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Labor shortages continue to plague hospitals across the nation despite higher wages and increased work flexibility. Why are nurses, pharmacists, and allied health professionals still leaving the field and more importantly, what can hospitals do to retain them? The new book Employee Retention: Solving the Healthcare Crisis, goes beyond quick fixes and provides a strategic approach for retaining valuable employees. The authors discuss the underlying issues that are fueling the retention crisis, and use an in-depth survey of recruiting and retention practices in leading hospitals to illustraemployer of choice, organized around six strategies aimed at improving patient care and employee satisfaction: Ensuring employee role clarity Focusing on accountability Standardizing practices Ensuring availability of appropriate supplies and equipment Creating a patient-centered environment Designing multiple patient care delivery models Employee Retention also contains a chapter devoted solely to cross-industry best practices which can be replicated in the healthcare environment. Find out how leading companies like Federal Express Corporation, Johnson & Johnson, and Southwest Airlines foster loyal and committed employees.

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Best in its class: This new book delivers solid facts.......2003-07-06

To learn more about the root causes of the lingering shortage of certain specialists in the healthcare field, I bought 7 books from Amazon.com.

This book is by far the best book in explaining key reasons for the healthcare staff shortage and strategies/tactics to help retain the staff you have.

Because healthcare has become a politicized issue, some books take on a partisan tone, but fortunately this book is NOT a partisan diatribe. This book is both an excellent, academic style study, written in a readable format. (But it is dense with facts. I've had to read it slowly because there is so much information to absorb.)

Ms. Numerof and Mr. Abrams, the authors of this text, have not only researched and written an excellent book, the authors are also making a profound contribution to clarifying pressing healthcare staffing issues, which may be a catalyst to future governmental, institutional and societal decision making, helping to shape a better healthcare system in the future. (And we will all benefit from that.) Great job. Thanks for your good work.

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here are 56 of them, from sea to shining sea, from Maine's Acadia to California's Redwoods, from Washington State's Olympic to Florida's Everglades. Each of them is more beautiful than the last, and each of them is visited in this special edition of LIFE.Come with LIFE to the peak of Rainier and the bottom of the Grand Canyon in this special edition celebrating our national parks.

Our National Parks: Celebrating America's Natural Splendor

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Our National Parks: Celebrating America's Natural Splendor
Life
Manufacturer: Life Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MKJX9C

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Follow an American college student and his classmates through what has shaped up to be some of the most formative experiences in their lives to date—living and travelling in mainland China.

With high hopes of adventure in an exotic, foreign land, the author and his companions instead confront and endure the physical, emotional, and mental challenges of living in modern China. On a deeper level, though, they witness and reflect upon history in the making—an ancient civilization struggling to remake itself economically, politically, and socially.

The book’s backdrop is a harrowing adventure in search of distant relatives in the Chinese countryside the author, until that summer, did not know existed. This truly American tale of one young man’s search for his roots is a story for all to enjoy and gain from.

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A Real Page Turner!.......2002-05-08

Very interesting account of an Eurasian American college student's search for his ancestors in China. This book is a real page turner, even for those who have no interest or knowledge of China. Travelers will get a realistic overview of the Chinese history and culture. Very Funny! Well worth the price!

Amazing, Touching, Inspiring!.......2001-08-06

This book was so amazing I read it twice! It is a funny, witty, educational story which really makes you feel like a part of the author's journey. His story is honest and fullfilling. The reader does not even need know much about China to be greatly entertained. I would suggest this book to anyone. I hope the author writes again...Horray for Beadle Lu!

Hilarious, Informative, and Insightful.......2000-10-04

This book combines the funniest "travel stories" I have ever read with lots of useful information including history, very practical travel tips, and a wonderfully insightful analysis of how recent changes in China have affected her people. The author steadfastly avoids any and all "travelogue cliches"- his account is all the more hilarious (and informative) for its brutal honesty.

In addition to all of this, there is a delightful plot twist (related to the title) that is both touching and hysterically funny. (And good plot twists are sometimes hard to find in travel memoirs.) This is one of the most entertaining books I have ever read!

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Do we need cosmetic surgery, dental implants, and a new wardrobe to improve our lives? Or can transformation happen in other ways? What kind of a makeover has the power to change a person, inside and out? These stories, specially written for this collection, delve into our culture's fascination with beauty and present different views about all kinds of makeovers. Sometimes funny, sometimes serious, and always thoughtprovoking, this anthology will open eyes and minds. Authors include Joseph Bruchac, Marina Budhos, Evelyn Coleman, Peni R. Griffin, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Norma Howe, Jess Mowry, René Saldaña, Jr., Marilyn Singer, Joyce Sweeney, and Terry Trueman.

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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the issues, concepts and theories through which people have tried to understand consumer culture throughout the modern period, and puts the current state of thinking into a broader context.Thematically organized, the book shows how the central aspects of consumer culture - such as needs, choice, identity, status, alienation, objects, culture - have been debated within modern theories, from those of earlier thinkers such as Marx and Simmel to contemporary forms of post-structuralism and postmodernism. This approach introduces consumer culture as a subject which - far from being of narrow or recent interest - is intimately tied to the central issues of modern times and modern social thought.With its reviews of major theorists set within a full account of the development of the subject, this book should be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students in the many disciplines which now study consumer culture, including communications and cultural studies, anthropology and history.

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Great Summary on the Ideas Around Consumer Culture.......2007-09-17

I liked this book a lot and found it very useful to help me understand the origins of consumer culture in western civilization, and the different views and criticisms around it. I recommend it if you are interested in the origins, theories and history surrounding consumer culture today.

comprehensive and objective.......2000-01-24

Slater thoroughly examines multiple and diverse theories addressing the whys, whens, and hows of consumption. He captures many of the paradoxes of "consumption" and "culture" without passing judgment on consumption. This book will give you an historical view of the role consumption has played in western societies, as well as an examination of some of consumption's current functions (identity formation, status signification, etc.). An excellent overview text for courses addressing consumption, but also a readable and thought-provoking discourse on consumption.

The indispensible and accessible introduction to this field........1998-10-14

Very readable, provocative; a superb course textbook. Makes the subject come alive.

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Consumer Culture & Modernity
Don Slater
Manufacturer: Polity Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GZWZJ8

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Consumer Culture and Modernity
Don Slater
Manufacturer: NY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MUBZ70

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With a New Afterword by the Author

Louis Sell offers an insider’s account of the life and times of Slobodan Milosevic, filling a gap in the literature on the Yugoslav conflicts by covering both the domestic, Yugoslav side of the collapse and the international interventions in the ensuing Balkan wars.

"More than a biography, this book provides a compact, coherent review of the sad drama that occupied so much of the West’s attention in the 1990s."—Foreign Affairs

"[C]ompelling. . . . Sell’s account, based on both the public record and interviews with many of the principals as well as his personal experiences, offers an impressive yield of telling insights and revealing anecdotes."—Andrew Nagorski, Washington Post Book World

"Sell has produced a book which will be valued by students of Yugoslavia and will be an excellent introduction to those not yet familiar with that country’s tragic destruction."—Richard Crampton, Times Literary Supplement

"[T]he most comprehensive and up-to-date account of the war so far published in English. [Sell] is fair-minded and keeps his diplomatic cool until the end, when with justice he calls Mr. Milosevic ‘an ugly killer’ who even now denies the fact of horrendous crimes, and his own responsibility for them."—The Economist

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Well written, poorly sourced, and self-serving.......2007-09-21

This book is worth checking out from the library, but I wouldn't buy it.

The book is well written and easy to read. I have to give Mr. Sell credit. He is a very talented writer, which is why I gave the book two stars rather than one.

Unfortunately, the book is poorly documented (there are a conspicuous lack of end notes for this sort of a book) and the author frequently writes as though he had privlaged access to Slobodan Milosevic's thoughts and feelings. Mr. Sell may have been an "insider" with the State Dept., but I don't think he was clairvoyant.

It is important to keep the author's position in mind when reading this book. He was a U.S. foreign Service officer serving in Yugoslavia. He was there to advance U.S. Government policy in the region. The real point of the book seems to be to justify the policies of the United States with regard to Yugoslavia.

This book may be valuable as an insight into the thinking that prevailed within the State Department, but it is not an impartial or even accurate assessment of the events that led to the destruction of Yugoslavia.

The land of Demons.......2003-12-30

Louis Sell describes this place like he was born there. I can just imagine how beautiful this country was before the Balkan wars. How can such a peacefull Country turn to The Land of Demons. After Titos death Yugoslavia slowly began to fall apart. It used to be one country before Titos death, but after his death and after Milosevic there was six.

My comment from old Europe.......2003-02-07

Although the facts and the personality of Milosevic are properly described, the book is, in my opinion, too partial. I don't think it is lack of knowledge but the will to believe it that way.
This eternal dichotomy of "good boys and bad boys" that in America is so much extended, appears very strongly in this book, specially when the role of the USA is concerned.Too simple,I must say.
Let's say that it is a good book to be red in America...

Sobering, Thoughtful Look at Milosevic's Political Career.......2002-12-07

How does a political hack working for the Yugoslavian Communist party evolve into a skilled manipulator of people, and Europe's worst Fascist politician since Adolf Hitler? In the case of Slobodan Milosevic there are no easy answers, yet former diplomat Louis Sell offers a riveting account of Milosevic's life that depicts the latter's transformation from Communist bureaucrat to a dangerous political demagogue. Along the way Sell provides an in-depth look at the rise and fall of modern Yugoslavia, beginning with the closing phases of World War Two, as Tito's Communist partisans battled both the Nazis and other forces belonging collectively to the Yugoslavian "underground", most notably the Serbian Chetniks. Sell suggests that Milosevic hasn't become a rabid nationalist, but instead, has used the cause of Serbian nationalism to further his own political agenda, granting him virtual control over the rump state of Yugoslavia until his sudden downfall in free elections held after the NATO bombing of Serbia in response to the Serb-Albanian conflict in Kosovo. Sell introduces us to a fascinating group of characters, beginning with Croatian president Tudjman, and ending with the likes of American diplomats and soldiers such as Richard Holbrooke and General Wesley Clark. Unquestionably this may be the best book published yet on what transpired in Yugoslavia during the 1990's.

Mr. Sell is a master of Eastern Europe.......2002-05-26

Mr.Sell was my professor at the University of Maine at Farminton, and he was incredibly knowledgeable on the conflict in Yugoslavia. I recommend this book to anyone interested in the region and the conflicts that have gone on there. Sells experience is reflected in this writings and is a must for any political science or international relations student.

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PRIMITIVE TECHNOLOGY: A Book of Earth Skills
David (editor) Wescott
Manufacturer: Salt Lake City, UT: Gibbs-Smith, 1999
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KOZ4T8

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