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Everyone deserves to be able to retire with dignity, but this core
feature of the social contract is in jeopardy. Companies have
swerved away from pensions, and most of the workforce has woefully
inadequate retirement savings. If we don't act to fix this broken
system, rates of impoverishment for senior citizens threaten to
skyrocket, and tens of millions of Americans reaching retirement
age in the coming decades will be forced to delay retirement and
will experience a dramatic drop in their standard of living. In
Rescuing Retirement, Teresa Ghilarducci and Tony James offer a
comprehensive yet simple plan to help workers save for retirement,
increase retirement savings by earning higher returns, and
guarantee lifelong income for everyone. Built on people's own money
in individual Guaranteed Retirement Accounts, the plan requires no
new taxes, no more bureaucracy, and no increase in the deficit.
Speaking to Americans' growing anxiety about their ability to
retire, Rescuing Retirement provides answers to anyone wanting to
understand the growing movement to protect a period of life once
considered a deserved time of rest and creativity and offers a
practical guide to the future of secure retirement.
Everyone deserves to be able to retire with dignity, but this core
feature of the social contract is in jeopardy. Companies have
swerved away from pensions, and most of the workforce has woefully
inadequate retirement savings. If we don't act to fix this broken
system, rates of impoverishment for senior citizens threaten to
skyrocket, and tens of millions of Americans reaching retirement
age in the coming decades will be forced to delay retirement and
will experience a dramatic drop in their standard of living. In
Rescuing Retirement, Teresa Ghilarducci and Tony James offer a
comprehensive yet simple plan to help workers save for retirement,
increase retirement savings by earning higher returns, and
guarantee lifelong income for everyone. Built on people's own money
in individual Guaranteed Retirement Accounts, the plan requires no
new taxes, no more bureaucracy, and no increase in the deficit.
Speaking to Americans' growing anxiety about their ability to
retire, Rescuing Retirement provides answers to anyone wanting to
understand the growing movement to protect a period of life once
considered a deserved time of rest and creativity and offers a
practical guide to the future of secure retirement.
When Eve Harper finds her lover in the arms of another woman, she's
forced to face up to some uncomfortable truths; she's single, the
wrong side of forty and she's running out of wine There's nothing
else for it, but to sell everything and take an extended holiday in
Greece. With her unruly younger sister in tow, Eve embarks on a
tumultuous journey of self-discovery and en-route she meets Annie,
a troubled teacher from England, Heidi, an ambitious hotelier and
JJ, a cute bartender, with an uncanny gift for cocktails. When she
arrives at The Lost Resort, a women-only hotel on the Greek Island
of Lesbos, Eve finds her own slice of paradise and, with
temperatures rising and passion in the air, she wonders where it
will all end. But this is only the beginning. The Lost Resort is
the first in a series of funny, romantic novels set on the Greek
island of Lesbos. It is a story about friendship, family and the
restorative power of love.
The Animal Addict's Guide offers travelers the most diverse look at
global volunteer programs for working with animals available in any
book. It presents page after page of rock-solid information.
Explore detailed listings from multiple organizations - big and
small - all in one place. Discover volunteer expeditions you never
dreamed existed. Save hundreds of hours in research by comparing
your options in an instant. Read inspiring stories by volunteer
travels who walk the walk. Find volunteer opportunities by county,
category, even favorite species Lose yourself among a wealth of
options and inspirations for every style of traveler: budget,
families, teens, all-inclusive, self-guided, solo, gap year,
seniors, expeditions, grassroots, homestays, and more Unearth your
passion: wildlife, domestics, field studies, conservation, animal
shelters, rescue and rehabilitation, paleontology, marine mammals,
coral reef preservation, conservation education, skilled or novice.
Map the coastal ecosystems of Tobago Prevent elephant-human
conflicts in Namibia Work as an eco-volunteer at a Kibbutz in
Israel Track snow leopards in the Altai Mountains of Russia Cowboy
up to aid wild horses in America's Wild West Be a friend to felines
on the shores of Caye Caulker in Belize Rescue temple dogs among
Thailand's ancient Buddhist wats Offer a helping hand to a
sanctuary protecting the donkeys of Corfu Catalog Humpbacks,
dolphins, and dugongs of the Comoros Archipelago Have a pouch full
of fun while conserving wildlife in the Australian Outback Assist
panda keepers in preserving one of the world's most endangered
species The World is Yours for the Saving
When Crown Prince Arthur's life is threatened by his uncle forcing
his way on to the throne, General Drew Thompson, the Hero of
Bogota, must come to his aid.
An hilarious love story, about the life and love of a long distance
runner. After years of hard work, Rachel Ryder is in the best shape
of her life and a favourite to win the National Mountain
Championships. So the last thing she needs is a broken arm and a
distracting encounter with a beautiful doctor. Matters become even
more confusing when Rachel's treacherous ex-girlfriend arrives on
the scene, determined to stop at nothing to win her back. With the
race fast approaching and her heart in a storm, Rachel is forced to
choose between the woman she lost, the woman she has found and her
opportunity to realise the ambition of a lifetime.
Sir Alexander St. Clair becomes a Knight of the Temple shortly
before the dissolution of the Order but will go to great lengths to
continue the work. He and a few others are assigned to join
Scottish royalty and continue to serve the Order by supporting the
new Scottish king, Robert the Bruce.
This is an important new analysis of the problematic relationship
between dreams and madness as perceived by nineteenth-century
French writers, thinkers, and doctors. Those wishing to know the
nature of madness, wrote Voltaire, should observe their dreams. The
relationship between the dream-state and madness is a key theme of
nineteenth-century European, and specifically French, thought. The
meaning of dreams and associated phenomena such as somnambulism,
ecstasy, and hallucinations (including those induced by hashish)
preoccupied writers, philosophers, and psychiatrists. In this
path-breaking cross-disciplinary study, Tony James shows how
doctors (such as Esquirol, Lelut, and Janet), thinkers (including
Maine de Biran and Taine), and writers (for example, Balzac,
Nerval, Baudelaire, Victor Hugo, and Rimbaud) grappled in very
different ways with the problems raised by the so-called 'phenomena
of sleep'. Were historical figures such as Socrates or Pascal in
fact mad? Might dream be a source of creativity, rather than a
merely subsidiary, 'automatic' function? What of lucid dreaming? By
exploring these questions, Dreams, Madness, and Creativity in
Nineteenth-Century France makes good a considerable gap in the
history of pre-Freudian psychology and sheds new and fascinating
light on the central French writers of the period.
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