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Who Killed Health Care?: America’s $2 Trillion Medical Problem – and the Consumer-Driven Cure

In the battle for U.S. health care, patients and doctors are losing.

Who Killed Health Care? shows how to win the war.

One of the nation’s most respected health care analysts, Regina Herzlinger exposes the motives and methods of those who have crippled America’s health care system-figures in the insurance, hospital, employment, governmental, and academic sectors. She proves how our current system, which is organized around payers and providers rather than the needs of its users, is dangerously eroding patient welfare and is pushing costs out of the reach of millions.

The House That Hugh Laurie Built: An Unauthorized Biography and Episode Guide

Customer Review: Nothing New About Hugh
I’m a big fan of everything Hugh Laurie, particularly House, and Jeeves and Wooster. This ‘autobiography’ was a complete waste of money, without a single redeeming feature. There are no original interviews with Hugh or other cast members of House. The ‘biographer’ seems to have relied on Google as his primary research tool.
Customer Review: I’m disappointed
This book appears as if it were rushed to market to capitalize on the show’s fame. There is, sadly, nothing new or insightful about the actors in the biographical portion of the book. All the information in the book can be found through other sources. I was also disappointed with the book’s poor editorial quality. There are glaring errors on almost every page: misspellings, grammatical errors, misplaced paragraphs are all clearly noticeable. It may serve as an introduction to the show for non-fans, but there is nothing new in here that House fans don’t already know.

The New Lifetime Reading Plan: The Classical Guide to World Literature, Revised and Expanded Now in print for the first time in almost 40 years, The New Lifetime Reading Plan provides readers with brief, informative and entertaining introductions to more than 130 classics of world literature. From Homer to Hawthorne, Plato to Pascal, and Shakespeare to Solzhenitsyn, the great writers of Western civilization can be found in its pages. In addition, this new edition offers a much broader representation of women authors, such as Charlotte Bront%, Emily Dickinson and Edith Wharton, as well as non-Western writers such as Confucius, Sun-Tzu, Chinua Achebe, Mishima Yukio and many others.

This fourth edition also features a simpler format that arranges the works chronologically in five sections (The Ancient World; 300-1600; 1600-1800; and The 20th Century), making them easier to look up than ever before. It deserves a place in the libraries of all lovers of literature.
Customer Review: read the preface for goodness sake
I haven’t reviewed a book in a long time because customer reviews so often annoy me. Now I’m writing this one because another one has.

The Enders Hotel: A Memoir (River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize)

(07/16/2007)
Customer Review: Fantastic Read!
As someone who grew up in Southern Idaho and had heard of the Enders Hotel, I was happy to come across this book. I don’t know what I was expecting but it turned out to be a book I could not put down. It is beautifully written and Schrand does a fantastic job of describing each character who crossed the doorstep of the hotel in all those years. It is a wonderful book that I would highly recommend. I would like to see it as a movie someday!
Customer Review: Everything I expected and more!
I am a student of Brandon’s at the University of Idaho and after the essays of Brandon’s that I’d already seen, I expected A LOT out of this book. Not surprisingly, I got it, and more. I am making my way through The Ender’s Hotel with nothing short of satisfaction… it is a beautifully written and interestingly told story that rings true all throughout.