Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: ross thomas

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  • BAKER'S HEALTH CARE FINANCE: BASIC TOOLS FOR NONFINANCIAL MANAGERS
    THOMAS K. ROSS
    Baker's Health Care Finance: Basic Tools for Nonfinancial Managers, Sixth Edition is the most practical and applied text for those who need a basic and better understanding of health care financial management. Using actual examples from hospitals, long-term care facilities, and home health agencies, this user-friendly text includes practical information for the nonfinancial ma...

    $428.37

  • PRACTICAL BUDGETING FOR HEALTH CARE: A CONCISE GUIDE
    THOMAS K. ROSS
    With the growing importance of budgeting and budget analysis in today's outcome-value oriented healthcare environment, there is an ever-increasing need to provide today's healthcare students with budgeting skills they need to be successful. While most healthcare finance texts include a chapter on budgeting, this coverage is often insufficient to adequately prepare them, as fut...

    $161.91

  • ELECTRIFYING ANTHROPOLOGY
    SIMONE ABRAM / ‎BRIT ROSS WINTHEREIK / ‎THOMAS YARROW
    What kinds of expertise and knowledge relate to electricity, and where is the space for alternative voices? How can the new roles for electricity in social and cultural life be acknowledged? How can we speak about ‘it’ in its own right while acknowledging that electricity is not one thing? This book re-describes electricity and its infrastructures using insights from anthropolo...

    $1,240.00

  • APPLYING LEAN SIX SIGMA IN HEALTH CARE
    THOMAS K. ROSS
    Written to address the growing demand for Lean Six Sigma expertise, this text provides a step-by-step Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control (DMAIC) process, that describes how to use the tools appropriate for each phase and provide data where tools can be practiced by students. Applying Lean Six Sigma in Health Care trains students on performance improvement techniques and cu...

    $443.49

  • A CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS
    THOMAS E. ROSS
    This book focuses on the effects of interaction between Indian and non-Indian peoples and on the complex relationships between Indians and their environments. It presents information for an accurate assessment of whether North American Indians can survive as a distinct culture. . ...

    $1,160.00

  • A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO BUDGETING FOR HEALTH CARE MANAGERS
    THOMAS K. ROSS
    Understanding budgeting goals, processes, and incentives are vital skills for health care managers as they are responsible for creating budgets and managing their departments within the established budget. However, many health care managers lack these basic skills. This book is a comprehensive examination of budgeting practices designed to provide students with the ability to ...

    $501.17

  • HEALTH CARE QUALITY MANAGEMENT: TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS
    THOMAS ROSS
    Increasingly health care organizations are challenged to improve patient outcomes, redesign business processes, and execute quality and risk management initiatives. Health Care Quality Management offers anintroduction to the field and practice of quality management, provides hands-on experience with Excel and other tools, and shows how these principles are adopted by health car...

    $1,142.00

  • HEALTH CARE QUALITY MANAGEMENT: TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS
    THOMAS K. ROSS
    Health Care Quality Management: Tools and Applications introduces the student to the field and practice of quality management, provides hands-on experience with Excel and other tools, and shows  how these principles are adopted by health care organizations to improve patient outcomes and program quality. Increasingly health care organizations are challenged to improve p...

    $1,142.00

  • THE BRASS GO-BETWEEN
    ROSS THOMAS
    First in the series from an Edgar Award–winning author of "stylish, well-told suspense novels enlivened with a dash of wit" ( The New York Times).   Philip St. Ives is the kind of man who can convince a vice cop and a paroled mobster to sit down to a hand of poker. Once he was a reporter with a daily column, a fat Rolodex, and a reputation for indifference to criminal behavior....

    $164.00

  • THE HIGHBINDERS
    ROSS THOMAS
    St. Ives goes to London on a job for the least trustworthy con artist he knows Philip St. Ives has only been in the pub a few minutes before he realizes his whiskey is drugged. Instantly sick, he's vomiting on the sidewalk when the muggers appear. He fights as best he can in his drugged state, and only when he feels the handcuffs does he realize his assailants aren't muggers—th...

    $119.00

  • NO QUESTIONS ASKED
    ROSS THOMAS
    A rare book disappears—and so does the detective who was guarding it—in a novel by an author who is " without peer in American suspense" ( Los Angeles Times). Philip St. Ives has no love for New York's drafty, broken-down Adelphi Hotel, but he is in no mood to be evicted from it. His cash dwindling, he is happy to learn about a job that calls for his specific talents as a media...

    $164.00

  • PROTOCOL FOR A KIDNAPPING
    ROSS THOMAS
    A journalist tries to save an abducted ambassador—even though he despises the man—in this entertaining thriller by an Edgar Award–winning author. Philip St. Ives loses his first job in journalism as soon as he realizes he hates the man who gave it to him. Chicago Post editor Amfred Killingsworth is a pompous blowhard, and fires his newest reporter for failing to fawn over him. ...

    $164.00

  • THE PROCANE CHRONICLE
    ROSS THOMAS
    A bungled hand-off leaves professional go-between Philip St. Ives suspected of murder in this thriller that inspired the Charles Bronson movie St. Ives.   It's three in the morning, and Philip St. Ives has come to the all-night Laundromat to meet a thief. His laundry bag isn't carrying dirty clothing—it's stuffed with $90,000 cash. But he finds his contact, Bobby Boykins, in no...

    $119.00

  • THE BACKUP MEN
    ROSS THOMAS
    Mac McCorkle and Mike Padillo team up to help twin bodyguards in a thrilling crime caper from "America's best storyteller" ( The New York Times Book Review). The twins who walk into Mac McCorkle's bar look identical, despite their differing genders. Their names are Wanda and Walter Gothar, and from the steel in their eyes it's apparent that their business isn't the friendly kin...

    $119.00

  • CAST A YELLOW SHADOW
    ROSS THOMAS
    An old CIA connection brings trouble for a Washington, DC, barman in this thriller from "America's best storyteller" ( The New York Times Book Review).   As the saying goes, you can't pick your friends. If you could, Mac McCorkle would disown Padilla. They owned a bar together in Bonn, the West German capital, and stayed partners even after Padilla's sideline as a CIA operative...

    $164.00

  • THE EIGHTH DWARF
    ROSS THOMAS
    An ex-spy and his sidekick hunt for a rogue assassin of Nazi war criminals—"Thomas is without peer in American suspense" ( Los Angeles Times).   Nicolae Polscaru, a three-and-a-half-foot-tall dwarf, is tossed into a Hollywood swimming pool by four drunken screenwriters, who take bets on how long he can tread water. Minor Jackson, his OSS training still fresh a year after World ...

    $119.00

  • THE MORDIDA MAN
    ROSS THOMAS
    Only one man can save the president's kidnapped brother in this propulsive thriller from the author "without peer in American suspense" ( Los Angeles Times).   American agents abduct a high-profile terrorist in broad daylight on the streets of London, subduing him with a tranquilizer. He dies a few hours later on a flight back to Washington, DC, and the body is dropped into the...

    $200.00

  • THE PORKCHOPPERS
    ROSS THOMAS
    A union boss fights for his job—and his life. "What Elmore Leonard does for crime in the streets, Ross Thomas does for crime in the suites" ( The Village Voice).   Born to a steelworker but harboring theatrical aspirations, Donald Cubbin grew up tempted by two careers. A Hollywood scout finally notices him, but Cubbin has already taken a job with the local union boss. He's alwa...

    $119.00

  • THE SEERSUCKER WHIPSAW
    ROSS THOMAS
    From the Edgar Award–winning author: "[A] highly readable novel of political adventure . . . a cracking good story and the Africa mentality is fascinating" ( Kirkus Reviews).   Clinton Shartelle doesn't seem like a good choice to run a political campaign in Albertia. For one thing, he's American, and Albertia is a small coastal republic in Africa, about to be cut loose from the...

    $149.00

  • THE SINGAPORE WINK
    ROSS THOMAS
    A tragic past traps a former Hollywood stuntman in a web of international intrigue—from "America's best storyteller" ( The New York Times Book Review).   Two pirates do battle on an old junk ship in Singapore Harbor. They leap nimbly from deck to rigging, crossing swords like fencing masters. And then one surprises the other, slicing a rope and sending the unfortunate pirate tu...

    $200.00

  • YELLOW-DOG CONTRACT
    ROSS THOMAS
    An ex-political operative is a master of dirty tricks, but now he’s mixed up in something far worse: “Ross Thomas is without peer in American suspense” (Los Angeles Times).  There are few jobs that Harvey Longmire hasn’t had. He’s been a crime reporter, Louisiana state legislator, foreign correspondent, and—briefly—a decoy for the CIA. But he made his name as campaign trail fix...

    $179.00

  • THE SEERSUCKER WHIPSAW
    ROSS THOMAS
    From the Edgar Award–winning author: “[A] highly readable novel of political adventure . . . a cracking good story and the Africa mentality is fascinating” (Kirkus Reviews).  Clinton Shartelle doesn’t seem like a good choice to run a political campaign in Albertia. For one thing, he’s American, and Albertia is a small coastal republic in Africa, about to be cut loose from the E...

    $149.00