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Seniors in Casino Land: Tough Luck for Older Americans

Seniors in Casino Land: Tough Luck for Older Americans

Amy Ziettlow

Amy Ziettlow describes how the ubiquitous electronic gambling machine absorbs the time and money of many seniors, while exploiting their loneliness, idleness, and boredom.
Religion and Families: An Introduction

Religion and Families: An Introduction

Loren D. Marks

This chapter is co-authored with Amy Ziettlow and Charles E. Stokes. Portions of this chapter are reprinted with permission from a report entitled, Does the Shape of Families Shape Faith? by Elizabeth Marquardt, Amy Ziettlow, and Charles E. Stokes. This was a Lilly Endowment–sponsored project, based at the Institute for American Values and developed in consultation with the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Chicago Divinity School. 2. From film version Marquardt ...
Generational IQ for the Workplace and Home Collection

Generational IQ for the Workplace and Home Collection

Haydn Shaw

See Vern Bengtson, interview by Amy Ziettlow, “Religion Runs in the Family,” Christianity Today, September 20, 2013, http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2013/ augustwebonly/religionrunsinfamily.html. [11] Stetzer, “Dropouts and Disciples.” [ 12] Vern L. Bengtson, with Norella M. Putney and Susan Harris, Families and Faith: How Religion Is Passed Down across Generations (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), 71–98. [13] Vern Bengtson, interview by Amy Ziettlow, “ Religion ...
Homeward Bound: Modern Families, Elder Care, and Loss

Homeward Bound: Modern Families, Elder Care, and Loss

Amy Ziettlow

Homeward Bound shows that as family structure becomes more complex, so too does elder care, and existing institutions and legal approaches are not prepared to handle those complexities.
Homeward Bound: Modern Families, Elder Care, and Loss

Homeward Bound: Modern Families, Elder Care, and Loss

Amy Ziettlow

James N. Laditka & Sarah B. Laditka, Adult Children Helping Older Parents: Variations in Likelihood and Hours by Gender, Race and Family Role, 23 Res. on Aging 429, 430 (2001). Douglas R. White, Kinship, Class, and Community, ...
Amy's Slippers

Amy's Slippers

Mary Chapman

Amy's Slippers. Amy's mum is fed up with dirty footprints on the carpet, but Amy says that she can't find her slippers.
Amy's Moon

Amy's Moon

Amy Middlebrook

We all watch the beautiful moon at night. But what if the moon watches back? In the delightful children's story Amy's Moon, one night the moon looks in at Amy's family through the windows of her house on his magical journey through the sky.
The Detective, The Woman and the Winking Tree: A Novel of ...

The Detective, The Woman and the Winking Tree: A Novel of ...

Amy Thomas

A Novel of Sherlock Holmes Amy Thomas ... 3GX www.mxpublishing.com Digital edition converted and distributed in 2012 by Andrews UK Limited www. andrewsuk.com © Copyright 2013 Amy Thomas The right of Amy Thomas to be identified ...
Amy's Slippers

Amy's Slippers

Mary Chapman

Amy's mum is fed up with dirty footprints on the carpet, but Amy says that she can't find her slippers. Now, if only she had some magic ones - wouldn't that be great? Guess what is waiting for her when she gets home from school?
Amy's Answering Machine: Messages from Mom

Amy's Answering Machine: Messages from Mom

Amy Borkowsky

" Amy also reveals the stories behind the messages and shares calls not available on CD, each one brimming with the worry and annoying comments only a loving mother could dish out.
Amy Snow: A Novel

Amy Snow: A Novel

Tracy Rees

'A sparkling and compelling mystery. Amy Snow captured our hearts from the very first page' Richard and Judy. Abandoned on a bank of snow as a baby, Amy is taken in at nearby Hatville Court.
Stanford

Stanford

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Lastly, a hearty thank you to Amy Jen Su for her tireless work as our Class Notes co-correspondent. Amy is taking leave from her correspondent duties to spend more time with her family. Amy had an extraordinary ability to ferret out classmate  ...
Amy, My Daughter

Amy, My Daughter

Mitch Winehouse

The intimate, inside story of the ultimately tragic life of multiple Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse (“Rehab,” “Back to Black”) is told by the one person most able to tell it—Amy’s closest advisor, her ...
Amy Chua: Life of a Tiger Mother: The life and times of Amy ...

Amy Chua: Life of a Tiger Mother: The life and times of Amy ...

Debbie J.

ABOUT THE BOOK Amy Chua was a wellrespected and highprofile Yale Law Professor who published two bestsellers yet, no one seemed to have taken much notice of her.
Amy's Three Best Things

Amy's Three Best Things

Philippa Pearce

Amy wants to stay three nights with her granny - all by herself Granny gives her a lovely time, but each night Amy feels homesick. Luckily, she has brought three things with her which help in remarkable ways.
Ending Addiction for Good: The Groundbreaking, Holistic, ...

Ending Addiction for Good: The Groundbreaking, Holistic, ...

Richard Taite

When Amy Green's daughter said, “Mom, you're an addict and you need help,” Amy called it “the most mortifying moment of my life.” At fiftysix years old and with no family history of addiction, Amy simply couldn't believe that shehad become ...
If I Knew Then

If I Knew Then

Amy Fisher

The Amy Fisher case became an international obsession; in the United States, she was the subject of three major TV movies, a musical, books and even trading cards. Now aged 30, in If I Knew Then Amy tells her own story for the first time.
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Inspector McLean Ebook Bundle:

James Oswald

He searched first for the name Amy Prendergast, then Amy Calton and then, in a flash of inspiration, Amy Prendergast-Calton. Eventually he found a collection of obscure obituaries, indexed by someone with clearly far too much time on their ...
The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies

The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies

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The global landscape of crossborder reproductive care: Twenty key findings for the new millennium. Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 24(3), 158– 163. Amy C. Steinbugler Amy C. Steinbugler Steinbugler, Amy C. Interracial.
Yes Please by Amy Poehler - A 15-minute Summary & Analysis

Yes Please by Amy Poehler - A 15-minute Summary & Analysis

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Important People Amy Poehler: Amy Poehler is the author of Yes Please. She is a writer, actress, and comedienne who has worked with the comedy theater groups , Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade, and starred on the televisions ...
The Complete Novels and Selected Writings of Amy Levy, 1861-1889

The Complete Novels and Selected Writings of Amy Levy, 1861-1889

Amy Levy

Amy Levy was a talented Anglo-Jewish writer who committed suicide at the age of 28 in 1889.
Assessing the Teaching of Writing

Assessing the Teaching of Writing

Amy E. Dayton

with his wife Amy and four kids. Amy C. Kimme Hea is a writing program director and an associate professor of rhetoric, composition, and the teaching of English at the University of Arizona and author of Going Wireless: A Critical Exploration of  ...
Loving Amy: A Mother's Story

Loving Amy: A Mother's Story

Janis Winehouse

But who was the real Amy? Amy's mother, Janis, knew her in a way that no-one else did. In this warm, poignant and, at times, heartbreaking memoir, she reveals the full story of the daughter she loved.
Campaign and Election Reform: A Reference Handbook

Campaign and Election Reform: A Reference Handbook

Glenn H. Utter

Douglas. J. Amy. (b. 1951). Douglas Amy, an expert on electoral voting systems, is an advocate for election reform and the use of proportional representation in U.S. elections. In 1981 Amy ...
Amy Fisher: My Story

Amy Fisher: My Story

Amy Fisher

Currently serving a five-to-fifteen-year sentence for first-degree assault ("If you're a celebrity prisoner, they make life very tough on you"), Amy has finally told her side of the story, in full and fascinating detail, to veteran ...
Supplement to The Stegall family of Pontotoc County, ...

Supplement to The Stegall family of Pontotoc County, ...

Charline Roye Henderson

AMY OAKES (MYERS) 1. Moses 2. Thomas 3. Jeremiah Green, Sr. 4. James Morrison (Jim) 5. Margaret Clementine 6. Amy Oakes Amy Oakes b. 21 Apr. 1887 Pontotoc Co., MS; d. 15 July 1974 (died in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico)  ...
Erotic Attunement: Parenthood and the Ethics of Sensuality ...

Erotic Attunement: Parenthood and the Ethics of Sensuality ...

Cristina L. H. Traina

Brown, Amy Benson. “Sweet Release.” In The Reality ofBreastfeeding: Reflections by Contemporary Women, edited by Amy Benson Brown and Kathryn Read McPherson, 31–34. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey, 1998. Brown, Amy Benson, and ...
Ask Amy Green: Wedding Belles

Ask Amy Green: Wedding Belles

Sarah Webb

Amy’s mom is getting married!
Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Not exactly a memoir, not just a collection of observations, Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal is a beautiful exploration into the many ways we are connected on this planet and speaks to the awe, bewilderment, and poignancy of being alive. ...
Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

Morgan Matson

Amy Curry is having a terrible year.

who called from an unknown number?