This title was first published in 2001. Older people have been characterized by two mutually contradictory stereotypes. One the one hand they have been portrayed as a powerful lobby, growing demographically and able to demand large redistributions of the nation's income in their direction. On the other hand they have been typified as a marginalized group at high risk of poverty and exclusion and, in a political context, largely powerless. This book examines, using original research conduct...

Il romanzo, ispirato dal viaggio e dalla permanenza a Milocca di Charlotte Gower, ha come obiettivo principale la conservazione delle nostre tradizioni e del nostro patrimonio linguistico e culturale. La maggior parte dei dialoghi con la coprotagonista del romanzo e i personaggi della comunità contadina di allora sono in dialetto. Il romanzo vuole essere anche un tributo all’antropologa americana. […] She had to make a whole new start. Reinventing the profession. That makes her work unique...

Tormented defense attorney Norman Chalmers has become a virtual recluse in his suburban Chicago home. With his legal practice in shambles and his family gone, he is living by himself, subsisting on food prepared by his housekeeper and quarts of bourbon delivered from a neighborhood liquor store. Chalmers' despair has pushed him to his mental limit, driving him to depths from which he might never return - until a friend from his past and his young girlfriend appear on his doorstep. A sudden...

A train ride home from a school field trip turns sinister when two kids spot a body on the tracks. A short story from Guys Read: Thriller, edited by Jon Scieszka.

Victor Spoil realizes he's not cut out for life as a supervillain and instead decides to be...a librarian. Little does he know that librarians are a kick-butt secret society who will stop at nothing to control---and shush---the world!It's time for Victor Spoil to hang up his cape. After trying to be the supervillain his diabolical parents always wanted, it's time he followed his own dream to become a librarian. As a nice guy who likes quiet and order, Victor knows ...

This title was first published in 2001. Older people have been characterized by two mutually contradictory stereotypes. One the one hand they have been portrayed as a powerful lobby, growing demographically and able to demand large redistributions of the nation's income in their direction. On the other hand they have been typified as a marginalized group at high risk of poverty and exclusion and, in a political context, largely powerless. This book examines, using original research conduct...