Old-Age Security in Comparative Perspective

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This work makes extensive use of seven well-developed historical case studies describing the evolution of public old-age security in industrial nations (Germany, United Kingdom, Sweden, and the United States) and developing nations (Brazil, Nigeria, and India). The authors focus on specifying contexts in which general theoretical perspectives can be used to account for these developments. One of the few studies which integrates historical and quantitative data, this accessible work will prove helpful to students and researchers of the welfare state, aging policy, and comparative sociology.

Old-Age Security in Comparative Perspective. (book reviews): An article from: Journal of Risk and Insurance

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Old-Age Security in Comparative Perspective. (book reviews): An article from: Journal of Risk and Insurance
Albert L. Auxier
Manufacturer: American Risk and Insurance Association, Inc.
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ASIN: B00092Y8KC
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Risk and Insurance, published by American Risk and Insurance Association, Inc. on September 1, 1994. The length of the article is 1091 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Old-Age Security in Comparative Perspective. (book reviews)
Author: Albert L. Auxier
Publication: Journal of Risk and Insurance (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 1994
Publisher: American Risk and Insurance Association, Inc.
Volume: v61 Issue: n3 Page: p550(3)

Article Type: Book Review

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Old-Age Security in Comparative Perspective

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Old-Age Security in Comparative Perspective
John B. Williamson
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OKNG8Y

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This digital document is an article from Southern Economic Journal, published by Southern Economic Association on July 1, 1992. The length of the article is 1062 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Competition and Innovation in Postal Services. (book reviews)
Author: Gena F. Hampton
Publication: Southern Economic Journal (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 1992
Publisher: Southern Economic Association
Volume: v59 Issue: n1 Page: p122(3)

Article Type: Book Review

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In this exciting collection, bestselling authors Meg Cabot (How to Be Popular), Kim Harrison (A Fistful of Charms), Michele Jaffe (Bad Kitty), Stephenie Meyer (Twilight), and Lauren Myracle (ttyl) take bad prom nights to a whole new level—a paranormally bad level. Wardrobe malfunctions and two left feet don't hold a candle to discovering your date is the Grim Reaper—and he isn't here to tell you how hot you look.

From angels fighting demons to a creepy take on getting what you wish for, these five stories will entertain better than any DJ in a bad tux. No corsage or limo rental necessary. Just good, scary fun.

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Big Disappointment.......2007-10-03

Being a BIG fan of the Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer, I bought this to scratch the Twilight itch. (4th Twilight comes out in 2008 :( )

I was greatly disappointed. The stories were very "young" not "young adult". I'm in my 20's and found the stories very boring.

Short Stories by Some of the Greats..........2007-06-14

Prom Nights From Hell encompasses short stories by Stephanie Meyer (Twilight), Meg Cabot (Mediator), Kim Harrison, Michele Jaffe (Bad Kitty), and Lauren Myracle (TTFN). I enjoyed the stories on varying degrees.

As a Twilight fan, I went to Meyer's tale first and was caught slightly off guard about the abrupt ending to her story about Angels and Demons. Next, I read Meg Cabot's take on vampire slaying. It was enjoyable and written in the typical Meg Cabot style. Kim Harrisons' story about Angels of Death surprised me. Having never seen a YA novel from her, I wasn't sure what to expect, but I found her story to be the most enjoyable tale in the book. The other two stories weren't my favorites, but should entertain those who have read books by the authors before.

The common theme amongst the stories is not only that they take place at proms and have a paranormal feel, but also that they are all very open ended. All could be continued and some, like Kim Harrisons' short, should be extended into a YA book. I wouldn't be surprised if we see a few of these spun off into their own books and series.

If you like YA books about supernatural relationships, try Prom Nights out. There should be at least one story you will want to sink your teeth into more than once.

Prom Nights.......2007-06-02

I'm a huge stephenie meyer fan, so when I found out she had a story in prom nights from hell I knew I had to get it. I really liked the story's some were hard to follow. One of the best ones was Meg Cabot's story and Stephenie Meyer's.

What does having a prom night from hell mean to you?.......2007-06-01

What does having a prom night from hell mean to you? Maybe you tear your dress on the way out of the limo so everyone sees your underwear. Or you spend the entire evening smiling for your friends' cameras with lipstick on your teeth. Perhaps you even get dumped on what is supposed to be one of the most important nights of your life. All of these things surely can add up to a prom night from hell, but at least you didn't have the prom night from Hell.

Five of your favorite teen authors have teamed up to produce a set of short stories about proms gone supernaturally, horribly wrong. While you're concerned about shoes matching your purse, the girls in these stories are worried about crossbows and vampires, zombie dates who've been dead for weeks, and a devil in a red dress who causes chaos by snapping high heels and breaking up couples.

Michele Jaffe (BAD KITTY) gives scary a twist of humor in her story "Kiss and Tell," in which Miranda, blessed (or maybe cursed) with superpowers, takes it upon herself to protect a 14-year-old chauffering charge named Sibby. Sarcasm and a roller derby outfit, however, might not be enough for Miranda to keep Sibby safe from a potential murder.

If you're a fan of Stephenie Meyer's TWILIGHT, then you'll love "Hell on Earth." What looks like your normal prom becomes a jumbled mess of broken jewelry, ripped dresses and destroyed romances thanks to the new girl, Sheba, who's really a 186-year-old demon in disguise. But will Sheba's meddling older sister keep the prom from being anything less than perfectly hellish?

If you love the classic horror stories, then flip straight to "The Corsage" by Lauren Myracle (RHYMES WITH WITCHES), a retelling of W.W. Jacobs's "The Monkey's Paw." Frankie wishes for Will to ask her to the prom while holding a corsage she bought from a Juicy Couture-clad fortune teller. You know how the saying goes, though: Be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it. Frankie's wish comes true, and now Will is just dying to ask her to the prom.

For a twist on the Grim Reaper tale, look at "Madison Avery and the Dim Reaper" by Kim Harrison (A FISTFUL OF CHARMS). It's bad enough that Madison's date only takes her to the prom out of pity, but then the guy she leaves with kills her and completely botches her death. Now she's somewhere between human and ghost, relying on a stolen amulet to keep her solid.

And for those of you who are diehard vampire fans, open to page one and start reading "The Exterminator's Daughter" by Meg Cabot (AVALON HIGH). Vampires are alive, well, living in New York and taking Mary's best friend Lila to the prom. Mary, a vampire exterminator with her very own crossbow, is determined to save Lila. With Dracula in disguise at her high school, will Mary's prom completely suck?

Enter a world where Death and demons meet sequins and tuxedos. Whether you prefer a slow, detailed story or a tale that's funny and fast-paced, you'll find something here to enjoy. Your prom may not be as exciting as some of the ones in this book, but at least you won't have to worry about the new boy wielding a scythe.

--- Reviewed by Carlie Webber

Courtesy of Teens Read Too.......2007-06-01

What do you get when five great authors come together to create a paranormal prom anthology? In a word - greatness!

Meg Cabot starts off the collection with THE EXTERMINATOR'S DAUGHTER. When Mary shows up at Swig, an exclusive VIP club in Manhattan, it's not to socialize. No, she's on a mission to take out Sebastian Drake -- and by take out, I mean kill him with a crossbow. But when Adam, a fellow student at Saint Eligius, takes his own potshots at the dreaded Sebastian, things get a lot more interesting.

Lauren Myracle, the author of THE CORSAGE, has written what is probably the saddest, and creepiest, story of the bunch. All Frankie wants is for her best guy friend, Will, to realize that it's his destiny to ask her to the prom. To accomplish that goal, she drags Will and her other best friend, Yun Sun, to visit Madame Zanzibar, a fortune-teller. She's sure that Madame Z will proclaim that Will is her one true love, and that will be that. But the psychic is short on information, but does end up grudgingly handing over to Frankie a dried up old corsage, which she says will grant her three wishes. Over the next couple of days, however, Frankie will come to realize that she'll have to make some requests that she never in her wildest dreams would have thought of making.

MADISON AVERY AND THE DIM REAPER by Kim Harrison is the longest story in the group, and the most involved. When Madison ends up at the costume prom with a dud date, she's surprised to find one guy who can pick up the slack. Seth isn't like anyone she's ever met before. Unfortunately, before too long she'll find out why that is, and the picture it paints isn't pretty. There are deaths, white reapers, black reapers, grim reapers, and odd amulets. I really liked this story, and would be happy to see more of these characters in the future.

Michele Jaffe's story, KISS AND TELL, was by far my favorite. Miranda has a secret. Not only is she a student and a part-time driver/chaeffeur, but she also fights crime in her spare time. It turns out Miranda has special abilities that allow her to do things most regular teens can't do -- like, say, knock over a lamppost just by leaning on it. This particular day turns out to be stranger than the norm, though, when she picks up young Sibby Cumean, a strange girl who has an even stranger habit of kissing every boy she can find. When weird things start happening, Miranda's day turns into an action-adventure movie beyond anything she could have expected. I LOVED this story, and I HAVE to read more about Miranda and Sibby in the future! Yes, Ms. Jaffe, that's me begging!!

Last but not least is HELL ON EARTH by Stephenie Meyer. This is the story of Sheba, a demon on earth who loves bringing misery to others. Her plan is working pretty well, too, because nearly everyone at the prom is having a downright horrible time. Everyone, that is, except for Gabe, who seems not just happy but serene. By the time Sheba can figure out what's happening, it's too late, and prom just might end up having a happy ending after all.

PROM NIGHTS FROM HELL is a great paranormal anthology that teens and adults alike will enjoy. I highly recommend picking up a copy today!

Reviewed by: Jennifer Wardrip, aka "The Genius"

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Hilarous and memory provoking

Tales from the Prom
Daniel Mailliard , and Elissa Stein
Manufacturer: Griffin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0312187645

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This collection of brief remembrances, embarrassing moments, and cinematic representations of that greatest of high school horrors, the prom, is a quick and funny read. Full of photos from your favorite '80s teen films and images of outfits so flashy they'd startle Ray Charles, Tales from the Prom is intermittently sad and human. There's "David," who tells of how the prom was his last effort at heterosexuality, "Anonymous," whose prom experience convinced her it was time to join a 12-step program, and "Jen," whose gorgeous boyfriend passed out before the dance and left her looking like a dateless loser. In many ways, Tales from the Prom is like a prom date: it comes in an ugly package, but inside it's funny and pathetic in an endearing way. --James DiGiovanna

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Hilarous and memory provoking.......1999-01-08

While reading this booklet, one can only chuckle with the memories of "the night we've waited for" all our high school lives. Stein and Mailliard also took the liberty of compiling samples of proms as shown through the film and television. (What a great touch)

I will be bringing my copy of "Tales of the Prom" to my next High School reunion.

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Tales from the Prom
Daniel Mailliard Elissa Stein
Manufacturer: Griffin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTM29E

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This sequel to the Lomaxes' widely acclaimed American Ballads and Folk Songs includes melodies and words for tunes from all parts of the country. Songs include spirituals, hollers, game songs, lullabies, courting songs, chain-gang work songs, Cajun airs, breakdowns, and many more. Includes over 200 authentic folk songs and ballads.

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good volume... songs are rare.......2007-01-04

it's a great album to have... only the real afficionado would know the songs though.

Our Singing Country: A Second Volume of American Ballads & Folk Songs

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Our Singing Country: A Second Volume of American Ballads & Folk Songs
Various; Collected and Compiled by John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax; Music Edited by Ruth Crawford Seeger
Manufacturer: MacMillan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HZIRJY

Our Singing Country: A Second Volume of American Ballads and Folk Songs

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Our Singing Country: A Second Volume of American Ballads and Folk Songs
John A. and Alan Lomax (Collected and Compiled by); Ruth Crawford Seeger (Music Editor) Lomax
Manufacturer: Macmillan Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J25ANQ

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Our Singing Country: a Second Volume of American ballads and folk Songs
John A; Lomax, Alan (editor) Lomax
Manufacturer: The Macmillan Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NQ6JZQ

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Our Singing Country: A Second Volume of American Ballads and Folk Songs
Compiled By John A. Lomax; Alan Lomax; Music Editor Ruth Crawford Seeger
Manufacturer: MACMILLAN COMPANY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OKWCXO

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The 'Lived' Body takes a fresh look at the problem of human embodiment through a critical examination of the dualist legacies of the past. A broad range of classical and contemporary social theorists are surveyed--from Marx to Freud, Foucault to Giddens, Deleuze to Guattari and Irigaray to Grosz--in terms of the bodily themes and issues they raise. A variety of new areas of research in this rapidly expanding field are also considered, including medical technology and the "fate" of human embodiment, the sociology of emotion, the problem of pain, sleep and dreams, and the relationship between the body, art and society.

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No other body of critical thought has had the so profound effect on the study of television as feminism. Moreover, the nature of feminist inquiry and explorations of the 'feminine', have had to keep pace with an increasingly complex relationship between television programming, production, and audiences, contemporary theory, and late twentieth-century society. Feminist Television Criticism compiled and edited by three outstanding scholars in their field is an anthology which explores that complexity. Most of the pieces selected deal with genres and topics that have been the dominant subjects of feminist television analysis-soaps, telenovelas, serials, sitcoms, housewives, new women heterosexual and lesbian romances, female audiences, and domesticity. Throughout, the focus of the selection is on feminist genres and how feminist critical understanding has developed in a historical perspective. The articles treat such well-known programmes as LA Law, Roseanne, Ophrah, Inspector Morse, as well as such issues as the use of videos, advertising, gender politics, and ethnic and cultural identities. Section introductions contextualize the materials selected and there is an overall Introduction which maps out the most important issues in the field. Feminist Television Criticism will be an important teaching and study resource for all students and scholars working in the field of television studies, media studies, gender studies, and cultural studies and is the first volume in a new major series, Oxford Television Studies.

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Thorough, but dated.......2000-04-04

I used this text as a source for my Master's Thesis. Although I found it gave plenty of information regarding older sitcoms, it was limited by those of I Love Lucy, Roseanne, etc. It doesn't give very much basic information on feminist media theory, instead it takes a Stuart Hall cultural critique-esque approach to analyze the images of women in certain television shows. However, the number of texts that you can get from the authors' listings of sources is very rich. I intially purchased this book because of previous article readings I had done by Julie D'Acci. The text at whole is very long, but broken down into articles could be very helpful for media theory classrooms.

A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema (A Camera Obscura Book)

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A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema (A Camera Obscura Book)

Manufacturer: Duke University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0822329999

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A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema marks a new era of feminist film scholarship. The twenty essays collected here demonstrate how feminist historiographies at once alter and enrich ongoing debates over visuality and identification, authorship, stardom, and nationalist ideologies in cinema and media studies. Drawing extensively on archival research, the collection yields startling accounts of women's multiple roles as early producers, directors, writers, stars, and viewers. It also engages urgent questions about cinema's capacity for presenting a stable visual field, often at the expense of racially, sexually, or class-marked bodies.

While fostering new ways of thinking about film history, A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema illuminates the many questions that the concept of "early cinema" itself raises about the relation of gender to modernism, representation, and technologies of the body. The contributors bring a number of disciplinary frameworks to bear, including not only film studies but also postcolonial studies, dance scholarship, literary analysis, philosophies of the body, and theories regarding modernism and postmodernism.

Reflecting the stimulating diversity of early cinematic styles, technologies, and narrative forms, essays address a range of topics—from the dangerous sexuality of the urban flâneuse to the childlike femininity exemplified by Mary Pickford, from the Shanghai film industry to Italian diva films—looking along the way at birth-control sensation films, French crime serials, "war actualities," and the stylistic influence of art deco. Recurring throughout the volume is the protean figure of the New Woman, alternately garbed as childish tomboy, athletic star, enigmatic vamp, languid diva, working girl, kinetic flapper, and primitive exotic.

Contributors. Constance Balides, Jennifer M. Bean, Kristine Butler, Mary Ann Doane, Lucy Fischer, Jane Gaines, Amelie Hastie, Sumiko Higashi, Lori Landay, Anne Morey, Diane Negra, Catherine Russell, Siobhan B. Somerville, Shelley Stamp, Gaylyn Studlar, Angela Dalle Vacche, Radha Vatsal, Kristen Whissel, Patricia White, Zhang Zhen

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Prepare to pass the OCP Introduction to Oracle9i SQL exam--a required exam for OCA/OCP DBA certification--using this Oracle Press study guide. You'll get complete coverage of all exam topics followed by practice questions and chapter summaries. The CD-ROM contains hundreds of practice exam questions in an adaptive format.

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worst oracle book.......2007-02-05

Dont buy this book. This book is full of errors. couchman contradicts himself at various places, whatever he explains could be totaly diffrent to the explainaton he gives undet test review section. If you are buying this book make sure you have another book as a reference. i am really very much surprized how come oracle has given his tag to this book. i doubt if anyone can pass oracle exam using this book.

Did not help me pass the certification test.......2006-05-31

I have been writing Oracle SQL for 5 years improving the efficiency of the web application our company maintains and decided to become officialy certified. I bought this book, learned some new terminology and Oracle skills. I aced the practice tests that came with the book. However, the official Oracle exam is much more difficult than the book's practice tests. I ended up buying some of Oracle's official practice tests. Of course, they may be scams as well.

Good exam reference.......2004-03-17

This is the only book I used to prepare for the OCP 1Z0-007 exam. The Oracle published exam objectives were covered and the sample test questions on CD were good. Other than one or two SQL syntax surprises, I had no problems with the exam. This book may not be adequate if you are unfamiliar with databases, SQL, and programming as there is not alot of instructional material here. Good luck.

Not enough to pass exam.......2004-02-28

This book is an update from the release 8i. Looks like the author did not take the time to properly update material, the functions chapter have missing lots of the new functions in 9i, same goes for MERGE and INSERT INTO (SELECT FROM ...) statements.
I was surprised some of the new 9i stuff was not even mentioned in the book.

Some of the examples are well explained, but there are some errors, you better test them and not take them as granted.

You can use this book with Sybex Introduction to Oracle 9i, both will be enough to pass exam.

How to make big $$$$ with Oracle Official Authorization.......2004-02-11

Jason Couchman must be laughing his head off on his own private island. Slap together a book full of mistakes (scripts that don't work, INCORRECT information, inane opinions,) and get it reviewed by his kindergarten kids. Get a buddy at Oracle to whack "Officially Authorized Oracle Press" on it.... then watch the dollars flow in.

He didn't even both updating reference to ora81 directories.

Shame on you Jason. I thought Nigerian e-mail scams were bad, but this book is just a cruel rip-off of people wanting to get somewhere in life.

Shame on you Oracle for giving it your blessing.

I may pass the exam but books such as this will not help me become a competent Oracle DBA.

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