Are You Ready for the Most Important Financial Wake-Up Call of the Decade?Social Security is headed for a reckoning—and it's happening sooner than most people think. Whether you're a retiree, a Gen Xer, a Millennial, or just starting your career, the looming crisis in America's most important social safety net could change your financial future forever.In this timely and eye-opening guide, The Social Security Cliff: What Every American Needs to Know in 2025...

Roberta James is a retired government librarian. James and spouse currently live in Jensen Beach, Florida, and spend their summers in the mountains of West Virginia. This is her first mystery romance novel.

Magma poetry magazine’s summer 2014 issue, Magma 59, is on the theme of breaks.Editors Roberta James and Alex Price have selected over 65 new poems that reach in to bring a new look on a familiar scene, take us to places we have not been before, or show us new ways to be in our sometimes broken but beautiful world. After poems of great delicacy and eggshells came others of metal and grind. Poems which could make us stride forward, unshakeable and unbreakable are co...

Bringing together nationally and internationally-known scholars, The Museum of the Bible: A Critical Introduction analyzes the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., from a variety of perspectives and disciplinary positions, including biblical studies, history, archaeology, Judaic studies, and religion and public life. The Museum of the Bible is poised to wield unparalleled influence on the national popular imagination of the Bible’s contents, history, and uses through time. This volume ...

Just imagine! A full house of top indie comics characters, reunited in this second volume of prose fiction tales by the genius creators who first breathed life into them in the 1980s and beyond! Whether you lovingly remember these heroes and creators or are meeting them for the first time, you are in for a wild ride with this star-studded cast. They set the industry on fire in comics from indie publishing pioneers like Fir...

The impact of the Cold War is still being felt around the world today. This insightful single-volume reference captures the events and personalities of the era, while also inspiring critical thinking about this still-controversial period.Cold War: The Essential Reference Guide is intended to introduce students to the tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States that dominated international affairs in the second half of the 20th century. A compre...

Magma poetry magazine's summer 2014 issue, Magma 59, is on the theme of breaks. Editors Roberta James and Alex Price have selected over 65 new poems that reach in to bring a new look on a familiar scene, take us to places we have not been before, or show us new ways to be in our sometimes broken but beautiful world. After poems of great delicacy and eggshells came others of metal and grind. Poems which could make us stride forward, unshakeable and unbreakable are contrasted with those that...

Giulia Farnese, a woman who traverses time to find, in this novel, her redemption.Her real story is tachat of a woman who goes far beyond the figure of Sponsa Christi as she was known throughout the world.The writer traces the profile of a strong woman who, once free from the trammels of a family that raised her to be obedient, rises from her ashes and the damnatio memoriæ to become the mater and the domina of the feud of Carbognano.With an absorbing prose, and base...

An easily accessible resource that showcases the links between using documented primary sources and gaining a more nuanced understanding of military history.Primary source analysis is a valuable tool that teaches students how historians utilize documents and interpret evidence from the past. This four-volume reference traces key decisions in U.S. military history—from the Revolutionary War through the 21st-century conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq—by examining docu...

In Jeanne Guyon’s Mystical Interpretation of Divinization: Her Biblical Commentary on St. Matthew’s Gospel, we read her most powerful declaration of the transformation called divinization. Jeanne Guyon reveals the Gospel of Matthew as describing the symbolic and hidden journey to participation in God. Guyon writes, “We are called to lose our will in that of God, and pass, transform, and change into God. This is called divinization. There are many other terms for this from...

In 1963, Senator Jacob Javits proposed that the world’s business community join together to form a new corporation that would underwrite private sector investments throughout Latin America. He presented his ideas to a NATO parliamentary meeting in Paris. His proposal was endorsed by the delegates, who passed a resolution recommending that the Secretaries-General of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Inter-Ameri...

Life doesn't stop being complicated just because you're dead.In the old days, vampires were sexy, ruthless, and evil. They could, and would, compel the living to do whatever they wanted. They owned the night. Unfortunately, being undead in modern times has unexpected and disturbing challenges.Now nine authors take an amused, and sometimes grim look at the problems some vampires face in the twenty-first century. In "Thin White Duke in Sneakers," a newly turned environmental ...