Motivational Interviewing in Health Care: Helping Patients Change Behavior (Applications of Motivational Interviewin) by The Guilford Press $28.00
Much of health care today involves helping patients manage conditions whose outcomes can be greatly influenced by lifestyle or behavior change. Written specifically for health care professionals, this concise book presents powerful tools to enhance communication with patients and guide them in making choices to improve their health, from weight loss, exercise, and smoking cessation, to...

And The Band Played On (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) by Turtleback $29.35
THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. : Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic A modern masterpiece of investigative journalism-perhaps the most important single work of the last twenty years.

Health Care Reform and American Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know by Oxford University Press, USA $74.00
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama in March 2010 is a landmark in U.S. social legislation. The new law extends health insurance to nearly all Americans, fulfilling a century-long quest and bringing the United States to parity with other industrial nations. Affordable Care aims to control rapidly rising health care costs and promises to make the United...

Health Assessment In Nursing by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins $99.95
Specifically designed to match the content in Health Assessment in Nursing, Fourth Edition, this lab manual will help students practice and apply the information they learn in their physical assessment course.

Journey Across the Life Span: Human Development and Health Promotion by F a Davis Co $23.95
This text provides the LPN/LVN student with a single source for growth and development material across the life span.

Cultural Diversity in Health and Illness (7th Edition) by Prentice Hall $62.40
The seventh edition of this well-respected book continues to promote an awareness of the dimensions and complexities involved in caring for people from diverse cultural backgrounds. Completely revised and updated, it examines the differences existing within North America by probing the health care system and consumers, and examples of traditional health beliefs and practices among selected...

Inside National Health Reform (California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public) by University of California Press $34.95
This indispensable guide to the Affordable Care Act, our new national health care law, lends an insider's deep understanding of policy to a lively and absorbing account of the extraordinary--and extraordinarily ambitious--legislative effort to reform the nation's health care system. Dr. John E. McDonough, DPH, a health policy expert who served as an advisor to the late Senator Edward Kennedy,...

Risk: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Oxford University Press, USA $11.95
We find risk everywhere--from genetically modified crops, medical malpractice, and stem-cell therapy to heartbreak, online predators, identity theft, inflation, and robbery. They arise from our own acts and they are imposed on us. In this Very Short Introduction, Baruch Fischhoff and John Kadvany draw on both the sciences and humanities to illuminate both the similarities and differences of...

Health Program Planning and Evaluation: A Practical, Systematic Approach for Community Health by Jones & Bartlett Publishers $97.95
In this thorough revision of Health Program Planning and Evaluation, author L. Michele Issel carefully walks the reader through the process for developing, implementing, and evaluating successful community health promotion programs. Featuring reader-friendly, accessible language and practical tools and concepts, this outstanding resource prepares students and professionals to become savvy...

Managed Care: What It Is and How It Works (Managed Health Care Handbook ( Kongstvedt)) by Jones & Bartlett Publishers $77.95
The new Third Edition of Managed Care: What It Is and How It Works is a concise introduction to the foundations of the American managed health care system. Written in clear and accessible language, this handy guide offers an historical overview of managed care and then walks the reader through the organizational structures, concepts, and practices of the managed care industry. This thorough...