What risks and insecurities do older people face in a time of both increased longevity and widening inequality?This edited collection develops an exciting new approach to understanding the changing cultural, economic and social circumstances facing different groups of older people. Exploring a range of topics, the chapters provide a critical review of the concept of precarity, highlighting the experiences of ageing that occur within the context of societal changes tied to declining...

A 2026 Audie Award Finalist for Nonfiction**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFor the first time, director Rob Reiner and cocreators Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer provide the full behind-the-scenes story of the making of the groundbreaking mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap and its upcoming sequel*.***Since its original release in 1984, This Is Spinal Tap has evolved from a beloved cult film into a cinematic lan...

Russ Johnston sets out to see America, working as he needs to in order to keep himself afloat. Along the way he meets Brandon "Trey" Latrie. Trey is a ranch manager who has some work for Russ and a room for him to board in. Both single, Russ and Trey don’t take long to start eyeing each other. They take their romance one step at a time though, but when sparks fly, things heat up fast.When Russ gets sick, Trey is quick to show that he’s not a fly-by-night lover, but is true blue and...

In this strident, necessary, meticulously researched book Michael Fine uses the COVID-19 pandemic and many other examples to show the costly failure of the American health care system in bold relief. Hospitals, insurance companies, Big Pharma, specialists, and even primary care doctors have all become tools of the new health profiteers. On Medicine as Colonialism shows how the American health care system cannibalizes communities in the US and around the world. Foc...

As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the continual transformation and interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender become increasingly complex. This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from the New York Times to the journals of leading research universities, explores these issues as systems of stratification that work to reinforce one another. Understanding Inequality provides students and academics with the ba...

Kiere’ and her brother, Dwayne, are shocked. Their mom and dad just gave them some devastating news. This news caused the family to argue, accuse, point fingers, and fall apart. Then Dwayne thought of a better way for them to handle this situation. Now Kiere and her family are about to discover the beauty of trusting God.

'Fine Lines' is a wonderful collection of quotes covering all aspects of life that began as a way of communicating long distance between a father and his sons and daughter. The quotes represent the heart and Soul of a life well lived. They are simple, sincere, honest, straightforward, spiritual, positive (for the most part), thought-provoking, and, most of all, fun and entertaining, depending upon where you are in your own life this moment.Enjoy. Rollin McNamara Michael.❤️

In this strident, necessary, meticulously researched book Michael Fine shows how the Covid-19 pandemic has thrown the costly failure of the American health care system into bold relief. At over 850,000 deaths and climbing, the US had more deaths than any other nation in the world, and one of the highest per capita death rates. On Medicine as Colonialism shows how the American health care system cannibalises communities in the US and around the world. Focusing on how health care profiteers ...

This issue of Anesthesiology Clinics focuses on Pain Management.Topics will include: The Pain Treatment Imperative: Developments in the 21st Century, Imaging Pain, The Opioid Conundrum, Advancing the Pain Agenda in the Veteran Population ,Interventional Treatments of Cancer Pain, Integrating Pain Care into the Peri-Operative Surgical Home, Pain Care in the ED, Sleep and Pain, Can Chronic Pain be Prevented?, The Use of Outcome Data to Improve Patient Outcomes, and Impact of State-based Pain...

Since the desegregation of public schools in the 1950s, the concept of standards-based reform has become a central topic within educational policy. Every American state is now required to enact standards-based reform policies while shifting responsibility away from the government and holding schools more accountable for their students performance. The Courts and Standards-Based Education Reform positions itself at the center of the long standing dispute between law, education, and...

Reimagine your school district as a thriving ecosystem where young people flourishMiddle and high schools are in crisis. Many educators sense that the traditional factory-model approach to secondary education is failing to meet the developmental needs of adolescents, leading to widespread disengagement and exacerbating a growing mental health crisis. Yet, it often feels like we’re all trapped in a game that nobody wants to play. This book offers a powerful...

Nel Mondo di MeG tutto è coloratissimo, soprattutto le feste! Giulia è vestita di azzurro, Mike di arancione, Rita di verde, Gipi di rosso... Ma cosa succede se due bambini si sentono esclusi?Uno dopo l'altro i colori iniziano a scomparire e il Mondo di Meg si ritrova senza colori. Come fare per riportarli indietro? I bambini si mettono in viaggio per ritrovarli e risolvere il mistero, scoprendo che ogni colore ha un valore unico e speciale. Un'avventura sorprendente che, attravers...