Important and powerful...a rich tour of health care around the world." -Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times How is it that all other industrialized democracies provide health care for their citizens as a reasonable cost-something the United States has never managed to do? In The Healing of America, New York Times bestselling author T.S. Reid shows how they do it, bringing to bear his talent for explaining complex issues in a clear, engaging way. In his global quest to find a prescription for American health care, Reid finds that it's not all "socialized medicine" out there. Instead, many industrialized democracies rely on free-market models the U.S. could use to cure a health system that has failed us.

Amazon.com Review: They're everywhere, but where did they come from? Silicon chips drive just about everything that sucks power, from toys to heart monitors, but their inventors aren't nearly as widely known as Edison and Ford. Journalist T.R. Reid has thoroughly updated The Chip, his 1985 exploration of the life work of inventors Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce, to reflect the colossal shift toward smarter gadgets that has taken place since then...read more

A respected journalist argues that the expanding European Union is becoming a second, and potentially superior, superpower to the United States, and outlines what the new Union will mean to world trade, politics, and power. Reprint.

An accessible guide to applying Confucian tenets to the modern world focuses on the ancient teacher's three keys of living in harmony--tact, compromise, and a willingness to see the other person's point of view--and is organized to follow the path of a reader's career or life. Original.

Traces the innovative development of the silicon chip, discussing the scientists who created it, its structure and functions, the evolution of the semiconductor industry, and the vast implications of the silicon chip.

Drawing on his five years in Japan as The Washington Post's Tokyo bureau chief to examine the Asian way of life, the author discusses the intriguing cultural differences, the impact of Confucian values, and the role of East Asia in the future. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Argues that successful companies must expand their concern beyond their profit, employees, and local or national interests

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The two year progress of an inland waterway user charge bill is followed through both houses of Congress, as an example of how legislation is created and passed