Communist parties lead revolutions in the name of the industrial proletariat. But in the course of China's post-Mao reforms, perhaps no class has experienced downward mobility as steep as the working class. An estimated 30 million of state enterprise workers have experienced "xiagang" (laying-off), a stop-gap measure short of full unemployment, leaving them in a sort of limbo without the technical or psychological skills to adjust successfully to China's new marketized, privatized, and globalized economy. In this book, an international team of scholars explores not only the politics of "xiagang," but also the effect on Chinese workers and their families, and the variety of their responses to this unprecedented dislocation in their lives.

A comprehensive, multidisciplinary annotated bibliography of the chronic pain in later life literature. It consists of 302 entries covering, assessment of chronic pain, the human body and chronic pain, perceptions of chronic pain, treatment of chronic pain, and correlates and consequences of chronic pain.

This volume includes a select citation list of 150 articles that focus on older persons and cancer pain. It suggests the use of both aggressive and holistic treatments to treat pain in the elderly. It will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in the disciplines including medicine, psychology, sociology, social work, pharmacology, and any social services which focus on the care of the elderly.

Henry Miles, a civil servant, suspects that his wife Sarah is having an affair, and asks his writer friend Maurice Bendrix to contact a private investigator on his behalf. Maurice has a secret, however: he was once Sarah's lover, and is equally keen to find out whether she was unfaithful to him too... An economical and intense adaptation.1 woman, 4 men, 1 boy, 5 women or men

In this book, an international team of scholars explores not only the politics of xiagang, but also the effect on Chinese workers and their families, and the variety of their responses to this unprecedented dislocation in their lives.

This is a new release of the original 1945 edition.

This is a new release of the original 1945 edition.

1945. The essays contained in this book were written to collect and digest the facts relating to a number of incidents which have not, at present, been satisfactorily explained, quoting extensively from original sources. Contents: Devil's hoof-marks; Vault at Barbados; Ships seen on the ice; Berbalangs of Cagayan Sulu; Orffyreus' wheel; Crosse's Acari; The Auroras, and other doubtful islands; Mersenne's numbers; Wizard of Mauritius; Planet Vulcan; Nostradamus.

THIS 20 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Oddities A Book of Unexplained Facts, by Rupert T. Gould. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766136205.

1945. The essays contained in this book were written to collect and digest the facts relating to a number of incidents which have not, at present, been satisfactorily explained, quoting extensively from original sources. Contents: Devil's hoof-marks; Vault at Barbados; Ships seen on the ice; Berbalangs of Cagayan Sulu; Orffyreus' wheel; Crosse's Acari; The Auroras, and other doubtful islands; Mersenne's numbers; Wizard of Mauritius; Planet Vulcan; Nostradamus.

THIS 26 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Oddities A Book of Unexplained Facts, by Rupert T. Gould. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766136205.

THIS 20 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Oddities A Book of Unexplained Facts, by Rupert T. Gould. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766136205.

The essays contained in this book were written to collect and digest the facts relating to a number of incidents which have not, at present, been satisfactorily explained, quoting extensively from original sources. Contents: Devil's hoof-marks; Vault at Barbados; Ships seen on the ice; Berbalangs of Cagayan Sulu; Orffyreus' wheel; Crosse's Acari; The Auroras, and other doubtful islands; Mersenne's numbers; Wizard of Mauritius; Planet Vulcan; Nostradamus.