Faced with the decline of the traditional family and the explosive growth of the over-65 population, the Japanese are looking for new ways to care for their elders. This timely study documents the birth of a major social phenomenon in Japan--the planned retirement community. In the mid-1980s, Yasuhito Kinoshita spent a year living in Japan's first such community, Fuji-no-Sato. His collaboration with Christie W. Kiefer, a cultural gerontologist, is the first detailed study of a retirement community in a non-Western culture. Fuji-no-Sato is a social community with no visible traditions....
Faced with the decline of the traditional family and the explosive growth of the over-65 population, the Japanese are looking for new ways to care for...
Christie Kiefer vividly brings home the meaning of poverty in peoples' lives as he examines both their access to--and their lack of--health care. Aimed at both students and professionals in the field, this book argues that individuals serving the poor have the means and obligation to address the root causes of ill health of the poor, not just the symptoms. These causes, Kiefer argues, are overwhelmingly social and political. In a ringing indictment of the factors that perpetuate poverty, he declares that the work of healing at its best must include advocacy. Health Work with the...
Christie Kiefer vividly brings home the meaning of poverty in peoples' lives as he examines both their access to--and their lack of--health care. ...
"Toward Campoluna" captures the romance and excitement of a unique generation in a unique place. In 1955, lifeguard and surf bum Corky McCork and his bighearted artist friend, Reebar Tornay, hit the road for some adventure. When they come to the aid of barefoot and bleeding Eliomara Vasquez, the three become interlinked in an international adventure that lasts a lifetime.
The men help the feisty Eliomara to escape the border patrol authorities who want to send her back to Mexico, and then Corky, Reebar, and Eliomara continue on to individual journeys, facing countless dangers and...
"Toward Campoluna" captures the romance and excitement of a unique generation in a unique place. In 1955, lifeguard and surf bum Corky McCork and his ...
Professor Morse Brulay is writing to us from his jail cell in Ecuador. Brulay is a roamer and a seeker of the mysterious, the new, the erotic - but also of enduring wisdom. In his search for the Deep Code - the secret of time travel - he runs afoul of the Fomors, the dark spirits of the Druidic world. Cursed with terrifying ashbacks to his prehistoric past, Morse loses his moral bearings and ees to the Amazon jungle in search of spiritual rebirth. There among the Indians he finds the knowledge he seeks and is joined in his new vision by Lotte, the beautiful biologist.
In their effort to...
Professor Morse Brulay is writing to us from his jail cell in Ecuador. Brulay is a roamer and a seeker of the mysterious, the new, the erotic - but...
Professor Morse Brulay is writing to us from his jail cell in Ecuador. Brulay is a roamer and a seeker of the mysterious, the new, the erotic - but also of enduring wisdom. In his search for the Deep Code - the secret of time travel - he runs afoul of the Fomors, the dark spirits of the Druidic world. Cursed with terrifying ashbacks to his prehistoric past, Morse loses his moral bearings and ees to the Amazon jungle in search of spiritual rebirth. There among the Indians he finds the knowledge he seeks and is joined in his new vision by Lotte, the beautiful biologist.
In their effort to...
Professor Morse Brulay is writing to us from his jail cell in Ecuador. Brulay is a roamer and a seeker of the mysterious, the new, the erotic - but...
