“…In the Appendix, patients can find the rates for ten different surgical procedures and one test in 12 different hospital referral regions and 166 hospital service areas in the New England region (a hospital service area encompasses the geographic area served by a relatively small number of hospitals). …”

“…The young Hungarian Jew whose experience of anti-Semitism and devotion to Zionism provoked him to move to Palestine; the foreign correspondent who risked his life from the North Pole to Franco's Spain; the committed Communist for whom the brutal truth of Stalin's show trials inspired the angry novel that became an instant classic in 1940; the escape from occupied France by joining the Foreign Legion and his bluffing his way illegally to England, where his controversial 1943 novel Arrival and Departure was the first to portray Hitler's Final Solution. …”

Sumario

“…Whether relishing an account of the Alexandrian Library or a look at the stylish railway libraries of nineteenth-century England, readers will find a sparkling survey of the library through time. …”