This book addresses the rights of older persons from an international law and comparative law perspective. These chapters reflect the scholarly presentations which were presented at The 21st Annual Belle R. and Joseph H. Braun Memorial Symposium: 2014 International Elder Law & Policy Conference. The conference was held at The John Marshall Law School, Chicago, Illinois, on July 10-11, 2014, and was co-sponsored by The John Marshall Law School, Roosevelt University of Chicago, and The East China University of Political Science and Law of Shanghai, China. The conference provided a forum for...

A Discovery In The Sky, Hidden for 200 Years.... "What is that thing...There's something there in the clouds" In the future, Jeffrey McKusick, descendant of a world-class geneticist and Catalina Sosa - CIA special agent - discover an elaborate complex hidden deep within the sky. With a small team, the two crack open the doors to the facility which hadn't seen the light of a living being for centuries...or so it seems. "Get Number 734921" #734921...a sample in a tube - one of thousands of liquid tubes found inside the facility. The tube is delicately grabbed from a shelf to help the team...

Examining refugees of Civil War-era North Carolina, Driven from Home reveals the complexity and diversity of the war's displaced populations and the inadequate responses of governmental and charitable organisations as refugees scrambled to secure the necessities of daily life.

A detective story, this socio-cultural biography pieces together methodological inquiry with a jigsaw puzzle composed of secret documents, probate records, court testimony, speeches, and correspondence to tell the story of a man named Smith, of his vision for the US, and of the value of remembering secondary historical characters.