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This data-driven book analyzes factors that will improve the efficiency and quality of the American health care delivery system through the lens of physician supply in an era of managed care. Presenting policy recommendations and a broad range of perspectives from conversations with experts in health economics, medical education, and health policy, Scheffler's work makes accessible a critical and complex area of health care.

Henry Kaplan and the Story of Hodgkin's Disease" is the first account of a remarkable man who changed the face of cancer therapy and the history of a once fatal, now curable, cancer.

Marion Patterson's 57 "photographs of the intimate landscape, simple and contemplative like a zen garden, " focus beautifully on the natural surroundings of the central California coast and Sierra.

This is a lavishly illustrated history of the Oregon-American Lumber Company, one of the most important lumber firms in the Pacific Northwest from 1922 to 1957. The book shows in text and 285 illustrations how the lumbering industry was pivotal to America's settlement and development, reaching its zenith in the period covered by this book.

This lavishly illustrated book explores the vast publicity surrounding eight milestone transcontinental auto trips in the early 20th century, and how this publicity produced a variety of changes in American life. The trips reflected the remarkable achievements in automobile technology and durability, and demonstrated the automobile's recreational, military, and commercial possibilities as well.

Few cars in history have grabbed the public's fancy as much as the ill-fated Edsel, the Titanic of automobiles. The magnitude of the marketing disaster has made Edsel a household word. Remarkably, there has never before been a book that tells the whole story--how the Edsel was planned, created, produced, and marketed.

The Mysterious Death of Jane Stanford is a well researched, fascinating read. Cutler makes a strong case for rethinking the official cause given for Jane Stanford's death--heart disease. Cutler shows why physicians of the time were convinced by their diagnosis, how the coroner reached his verdict, and when the local detectives dropped their pursuit of the possible suspect. And he persuasively argues that they were all wrong." --Boyd G. Stephen...