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Is 7 Steps for Teachers to Retire Well for you? This book is intended for teachers with a DIY attitude who want to cash in on their choices to live better today and retire better tomorrow. Maybe you've dreamed of your retirement but didn't quite know where to start. What do you need to know? What do you need to do? Maybe you've already tried, but it was a painful, drawn out process, and you've ended up with jumbled choices that look like one of your junk drawers. Why is planning your future retirement so difficult for so many? Actually, there is too much information available. It's easy to...

Comic drama

Characters: 1 male, 2 female

Interior Set

Gardner and Fanny Church are preparing to move out of their Beacon Hill house to their summer cottage on Cape Cod. Gardner, once a famous poet, now is retired. He slips in and out of senility as his wife Fanny valiantly tries to keep them both afloat. They have asked their daughter, Mags, to come home and help them move. Mags agrees, for she hopes as well to finally paint their portrait. She is now on the verge of artistic celebrity herself and hopes, by painting her parents, to come to terms with them and they with her. Mags...

As retailing becomes increasingly important in global economics, the similarities and differences of retailing from country to country are now more evident. This unique and timely study of retail structures across Europe, gives an insightful overview of the internationalization of retailing and asks important questions regarding the effectiveness of different retailing sectors.

With chapters on Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, this contemporary study examines the extent to which Europe's increasingly homogenous environment applies to retailing....

In recent years, imperial history has experienced a newfound vigour, dynamism and diversity. There has been an explosion of new work in the field, which has been driven into even greater prominence by contemporary world events. However, this resurgence has brought with it disputes between those who are labelled as exponents of a 'new imperial history' and those who can, by default, be termed old imperial historians.

This collection not only gathers together some of the most important, influential and controversial work which has come to be labelled 'new imperial history',...

Comedy / 3m, 2f / Int.

Newly revised! Recently produced in 2006 at the Atlantic Theatre Company in New York City, this witty and sophisticated satire by the author of One Shoe Off and other popular comedies, this play takes place during a child's fourth birthday party. The boy's parents have invited another couple, anthropologists renowned for their international studies of childhood behavior. The adults become so involved in debating various theories of child rearing and telling each other stories that they forget to actually be parents.

A stunning theatrical experience that explores...

"This is a stunning collection . . . elegant, magisterial, and persuasive. "Visions of Community in the Pre-Modern World" contains new and impeccable scholarship in beautifully written and structured essays." Roberta Frank, Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English, Yale University
"Visions of Community in the Pre-Modern World" contains original essays by five leading scholars in the fields of history, art history, and literature on the ways in which communities were imagined and built between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries. These essays, which function as case studies, range...

Social workers need to recognize the critical role that theory plays both in the way they make sense of what is going on and in the way they order their work. Such recognition clarifies practice for both the worker and the client. David Howe's classic text provides a framework to help social workers develop an understanding of the theories which inescapably underpin their thoughts and actions. This edition contains a new preface by the author, written in 2008, in which he examines the continuing value of his framework, concluding that it remains an effective tool for making sense of the...

Do you "Parent on Purpose? There are a lot of things we do on purpose, why don't we make "Parenting" one of them. It's the mission of Go Whisper to build the family, build the home, and win the battle of controlling what we say to and around our children by the process of "Go Whispering." "Go Whisper" will help increase the confidence, self-image and self-worth of your children as it has mine. Your Children are the future; don't cripple them. Love, Empower and believe in them enough to commit to this simple act of "Go Whispering" which will increase their confidence and sense of self. Let's...

The visionary behind the bestselling phenomenon The Fourth Turning looks once again to America’s past to predict our future in this startling and hopeful prophecy for how our present era of civil unrest will resolve over the next ten years—and what our lives will look like once it has. Twenty-five years ago, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss dazzled the world with a provocative new theory of American history. Looking back at the last 500 years, they’d uncovered a distinct pattern: modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting roughly eighty to one hundred years, the length of...

There I Was and Here I Am speaks to a life's journey. The story is about triumph over adversity - following the course of a young boy from a poor family with the dream of flying. The story follows him through his life's pursuit of that dream. The book is divided into the four seasons of life. Each season begins with the life cycle of a drop of water, starting as a snowflake and ending in the sea. It also deals with the two powerful forces always at work inside each of us - a good and a bad wolf, each fighting for dominance. Spring takes him from a troubled childhood and difficult times in the...

Entitlements represent one of the largest and fastest-growing portions of the federal budget. They are regarded as sacrosanct by lawmakers, yet many people see them as one of the greatest threats to the American Dream. This volume argues that by sacrifi cing the future in order to pay ever-larger federal benefits through programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and federal pensions, entitlement spending has become a crushing burden to American workers