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Potter, Wendell

Summary: Potter shows how a huge chunk of health care spending actually bankrolls a propaganda campaign and lobbying effort focused on protecting one thing: profits.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Press 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 659.2936 POT

Burlingham, Bo.

Summary: Most books about successful businesses focus on public companies, where the definition for success is steady growth in revenue and profits. Yet there are many excellent, privately held companies marching to the beat of a different drum; they have stricken revenue and profit growth from the top of their mission statements. Instead, they define themselves by their passion for their products and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.409 BUR

Contents: Taxonomy / Bart W. O'Gara -- Distribution: past and present / Bart W. O'Gara and Robert G. Dundas -- Elk and Indians: then again / Richard E. McCabe -- Physical and physiological adaptations / Robert J. Hudson and Jerry C. Haigh with contributions by Anthony Bubenik -- Nutrition and food / John G. Cook -- Diseases and parasites / E. Tom Thorne ... [et al.] -- Adaptive behavioral strategies /...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Institution Press 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.6542 TOW

Cohn, Jonathan

Summary: "Jonathan Cohn's The Ten Year War is the definitive account of the battle over Obamacare, based on interviews with sources who were in the room, from the nation's foremost healthcare journalist. The Affordable Care Act, better known as "Obamacare," was the most sweeping and consequential piece of legislation of the last half century. It has touched nearly every American in one way or another,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 368.38 COH

Rowley, Carla

Summary: A guide to understanding the importance of various types of insurance and what to look for in a carrier. Includes information on utilizing the Internet to get a better rate, how insurance works, company ratings, and national and local firms.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Pub. Group 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 368.00973 ROW

Faust, Timothy

Summary: Single payer healthcare is not complicated: the government pays for all care for all people. It's cheaper than our current model, and most Americans (and their doctors) already want it. So what's the deal with our current healthcare system, and why don't we have something better?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House Publishing 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 FAU

Greene, David

Summary: "87% of real estate agents fail within the first five years. Don't become another casualty! According to the National Association of REALTORS®, real estate agents with less than two years' experience had a median gross income of $9,300, while real estate agents with 16 years experience had a median gross income of $71,000. What if there was a better, more efficient way to build your real estate...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: BiggerPockets Publishing, LLC 2020

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.33 GRE

Allen, Marshall

Summary: "From award-winning ProPublica reporter Marshall Allen, a primer for anyone who wants to fight the predatory health care system--and win. Every year, millions of Americans are overcharged and underserved while the health care industry makes record profits. We know something is wrong, but the layers of bureaucracy designed to discourage complaints make pushing back seem impossible. At least,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.28 ALL

Thomas, William G.

Summary: The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history, in which a number of enslaved families challenged their bondage in court.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 THO

Goldhill, David.

Summary: "A visionary and completely original investigation that will change the way we think about health care: how and why it is failing, why expanding insurance coverage will only make things worse, and how it can be transformed into a transparent, affordable,successful system. In 2007, David Goldhill's father died from a series of infections acquired in a well-regarded New York hospital. The bill...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 GOL

Moeller, Philip

Summary: "A coauthor of the New York Times bestselling guide to Social Security Get What's Yours authors an essential companion to explain Medicare, the nation's other major benefit for older Americans. Learn how to maximize your health coverage and save money. Social Security provides the bulk of most retirees' income and Medicare guarantees them affordable health insurance. But few people know what...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 368 MOE

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 368 MOE

Hand, Carol

Summary: "Often young people assume that, because they are healthy, they can do without health insurance. Then, the unexpected happens--a car accident or a serious illness--and they are left with a mountain of medical bills they cannot pay. This volume explains exactly what health insurance does for people, and the types of health care plans, including private, group, and government plans, and their...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Publishing 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 368.38 HAN

Graff, Garrett M.

Summary: "The eye-opening truth about the government's secret plans to survive a catastrophic attack on US soil--even if the rest of us die--a roadmap that spans from the dawn of the nuclear age to today"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 GRA

Flitter, Emily

Summary: A deeply reported examination of the systemic racism inside the American financial services industry exposes practices designed to maintain the racial wealth gap, and draws on data, history, legal scholarship, and personal stories to provide a look at what it means to bank while Black.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers/Atria 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.1089 FLI

Sedgwick, John

Summary: John Sedgwick recounts the decade-long fight between General William J. Palmer, the Civil War hero leading the "little family" of his Rio Grande, coming down from Denver, hoping to showcase the majesty of the Rockies, and William Barstow Strong, the hard-nosed manager of the corporate-minded Santa Fe, venturing west from Kansas. What begins as an accidental rivalry when the two lines cross in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385.09 SED

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 385.0979 SED

Bolkovac, Kathryn.

Summary: "When Nebraska police officer and divorced mother of three Kathryn Bolkovac saw a recruiting announcement for private military contractor DynCorp International, she applied and was hired. Good money, world travel, and the chance to help rebuild a war-torn country sounded like the perfect job. Bolkovac was shipped out to Bosnia, where DynCorp had been contracted to support the UN peacekeeping...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 BOL

Summary: At over a billion dollars, the mobile food industry is enjoying more publicity and notoriety than ever before. Catering to a new generation of foodies looking for quick and unique specialties, the mobile food business is booming with new opportunities for eager entrepreneurs like you. From gourmet food to all-American basics and hot dog wagons to bustaurants, our experts give you the delicious...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Entrepreneur Media, Inc. 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.6 STA

Shea, Therese

Summary: American landmarks sometimes evoke more than their original intent. For example, the Statue of Liberty was a gift symbolizing the friendship between France and the United States, but it became a welcoming monument to millions of immigrants heading to Ellis Island. This beautifully designed book offers numerous intriguing facts about American landmarks, including the Washington Monument, Statue...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.7 SHE

Wells, Jonathan Daniel

Summary: "Although slavery was outlawed in the northern states in 1827, the illegal slave trade continued in the one place modern readers would least expect, the streets and ports of America's great northern metropolis: New York City. In 'The Kidnapping Club,' historian Jonathan Daniel Wells takes readers to a rapidly changing city rife with contradiction, where social hierarchy clashed with a rising...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bold Type Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 WEL

Bird, Kai

2 holds on 5 copies

Summary: J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer's life and times, from his early career to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2005

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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OPPENHEIMER, J. ROBERT BIR

Neff, James

Summary: In a book based on newly released documents, the author sheds a new light on the historic battle between U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy and Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa during the Senate Rackets Committee hearings and beyond during 1957 to 1964.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.921 NEF

Mackell, Thomas

Contents: The fractured American retirement dream -- The new political reality -- The new realities of work and the workplace -- America's love affair with debt -- Employee benefits at a crossroad -- The retirement crisis -- The time is right for bold leadership -- A time for change -- How did we get where we are? -- A call to action -- Conclusion.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Reference Office, Call number: 331.25 MACK

Schultz, Ellen.

Summary: "An expose of the ways corporations manipulate retirement plans at employee expense. It's no secret that hundreds of companies, from GM to IBM, have been slashing pensions and health coverage for millions of retirees. Employers blame an aging workforce,stock market losses, and spiraling costs. But the so-called retirement crisis is no demographic accident- and large corporations have played a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio Hardcover 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.252 SCH

Makos, Adam

Summary: Adapted for young adults from the New York Times best-seller, this gripping true account of a WWII American tank gunner, who met his destiny in an armor duel and forged an enduring bond with his enemy, brings to life the perils of war.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SMO

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