A man on an epic journey across America with his family. Riding his bicycle from YorkTown, Virginia to Astoria, Oregon in 66 days over 4,228 miles. Summiting mountain passes, crossing deserts, and passing through multitudes of National Forests/Parks. Join him as he recounts the tale from his resignation as a Director of IT Services to his final dip of the front tire in the Pacific Ocean. This is a story for those who need to disconnect from our hectic society and get back in touch with the...

How is citizenship constructed from the margins? Peripheral Citizenship examines this question by placing the urban outskirts of South America’s most populous city, São Paulo, amid processes that transformed twentieth-century Latin America: rural-urban migration and rapid urbanization, the advent of liberation theology, and the rise and fall of military dictatorships. Drawing on oral histories and grassroots archives, Daniel McDonald traces the emergence of a remarkable bottom-up ...

Fanny Lear: Love and Scandal in Tsarist Russia>/i> tells the story of Harriet Clarissima Ely Blackford, also known as Fanny Lear. She was an American courtesan in the late nineteenth century, a strong, independent woman who refused to accept the restrictions placed on women by society at the time. In her short, adventure-filled life, her travels took her from Philadelphia to the social heights of Europe and ultimately to Tsarist Russia, where an affair with the Tsars nephew culminated ...

**Readers Favorite Award Winner** (paperback version 2022)You may have spent years saving for retirement—but have you thought of the best way to use the money you saved? How you withdraw from your IRA, 401(k), and other accounts can have a major impact on how much you will pay in federal income taxes during retirement. Topics covered by this award-winning book include:—Conventional wisdom—waiting to use “tax deferred” 401k and IRA accounts until Required Minimum Distributio...

You may have a plan for saving money for retirement. But do you have a retirement withdrawal strategy? If you don't, it could cost you tens of thousands of dollars - or more - in excess taxes.Retire With Confidence: Mastering Tax-Wise Wealth Preservation shows how to withdraw at lower tax rates and save big. Keep more of your hard-earned retirement savings and live the worry-free retirement you've always dreamed of.Conventional W...

All Tip Roddy knew about High Wind MacDowell, other than that his cattle were the best range stock in the Southwest, was a rumor picked up in Redregon to the effect that old High Wind was having a concrete statue made of himself and that he was setting it up at the Dog Wolf water hole that had been fought over for so many years. Without being invited, Roddy rode out to see High Wind.

It’s a birthday wish come true for ten-year-old Gordy, who received golf clubs for his birthday. He can’t wait to play a round of golf with his dad. Besides rules, Gordy is surprised to learn there is something called golf etiquette as well. And he quickly discovers driving and putting are not quite as easy as the pros make it look on TV. But Gordy is determined to practice and beat his father at a round of golf one day!

Lonesome Jim Barkley had once been a town-taming law man. Now he was a man with a reward on his head, wanted for robbery and murder. The banker, Tade Wardow, knows this and thinks he can turn it to his advantage in a way that will also make Barkley money. Yet, for Barkley, there is another consideration, one more urgent than robbing Wardow's bank.

Caswell McCarthy was no hero. The very idea of such a thing had never crossed his mind. Yet he had cheated to give himself the short straw when the five exhausted men had drawn to see who would stay behind. He felt he was the only one who had the slightest chance of slowing down the pursuing war party of Chiricahua Apaches.

This book investigates to what extent claims of common social science risk theories such as risk society, governmentality, risk and culture, risk colonisation and culture of fear are reflected in linguistic changes in print news media. The authors provide a corpus-based investigation of risk words in The New York Times (1987-2014) and a case study of the health domain.The book presents results from an interdisciplinary enterprise which combines sociological risk theories w...

This edited book examines the management of diversity and inclusion in the military.Owing to the rise of asymmetric warfare, a shift in demographics and labor shortfalls, the US Department of Defense (DoD) has prioritized diversity and inclusion in its workforce management philosophy. In pursuing this objective, it must ensure the attractiveness of a military career by providing an inclusive environment for all personnel (active and reserve military, civilian, and contractors) to r...

Do both the zoo and the mental hospital induce psychosis, as humans are treated as animals and animals are treated as humans? How have we looked at animals in the past, and how do we look at them today? How have zoos presented themselves, and their purpose, over time? In response to the emergence of environmental and animal studies, anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers, theorists, literature scholars, and historians around the world have begun to explore the significance of zoologic...