Northrop Frye: The Theoretical Imagination (Critics of the Twentieth Century)

An indispensable introduction to one of the great critics of the twentieth century, whose work on ideology, aesthetics and social criticism has ensured his place at the centre of cultural studies and contemporary theoretical debates.

Literature & Fiction

Hart, Jonathan

Humor & Satire

Routledge

Value in Healthcare: What is it and How do we create it?

Value is created in an industry when quality and experience are balanced with an appropriate cost. Until recently, though, value creation through improved quality and/or experience has not been an intentional priority of healthcare. 
A major cause of our misguided efforts is our disconnected volume-based, fee for service healthcare model, paid by a third party that is not the actual consumer of the services and that only incentivizes price and volume. This disconnect of purpose and priorities leaves patients, providers, and staff to feel like widgets, commodities, and cogs in the healthcare delivery machine we have operated since the early 20th century. 
As the healthcare costs in the US continue to go up without an offsetting rise in quality outcomes or patient (or provider) experience, the quest for value has begun. This book explores the key differences between a volume-based health system versus one focused on value, and it offers a framework for value creation, based on the principles of Population Health Management. 
Patient risks need to be identified, individualized plans of care must be built, and the execution of the plan must be performed in a communicative and collaborative manner, longitudinally supporting and guiding the patient using an appropriate application of relationship and technology. 
By active creation of value in healthcare, we can rein in costs while improving quality outcomes and experience of the patients and providers. Such a system will allow patients to feel cared for as we guide them on their path toward the optimization of their health and well-being.

Business & Money

Industries

Value in Healthcare, Inc

Empires and Colonies provides a thoroughgoing and lively exploration of the expansion of the seaborne empires of western Europe from the fifteenth century and how that process of expansion affected the world, including its successor, the United States.   Whilst providing special attention to Europe, the book is careful to highlight the ambivalence and contradiction of that expansion. The book also illuminates connections between empires and colonies as a theme in history, concentrating on culture while also discussing the rich social, economic and political dimensions of the story.    Furthermore, Empires and Colonies recognizes that whilst a study of the expansion of Europe is an important part of world history, it is not a history of the world per se. The focus on culture is used to assert that areas and peoples that lack great economic power at any given time also deserve attention. These alternative voices of slaves, indigenous peoples and critics of empire and colonization are an important and compelling element of the book.  Empires and Colonies will be essential reading not only for students of imperial history, but also for anyone interested in the makings of our modern world.

Empires and Colonies

United States

Polity

Empires and Colonies (Themes in History)

When civilizations first encounter each other a cascade of change is triggered that both challenges and reinforces the identities of all parties. Making Contact revisits key encounters between cultures in the medieval and early modern world-Europe and Africa, the multiple ethnicities of greater Poland, Christians and Jews, Jesuits and Japanese, Elizabethans vs. aboriginals and vagrants, English and Algonquians, Pierre Radisson and the Iroquois, and the Spaniards in America.

Making Contact: Maps, Identity and Travel

History

Burger, Glenn

Lesley B. Cormack

Pylypiuk, Natalia

Americas

University of Alberta Press

Timeline. The Archaeology of the South Wales Gas Pipeline: Excavations between Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire and Tirley, Gloucestershire: 13 (Cotswold Archaeology Monograph)

Politics & Social Sciences

Darvill, Timothy

DAVID, Andrew

James, Heather

Rackham, James

Griffiths, Seren

Archaeology

Cotswold Archaeology

Theater and World (Routledge Revivals)

Theater and World: The Problematics of Shakespeare's History (Routledge Revivals)

History & Criticism

First published in 1992, Theater and World is a detailed exploration of Shakespeare’s representation of history and how it affects the relation between theatre and world. 
The book focuses primarily on the Second Tetralogy (Richard II, Henry IV Part I, Henry IV Part II, and Henry V) and includes a wealth of analysis and interpretation of the plays. In doing so, it explores a wide range of topics, including the relation between literary and theatrical representations and the world; the nature of illusion and reality; genre; the connection between history and fiction (especially plays); historiography and literary criticism or theory; poetry and philosophy; and irony, both rhetorical and philosophical. 
Theater and World continues to have lasting relevance for anyone with an interest in Shakespeare’s words and his representation of history in particular.

Progress in Self Psychology, V. 16: How Responsive Should We Be?

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