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Amateur Telescope Making in the Internet Age
Springer 2010; US$ 27.99Building an astronomical telescope offers the amateur astronomer an exciting challenge, with the possibility of ending up with a far bigger and better telescope than could have been afforded otherwise. In the past, the starting point has always been the grinding and polishing of at least the primary mirror, a difficult and immensely time-consuming... more...
Medieval Conduct
University of Minnesota Press 2001; US$ 72.00Focusing on a broad range of texts from England, France, Germany, and Italy?conduct and courtesy books, advise poems, devotional literature, trial records?the contributors to Medieval Conduct draw attention to the diverse ways in which readers of this literature could interpret such behavioral guides, appropriating them to their own ends. more...
Retiree Health Plans in the Public Sector
Edward Elgar Publishing 2010; US$ 40.00While retiree health plans are a dying benefit in the private sector, all US states and many local governments extend health insurance coverage to their retired employees. This book is the first to thoroughly examine public sector health insurance plans. Retiree Health Plans in the Public Sector provides a detailed description of the current plans... more...
The Economics of Individual and Population Aging
Cambridge University Press 1980; US$ 38.00This study aims to identify and describe the principle economic issues associated with individual and population ageing. more...
State and Local Retirement Plans in the United States
Edward Elgar Publishing 2011; US$ 40.00State and Local Retirement Plans in the United States explains how economic and political events have shaped the development of pension plans in the last century, and it argues that changes in the structure and generosity of these plans will continue to shape policy and funding in the future. It also brings to bear a new rationale to the policies behind... more...
Reinventing the Retirement Paradigm
OUP Oxford 2005; US$ 124.99This book explores how rising pension and healthcare costs, along with workforce aging, are affecting pension and retirement planning around the world. Many middle-aged workers now realize that they will have to work longer than intended, as they begin to recognize that their retirement resources will be inadequate to finance retirement consumption.... more...
The Economics of an Aging Society
Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2008; US$ 151.95Written by leading thinkers in the field, this text provides an in-depth analysis of the economic and policy issues associated with individual and population aging. The text has a strong policy focus based on demographic and economic analysis, making this book both accessible and challenging to readers with limited mathematical background. Written... more...
Chemistry of the Environment
Elsevier Science 2002; US$ 134.95Emphasizing new science essential to the practice of environmental chemistry at the beginning of the new millennium, this book describes the atmosphere as a distinct sphere of the environment and the practice of industrial ecology as it applies to chemical science. It includes extensive coverage of nuclear chemistry, covering both natural environmental... more...
Perspectives on Election
B&H Publishing Group 2006; US$ 19.99Five church scholars, from varying denominational backgrounds, discuss five, basic, common beliefs about spiritual election that have developed throughout history with the goal of determining which is most scripturally sound. more...
Enduring Motives
University of Alabama Press 2012; US$ 39.95Enduring Motives examines tradition and religious beliefs as they are expressed in landscape, the built environment, visual symbols, stories, and ritual. Bringing together archaeologists and Native American experts, this volume focuses on long-lived religious traditions of the native peoples of the Americas and how religion codifies,... more...









