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The book provides a thorough review of the U.S. health care system, including its organization and financing, care delivery, recent reforms, and an evaluation of the system's performance.

Thomas Rice compellingly argues that James Joyce's work resists postmodernist approaches of ambiguity: Joyce never abandoned his conviction that reality exists, regardless of the human ability to represent it. Placing Joyce in his cultural context, Rice first traces the influence of Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries on Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. He then demonstrates that, when later innovations in science transformed entire worldviews, Joyce recognized conventional literary modes of representation as offering only arbitrary constructions of this reality. Joyce responded in Ulysses by experimenting with perspective, embedding design, and affirming the existence of reality. Rice contends that Ulysses presages the multiple tensions of chaos theory; likewise, chaos theory can serve as a model for understanding Ulysses. In Finnegans Wake Joyce consummates his vision and anticipates the theories of complexity science through a dynamic approximation of reality.

Thomas Rice Holmes (1855-1933) jest współcześnie uważany za jednego z najwybitniejszych cezarianistów w dziejach, zaś Podbój Galii przez Cezara (Caesar’s Conquest of Gaul; wydanie trzecie miało miejsce w 1911 r.) stanowi jego najpoczytniejsze dzieło. Na jego dorobek składają się ponadto trzy inne monografie: A History of the Indian Mutiny (1888); Ancient Britain and the Invasions of Julius Caesar (1907); The Roman Republic and the Foundation of the Empire, t. I-III (1928), jak również kilkadziesiąt artykułów poświęconych tym zagadnieniom. Dokonał także dobrze przyjętego przekładu Commentarii de bello Gallico (1908) na język angielski. Wszystko to sprawiło, że jego nazwisko jest wymieniane jednym tchem obok Theodora Mommsena, Eduarda Meyera, Matthiasa Gelzera i Camille’a Julliana. W Wielkiej Brytanii po dziś dzień cieszy się opinią najlepszego brytyjskiego znawcy Gajusza Juliusza Cezara i pomimo upływu lat żadnemu z tamtejszych badaczy nie udało się go zdetronizować.

Originally published in 1925, this book presents a biography of the British general Sir Charles Napier (1782-1853).

Originally published in 1984, Virginia Woolf: Guide to Research is a bibliographic guide to the writings and critical reception of the works of Virginia Woolf. The guide is a simply organized guide that makes easily accessible, a diversified body of critical works on Virginia Woolf. The scholarship is organised into key collections, based around Woolf's major works of fiction, and contains studies from a variety of content, including periodicals, articles, book chapters as well as foreign-language books.