crucial read for our times' BETTANY HUGHES'Wonderful and insightful' ADRIAN GOLDSWORTHYThe collapse of law and order in the last years of the Roman Republic told through the rise and fall of its most famous lawyer, Cicero.In its final decades, the Roman Republic was engulfed by crime. Cases of extortion, murder and insurrection gave an ambitious young lawyer named Cicero high-profile opportuni...

As the celebrated author of Akenfield, Ronald Blythe, turns 100 this year, Next to Nature brings together a seasonal collection from the very best of a lifetime of writing.Ronald Blythe lives at the end of an overgrown farm track deep in the rolling countryside of the Stour Valley, on the border between Suffolk and Essex. His home is Bottengoms Farm, a sturdy yeoman's house once owned by the artist John Nash. From here, Blythe has spent almost hal...

'Tender and revelatory, Blythe Spirit gives us both the patron saint of the English countryside and a frank portrait of a complex figure' MARK COCKER, COUNTRY LIFE BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Moving, candid, vivid, it is all that we could hope for in a memoir of this unique and treasured writer' ROWAN WILLIAMS'An unusually intimate and affectionate portrait' PATRICK BARKHAM, GUARDIAN'As a boy I ...

From the author of the million-copy selling Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation and the bestselling John Lennon: The Life comes a revealing portrait of George Harrison, the most undervalued and mysterious Beatle.Despite being hailed as one of the best guitarists of his era, George Harrison, particularly in his early decades, battled feelings of inferiority. He was often the butt of jokes from his bandmates owing to his lower-class background a...

'Brilliant . . . A great book' Rod Liddle'Utterly shocking. Blunt wasn't just an arch-traitor. He was a callous mass-murderer. A war criminal no less. And it's hard to say which is the greater sucker punch - Blunt's dark treachery, or the British establishment's cover up of his crimes. It is high time the truth was revealed. Blofeld's book does just that. Bravo' Damien Lewis'This thrilling book, as twisty as a Le C...

New designer drugs, access to databases, and changing availability of samples for analysis have changed the face of modern forensic toxicology in recent years. Forensic Toxicology: Drug Use and Misuse brings together the latest information direct from experts in each sub-field of the discipline providing a broad overview of current thinking and the most innovative approaches to case studies.The text begins with an in-depth discussion of pharmacoepidemiology, including information on...

A New Yorker best book of 2025'brilliantly inventive'. - Tom Holland'learned, highly informative and readable'. - Literary Review'thoughtful, humane and open-minded'. - Kirkus Reviews'A brilliant book'. - Library Journal*'*witty writing'. - The Times'Hugely accomplished and endlessly readable'. -

The spectrum of unstable coronary syndromes has been the object of steadily increasing research particularly in respect of novel diagnostic and treatment modalities. Although the WHO criteria for the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction have been known for decades, there is still much debate as to the proper use of these, especially the handling of biochemical markers. Traditional enzymes have limitations in diagnostic power and new markers have unclarified applicability with regard to...

Full cast BBC Radio productions of five of C. S. Forester’s classic novelsMost famous for his Hornblower series, iconic writer C. S. Forester tells tales of adventure like no other. This BBC radio collection features modern adaptations of five of his acclaimed novels, including The African Queen (famously adapted as an Oscar-winning film starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn) and The Gun, which was turned into the hit Hollywood movie ...