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Andrew T. Simpson teaches history at Duquesne University.

Simpson A: The Medical Metropolis

The Medical Metropolis

Health Care and Economic Transformation in Pittsburgh and Houston

Introduction. Making the Medical Metropolis 
Chapter 1. Building Cities of Health: Medical Centers in Pittsburgh and Houston Before 1965 
Chapter 2. The Hospital-Civic Relationship in the Shadow of the Great Society 
Chapter 3. City of Hearts, City of Livers: Specialty Medicine and the Creation of New Civic Identities 
Chapter 4. "When the Fire Dies": Biotechnology and the Quest for a New Economy 
Chapter 5. The Coming of the System: Changing Health Care Delivery in the Medical Metropolis 
Chapter 6. A Charitable Mission or a Profitable Charity? Redefining the Hospital-Civic Relationship 
Epilogue. The Future of the Medical Metropolis 
Notes 
Archival Collections and Abbreviations 
Index 
Acknowledgments

In 1977, The Economist coined the term "Dutch disease" to describe the damage to the real economy when wealth derives from resource exports rather than productive work. On April 1, 1978, the Second Amendment to the IMF's Articles of Agreement came into force, ending gold's monetary role within the IMF system and consolidating the transition to pure fiat money. With "money" no longer backed by anything real, the alchemists' dream of a "Philosopher's Stone"--the ability to create seemingly limitless wealth out of nothing--appeared to have been realized. But while real wealth produced by human labor is finite, fiat money creation is not subject to the same physical constraint. The result was a new and far more powerful variant of Dutch disease: the Philosopher's Stone Disease. The Money Powers' financialization of economies and imposition of neoliberalism increasingly privileged finance over production. Over the next four decades, the consequences extended beyond economics, eroding the cultural and civilizational heritage and traditions of large swaths of the global population. The socioeconomic impact of this pure fiat-money regime, globally and within the United States, has been an across-the-board deterioration, while its benefits accrued overwhelmingly to less than 0.01 percent of the population. Yet creating money cannot create the real goods it commands. The system therefore depends upon a steady external supply of real goods and the recycling of part of the resulting surpluses into U.S. financial assets. Energy revenues from West Asia have been key to sustaining it. A resurgent Iran thus posed an existential threat to the UK-established and U.S.-dominated oil order. Sanctions, assassinations, proxy wars, color revolutions, terrorist attacks and mass psychological manipulation followed, but failed to achieve their objective. If Iran emerges victorious from the war launched against it in 2026 and breaks U.S. control over the oil-rich Levant, the petrodollar recycling system will suffer a massive blow, accelerating withdrawal from U.S. Treasuries. The dilemma is stark: financial dominance ultimately requires real power to enforce it, while the Philosopher's Stone Disease has hollowed out the productive and military foundations of that power. Why the West Can't Recover: The Philosopher's Stone Disease explains why there may be no way back.

The Philosopoher's Stone Disease

Why the West Can't Recover

How Workers and Their Union Won Against a Billionaire

The Cablevision War

Ethics, Sustainability & Stakeholder Management

Business & Society

Pressure is inevitable. How you handle it determines everything.In this expanded hardcover edition of How to Untie a Balloon, former hostage negotiator and Conflictish(R) founder Ryan Dunlap delivers a practical framework for staying composed under pressure, resolving conflicts, and leading effectively when the stakes are high. With a new chapter and never-before-shared stories of real-world negotiation experience in life-or-death situations, Dunlap reveals how unchecked pressure distorts thinking, escalates conflict, and quietly sabotages relationships at work and at home.At the center of this practical guide is the F.I.R.S.T. Steps framework--Feelings, Interests, Relationships, Situation, and Toll--a clear, repeatable process for navigating difficult conversations with confidence and control. Whether you are leading a team, negotiating a deal, strengthening a partnership, or working through personal conflict, this framework equips you to break complex tension into manageable parts and move toward resolution.Through compelling real-life stories, sharp strategic insights, and actionable tools, the second edition will show you how to: <ul><li>Regulate emotion in the heat of conflict to preserve credibility and influence</li><li>Identify the deeper interests driving tension and move beyond surface disagreements</li><li>Prevent escalation and protect relationships under stress</li><li>Approach high-stakes conversations with clarity and structure</li><li>Transform pressure from a liability into a leadership advantage</li></ul>For professionals ready to take their leadership to the next level, How to Untie a Balloon, 2nd Edition, is a necessary resource for growing your leadership influence and developing the self-mastery to thrive under any pressure.

A Negotiator's Guide to Avoid Popping Under Pressure

How to Untie a Balloon

"SELL," 8th Edition helps you build the professional selling skills valued in today's marketplace. Updated and streamlined content covers the latest sales concepts, industry practices, and technologies, including the role of artificial intelligence in the selling process. Learn how to build customer relationships through storytelling, customer engagement, customer experience strategies, ethical decision-making, and virtual selling techniques. Real-world case studies, role-play activities, and end-of-chapter case studies help you apply key concepts to real-world sales challenges. Cengage's learning platform, MindTap, supports your learning experience by providing you with instant access to course content, quizzes, homework, study tools, and more.

Sell

Too many leaders are burning out--and taking their teams with them. Despite good intentions, many organizations still push harder, demand more, and equate long hours with high performance. The result? Talented people walk away from work they once loved, while leaders feel stuck between delivering results at any cost or failing altogether. Longevity Leadership challenges that paradigm. Drawing on neuroscience, behavioral science, and years of experience in organizational change, Jessica Billiet offers a new model for leadership--one that recognizes performance and well-being are not in conflict but deeply connected. When leaders understand how the brain responds to stress, motivation, and habit, they can create environments where people are energized, innovative, and resilient--without sacrificing results. This book explores the small, often overlooked choices leaders make every day: how they respond to pressure, how they communicate during uncertainty, and how they shape team habits and rhythms. Readers will learn practical, science-backed strategies for reducing burnout, leading through resistance, and building sustainable performance across their teams and organizations. At its core, Longevity Leadership is a call for systemic change. It's about equipping leaders at every level with tools to achieve results without destroying the people who deliver them. Inspiring and deeply practical, this book shows that when leaders honor both performance and mental health, everyone wins.

Longevity Leadership: Building Sustainable Performance Through Science-Backed Strategies

Insights from a Luxury Brand Expert

The Art of Customer Relations

Essential rental forms, including a legally-compliant lease that you can tailor to your state's laws and your business's needs. Small residential landlords face the choice of hiring expensive lawyers to write leases and forms, or buying generic forms online. Here is an alternative: A lease and associated forms that, when used in conjunction with the law charts in the back of the book, result in leases and agreements that will pass legal muster. Don't guess at the law--use Nolo's resources to get it right.

Leases & Rental Agreements

The Leader's Playbook for Designing a Life of Impact, Meaning, and Legacy

Pretirement

Saving Africa's Future

We Are the World

Great leaders aren't shaped by a title. They're shaped by a moment. A moment that changes not just what they do, but how they lead. This is THE UNLOCK MOMENT. Drawing on his own leadership journey, executive coach and podcast host Dr. Gary Crotaz explores the inner shift that separates outward success from truly grounded leadership. Interweaving stories from CEOs, entrepreneurs, athletes, and the many thinkers he has coached, Gary offers a clear, human framework for recognizing the moments that make us who we are. At the heart of The Unlock Moment: The Inner Shift That Changes How You Lead are five essential Keys--Self, Trust, Presence, Growth, and Impact--that shape how real innovators think, decide, and lead when it matters most. By cutting through the ambiguity to make decisions with conviction, you will find your leadership aplomb and learn to lead in a way that is authentic, not performative. This is not a book about getting people to follow you. It's a book about becoming the kind of leader people choose to follow . . . and the moments that unlock how you lead.

The Unlock Moment: The Inner Shift That Changes How You Lead

Curiosity transforms fear in to a question, and a question into progress. Curiosity is today's superpower. In times of profound upheaval and uncertainty, it enables us to evolve and to gain control of our lives and organisations. We are witnessing increasingly fractious times economically and politically, but when we lean into curiosity rather than recoil in panic or freeze in fear, something powerful happens: we begin to learn. Learning isn't about accumulating facts, information or even simply knowledge, it's about building the capacity to adapt. The skills we need today- empathy, creativity, collaboration - aren't mastered in order to subsequently be forgotten; they grow and evolve through the practice of curiosity. Each question we ask becomes a tool for navigating uncertainty, change and evolution. In Curiosity: Nurturing your Superpower for Discovery, Joy and Success acclaimed public speaker and bestselling author Richard Gerver unifies his decades of experience in education, change, leadership and innovation to show you how you can ignite your curiosity and realise your full potential. With his unique insight into our development from infants to adults, Gerver helps us understand the nature of our personal and professional responses to risk, change, creativity and development and how, by rediscovering our childish curiosity, we can regain a sense of control over our lives and those we impact both personally and professionally. From opening ourselves up to failure and looking foolish, to the power of mentorship in modelling inquisitiveness, this book illustrates how curiosity is not just how we grow, it's how we connect, how we solve and how we heal. Curiosity is how we remember what it means to be human in an age of Artificial Intelligence, machines and metrics. Curiosity won't just save us all - it will help us finally understand who we can still become.

Nurturing Your Superpower for Discovery, Joy and Success

Curiosity

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