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The Evolution of Health Services Research: Personal ...

The Evolution of Health Services Research: Personal ...

Odin W. Anderson

Grace Budrys Grace Budrys earned her Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Chicago in 1976. I was the chair of her dissertation committee. She is now professor of sociology and director of the Public Service Program at De Paul University, ...
When Doctors Join Unions

When Doctors Join Unions

Grace Budrys

As health organizations become larger, more centralized, and more hierarchical, decisions are made further from the work site and some traditional responsibilities are delegated to lower-paid, less-trained workers.Nevertheless, the image of ...
The Unexpected Dimension

The Unexpected Dimension

Algis Budrys

Seven classic excursions into the fantastic imagination of one of post-war America's greatest science fiction writers. This collection showcases the humanity, imagination and variety of Budrys' writing and plotting.
Just Grace

Just Grace

Charise Mericle Harper

Don’t miss the Just Grace website www.justgracebooks.com with its superpower quiz, podcasts, excerpts, and downloads . . . or the other books in the Just Grace series: Still Just Grace, Just Grace Goes Green, Just Grace Walks the Dog, ...
God's Amazing Grace

God's Amazing Grace

Ellen Gould Harmon White

A compilation of daily readings that explore God's grace as shown to undeserving human beings, including the purpose of grace, the covenant of grace, the cost of grace, and the power of grace.
Five Fantastic Stories

Five Fantastic Stories

Algis Budrys

Collected her are five fantastic stories by Algis Budrys, Frank Herbert, Robert Sheckley, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and Jamie Wild.
How Nonprofits Work: Case Studies in Nonprofit Organizations

How Nonprofits Work: Case Studies in Nonprofit Organizations

Grace Budrys

Given the trials nonprofits face in the current economic climate, this timely book helps readers move beyond the good intentions in nonprofits to find successful practices.
Our Unsystematic Health Care System

Our Unsystematic Health Care System

Grace Budrys

"This book presents readers with a comprehensive overview of the U.S. health care delivery system.
Blood and Burning

Blood and Burning

Algis Budrys

In these unforgettable stories Budrys creates an alien but familiar world stripped of the lies of everyday life: a world where cannibalism is a medical, not an ethical problem; where "not-dying" is the alternative to both life and death; ...
The Furious Future: Stories

The Furious Future: Stories

Algis Budrys

Nine stories travel through time and space to share insights into the human—and not so human—experience inthis gripping science fiction anthology from respected author and critic Algis Budrys Through stories of humans mistaken for gods ...
Changing Theories: New Directions in Sociology

Changing Theories: New Directions in Sociology

Roberta Garner

“Doing Gender.” Gender & Society 1: 125–151. SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH ( PREPARED BY GRACE BUDRYS) Aday, LuAnn and Ronald Andersen. 1975. Development of Indices of Access to Medical Care. Ann Arbor, MI: Health Administration ...
Unequal Health: How Inequality Contributes to Health Or Illness

Unequal Health: How Inequality Contributes to Health Or Illness

Grace Budrys

Blackwell, Debra, Mark Hayward, and Eileen Crimmins. 2001. Does childhood health affect chronic morbidity in later life? Social Science and Medicine 52 (8): 1269–84. Blair, Steven, Harold Kohl, Ralph Paffenbarger, Debra Clark, Kenneth  ...
Health Care Reform

Health Care Reform

Lillian E. Forman

IN DEFENSE of CANADA's MEDICARE In Our Unsystematic Health Care System , Grace Budrys answers some of Lemieux's main objections to Canada's Medicare. Lemieux states that it is monopolistic for the government to control the entire ...
Grace & Style: The Art of Pretending You Have It

Grace & Style: The Art of Pretending You Have It

Grace Helbig

From the author of Grace's Guide and the host of The Grace Helbig Show on E! comes an illustrated, tongue-in-cheek book about style that lampoons fashion and beauty guides while offering practical advice in her trademark sweet and ...
Grace's Guide: The Art of Pretending to Be a Grown-up

Grace's Guide: The Art of Pretending to Be a Grown-up

Grace Helbig

#1 New York Times Bestseller By the host of The Grace Helbig Show on E! and the it’sGrace YouTube channel, comedian Grace Helbig offers an irreverent and illustrated guide to life for anyone faced with the challenge of growing up.
Magnificent Grace: Savoring the Greatness of God

Magnificent Grace: Savoring the Greatness of God

Women of Faith

Magnificent Grace explores important Bible passages that describe the abundance and sufficiency of God's grace, and illuminates Bible characters who received and displayed God's grace.
The Experience and Language of Grace

The Experience and Language of Grace

Roger Haight

A new approach to the idea of grace. The author isolates certain common themes consistently present in the traditional language of grace and reinterprets them in terms of the concept of liberation.
Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist ...

Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist ...

Laura Jane Grace

Tranny is the intimate story of Against Me!'s enigmatic founder, weaving the narrative of the band's history, as well as Grace's, with dozens of never-before-seen entries from the piles of journals Grace kept.
Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist ...

Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist ...

Laura Jane Grace

Tranny is the intimate story of Against Me!'s enigmatic founder, weaving the narrative of the band's history, as well as Grace's, with dozens of never-before-seen entries from the piles of journals Grace kept.
More Than a Lifetime: Grandma Grace Miller

More Than a Lifetime: Grandma Grace Miller

Irvin Duane Miller

Recounts the experiences of Grace MConnell Miller, primarily in the Fairport community of Russell County, Kansas. Includes ancestors and descendants of both Grace and her husband, Eli Benton Miller.
Sufficient Grace: A Study of the Subject of Grace

Sufficient Grace: A Study of the Subject of Grace

Jim O'Connor

"It is my hope that this volume will aid in illuminating within its reader's heart the loveliness of the grace of God, and that the "sufficient grace" of God's great storehouse might be yours." Jim O'Connor
Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist ...

Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist ...

Laura Jane Grace

And, finally in 2012 Grace went public with Rolling Stone magazine, and began her transition to Laura Jane Grace, leaving Thomas James Gable behind forever.
Grace and Humanness: Theological Reflections Because of Culture

Grace and Humanness: Theological Reflections Because of Culture

Orlando O. Esp_in

77. Forabrief history ofthe theologyof grace, see PietFransen, “Desarrollo histórico dela doctrina delagracia,” in Mysterium Salutis, ed.Feiner and Löhrer, IV /2, 611730. See also Orlando O.Espín, “Grace and Humanness,” in We Area People!
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XXIII

Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XXIII

Various

"Nay, no trickat all, your Grace,craving your Grace's pardon," replied the Provost gravely. "Your Grace betted that JessieCraig was more beautiful than Lady Crawford. Now, isit so?I refer the matter, as agreed upon,tothe gentlemen aroundus.
The Grace Abbott Reader

The Grace Abbott Reader

Grace Abbott

The Grace Abbott Reader, the first collection of Abbott’s stirring words, shows that the causes she pursued with fiery conscience and fierce determination are as relevant in our day as they were in hers.
Grace Darling: Victorian Heroine

Grace Darling: Victorian Heroine

Hugh Cunningham

Grace Darling: Victorian Heroine tells the extraordinary story of how Grace became a celebrity, her name and image used to sell books, soap and chocolates; and of how, since her tragic early death in 1842, her deed and her fame have been ...
A Sister's Memories: The Life and Work of Grace Abbott from ...

A Sister's Memories: The Life and Work of Grace Abbott from ...

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As her friend and colleague Eleanor Roosevelt wrote, Grace was “one of the great women of our day . . . a definite strength which we could count on for use in battle.” A Sister’s Memories is the inspiring story of Grace Abbott ...
Craving Grace: A Story of Faith, Failure, and My Search for ...

Craving Grace: A Story of Faith, Failure, and My Search for ...

Lisa Velthouse

Craving Grace is the true story of a faith dramatically changed: how in one woman’s life God used a bitter heart, a broken promise, and the sweetness of honey to reveal the stunning wonder that is grace.

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