Retirement Straight Talk describes all stages of retirement from the initial whispers in the mind, to the raw emotions of major life change, to the choices, challenges, and commitments in the second half of life. Addressed fully are the new beginnings and joy to be found in retirement and also issues of economic security, housing, relationships, health, continued caring for others, and spiritual well-being. Over 300 retired educators...
More Heroic Failures by Stephen Pile
A 2nd, expanded edition, with a new Foreword by Alexander Kluge. The match: little stick tipped with combustible stuff, sparked by friction; typically comes in a book or a box or a bundle (the point being: never alone). The highly portable match lighting more or less when required was a great nineteenth-century innovation. Before, we had only Danger and Poison matches, and countless match-induced accidents and suicides. We still have...
The notion of the author as the creator and therefore the first owner of a work is deeply rooted both in our economic system and in our concept of the individual. But this concept of authorship is modern. Mark Rose traces the formation of copyright in eighteenth-century Britain―and in the process highlights still current issues of intellectual property. Authors and Owners is at once a fascinating look at an important episode in legal...
Like many guys I started out on BMWs with a 2002 in the 1970s, then moved on to larger models as family needs arose. After a Bavaria and e12 528i I graduated to an e28 M5, a car I still have and love even though my latest BMW is an e61 535Xi wagon. I was always interested in the speed shop BMWs, after reading about Alpina and Hartge cars in Road & Track and Car and Driver over the years, so had to get this book. It seems to cover...
A great psychological novel by an author new to me. Thank goodness for literature in translation. The author had an extremely difficult life as a young man, even by Norwegian emigre standards in the Midwest. The novel is set in an insignificant little town, in which the protagonist goes mad, inflating his worth as a writer even as the world has no use for his thoughts. The biggest issue is how to get a little food to sustain him and ...
" ... this invaluable report is an essential tool and reference to face the burden of musculoskeletal conditions in this first decade of the new millennium. Health professionals and students from all over the world can find in this report the summary of all the relevant information on the musculoskeletal conditions from its accurate definition and main indicators to the models of its course and influencing factors and a systematic re...
Explores the larger social, political, and philosophical contexts in which the current vitriolic science vs. anti-science debates occur. This exciting collaboration between a biologist and a philosopher explores the meaning of the scientific worldview and how it plays out in our everyday lives. The authors investigate alternatives to scientism, the view that science is the proper and exclusive foundation for thinking about and answer...
Weit über 100 Milliarden Euro werden jährlich mit Hilfe von Derivaten - also Optionen, Futures und anderen Termingeschäften - gewaschen, so eine Schätzung von Experten. Und nicht nur Drogenkartelle, Terroristen und Menschenhändler, auch Regierungen und namhafte Investmentbanken mischen dabei kräftig mit. Jeder Versuch, die Finanzströme transparent zu machen, wird abgeblockt oder ist angesichts der Komplexität der Derivate zum Scheite...
One of the best and most thoroughly researched books on the subject of the World Trade Center Disaster. I have been a fan of David Icke's books and had just finished one of his books and was looking for something else to read that he had written. I almost didn't order this book because I thought I knew all there was to know about this incident due to watching the film "Loose Change". Boy, was I ever wrong. David Icke covered so much ...