Olduvai Countdown
Olduvai Countdown

Author: Michael Woods

Publisher: Author House

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 1491854219

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A medical thriller in the tradition of Michael Crichton, Robin Cook, and Michael Palmer, this work tells the story of Jack Cann, a world-renown virologist, tired of navigating the arcane politics of a highbrow Ivy League school, who returns to his Midwestern Kansas roots to lead the quiet life of a university professor. His plan is interrupted when an African village in the Olduvai region of Africa is consumed by death in a few hours; this isolated incident in a remote region devolves into worldwide chaos as death sweeps across Africa. Jack and his Asian-American wife, anthropologist Marla Qui, lead a team from the CDC trying to identify the malady and find a cure before it decimates the Western Hemisphere. What they discover is more terrifying than any known virus. They now must race against the clock to save their own lives, as well as others'.

Olduvai Countdown
Olduvai Countdown

Author: Michael Woods

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2014-02-26

Total Pages: 471

ISBN-13: 1491854227

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Olduvai Countdown, a compelling medical thriller in the tradition of Michael Crichton, Robin Cook, and Michael Palmer, tells the story of Jack Cann, a world-renown virologist, tired of navigating the arcane politics of a highbrow Ivy League school, who returns to his Midwestern Kansas roots to lead the quiet life of a university professor. His Utopian plan is interrupted when an African village in the Olduvai region of Africa is consumed by death in a few hours. This isolated incident in a remote region devolves into worldwide chaos as death sweeps across Africa like a Serengeti grass fire. Jack and his Asian-American wife, anthropologist Marla Qui, lead a team from the CDC trying desperately to identify the maladya suspected genetically-mutated virus created by the North Koreansand find a cure before it decimates the Western Hemisphere. What they discover is more terrifying than any virus: a lethal genetic mutation present since the dawn of evolution that threatens all of civilization and leaves them racing against the clock to save their own lives.

Civil Leadership
Civil Leadership

Author: Michael S. Woods

Publisher:

Published: 2010-05

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9781599404059

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"Saying health care is complex is a laughable remark; it is beyond complex, affecting every citizen and every institution or business. Regardless of the topic, the economics of health care, the payors, providers and their training systems, the myriad state and federal governmental agencies, lawyers, hospitals, pharma, insurers no one is immune from justified, well-deserved criticism. This complexity paradoxically, and somewhat disturbingly, inoculates each of the above noted participants from sole responsibility of having created the complex morass that is rightly maligned by just about anyone who knows anything about health care, and everyone who has had the need to access the industry as a clientthat is, a patient." Michael S. Woods, M.D., M.M.M. in Civil Leadership In his latest book for Joint Commission Resources, Michael S. Woods, M.D., M.M.M. tackles the often-tumultuous relationship of physicians, patients, and today's heath care environment. Dr. Woods, a practicing surgeon, offers civil, common-sense, business-savvy leadership advice to physicians, but his lessons are also valuable to clinical and nonclinical staff, as well as to patients. Topics covered include: Relationship-based Civil Leadership The Self-inflicted Injuries of Disruptive and Uncivil Behavior Relationship-based Civil Leadership as a Health Care Business Strategy Community, Motivation, and the Patient Why Civility-driven, Relationship-based Care Now Self-Inflicted Wounds: The Seven Common Leadership Misstepsr of Physicians Standards for Civility-Driven Behavior and Professionalism One Foot Out of the Box and Into the Future

Healing Words
Healing Words

Author: Michael S. Woods

Publisher: Doctors In Touch

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9780975519608

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One doctor speaking to other doctors and health care providers about how to provide the best possible care for patients--by actually caring about patients. These powerful laminated cards helps health care providers understand and practice what to do after unexpected outcomes--to apologize. Michael Woods walks health care providers through the Five "R's" of Apology: Recognition; Regret; Responsibility; Remedy and Remain Engaged.

The Matarese Countdown
The Matarese Countdown

Author: Robert Ludlum

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 2014-12-30

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 0345538250

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “First-rate suspense.”—People Twenty years ago, top agents from the CIA and KGB banded together to bring down the Matarese Circle, an international cabal of power brokers and assassins whose sole objective was to achieve worldwide economic domination. Now the bloody Matarese dynasty is back—and the only man with the power to stop it may have already run out of time. CIA case officer Cameron Pryce is hot on the trail of the new Matarese alliance. His only chance to terminate its ruthless activities is to follow the trail of blood money and stone-cold killers right to the heart of its deadly conspiracy. From the Hamptons to London’s Belgrave Square, Matarese assassins have already struck with brutal efficiency, eliminating all who stand in their way. Their chain of violence is impossible to stop—until Pryce gets a rare break. One of the Matarese’s victims survives long enough to whisper dying words that will blow the case wide open: the top secret code name for legendary retired CIA agent Brandon Scofield—the only man who has ever infiltrated the Matarese inner circle and lived to tell about it. “Welcome to Robert Ludlum’s world . . . fast pacing, tight plotting, international intrigue.”—The Plain Dealer

Alien Nation
Alien Nation

Author: John Gill

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13:

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Alien Nation explores the ways the metaphor of the alien (little green man) has been used to process the reality of the alien (illegal or otherwise). If the cinema of the 1950s and 60s sublimated the fear of atomic catastrophe or communist attack into interplanetary drama, the more recent work collected here uses elements of that retro sci-fi world as powerful metaphors for our deep-seated fears of the Other, the foreigner--the increasingly frequently decried "invasion" of immigrants, or just the presence of people of different skin colors and beliefs. Among the 12 international contemporary artists showcased are Laylah Ali, Kori Newkirk and Yinka Shonibare. They and their compatriots explore themes of otherness and difference in film, sculpture, painting, photography and installation. Their interplanetary visitors--which might be built from Christmas ornaments, like Marepe's untitled creature, or sewn from African cloth, like Shonibare's "Dysfunctional Family"--are illustrated alongside film stills and posters from the 1950s and 60s, a glossary of alien names from those films, several thoughtful essays and interviews with the participating artists. A timely, ambitious and thought-provoking exploration of the complex relationship between fiction, race and contemporary art.

Olduvai Countdown
Olduvai Countdown

Author: Michael Woods

Publisher:

Published: 2023-05-29

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780578368351

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A genetic "kill switch" lies inactive deep in the human genome, present since the dawn of man's evolution. Its activation threatens humanity as a global team embarks on a desperate search for a cure.

Archaeology at the Millennium
Archaeology at the Millennium

Author: Gary M. Feinman

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-10-17

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 038772611X

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In this book an internationally distinguished roster of contributors considers the state of the art of the discipline of archaeology at the turn of the 21st century and charts an ambitious agenda for the future. The chapters address a wide range of topics including, paradigms, practice, and relevance of the discipline; paleoanthropology; fully modern humans; holocene hunter-gatherers; the transition to food and craft production; social inequality; warfare; state and empire formation; and the uneasy relationship between classical and anthropological archaeology.