Product Description: In 1986, when she was 26, Catherine Hill was travelling home from India when her Pan Am flight was hijacked. Terrorists took over the aircraft and the hostages endured nearly 17 hours of terror. Convinced that Pakistani troops were about to try and rescue the hostages, the terrorists finally forced as many people as possible into the aisles and attempted to massacre them...read more

Product Description: Since World War II, Social Security and employer-based pension plans have become the foundations of an economic security that enables older Americans to retire with dignity and financial independence. Social insurance and tax advantaged retirement benefits currently face a number of challenges, however...read more

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Product Description: During the seventeenth century, the Netherlands―a small country with just two million inhabitants and virtually no natural resources―enjoyed a "Golden Age" of economic success, world power, and tremendous artistic output. In this book Michael North examines the Dutch Golden Age, when Dutch society boasted Europe's greatest number of cities and highest literacy rate, unusually large numbers of publicly and privately owned art works, religious tolerance, and a highly structured and wide-ranging social network...read more

An anthropological study of the tribe's historical background, its relations with Hopi and whites, and its social, religious, and economic institutions