Pikas, tiny rabbit relatives living high in the mountains, serve as an entry point toward understanding the consequences of climate change. Pikas can't live in temperatures higher than 77 degrees F. As the Earth's temperature rises, pikas must keep moving higher and higher up the mountains to find a cooler climate in which to live. Everything is connected in the natural world. As the pikas livable habitat decreases, the lives of hawks, falcons, pine martins, foxes and the many other creatures that prey upon pikas are affected. If you are looking for an easily understandable introduction to the consequences of climate change, this is the book for you. Glorious photographs and a well-organized text reveal the key role pikas play in the alpine ecosystem. Helpful diagrams demonstrate the food web that includes this tiny mammal and other plants and animals, also threatened by the changing climate. A glossary, map and list of actions kids can take to help decrease climate change are also included. Free, downloadable activities can be found on the publisher's website.

This book is written for the American worker to read. They are the ones with jobs in factories on the line, middle management positions working in cubicles and laborers of all kinds. They are the ones who spend their whole life trying to support their families and hope to be able to retire someday. This book outlines the different types of pension systems to understand life after retirement. It looks at Social Security, defined benefit retirement plans and contribution retirement plans (401K). It also explains the financial market as it relates to contribution plans. Welfare is reviewed as the alternative to running out of money after retirement. This book looks at the injustice of today's system which takes advantage of workers just to provide greater wealth to companies. Solutions are presented in the last chapter that can work if given a chance by the powers in control of government. Hitting the wall is what happens when you run out of money in retirement and you haven't died yet.