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Avoiding the Medicaid trap: how to beat the catastrophic costs of nursing-home care
Par Armond Budish. 1990
An attorney who specializes in consumer law outlines legal ways to preserve assets and still qualify for Medicaid. He explains…
how to pay for long-term care without turning one's house and lifetime savings over to a nursing home. Some strategies are controversial; for example, divorcing a spouse. Includes power-of-attorney forms and model Medicaid trustsHow we die: reflections on life's final chapter
Par Sherwin Nuland. 1994
In hopes of removing mystery from dying and making it less frightening, a Yale medical professor explains the biological and…
clinical aspects of death. He describes six causes of death he asserts to be representative of universal processes, portrays patients, and muses about care and dignity. The examples are heart attack, Alzheimer's disease, murder, AIDS, cancer, and old age. BestsellerTaken on trust
Par Terry Waite. 1993
While negotiating on behalf of the Church of England to free hostages in Beirut, Waite was taken prisoner himself. During…
the following four years of solitary confinement, Waite composed this book in his head. He intersperses details of his ordeal with descriptions of his youth and his international work. Towards the end of his captivity Waite was placed with men he had been trying to free--Terry Anderson, Tom Sutherland, and John McCarthyEinstein in time and space: A life in 99 particles
Par Samuel Graydon. 2023
Walter Isaacson's Einstein meets Craig Brown's 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret , in this innovative biography of the famous physicist…
told in ninety-nine dazzling vignettes. Most of us would agree that Albert Einstein's name is synonymous with "genius" and that his likeness is often used as a shorthand for all scientists, appearing everywhere from cartoons to textbooks. He has become more myth than man. That being the case, how best to capture his essence? In Einstein in Time and Space , talented young science journalist Samuel Graydon answers that question with an illuminating mosaic—99 intriguingly different particles that cumulatively reveal Einstein's contradictory and multitudinous nature. Glimpsed among these shards: a slacker who failed every subject but math, a job seeker who couldn't get hired, a lothario who courted many women, and a charmer who was the life of the party. As brilliant as he was inconsistent, Einstein was simultaneously an avid supporter of the NAACP and the fight for civil rights and someone capable of great prejudice. He was loved by many, known by few, and inspirational to a generation of young physicists. Graydon reveals every corner of Einstein's world: the false reporting that rocketed Einstein to fame nearly overnight, his effect on people he met merely in passing, even the remarkable posthumous journey of the famed physicist's brain. Entertaining, comforting, bolstering, and shocking, Einstein in Time and Space is the unique story of a man who redefined how we view our universe and our place within itRussia transformed: breakthrough to hope : Moscow, August 1991
Par James Billington. 1992
The librarian of Congress, a Soviet scholar and firsthand witness to the events of August 1991, chronicles his personal observations…
of the failed coup. Billington describes how the people protected their democratically elected government and came together to replace totalitarian rule with "politics of hope."Black heroes of the American Revolution
Par Burke Davis. 1976
Although Revolutionary War history has traditionally focused on the courage of George Washington, Paul Revere, Ethan Allen, and other white…
Americans, black Americans also made heroic contributions to the War of Independence. This book tells the stories of Peter Salem, Oliver Cromwell, James Forten, and other African-Americans who fought, sacrificed, and performed valiantly in that effort. For grades 6-9 and older readersI, Columbus: my journal, 1492-3
Par Christopher Columbus. 1990
Christopher Columbus was one of the most able and accomplished sailors of his day. His life's dream was to discover…
a new way to reach the East, fabled for its riches. Unlike those before him, he would sail west to reach the Indies. With the backing of Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain, he embarked in 1492. Here is the record of his voyage, in his very own words. For grades 6-9 and older readersNow it your time!: The African-American struggle for freedom
Par Walter Myers. 1991
Against the historical backdrop of the constant struggle of African-Americans for freedom and equality, Myers weaves the personal stories of…
influential and ordinary people--slaves, soldiers, inventors, artists, and political leaders. For grades 6-9 and older readers. Coretta Scott King AwardEverybody's guide to chiropractic health care
Par Nathaniel Altman. 1990
The author explains the basic ideas and treatments that make up chiropractic care. Following a history of the profession, including…
its struggle for acceptance by the medical community, Altman describes how to become an educated consumer. He discusses obtaining proper spinal adjustment and relief from pain, and he provides tips for maintaining the benefits enjoyed by good chiropractic healthBoys from different generations of the same family reveal what it is like to grow up in Europe in the…
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Michael, apprenticed to a merchant at fourteen, asserts his rights as he forges his career. Homesick Friederich is coached by his mother about girls and spending money. Stephan Carl pays for his adventuresome spiritColumbus and the world around him
Par Milton Meltzer. 1990
Meltzer, in this meticulously researched account, moves beyond Columbus's skills as a navigator to paint a picture of an arrogant,…
obsessive dreamer. Driven by greed for wealth and power and by a dubious interest in converting "the heathens," Columbus, like his comtemporaries, saw non-Europeans as inferior being ripe for enslavement, and their lands ripe for European exploitation. For grades 6-9 and older readersFunny business: an outsider's year in Japan
Par Gary Katzenstein. 1989
Katzenstein, chosen as one of fifteen Americans to be Luce Scholars, spent a year studying in Japan. With degrees in…
business and computer science, he felt well equipped to work at Sony. However, with no first-hand knowledge of Asia, he found a world so totally different from America that he made a cross-cultural mess of things. Sony gave up on him, but with ingenuity he found another job in JapanAmerican guidance for seniors
Par Ken Skala. 1991
Guide to the financial assistance, benefits, and services needed by senior citizens and their caregivers. Covers federal programs such as…
Social Security, Medicare, railroad retirement, and veterans' entitlements. Discusses assistance for handicapped people, health insurance, legal records, shelter, medication, and funeral arrangements. Concludes with information on seniors' discounts, travel, and educationKovels' Know your antiques
Par Ralph Kovel. 1981
The Kovels, collectors of antiques for more than thirty years, offer advice on how to evaluate, buy and care for…
antiques. You will learn how such items as a tape measure and a magnet can help identify real antique furniture, and how to test silver with your fingernail. You will know what is a fair price for an item, and you will learn how to "feed" furniture to keep the wood from drying outPaineWebber--how to build a college fund for your child
Par Marion Buhagiar. 1989
Under the auspices of one of the nation's best-known brokerage houses, Buhagiar presents parents with savers' guidelines designed to overcome…
the escalating costs of college. A variety of age-keyed investment options are explained including mutual funds, treasury bills, stocks, government bonds, and universal life insuranceIt's better to be over the hill than under it: thoughts on life over sixty
Par Eda LeShan. 1990
This collection contains seventy-five selections from LeShan's regular columns on aging. She covers topics such as marriage, friendship, retirement, grandchildren,…
sex, health, money, and she encourages the aging to love, grow, accept and continue to keep their minds alive and receptiveI hope
Par Raisa Gorbacheva. 1991
In her introduction, the wife of Michail Gorbachev states that her book is not an autobiography but rather a story…
about herself, past and present, and her reactions to historical events. In a series of five interviews held with Georgi Pryakhin, and translated by David Floyd, Raisa Gorbachev describes the role she came to play as the Soviet Union's first ladyThe August coup: the truth and the lessons
Par Mikhail Gorbachev. 1991
The Soviet Union's first democratically elected president describes the three-day coup d'etat that occurred in August of 1991. Gorbachev defends…
his actions during his confrontation with the plotters, addresses rumors concerning the incident, and discusses events that occurred immediately after the coup, such as the withdrawal of the Baltic States from the Union. He outlines his hopes for the USSRTout nu! Dictionnaire bienveillant de la sexualité
Par Myriam Daguzan Bernier. 2019
L'ouvrage documentaire est de très bonne qualité, sa présentation graphique est sobre, mais attrayante. Les connaissances que le dictionnaire véhicule…
sont bien documentées et actuelles. Cet ouvrage tend à effacer la frontière entre les genres et son propos fait la part belle aux valeurs LGBTQ+.Financial aid for veterans, military personnel, and their dependents, 1988-1989
Par Gail Schlachter. 1988
More than a third of America's population in the 1980s has either direct or indirect ties with the armed services.…
This guide directs people to sources of financial aid for education, mortgage assistance, career development, and general emergencies