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Since its original publication in 1978, this text has made the intricacies of health law more accessible for healthcare executives. This new edition has been thoroughly updated for legal developments, added clarity, and modern examples. Includes updated information on: * Antitrust law related to provider reimbursement, mergers, and consolidations * Application of the "anti-dumping" statute * Rulings related to abortion * New penalties for private inurment arising from the 1996 Taxpayer Bill of Rights * Legal aspects of managed care Also, a new chapter addressing fraud and abuse.

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I'm using this text for a graduate level course, and it is a terrific resource. Our professor is one of the top health care lawyers in the state, and he is of the opinion that this text is leaps and bounds improved over the last version. I recommend it.

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This updated casebook is an ideal complement to the Showalter text. It illustrates legal principles, provides relevant commentary, and includes discussion questions and answers. It is compiled from actual opinions handed down from federal and state courts.

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This second title in the series published for the Space Telescope Science Institute researches the current models of quasar absorption and the systems of absorption lines in the spectra of quasars. Experts in this field discuss the nature of the absorbing process in the vicinity of quasars, the "Lyman-alpha forest", metal-line systems, and quasars as probes of high redshift galaxies. The Hubble Space Telescope will be a valuable tool for learning more about the physics and astronomy of quasars.

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Quadrupole Storage Mass Spectrometry, Raymond E. March and Richard J. Hughes
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The International Plant Nutrition Colloquium in Hannover was the 14th in a series that started in 1954. Hannover was also selected as the venue of the 7th Colloquium held 27 years ago, in September 1974, under the presidency of J. Wehrmann. This volume is a compilation of extended abstracts of all papers presented at the 14th Colloquium. These papers include two plenary lectures which address the role of plant nutrition in the sustainability of agro-ecosystems and the production of enough high quality food to feed the growing world population. Recent advances in plant nutrition are reviewed in introductory plenary lectures in each of the Symposia devoted to: genetics and molecular biology of plant nutrition, nutrient functions, nutrient uptake and translocation, the role of the apoplast in mineral nutrition, plant quality and plant health, salinity and plant-soil-water relations, mineral element toxicity and resistance nutrient acquisition, soil organisms/plant interactions, fertiliser use in relation to optimum yield and environment, nutrient dynamics in natural and agro-ecosystems, and plant nutrition and sustainable development. Current knowledge and research emphasis in these areas of the subject is well illustrated by more than 500 oral and poster presentations and the reader is provided with a comprehensive view of the state of plant nutrition research worldwide.

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Although Jorge Luis Borges published his first book in 1923--doling out his own money for a limited edition of Fervor de Buenos Aires--he remained in Argentinian obscurity for almost three decades. In 1951, however, Ficciones appeared in French, followed soon after by an English translation. This collection, which included the cream of the author's short fictions, made it clear that Borges was a world-class (if highly unclassifiable) artist--a brilliant, lyrical miniaturist, who could pose the great questions of existence on the head of pin. And by 1961, when he shared the French Prix Formentor with Samuel Beckett, he seemed suddenly to tower over a half-dozen literary cultures, the very exemplar of modernism with a human face.

By the time of his death in 1986, Borges had been granted old master status by almost everybody (except, alas, the gentlemen of the Swedish Academy). Yet his work remained dispersed among a half-dozen different collections, some of them increasingly hard to find. Andrew Hurley has done readers a great service, then, by collecting all the stories in a single, meticulously translated volume. It's a pleasure to be reminded that Borges's style--poetic, dreamlike, and compounded of innumerable small surprises--was already in place by 1935, when he published A Universal History of Iniquity: "The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it." (Incidentally, the thrifty author later recycled the second of these aphorisms in his classic bit of bookish metaphysics, "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Teris.") The glories of his middle period, of course, have hardly aged a day. "The Garden of the Forking Paths" remains the best deconstruction of the detective story ever written, even in the post-Auster era, and "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" puts the so-called death of the author in pointed, hilarious perspective.

But Hurley's omnibus also brings home exactly how consistent Borges remained in his concerns. As late as 1975, in "Avelino Arredondo," he was still asking (and occasionally even answering) the same riddles about time and its human repository, memory: "For the man in prison, or the blind man, time flows downstream as though down a slight decline. As he reached the midpoint of his reclusion, Arredondo more than once achieved that virtually timeless time. In the first patio there was a wellhead, and at the bottom, a cistern where a toad lived; it never occurred to Arredondo that it was the toad's time, bordering on eternity, that he sought." Throughout, Hurley's translation is crisp and assured (although this reader will always have a soft spot for "Funes, the Memorious" rather than "Funes, His Memory.") And thanks to his efforts, Borgesians will find no better--and no more pleasurable--rebuttal of the author's description of himself as "a shy sort of man who could not bring himself to write short stories." --James Marcus

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The New York Times bestseller, "a marvelous new collection of stories by . . . one of the most remarkable writers of our century" --Richard Bernstein, The New York Times

Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century. Now for the first time in English, all of Borges' dazzling fictions are gathered into a single volume, brilliantly translated by Andrew Hurley. From his 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity, through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, these enigmatic, elaborate, imaginative inventions display Borges' talent for turning fiction on its head by playing with form and genre and toying with language. Together these incomparable works comprise the perfect one-volume compendium for all those who have long loved Borges, and a superb introduction to the master's work for those who have yet to discover this singular genius.

* Exquisitely packaged edition with French flaps and rough front, quality paper stock
* Named a Notable Book by the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and the American Library Association

"An unparalleled treasury of marvels." --Chicago Tribune

"An event worthy of celebration . . . Hurley deserves our enthusiastic praise for this monumental piece of work." --San Francisco Chronicle

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Sobering readings.......2007-05-08

After reading Borges Collected Fictins I have found it difficult to take most other authors seriously.
Borge's prose is fluent and easily read. The stories are short, sometimes even short-short, which makes them suitable for reading before going to sleep. The stories have a basic structure with a beginning, middle, and end.
So much for the easy part! There is the superficial text, of course, but within each story are metaphors and philosophical questions that stimulate my mind. Each story reads like a riddle - that's the closest simile I can think of. Borges is never obscure, even when the riddle is unsolvable it is very clear what he means. Borges himself does not claim too have any answers that are general. That makes his writings so very human.
Life for Borges is just too rich and complex to recude it just too a series of problems and their solutions. Therefore, and this is possibly Borges's only firm stance, he is decisively against any form of dictatorship or mass-movement, since they destroy the identities, and importance, of the individual.

Magnificent.......2007-05-07

Excellent collection of Borges' Fictions. Borges transports you to reasonings and philosophies not so common in the world we live in. There is a message behind every single story, one has to look deeply to see it.

Excellent Book, Grating Translation.......2007-02-18

I will admit that my Spanish is not amazing, but I understand enough to get a sense of Borges' work, and I have read enough translations to be able to speak with a certain degree of confidence. And I have to ask, who let Andrew Hurley near this book, and were they appropriately disciplined?

His English is flat and completely without style, very much the work of an academic. As Eric Ormby wrote in The New Criterion, "he appears not to have a good sense of English prose style, or to command such a style himself." Alberto Manguel hammered the nail in Hurley's coffin when, for the Observer, he wrote: "English-language readers have either to resign themselves to the old, barely serviceable translations, or submit to the new, barely serviceable translations by Andrew Hurley, Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico. Hurley has no ear for the rhythms of Borges's language." I could not agree more. Hurley's translation was minimalist where Borges was baroque, stiff where Borges was supple, and obvious where Borges was sly.

Hurley's endnotes were also obsessive to the point where I began to wonder if he was going to annotate every concept that might be above the reading level of a five year old. This felt more like a kind of intellectual arrogance rather than scrupulousness. And the change of the title "Funes the Memorious", quite possibly the most compelling and apt translation of a title in all of short fiction, to the clunky and obscene "Funes, His Memory" is frankly nothing less than a sin against literature.

I have given this book three stars because it is Borges (who deserves all five) and because it is a useful thing to have all his stories in one place in English. I would have given it five if Hurley had not made such a colossal mess of it.

I now describe my pet turtle as monstrous.......2007-02-06

I have always been hesitant to read fiction originally written in any language except English. I'm fickle enough as it is without needing another person's biases and tendencies interfering with my own... and so it was with great trepidation that I bought Hurley's collection.

The stories in summation: marvelous. Hurley's work? I'll never be able to read these Borges stories again without Hurley's translation heavily influencing, and that is an endorsement. I suspect that for most people their first experience of Borges will always be their most memorable, and their preferred. I don't think there are many "On first reading Chapman's Homer" instances: that initial shock of strange and monstrous (perhaps my favorite Borgesian adjective) is evident through any kind of translation so long as it is basically competent. Whatever arguments others may have with Hurley's, they can at least admit that his is that.

But I feel there's more: a playful lilt to the language, one that isn't overly scholarly or mechanical. Hurley's introduction briefly talks about the particular style Borges would become famous for: a laconic, matter-of-fact myth disguised as mere sentences, with the employment of words normally alien to each other. Hurley serves this style well, and his presentation of the most memorable lines of each story were the ones that stayed with me even after readings of several different versions. I'm not exaggerating when I say that I sat down with four different versions of "The Library of Babel" and compared them sentence by sentence. I was living in a bookstore at the time, stuck on an island in the middle of the Aegean and co-habitating with an Englishman who held Irby's version as the superior. I listened politely, and compared, and found that even after ouzo and attempts at persuasion it was my original experience that resonated. Reading Irby's left in me a strange longing for Hurley's words. I remember this line in particular:

"They were urged on by the delirium of trying to reach the books in the Crimson Hexagon: books whose format is smaller than usual, all-powerful, illustrated and magical." (Irby)

"They were spurred on by the holy zeal to reach - someday, through unrelenting effort - the books of the Crimson Hexagon - books smaller than natural books, books omnipotent, illustrated, and magical." (Hurley)

It was that "someday, through unrelenting effort" which stuck with me, and its absence in Irby doomed the entire enterprise. Is this a lack of Irby's, or my own bias towards the translation I first read? I'm not sure, but in almost every way I preferred Hurley.

There seems to be a distinct wave of anti-Hurley sentiment, and it's of the "I read a review that said it, but I'll assume that opinion as my own" variety. I eventually found that the Irby-devoted Englishman hadn't even bothered to read the Hurley version. Don't make his mistake of dismissal-by-proxy: try it for yourself.

Some Of The Greatest Short Stories Ever Written.......2007-01-29

Borges masterfully weaves philisophical fragments between strands of reality and fantasy. If his words were not translated into English, the rest of the world would be learning Spanish.

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Borges: Collected Fictions
Jorge Luis Borges
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Jorge Luis Borges (3 Volume Set: Collected Fictions, Selected Poems, Selected Non-Fictions)

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One of the most influential writers to emerge in this century from Latin America or anywhere else, Borges (1899-1986) is best known for his short stories, all of which appear in the "Collected Fictions," the first volume in this 3-volume set. The bilingual second volume, titled "Selected Poems", gathers together 200 poems from different periods of Borges's life, including some that appear in English for the first time. "Selected Non-Fictions" rounds out this set and presents over 160 of Jorge Luis Borges' essays, reviews, prologues, lectures, and notes on politics and culture. More than a hundred of these pieces have never before appeared in English.

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The essence of Borges.......2007-01-19

These three volumes contain the heart of the work of Borges. They are all attractively designed books, and have about them the look and feel of solidity which suggests the enduring quality of the literary work they contain.
All of Borges' most famous work , 'Ficciones' are contained in the volume dedicated to this form. There are two - hundred poems in the dual- language volume. Though I do not know Spanish I enjoy reading the original and hearing the sound and rhythm of Borges' poetry. As for the third volume it is truly a selection of the vast amount of essay- work and occasional writing which Borges did in the course of a very long life in writing.
Borges is unquestionably one of the great modern masters. And it is a particular pleasure to be able to have available and hold at home this three- volume set which contains the heart of what he has done.

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One of the most influential writers to emerge in this century from Latin America or anywhere else, Borges (1899-1986) is best known for his short stories, all of which appear in "Collected Fictions," the first volume in this 3-volume set. The bilingual second volume, titled "Selected Poems", gathers together 200 poems from different periods of Borges's life, including some that appear in English for the first time. "Selected Non-Fictions" rounds out this set and presents over 160 of Jorge Luis Borges' essays, reviews, prologues, lectures, and notes on politics and culture. More than a hundred of these pieces have never before appeared in English.

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This poetic novel, by the acclaimed author of John Dollar, describes America at the brink of the Atomic Age. In the years between the two world wars, the future held more promise than peril, but there was evidence of things unseen that would transfigure our unquestioned trust in a safe future.

Fos has returned to Tennessee from the trenches of France. Intrigued with electricity, bioluminescence, and especially x-rays, he believes in science and the future of technology. On a trip to the Outer Banks to study the Perseid meteor shower, he falls in love with Opal, whose father is a glassblower who can spin color out of light.

Fos brings his new wife back to Knoxville where he runs a photography studio with his former Army buddy Flash. A witty rogue and a staunch disbeliever in Prohibition, Flash brings tragedy to the couple when his appetite for pleasure runs up against both the law and the Ku Klux Klan. Fos and Opal are forced to move to Opal's mother's farm on the Clinch River, and soon they have a son, Lightfoot. But when the New Deal claims their farm for the TVA, Fos seeks work at the Oak Ridge Laboratory -- Site X in the government's race to build the bomb.

And it is there, when Opal falls ill with radiation poisoning, that Fos's great faith in science deserts him. Their lives have traveled with touching inevitability from their innocence and fascination with "things that glow" to the new world of manmade suns.

Hypnotic and powerful, Evidence of Things Unseen constructs a heartbreaking arc through twentieth-century American life and belief.

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Two lives and another.......2007-09-12

The lives of the parents were so intreguing. But I wondered about the child. I know it doesn't make a difference, but I was left curious.

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A LIGHT tear-jerker.......2007-05-13

I don't know what my fellow reviewers here have been reading, but the language here is NOT poetic. It is clunky and puts an extraordinary strain on the reader. The exception to this is where the character "Flash" holds forth - But, sadly, these passages are few and far between - But this brings me to another problem with the book: All these silly, yes SILLY, tropes on light in the characters' names: "Flash", "Fos", "Ray " "Lightfoot" lend an air of the ridiculous to the book. The most ridiculous part is the recurrent reference to Moby Dick the, ahem, "white" whale. Whatever this book is, subtle it is not. Nevertheless, the novel does tug at the heartstrings, as the reviewers here are ever so keen to comment on. But it tugs at the heartstrings in the way a Disney movie, say, does. You know the movie is silly and sentimental and the characters not terribly realistic, nevertheless you find tears trickling down your cheeks. This is best way I know to describe the book to the potential reader. [...]

The novel is, in short, a tear-jerker, which may be your cup of tea. I'm sure Oprah would love it! But it's not good writing. It's not poetic. It's not literature. It just isn't!

Don't read the back of the book.......2007-03-11

This is a great story with rich language. My book group chose this book, and everyone enjoyed it. I rarely choose pages to mark, but marked two for the language. Others in our group earmarked many pages. Heed the warning about the back of the book. It gives away too much of the story. Pleasant reading.

Just a wonderful, wonderful story.......2007-01-18

I got this book as a gift. Nothing I would probably have chosen for myself, but once I started it I couldn't put it down. You get so involved with the characters in the story you can't wait to turn the page. Marianne Wiggins does a wonderful job of putting you right there wherever the characters may go. You are truly immersed in their lives. I highly recommend it to anyone who loves a well written story. Was sorry to see it end.

Thoughtful and Beautifully Written.......2007-01-15

I was attracted to this book for the style of the prose moreso than the plot. The writing provides textured detail and unanticipated turns of phrases that marvel and provoke. The story itself is interesting. The writing is marvelous. Not a quick read, but certainly not a dull one.

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