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For seniors who live on a fixed income, owning a home—and keeping it—can be financially challenging. Rather than face the choice of selling your home and moving or becoming a home-owning pauper, reverse mortgage products let seniors convert part of their equity into tax-free income that can be used for anything—even mortgage payments, living expenses, or medical costs.
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- Special advice for adult children helping their senior parents secure a loan
- How to get a reverse mortgage and keep your second home legally
- Property requirements and financing fees
- Selecting among a multitude of lenders
- Spending and estimating leftover equity
- Sharing the decision-making process with family and loved ones
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"A simple, easy-to-use guide to reverse mortgages for seniors and their families
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Reverse Mortgages for Dummies.......2007-10-14
It it's typical style, this book goes through the reverse mortgage product.
This is an excellent book that explains the basics of reverse mortgages.
A must read for anybody considering a reverse mortgage
Good Introduction to Reverse Mortgages.......2007-08-23
This is a good primer in reverse mortgages. I have been frustrated in querying my CPA and other financial authorities on the subject of the Reverse Mortgage and this book helps answer most of the important questions. I didn't want to get an MBA by reading this book and so many of the books on the subject are too detailed for what the average homeowner needs. This one fills the bill.I'de recommend it.
NOTHING DUMB ABOUT THIS.......2007-05-07
I've searched articles on the web, had the required reverse mortgage counseling, and bought this book. All you really need is this book.In coverage, organization, and language, it presents and clarifies a solution of a major problem for seniors.
Great Buy!.......2007-03-11
This is great for learning about Reverse Mortgages. I highly recommend this book.
continuing education for notary signing agents.......2007-01-30
Although this book is primarily intended for those considering a home equity conversion mortgage, I bought it because, as a notary signing agent I am occasionally called to conduct reverse mortgage closings. I wanted to have a better understanding of this type of loan. This book gave me that. I highly recommend it to all notary signing agents who want to gain more knowledge in this area, and be better prepared to do these types of closings.
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The title The Great Human Diasporas implies that this book is a history of human migration, but it is much more. It is a readable, accessible summary of the lifework of Luca Cavalli-Sforza, who has done more than anyone else to reveal the genetic makeup of human populations. Originally written in Italian with Cavalli-Sforza's filmmaker son Francesco, it maintains some qualities of an interview: The Great Human Diasporas is full of anecdotes about the Pygmies with whom Cavalli-Sforza works, the text is frequently personal yet not self-serving, and it clearly shows how he helped tie together population genetics, linguistics, and anthropology to offer a new, non-racist view of human diversity.
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Good introduction to anthropology.......2006-02-25
This is a book covering a wide range of topics relating to anthropology. Cavalli-Sforza tells of his experiences with African Pygmies in the Congo, and relates these experiences to ideas as to what hunter-gatherer life was like. He explains the discovery and history of the theory of evolution, and explains the human tree. The spread and migration of humans since the dawn of their evolution is described in good detail. Molecular biology is easily explained. He also describes theories of agriculture's emergence and significance. Cavalli-Sforza juxtaposes what we know of human migrations from DNA with what we know from linguistic evidence. He also discusses cultural anthropology and the concept of race. It is impressive that Cavalli-Sforza has such a good command of a wide range of subjects.
The book is a good read, especially for the layman. Overall, it is an account of humanity's evolution viewed from a variety of fields.
good account of human history.......2002-10-27
Great Huaman Diaspporas covers the history of humanity from its origins in Africa and how it spread through different parts of the world. It goes into homo saphiens forefathers and how homo saphiens forefathers evolved into modern man. It also deals with how gene environments influenced genes. It also deals with how language language and race developed.
Overall, a account of how humanity developed it in terms of genes, race and langage.
genes, languages, prehistoric human migrations.......2002-09-22
The most rewarding part of this popular science book is the middle, fifth to seventh chapters, in which Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Professor of Genetics at Stanford Medical School, draws on scientific research in human population genetics, in which he has been a well respected pioneer, to describe the migration of human populations beginning about 100,000 years ago out of Africa until recent times. Because patterns of genetic and linguistic evolution exhibit high intercorrelations--even though their respective elements and mechanics differ--he also cites linguistic evidence for this account of migratory prehistory.
The most valuable contribution of this book to popular understanding is that population genetics provides possibly the best though not sole scientific basis on which to construct the prehistory of human "races." By this evidence, we learn, for example, about the migration of modern Homo sapiens to Southeast Asia and Australia approximately 55,000 to 60,000 years ago or about the spread of Neolithic farmer-cultivators from the Middle East into Europe beginning about 9,000 to 10,000 years ago. I suspect that readers unfamiliar with modern human evolution will find the genetic tree of the world's populations on page 119 intriguing. The diagram shows, for example, that Northeast Asians are more closely related to Europeans than Northeast Asians are to Southeast Asians.
For as rapidly advancing a science as human population genetics, it should not be surprising that some findings are dated. Recent evidence suggests, for instance, that North Asians descended from both southern China populations that gradually migrated northward as well as Caucasian populations that migrated eastward, so that some genetic mixing all across North Asia took place and is the source of the observed racial connections between North Asians and Caucasians.
In other chapters, Cavalli-Sforza tackles related topics somewhat unevenly. His anecdotes about the African pygmies are light and sympathetic. While his description of the hominid line is accurate for the time of publication, there are more insightful not to mention updated accounts now in print. His discussion of the links between genes and culture is engaging and humane but from the standpoint of science, no better than educated. His rejoinder to the controversial The Bell Curve (1994) is scientifically persuasive.
I very much enjoyed reading this book, the first I purchased at amazon.com.
Good, but no clear objective........2002-05-29
Much interesting material, and some difficult concepts explained clearly for the general lay person. However, the book has no clear objective. It is best read as a supplement to the Pulitzer Prize winning book by Jared Diamond, "Guns, Germs and Steel".
Really good, I Recommend it.......2002-05-15
Ok, this will be a short one. The book is really good, I recommend it vastly. As a molecular biologist I am impressed with the expertise of L. L. Cavalli-Sforza in varios areas of science. He does not only manage to comunicate in an easy manner the complexities of genetics and molecular biology (related to this subject), but also accomplishes to clarify lots of linguistic information gathered through his life studies. This last topic was the hardest for me to understand, though I believe language studies are not easy. So, as said in the beginning, this book is highly recommended.
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Nine Novels by Younger Americans
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This anthology collects nine exceptional novels that were written by high school students from New York City during the summer of 2005 in 826NYC's Young Adult Writers' Colony. Ranging from comedic, to fiercly political, to deeply personal, these novels are immensely entertaining and forecast a bright future for this brand new generation of novelists. As novelist Richard Powers says in his foreword, "There comes a time when we must decide whether we love the world enough to hand it over to its next lover . . . [This is a book of] nine worlds that nine people could not find and so had to make themselves. Here it is before you: how the story ends this time. And how it starts again."
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A Book Everyone Should Read (Especialy Young Writers).......2007-06-23
Ok, so I'm a young writer. I plan on becomeing an old writer too, once I grow up. I read this book because I love to read things by kids my age (can we still be called kids?). I was not at all disapointed. This is a truely wonderful book. My favorite story, I must say, is the deeply complicated and emotional, "Mistaken Identity" written by Sarah Meira Rosenberg, who started it when she was in fith grade. It tells the story of Anna and her school when they are kiddneaped while on a feild trip. Anna is already a very interesting and emotional kid, but add to that the mysterious Spencer Silver, the genious Daniel Jones and a host of other...special children, the book had my attention from page one. Sarah Meira Rosenberg, if you read this, I beg you to hurry it up with that sequel, becuae I am DYING to read it! I highly recomend this book!
An astonishing feat.......2007-03-16
I admit I'm partial -- I'm the father of one of the nine authors represented in this anthology. But think about the fact that these nine novels were written by high school kids age 15-17 in the span of eight weeks over a summer. They churned out 4,000 words a week each, used a workshop format to review each other's efforts, and refined as they went along. They are very different books with very different voices, bound, literally and figuratively, by 826NYC's outstanding program that I refer to as "literacy for the literate."
If you are an adult (not most of these kids' target audience -- the assignment, after all, was to write a young adult novel) and you are at all concerned about the art of writing among the young, take heart. These are not adult takes on what kids think and feel -- they are reports from the emotional front. The novels are full of humor and empathy and vision that belies the ages of the authors.
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Sarah Lucas: God is Dad
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Is that a light bulb in your pantyhose, or are you just happy to see me? This impressionistic catalogue of recent pieces from the perennially provocative Sarah Lucas documents an installation in the artist's own messy photographs and handwritten notes, along with text fragments by her partner, the writer Olivier Garbay. A highly intimate, highly coded, and highly revealing assemblage.
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Sarah Lucas
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The work of Sarah Lucas (b. 1962), often assembled from everyday materials and dealing with recurrent themes of sex, death, and gender, is laced with a distinctive bleak humor. Her best-known piece is Two Fried Eggs and a Kebab, a work that wittily combines the aforementioned materials with a junk-shop table and manages to comment on not only sexism and gender but also mortality, language, and the tradition of the female nude in Western art.
Matthew Collings explores Lucas's art and ideas in this first thorough look at one of today's most important artists.
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GOD IS DAD. That was the title of Sarah Lucas's last show in New York, in which the pun-prone artist assembled an array of sculptures constructed from cast concrete forms, tacky beige nylon stockings, and random metal objects. These typically abject art pieces fit right into the body of work Lucas has been building since the early 1990s from apparently banal, everyday materials. Old, worn furniture, clothing, food, newspapers, cigarettes, cars, resin, plaster, neon lamps, and light fixtures combine to form grungy assemblages whose appearance belies the serious and complex subject matter they address. Through the slyly anthropomorphic character of her sculptures, Lucas makes constant reference to the human body, questioning gender definitions and challenging male-dominated culture, especially that espoused by the sensationalist British press. She subverts sexual stereotypes in her appropriations of the tabloid vernacular and by making unexpected juxtapositions of objects, often employing visual wit and a defiant, bawdy humor. Her most iconic work, Two Fried Eggs and a Kebab, which was included in the landmark Sensation exhibition in 1999, bears this out with a nasty wink: The title, which precisely describes the materials from which the piece was made, is slang for, well . . . just look it up. This extensive, large-format catalogue comprehensively tracks the career of one of the leading figures in an outstanding generation of British artists. Lucas, who first came to attention as a YBA (Young British Artist) in the 1990s, is here granted her first major exhibition survey. Included in this accompanying publication is documentation of key works, plus new work made especially for the Tate Liverpool. It is the most comprehensive publication on the artist to date.
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Fred and Jennie: A Civil War love story
Ernest B Barker
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"I am Black, Mom!"
Sarah Lucas
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This book is a narrative of events that have taken place from the time my son joined the army in the fall of 2003 to his incarceration in military prison. “I am black, Mom!” is the answer my son gave me when I asked him what had gone wrong at his court marshal. I have told the story based on information I gathered from my son, his lawyer, court transcripts and various government personnel and peace organizations. I am hoping it will be of value to financially challenged families who might see the military as the only way to find a job. I have attempted to shed some light on our nation's most productive and ever burgeoning industries, namely defense and prison. While we crusade for democracy overseas, who is crusading for the diminishing middle-class at home? On June 22, 2005, my beloved son was sentenced to 13 months in military prison at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Two requests for clemency were denied, and he has been warned that it will be at least a year before he can appeal his case. His first clemency request with the Fort Stewart Commander General was expectedly denied and his second clemency request to the Fort Sill brass was also denied in early January. It is obvious the military wants him to serve the full sentence. As a mother of two black sons, I am compelled to tell his story if only to alert and spare some family the pain we are experiencing.
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This crowd of artists, as exuberant as this collection's title, were recruited for a mini-survey of contemporary art based on the diversity of their approaches and practices, which the editors saw as representative. Their work in a variety of media from film and video to painting and installation is informed by everyday life, and addresses issues such as ecology, technology, popular culture and globalization. The pieces gathered here include a mix of key moments in conceptual art and newly commissioned works, sourced from the artists' studios and from international collections. Contributors include Liam Gillick, Carsten Holler, Douglas Gordon, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Jorge Pardo, Sarah Morris, Cerith Wyn Evans, Sarah Lucas, Anri Sala, Doug Aitken, Jim Lambie, Paola Pivi, Carles Congost and Eva Rothschild, and their work appears alongside pieces from the estates of Alighiero e Boetti and Bas Jan Ader. With texts from Liam Gillick and Kurt Vonnegut, among others.
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Just Love Me
Diana Ebster ,
Thomas Meinecke ,
Birgit Sonna ,
Katharina Sykora ,
Gillian Wearing ,
Tracey Emin ,
Matthew Barney ,
Mike Kelley ,
Sarah Lucas ,
Pipilotti Rist ,
Sue Williams ,
Andrea Zittel , and
Tracey Moffatt
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Description: Just Love Me--with its title taken directly from a late 90s neon sign by Tracey Emin--reveals how complex and differentiated female identity constructions have become today. Classically assigned roles have broken down. Radical feminist positions of the 70s and 80s no longer make sense. But if much has changed since the late 60s, when feminist artists began to make their most prominent moves, many social and structural problems remain. The strategies and perspectives of women artists today--and, presumably, of women today--are here considered through a selection of works by an important group of contemporary (mostly) women artists: Matthew Barney, Rineke Dijkstra, Tracey Emin, Mona Hatoum, Jonathan Horowitz, Sarah Jones, Mike Kelley, Karen Kilimnik, Sarah Lucas, Tracey Moffat, Cady Noland, Catherine Opie, Pipilotti Rist, Daniela Rossell, Cindy Sherman, Ann-Sofi Sidan, Sam Taylor-Wood, Gillian Wearing, Sue Williams, and Andrea Zittel.
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