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Where Does It Hurt?: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Fixing Health Care

A bold new remedy for the sprawling and wasteful health care industry.

Where else but the doctor’s office do you have to fill out a form on a clipboard? Have you noticed that hospital bills are almost unintelligible, except for the absurdly high dollar amount? Why is it that technology in other industries drives prices down, but in health care it’s the reverse? And why, in health care, is the customer so often treated as a mere bystander—and an ignorant one at that?

The same American medical establishment that saves lives and performs wondrous miracles is also a $2.7 trillion industry in deep dysfunction. And now, with the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), it is called on to extend full benefits to tens of millions of newly insured. You might think that this would leave us with a bleak choice— either to devote more of our national budget to health care or to make do with less of it. But there’s another path.

In this provocative book, Jonathan Bush, cofounder and CEO of athenahealth, calls for a revolution in health care to give customers more choices, freedom, power, and information, and at far lower prices. With humor and a tell-it-likeit- is style, he picks up insights and ideas from his days as an ambulance driver in New Orleans, an army medic, and an entrepreneur launching a birthing start-up in San Diego. In struggling to save that dying business, Bush’s team created a software program that eventually became athenahealth, a cloud-based services company that handles electronic medical records, billing, and patient communications for more than fifty thousand medical providers nationwide.

Bush calls for disruption of the status quo through new business models, new payment models, and new technologies that give patients more control of their care and enhance the physicianpatient experience. He shows how this is already happening. From birthing centers in Florida to urgent care centers in West Virginia, upstarts are disrupting health care by focusing on efficiency, innovation, and customer service. Bush offers a vision and plan for change while bringing a breakthrough perspective to the debates surrounding Obamacare.

You’ll learn how:

• Well-intended government regulations prop up overpriced incumbents and slow the pace of innovation.
• Focused, profit-driven disrupters are chipping away at the dominance of hospitals by offering routine procedures at lower cost.
• Scrappy digital start-ups are equipping providers and patients with new apps and technologies to access medical data and take control of care.
• Making informed choices about the care we receive and pay for will enable a more humane and satisfying health care system to emerge.

Bush’s plan calls for Americans not only to demand more from providers but also to accept more responsibility for our health, to weigh risks and make hard choices—in short, to take back control of an industry that is central to our lives and our economy.

Final Jeopardy: The Story of Watson, the Computer That Will Transform Our World

Stephen Baker

The “charming and terrifying” story of IBM’s breakthrough in artificial intelligence, from the Business Week technology writer and author of The Numerati (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

For centuries, people have dreamed of creating a machine that thinks like a human. Scientists have made progress: computers can now beat chess grandmasters and help prevent terrorist attacks. Yet we still await a machine that exhibits the rich complexity of human thought—one that doesn’t just crunch numbers, or take us to a relevant web page, but understands and communicates with us. With the creation of Watson, IBM’s Jeopardy!-playing computer, we are one step closer to that goal.

In Final Jeopardy, Stephen Baker traces the arc of Watson’s “life,” from its birth in the IBM labs to its big night on the podium. We meet Hollywood moguls and Jeopardy! masters, genius computer programmers and ambitious scientists, including Watson’s eccentric creator, David Ferrucci. We see how Watson’s breakthroughs and the future of artificial intelligence could transform medicine, law, marketing, and even science itself, as machines process huge amounts of data at lightning speed, answer our questions, and possibly come up with new hypotheses. As fast and fun as the game itself, Final Jeopardy shows how smart machines will fit into our world—and how they’ll disrupt it.

“The place to go if you’re really interested in this version of the quest for creating Artificial Intelligence.” —The Seattle Times

“Like Tracy Kidder’s Soul of a New Machine, Baker’s book finds us at the dawn of a singularity. It’s an excellent case study, and does good double duty as a Philip K. Dick scenario, too.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Like a cross between Born Yesterday and 2001: A Space Odyssey, Baker’s narrative is both . . . an entertaining romp through the field of artificial intelligence—and a sobering glimpse of things to come.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

The Numerati

Stephen Baker

Learn how the crisis over digital privacy and manipulation evolved in this “utterly fascinating” look at the growth of data mining and analysis (Seattle Post-Intelligencer).

Award-winning journalist Stephen Baker traces the rise of the “global math elite”: computer scientists who invent ways to not only record our behavior, but also to predict and alter it. Nowadays, we don’t need to be online to create a digital trail; we do it simply by driving through an automated tollbooth or shopping with a credit card. As massive amounts of information are collected, sifted, and analyzed, we all become targets of those who want to influence everything from what we buy to how we vote.

Clear and “highly readable,” The Numerati is a look at the origins of our present-day world, the possibilities of the future, and those who—whether with good or bad intentions—profile us as workers, consumers, citizens, or potential terrorists (The Wall Street Journal).

The Boost

Stephen Baker

Ralf is a software prodigy. He works in the US government office that updates the software in the population's boosts—networked supercomputers contained in a chip implanted within the brains of 99 percent of the world's population. Invented by Chinese researchers in 2032, the boost is credited with leading humanity to its most significant cognitive leap since the discovery of fire.

Days before a national upgrade, Ralf notices that the update includes an open surveillance gate—meaning that Americans, who had negotiated high levels of privacy with the Chinese manufacturers, will now be subjected to the invasive Chinese standard. Ralf attempts to hack the boost, but is caught by agents working for Washington's preeminent lobbyist. His boost is ripped from his head, and Ralf barely escapes with his life.

Pursued by the lobbyist's mercenary cadre, Ralf flees to the US–Mexico border, where there are others like him—"wild" humans on the fringes of society, unenhanced by technology. It's a frightening and backward world controlled by powerful drug lords. Ralf's only hope is to somehow work with these wild bosses of the analog world—in hopes of winning back freedom in the digital one.

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Propaganda of Peace: The Role of Media and Culture in the Northern Ireland Peace Process

Greg McLaughlin

When political opponents lan Paisley and Martin McGuiness were confirmed as First Minister and Deputy First Minister of a new Northern ireland executive in May 2007, a chapter was closed on Northern ireland's troubled past. A dramatic realignment of politics had brought these irreconcilable enemies together-and the media played a significant role in persuading the public to accept this startling change. The Propaganda of Peace places their role in a wider cultural context and examines a broad range of factual and fictional representations from journalism and public museum exhibitions to film, television drama and situation comedy. The authors propose a radically different theoretical and methodological approach to the media's role in reporting and representing. They ask whether the Propaganda of peace' actually promotes the abandonment of a politically engaged public sphere at the very moment when public debate about neo-liberalism. finacial meltdown and social and economic inequality make it most necessary. --Book Jacket.

How To Live With A Neurotic Dog

Stephen Baker

“The Canine population of the United States is about 25 million. Out of this, about 25 million can be classified as neurotic—a conservative estimate.
“For the millions of dog-owners seeking a solution to this distressing problem—”

Faced with the complications and contradictions of modern society, today’s dog becomes a neurotic. At every turn, his prime life forces—the need to eat and sleep—are thwarted. Instinct pushes him towards satisfying this hunger; sleep is necessary to infuse him with sufficient strength to get up and eat several times a day. (The average dog may require about 24 hours rest a day.) But environmental factors prevent him from satisfying these desires.

Stephen Baker, in this entertaining and delightfully fresh book, offers new help for the perplexed pooch owner. There are chapters on training, feeding and—most important—dressing a neurotic dog. You’ll read about traveling with your pet...and what you can do to eliminate sibling rivalry between dog and your baby. There is a chapter on how to psychoanalyze your dog at home, complete with charts and test batteries. You may not learn a thing, but you’ll be vastly amused.

Sly and witty drawings, skillfully done by Eric Gurney, serve to complement and clarify the text that will provide every reader (dog lover or not) with a great deal of dog food for thought.

移動革命：解放雙手、智慧上路，重新定義未來移動，都市暢行無阻

約翰．羅桑（John Rossant）、史蒂芬．貝克（Stephen Baker）

AMAZON網路書店 ★★★★★ 讀者好評

華爾街日報、出版人週刊專文報導

摩根大通2020年度精選榜單

自駕車、無人機、空中計程車⋯⋯

未來會有何種新型移動方式？又將如何重塑你我的城市與生活？

面對日漸擁擠的街道，我們需要超前部署！

步行、騎馬、開車到搭噴射機，你有思考過自己的移動方式是如何轉變的嗎？

過去一世紀，汽車與卡車是移動世界的霸主，但在科技快速演進之下，遍布地表的車海將面臨戲劇性的轉變。在接下來十年內，電動車、自駕車或空中計程車等新型載具，不只將改變人們的移動方式，也將影響能源與汽車等相關產業，帶來無限商機並催生新的移動巨擘，甚至能促使我們重新構思城市設計與規畫，解決交通壅塞與霾害等問題。

在這場時間、空間與金錢的競賽之中，羅森與貝克帶領我們前進一級玩家的實驗室，一窺尖端科技的樣貌：

Divergent 3D正在研發新系統，希望能用機器人與3D列印技術生產汽車；

DeepMap欲開發新一代地圖，以公分級精準度為自駕車導航；

小馬智行逐步微調自駕車的感知系統，讓機器大腦得以更精準地判斷路況；

Voom則在和數十間公司競速，搶著推出能自動飛行的空中計程車。

兩人更走訪四座積極發展新型態移動的城市，探究未來可能的生活景象：

洛杉磯挾移動科技新創聚集地與成熟航太產業的優勢，積極解決塞車問題；

赫爾辛基藉由數據透明化，讓訂閱式移動服務變成可能；

高度集權且預算無限的杜拜，搶攻新型移動的先驅寶座；

上海使用無窮無盡的數據資料，讓人工智慧高速成長，加速新型移動發展。

移動革命的故事，就是我們的故事：是數十億人移動的故事。這場革命不僅將改變城市、經濟與人類生活的可能性，更將重塑我們看待空間與時間的方式，以及世界各地與我們的距離。

本書特色

1. 全書從移動革命的先驅者、四個改造中的城市進行論述，在內容與論調上兼具宏觀與微觀視野，讓讀者能逐步理解這場革命的來龍去脈，又能具體想像未來的移動型態可能出現的許多改變。

2. 關於移動革命的議題，與人們的日嘗生活息息相關，這本結合人物故事、城市實例、科技發展與生活價值思考，對於台灣運輸業、城市設計規劃產業與政府相關部門、建築與運輸領域的學者、老師和學生擁有極高的參考價值，而對於未來生活型態變遷感興趣的讀者，這本書也會提供一次愉快與豐富的閱讀經驗。

專業推薦

丁彥允／喜門史塔雷克總經理

王傑智／交通大學電機系教授、工研院機械所數位長

邱秉瑜／臺灣都市議題作家、美國賓州大學都市與區域規劃博士生

温峻瑜／艾德斯科技董事長、臺灣以色列商業文化促進會祕書長

鄭秀玲／臺灣大學經濟系教授

盧希鵬／臺灣科技大學資訊管理系專任特聘教授

（依照姓氏筆劃排序）

國外好評

「在數位科技的推動下，汽車時代漸漸轉變為新型的網路移動時代，牽涉到無人電動車、腳踏車，甚至是我們的雙腳。在這本生動有趣又十分重要的書中，羅桑與貝克敘說了移動革命的故事，以及它對我們的社會、地球與每一人的影響，讓讀者大開眼界。」──理查．佛羅里達（Richard Florida）／《創意新貴的崛起》（The Rise of the Creative Class）作者

「移動的重點是我們：它帶給我們自由與選擇的新承諾，允許數十億人四處遷移。羅桑與貝克對我們講述的故事中，我們隨時能透過應用程式，使用由機器人組裝、能在網路設備引導下獨立移動的3D列印汽車。移動，是第四次工業革命的殺手級應用程式。」──克勞斯．史瓦布（Klaus Schwab）／教授與世界經濟論壇（World Economic Forum）執行董事長

「我們在城市居住的方式──體驗城市的方式──直接反映了我們的移動方式。事實上，城市本身和交通存在密不可分的關係──巴黎地鐵、倫敦的雙層巴士與黑色計程車，以及洛杉磯的高速公路。《移動革命》描繪出移動方面深層的革命⋯⋯以及這對二十一世紀城市造成的戲劇性衝擊。」──丹尼爾．里伯斯金（Daniel Libeskind）／建築師

「引人入勝⋯⋯羅桑與貝克的調查研究，以令人信服的方式預測了新科技如何『改變我們的城市、我們的經濟，還有我們的生活結構』。」──《出版人週刊》（Publishers Weekly）

Hop, Skip, Go: How the Mobility Revolution Is Transforming Our Lives

John Rossant

Urban expert John Rossant and business journalist Stephen Baker look beyond the false promises of the past to examine the real future of transportation and the repercussions for the world’s cities, the global economy, the environment, and our individual lives.

Human mobility, dominated for a century by cars and trucks, is facing a dramatic transformation. Over the next decade, new networked devices, from electric bikes to fleets of autonomous cars, will change the way we move. They will also disrupt major industries, from energy to cars, give birth to new mobility giants, and lead to a redesign of our cities. For Rossant and Baker, this represents the advance of the Information Revolution into the physical world. This will raise troubling questions about surveillance, privacy, the dangers from hackers and the loss of jobs. But it also promises startling efficiencies, which could turn our cities green and, perhaps, save our planet.

In an engaging, deeply reported book, the authors travel to mobility hotspots, from Helsinki to Shanghai, to scout out this future. And they visit the companies putting it together. One, Divergent3d, is devising a system to manufacture cars with robots and 3D printers. PonyAI, a Chinese-Silicon Valley startup, builds autonomous software that perceives potholes, oncoming trucks, and wayward pedestrians, and guides the vehicle around them. Voom, an Airbus subsidiary, is racing with dozens of others to operate fleets of air taxis that fly by themselves.

Hop, Skip, Go is about us: billions of people on the move. Underlying each stage of mobility, from foot to horse to cars and jets, are the mathematics of three fundamental variables: time, space and money. We measure each trip we take, whether to Kuala Lumpur or the corner drugstore. As the authors make clear, the coming mobility revolution will be no different. As they unveil the future, the authors explore how these changes might revamp our conception of global geography, the hours in our days, and where in the world we might be able to go.

Litigating Trust Disputes in Jersey: Law, Procedure & Remedies

James Sheedy

This text is the first comprehensive guide to litigating trust disputes in Jersey, bringing together analysis of substantive Jersey law, civil procedure and the remedies available to parties appearing in trust litigation before the Royal Court of Jersey. The book is an indispensable tool for trust professionals and legal practitioners with clients that have an exposure to a trust structure in Jersey, whether through a trustee, a beneficiary or a protector, enforcer or other power holder. This book is also of importance to matrimonial, criminal or insolvency practitioners seeking information or documents for the purposes of foreign proceedings and those seeking asset recovery or enforcement against assets subject to Jersey trusts.

Hemispheres: A Novel of Family, Birds and Coming Home

Stephen Baker

Yan is a compulsive gambler whose wanderlust leads him on a chain of adventures across the South Atlantic and beyond, in the wake of the Falklands War. But this personal voyage takes a heavy toll on his relationships with wife, Kate, and teenage son, Danny, left abandoned in a run-down pub on the northeast coast of England. After 25 years Yan reappears, terminally ill and determined to make amends before his death. Despite Danny's reticence, the two men begin to reconnect through the unlikely medium of birdwatching, as Danny tries to piece together the truth about Yan's desertion and protracted homecoming. Set against the stark industrial landscapes of the Tees estuary and the wilder shores of the South Atlantic, this is an Odyssey for the 21st century, a story about fathers and sons, about isolation and human connection, and ultimately about the healing power of the natural world.

Rhinoplasty: McGraw-Hill Plastic Surgery Atlas

Peter J. Taub

A full-color, step-by-step atlas of rhinoplasty surgical techniques

Part of the McGraw-Hill Plastic Surgery Atlas series, Rhinoplasty is an unmatched visual guide to learning how to successfully perform this challenging procedure. Featuring 180 full-color illustrations, this is the perfect primer for surgeons to begin and sharpen their understanding of rhinoplasty.

Rhinoplasty addresses the relevant anatomy, operative setup, surgical steps, and postoperative care to optimize patient outcomes. The book is organized by anatomic location and covers in detail the numerous maneuvers that are frequently used to shape the various parts of the nose. Designed to provide the most relevant information in the clearest manner possible, Rhinoplasty features an easy-to-apply presentation consisting of bulleted text on the left- hand page and high-quality illustrations on the right.

Opening chapters include coverage of nasal anatomy, cartilaginous support, arterial support, innervations and muscles of the nose, treatment planning, operative setup, and basic approaches. The book then goes on to cover actual corrections, including:

Dorsal hump deformity
Doral augmentation
Radix reduction and augmentation
Increasing and decreasing tip rotation
Lengthening the short nose
Alar base modification
Alar-columella relationship modification
Septal modification
And more

Also included is an appendix illustrating key surgical instruments.

Ship Form, Resistance and Screw Propulsion ...

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Prompt Pay--the Essential Principle of Credit: Speech of Hon. Stephen Baker, of New York, Delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, Monday, January 13, 1862

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Litigating Trust Disputes in Jersey: Law, Procedure & Remedies

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