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Xombie Dead on Arrival (Xombie) (Xombie)
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ASIN: 0979072808 Release Date: 2007-03-21 |
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What if a zombie had a mind of its own? Where would it go? What would it feel? And would it carry a 30-pound shovel?Customer Reviews:
We love xombie.......2007-05-14
XOMBIE - Dead Cert For Hard Core Fans Of On Line Comics.......2007-05-08
Inspiring book........2007-04-14
Me likey Xombie.......2007-03-02
I'm new to xombie stuff, but thought it was pretty awesome.......2007-03-01
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Dead on Arrival: A Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Super Mystery
Carolyn Keene Manufacturer: Simon Pulse ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Mysteries, Espionage, & Detectives
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ASIN: 0671884611 |
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Two stolen bodies. One mystery. Equals non stop suspense!.......1998-06-27
This book is awesome! It's full of action and suspense!.......1998-05-25
Love it!!! Definite buy!!!.......1998-03-28
This book rules.......1998-03-06
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Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health Care in Twentieth-Century America (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America)
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Why, alone among industrial democracies, does the United States not have national health insurance? While many books have addressed this question, Dead on Arrival is the first to do so based on original archival research for the full sweep of the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide range of political, reform, business, and labor records, Colin Gordon traces a complex and interwoven story of political failure and private response. He examines, in turn, the emergence of private, work-based benefits; the uniquely American pursuit of "social insurance"; the influence of race and gender on the health care debate; and the ongoing confrontation between reformers and powerful economic and health interests.
Dead on Arrival stands alone in accounting for the failure of national or universal health policy from the early twentieth century to the present. As importantly, it also suggests how various interests (doctors, hospitals, patients, workers, employers, labor unions, medical reformers, and political parties) confronted the question of health care--as a private responsibility, as a job-based benefit, as a political obligation, and as a fundamental right.
Using health care as a window onto the logic of American politics and American social provision, Gordon both deepens and informs the contemporary debate. Fluidly written and deftly argued, Dead on Arrival is thus not only a compelling history of the health care quandary but a fascinating exploration of the country's political economy and political culture through "the American century," of the role of private interests and private benefits in the shaping of social policy, and, ultimately, of the ways the American welfare state empowers but also imprisons its citizens.
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Your Money and Your Life.......2003-06-04
Colin Gordon notes contrasting explanations such as American ideological opposition to government assistance, the institutional weaknesses of governmental welfare structures, and the power of anti-welfare capital. He points out the weakness of the first argument: national health insurance has always been popular in opinion polls. And the American government has improved its bureaucratic capacity over the years. The real problem is that, thanks to the nature of American politics and past mistakes, the forces supporting national health insurance have been weakened and fragmented and have never been able to match the influence of the powerful health care lobbies. Gordon's book is very well researched. It relies on 74 sets of private papers and oral histories, including in-depth use of the Johnson and Nixon presidential libraries. He starts with an overview of the various attempts to achieve health insurance during the Progressive Era and the New Deal, and the thwarted attempts to achieve something under Truman, Johnson, Nixon and Clinton. He then discusses the way labor unions tried to create a private welfare state, and then discusses how reformers got themselves into endless muddles by trying to use the metaphors of contractual insurance. He then discusses the ideological themes of national health care insurance's opponents, then the way racism has hampered the health care debate. Finally he looks at the way the opponents of health care insurance successfully mobilized, while the health care reformers were always checkmated. The result is a fascinating portrait of selfishness. We see the AMA and its Republican allies successfully redbait national health care insurance as Communist, Nazi or even tied to the Kaiser. (One propagandist went so far as to argue the Holocaust wouldn't have happened if Bismarck hadn't socialized medicine.) We see British doctors, Canadian bankers and The Economist bemused at the AMA's distortion of British and Canadian medicine. (The AMA responded by preventing local medical societies from investigating British medicine for themselves). We see Republicans complaining that if the government could provide free health care, why not free toupees? Racism, sexism, misogyny all play their parts in the private health care's arguments. We see how they argue that they shouldn't have to pay the cost of keeping African-Americans well. Their illness and poverty are, of course, their own fault, not that of the doctors who refuse to treat them or the society that seeks to degrade them. We learn how health care, like welfare, is divided into "deserving" and "undeserving" citizens and services. We also learn how Johnson's officials faced the challenge of segregated and grossly unequal hospitals and promptly ran away.
More important, we also learn about the failed logic of reform. While there is an understandable constituency of doctors to make as much money as possible privately, there are understandably fewer doctors willing to do what is best for their patients. In other countries political parties and trade unions would take up the slack, but not in the United States. As Gordon points out political parties are notoriously difficult to influence in the public interest. Both parties prefer limited political mobilization, low voter turnout and interest-based organization, rather than make the sustained mobilization national health insurance would require. For the Democrats, reform was hampered until the sixties by the strength of their authoritarian and reactionary Southern base. After the sixties the party moved to the right and relentlessly tried to flatter business to support them. Gordon is particularly good about the failure of the Clinton Health Plan. For once, doctors, hospitals, insurers and employers had different interests. But instead of choosing one group, Clinton and his colleagues tried to soothe them all. They threw away their best asset, popular support for national health insurance and appeals on grounds of universality and equity, for a technocratic solution that could mobilize no-one. But it was not possible to satisfy everyone since their interests conflicted, and the attempt to do so either annoyed some groups or weakened their lukewarm support. Gordon goes on to discuss how unions, group health advocates, and people concerned about black health care could have hypothetically pushed for national health insurance. But unions were too weak to influence a Democratic party hampered by Jim Crow. In supporting their own private welfare state, they undercut support for universal health care, made further reform more difficult and ultimately put their trust in a system that would be ravaged by deindustrialization and deunionization. The same problem occurred with group health, maternal health and black health advocates, as they supported short-term measures that made fundamental reform impossible. If the story of liberal reform is one of compromise, Gordon tells the tale of how reformers compromised themselves to death.
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Dead on Arrival
Lori Avocato Manufacturer: Avon ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback Women Sleuths
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ASIN: 006083708X Release Date: 2007-06-26 |
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Normally, insurance fraud investigator Pauline Sokol likes to keep her feet firmly on the ground. But her latest undercover assignment has the aero-phobic ex-nurse flying high—as she takes off to ground a land-and-air ambulance company that's been doing some rather flighty billing. Even having ER Dano, the company's best (and hottest!) paramedic, in the copter seat next to her isn't enough to soothe her queasy tummy.
But her insides really start doing loop-de-loops when one of the company's owners is brutally murdered—and Pauline starts receiving creepy phone calls . . . from the killer! Suddenly the air looks a lot safer than the ground. And if Pauline doesn't crack this case soon, even mouth-to-mouth from her favorite paramedic won't be enough to revive her.
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Dead on Arrival
Dorothy Simpson Manufacturer: Crimeline ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback General
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Another excellent English mystery.......2003-08-22
As with the other Dorothy Simpson books I have read, this one has a fiendishly complicated plot. There's more than one mystery here, and you are drawn along, all the way to the finale trying to figure out who did it. This is another excellent English mystery, one that I highly enjoyed, and highly recommend to you!
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Dead on Arrival
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Journalist Laura Ackroyd is on the move after a painful but all too familiar parting of ways with her sometime boyfriend, Yorkshire DCI Michael Thackerey. She's headed for London in the hopes of clearing her mind and focusing on her work for a change. When she witnesses the murder of a teenaged immigrant boy, Laura's quick getaway turns into a drawn out nightmare - simultaneously the professional opportunity of a lifetime and a personal catastrophe in the making. Her plan is to write a feature article for a London paper on the murder and its social and cultural implications, but revisiting the bloody memory of that night is taking a psychological toll.Meanwhile, DCI Thackerey is biding his time back in Bradfield. He's depressed at Laura's absence and facing a baffling missing persons case. A beautiful local high school girl has disappeared, and conflicting stories about her last known movements have Thackerey scratching his head. Safi Haque is by all accounts a dutiful Muslim daughter, but her parents don't want to admit what might have happened to her. When days go by with no trace of the girl, Thackerey begins to fear the worst.Neither Laura nor Thackerey are very far from the other's thoughts, despite the geographical distance between the erstwhile lovers. As they separately go about strikingly similar tasks, neither can imagine the ways in which their seemingly unconnected situations may ultimately bring them together....or perhaps tear them viciously apart.AUTHORBIO: Patricia Hall is a former journalist who worked for The Yorkshire Post, The Guardian, and The Observer. She is the author of seven previous crime novels featuring Thackerey and Ackroyd, most recently The Italian Girl. She was born in Yorkshire and now lives in Oxford.Customer Reviews:
Yorkshire mystery deals with big world issues.......2006-04-01
An excellent story...........2001-05-28
The strengths of DEAD ON ARRIVAL include a mostly plausible, well developed and tight plot (moves at a reasonable pace with no loose ends); a good sense of place (dozens of apt and colorful metaphors); and a reasonably well developed set of main characters who behave realistically most of the time (albeit immaturely at times). In DOA, Hall adds another dimension to the character of Kevin Mower, thus providing him with needed depth, and the potential to play a stronger role in future novels (especially if Laura is wiped out).
The storyline in DOA involves the illegal trafficking of aliens. Hall was very courageous to take on this topic and for the most part she has handled it objectively, though perhaps not as objectively as the poor sods who inforce the immigration laws would like. It's easy to take the side of the individual immigrant (one of my best friends fled Idi Amin and another fled Communist China) but so hard to see the damage that will eventually result from the unregulated flow of undocumented people.
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Hall's story is fairly drawn. Laura is sympathetic and as confused as most folks are. Although it's tempting to have the bad guys always be white racist skinhead thugs (the bad guys used to wear black hats, now they wear white skin!!), Hall makes it clear that people from all backgrounds can be involved in crime and cruel behavior. Laura Ackroyd breaks the social contract (the immigration law) and jeopardizes her life in the process. Thackery loves her, and risks his career to protect her. The resulting mess is predictable. Laura is an idealist with liberal tendancies. God loves liberals but they sure can make a mess.
a poignant and compelling read.......2001-04-09
Having broken up with DCI Michael Thackeray once again, journalist Laura Ackroyd is in London, looking into job options and trying to decide what to do about Thackeray. On her way home one night, she witnesses in horror a gang of skinheads beating up on two African teenagers. One of the teenagers escapes, but the other one dies. Angry and horrified, Laura is further put off by the investigative officer's dismissive attitude of the crime and of her eye witness account of the incident and culprits involved. And when she is offered the opportunity to do an investigative article about the incident and the social and cultural implications of the crime, Laura jumps on it. Menacing 'phone calls to give up her crusade and to go home only fuels her determination to persevere.
In the meantime DCI Thackeray still reeling from the breakup is called in to investigate the disappearance of a teenage girl. On the surface of it Safi Haque seems to be the dutiful Muslim daughter, hardworking, intelligent and obedient. Where then could she have disappeared to? Could she have runaway? Her parents claim that she has not, but seem reluctant to provide any useful information. And then an account from a witness points to the possibility that Safi may have been kidnapped. But the Haques are not a wealthy family, and seem to have no enemies. Thackeray cannot help but wonder exactly what is going on within the Haque family even as he begins to fear that the search for Safi may end with the discovery of her dead body.
How these two events are connected is what makes this mystery novel such compelling reading. I was able to figure rather early on how these two seemingly different investigations were connected, but even I ws not prepared for the poignancy that the connection would bring. Laura's quest for justice for the dead boy and her outrage at the plight of the asylum seekers resonates through the pages. While Thackeray's quiet anguish at their separation is almost too painful to read. Will Laura and Thackeray finally put all their differences and issues aside and move on together, or will this rift be a permanent one? (Well, I won't go into that as that would be telling, as well as why this novel is really so agonizing.)
"Dead On Arrival" is a very sad and touching novel, but one that is well worth reading.
Prejudice.......2001-04-03
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5 Titles By Dave Pedneau - B.o.l.o. (Be on the Lookout) - A.k.a. (Also Known As) - D.o.a. (Dead on Arrival) - N.f.d. (No Fair Deal) - Presumption of Innocence
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5 massmarket paperbacks. 5 Titles By Dave Pedneau - B.o.l.o. (Be on the Lookout) - A.k.a. (Also Known As) - D.o.a. (Dead on Arrival) - N.f.d. (No Fair Deal) - Presumption of Innocence
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Anonymous Manufacturer: Hillman ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: B000CZ4DOC |
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SPACE TIME AND CRIME: Crisis 1999; Criminal Negligence; The Talking Stone; The Past and Its Dead People; The Adventure of the Snitch in Time; The Eyes Have It; Public Eye; The Innocent Arrival; Third Offense; The Recurrent Suitor; Try and Change the Past
Miriam Allen (editor) (Fredric Brown; J. Francis McComas; Isaac Asimov; R. Bretnor; Mack Reynolds; August Derleth; James McKimmey; Anthony Boucher; Poul Anderson; Karen Anderson; Frederik Pohl; Ron Goulart; Fritz Leiber; Avram Davidson) DeFord Manufacturer: Paperback Library ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000GKBLXE |
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Dead on Arrival
Jaki Shelton Green Manufacturer: Carolina Wren Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback United States
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