1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460299303321

Autore

Leifer John <1957->

Titolo

The myths of modern medicine : the alarming truth about American health care / / John Leifer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; London, England : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4422-2596-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Disciplina

362.10973

Soggetti

Medical care - United States

Medical care - Quality control

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: The End of Blind Faith and the Beginning of Transformational Change in Health Care; Myth 1"The United States Boasts the Best Health Care in the World"; Myth 2"Shopping for Health Care Is Like Shopping for a Car;  You Base Your Decisions on Good Information"; Myth 3"Medical Interventions Are Based on Scientific Evidence of Positive Outcomes regarding Best Practices;  as a Result, Patients Receive Precisely the Care They Need"; Myth 4"Where One Chooses to Receive Care Will Have No Bearing on Their Treatment Options, Outcomes, or Cost"

Myth 5"All Physicians Are Created Equal"Myth 6"There's No Better Place to Be When You Are Ill than the Hospital"; Myth 7"The Prescription I Was Given Is Safe, Proven, and Effective"; Myth 8"I'm Just the Patient;  I'm Not Part of the Problem"; Myth 9"My Insurance Company's First Concern Is My Health"; Myth 10"When All Else Fails, at Least the System Will Allow Me to Die with Dignity"; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">The Myths of Modern Medicine</span><span> instantly captures your attention with a provocative, insider's perspective on the pervasive problems, endemic greed, and myths enshrouding our health care system. John Leifer goes



beyond a mere critique, however, by providing consumers with powerful knowledge on how to get the care they need and deserve. </span></span>

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910829960303321

Autore

Dick Wolfgang <1965->

Titolo

Financial reporting under IFRS [[electronic resource] ] : a topic based approach / / Wolfgang Dick, Franck Missionier-Piera

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Wiley, 2010

ISBN

0-470-97162-2

1-118-37276-X

1-283-02591-4

9786613025913

0-470-97385-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (360 p.)

Collana

Wiley Regulatory Reporting ; ; v.2

Altri autori (Persone)

Missionier-PieraFranck

Disciplina

657.3

657/.3

Soggetti

Accounting - Standards

Financial statements

International finance

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Financial Reporting under IFRS; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Acknowledgements; 1 Financial Statements and Accounting Mechanisms; 2 Income from Ordinary Activities; 3 Current Assets; 4 Non-financial Liabilities; 5 Non-current Assets; 6 Financing; 7 Taxation; 8 Group Accounts; 9 Financial Analysis and Communication; 10 The IASB and Development of the IFRS; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The International Financial Reporting Standards are quite different from other sets of accounting standards, and are fundamentally different from US-GAAP, in that they are based on principles, and not on detailed rules. Financial Reporting under IFRS:A topic-based approach offers a global perspective on IFRS by presenting the prescribed



rationale and principles and illustrating them through numerous examples from large international companies. It aims to develop the fundamental skills necessary to read and use the information contained in all types of financial statements, through examp

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910482962503321

Autore

Manfredi Camille

Titolo

Nature and Space in Contemporary Scottish Writing and Art / / by Camille Manfredi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

9783030187606

3030187608

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 pages)

Collana

Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies, , 2634-5188

Disciplina

820.99411

Soggetti

European literature

Literature, Modern - 20th century

Literature, Modern - 21st century

Communication in the environmental sciences

European Literature

Contemporary Literature

Environmental Communication

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Chapter 1/ 'Our Land': an introduction -- 2. Chapter 2/ Keeping the paths beaten: Robert Macfarlane, Linda Cracknell and Stuart McAdam's hodological Scotland -- 3. Chapter 3 / Land made by walking: Andrew Greig, Thomas A. Clark, Hamish Fulton, or, the art of passing through -- 4. Chapter 4 / Spacings: Gerry Loose and Kathleen Jamie's interspecies relationalities -- 5. Chapter 5 / Into the Fold: Kathleen Jamie and John Burnside's oikopoetics -- 6. Chapter 6/ Things of space: Andy Goldsworthy's Sheepfolds and Alec Finlay's Company of Mountains, or, materialising as re-siting -- 7. Chapter 7 / Soundmarks



and ecotones: ensounding Scotland -- 8. Chapter 8 / Filming Space: transenunciation as re-production. Susan Kemp's Nort Atlantik Drift: A Portrait of Robert Alan Jamieson and Roseanne Watt's Quoys -- 9. Chapter 9 / The hyperzone: is there a space on this screen? -- 10. Chapter 10 / Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines how contemporary Scottish writers and artists revisit and reclaim nature in the political and aesthetic context of devolved Scotland. Camille Manfredi investigates the interaction of landscape aesthetics and strategies of spatial representation in Scotland's twenty-first-century literature and arts, focusing on the apparatuses designed by nature writers, poets, performers, walking artists and visual artists to physically and intellectually engage with the land and re-present it to themselves and to the world. Through a comprehensive analysis of a variety of site-specific artistic practices, artworks and publications, this book investigates the works of Scotland-based artists including Linda Cracknell, Kathleen Jamie, Thomas A. Clark, Gerry Loose, John Burnside, Alec Finlay, Hamish Fulton, Hanna Tuulikki and Roseanne Watt, with a view to exploring the ongoing re-invention of a territory-bound identity that dwells on an inclusive sense of place, as well as on a complexrenegotiation with the time and space of Scotland.