Product Description: Revised March 2016, this is is a summary and analysis of the book, Get What's Yours: The Secrets to Maximizing Out Your Social Security by Laurence Kotlikoff, Phillip Moeller and Paul Solman. Social Security has always been a hot topic in the United States...read more

A handbook on planning the wedding ceremony and reception includes discussions of budgeting, invitations, the gift registry, flowers, and the choice of a photographer

Product Description: Baby Boomers, born from 1945 to 1964, are now coming of age to apply for Social Security. It is imperative that they start the process early and be well informed. For some this will be their income for the rest of their life and will also affect them and their family financially...read more

Product Description: When faced with a major terrorist threat, states seem to reach instinctively for the coercive tools in their policy toolkits, thereby exacerbating the security situation by sanctioning the abuse of human rights, polarizing society, and undermining the positive values of their own systems...read more

In the five years since the first edition of Conflict and Development was published the awareness of the relationship between conflicts and development has grown exponentially. Developmental factors can act as a trigger for violence, as well as for ending violence and for triggering post-conflict reconstruction. The book explores the complexity of the links between violent conflict (usually civil wars) and development, under-development and uneven development. The second edition incorporates significant changes in the field including the G7+ initiative, the New Deal on Fragile States, World Trade talks, major policy documents from the UNDP and World Bank and updates on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

Product Description: This timely book offers a fresh perspective on the issue of contemporary migratory labor, otkhodnichestvo, in Russia―the temporary departure of inhabitants from small towns and villages for short-term jobs in the major cities of Russia...read more

Product Description: The 2015 Edition of Social Security Explained provides a succinct, comprehensive, and detailed explanation of the federal old-age, survivor's and disability insurance programs under the Social Security Act.Social Security Explained, 2015 Edition covers:Who is covered by the Social Security systemLiability for Social Security taxHow a worker acquires "insured status" required for benefit eligibilityThe conditions of entitlement by a worker, self-employed person, and spousal and child beneficiaries to the various kinds of Social Security benefitsThe taxation of benefits,Strategies for increasing benefits and managing attendant tax consequencesIn addition to thorough analysis of the applicable laws, regulations and administrative rulings, Social Security Explained, 2015 Edition includes:The latest earnings base for the Social Security tax and Medicare portion of the tax, as well as the annual earnings or retirement test amountDiscussion of the Additional Medicare Tax that went into effect in 2013The formula for the calculation of the maximum total amounts a family can receive in 2015 and prior yearsAnalysis of the application of Social Security law to same-sex spousesAnd much more...read more

Product Description: More than 11 years after the 9/11 attacks and 10 years after the October 2002 Bali bombings, the need for a comprehensive assessment of what the countries in Southeast Asia have achieved is overdue. We need to consider whether the strategies against both the domestic and transnational terrorist and extremist threat have been appropriate and have yielded desired results...read more

Product Description: A growing chorus of prominent voices in Congress and elsewhere are calling for the expansion of our Social Security system―people who know that Social Security will not “go broke” and does not add a penny to the national debt...read more

The author recounts his first season, in 1983, as president of the Utica Blue Sox, a single A baseball team in the New York-Penn League

Product Description: This is the completely revised and updated sixth edition of an authoritative handbook that is used in many courses on European social security and of which already several translations have been made. In the past decades, the coordination and equal treatment provisions of the European Union have become of vital importance...read more