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Publisher
Metro Books
Pub. Date
2009
Description
This book offers you the chance to find out what you're really like, and to fully realize your mental potential. Test yourself and discover what your mental strengths are: maybe you prefer numbers to words or can visualize shapes better than you can spell. The tests will help you discover what type of thinker you are, and encourage you to learn new cognitive skills.
Author
Description
"Get the benefits you're entitled to, choose the right care, protect loved ones' assets. Covers elder fraud"--
To find the right kind of long-term care, you may need to make difficult personal, medical and financial decisions during emotionally tough times. Matthews helps you and your family understand the range of available choices, and guides you toward the best care you can afford.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Finding the best and most appropriate in-home care for an aging loved one can be confusing and time consuming. This guide helps readers through the process of hiring a private caregiver, assessing needs and resources, and making difficult choices. Using real stories throughout, the authors reveal the benefits and pitfalls of in-home care. --Publisher.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"The best-selling author of Policy Paradox, a classic on politics, delivers a pathbreaking work on the simple act of counting. Early in her extraordinary career, Deborah Stone wrote Policy Paradox, a landmark work on politics. Now, in Counting, she revolutionizes how we approach numbers and shows how counting shapes the way we see the world. Most of us think of counting as a skill so basic that we see numbers as objective, indisputable facts. Not...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
You might think the biggest problem in medical care is that it costs too much. Or that health insurance is too expensive, too uneven, too complicated -- and gives you too many forms to fill out. But the central problem is that too much medical care has too little value. Dr. H. Gilbert Welch is worried about too much medical care. It's not to deny that some people get too little medical care, rather that the conventional concern about "too little"...
Author
Publisher
CyberAge Books/Information Today, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"Go beyond Google to mine big data and social media. Author Robert Berkman gives expert advice on how to search the internet to locate the best information sources, how to find and utilize the professionals behind those sources, and how to combine these techniques to complete an information search on any subject. This fully updated 6th edition includes how to search beyond Google, leveraging big data in the search process, and how to search the social...
Author
Description
In her early thirties, [the author] had everything a modern American woman was supposed to want - husband, country home, successful career - but instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she felt consumed by panic and confusion. This ... is the story of how she left behind all these outward marks of success, and of what she found in their place. Presents the memoir of a magazine writer's yearlong travels across the world in search of pleasure, guidance,...
15) That's odd!
Author
Series
Publisher
Red Chair Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"In this book, readers learn about the skills required for some unusual and really odd jobs such as professional taste and odor testers, dog walkers, and trapeze artists"--
Publisher
Nolo
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"This book is meant to help anyone who may need to make decisions about long-term care, either for themselves or for someone else. It discusses how to choose options for home care, assisted living, and nursing homes; how to get the most out of Medicaid, Medicare, and veterans' programs; how to evaluate whether long-term care insurance is worth the significant expense; consideration of the special needs of loved ones with dementia or Alzheimer's; and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Skills for finding information are essential for academic study and beyond. This illustrated guide provides practical advice on how to source and use the right resources. It includes guidance on how to carry out a literature review as well as the skills needed for finding and evaluating information.
Author
Publisher
McFarland
Pub. Date
2007
Description
"This work skeptically explores the notion that the Internet will soon obviate any need for traditional print-based academic libraries, and makes a case for the library's staying power in the face of technological advancements"--Provided by publisher.
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