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Book Fleecing Grandma and Grandpa

    Book Details:
  • Author : Betty L. Alt
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2004-09-30
  • ISBN : 0313057818
  • Pages : 182 pages

Download or read book Fleecing Grandma and Grandpa written by Betty L. Alt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-09-30 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Falling for a scam or con is humiliating for anyone, and can have terrible consequences. But for the elderly, being the victim of fraud can be disastrous, and they are the most common and vulnerable targets of everyday scams, cons, and frauds. From identity theft to gambling scams, from power of attorney issues to pyramid schemes, there is no dearth of creativity in the ways some criminals will relieve the elderly from their money and their homes. Here, Alt and Wells describe the most common scams, offer the stories of actual victims, and detail ways to protect yourself and your family from becoming easy targets. What makes the elderly such easy marks for con artists? How can they avoid the common traps? Knowing about them is one place to start, and this book helps readers to understand and identify the most common scams perpetrated against the elderly. Because such cons are so hard to prosecute, it is important to know the methods criminals employ to separate innocents from their hard-earned money. This lively, vivid account of one of the most insidious forms of crime will help families and individuals protect themselves and their loved ones from the machinations of those who view them as easy marks.

Book A Visit from Grandma and Grandpa

Download or read book A Visit from Grandma and Grandpa written by Catherine Kenworthy and published by Golden Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Margaret's parents go away on a vacation, Grandma and Grandpa come to stay and fill her days with so many interesting things she doesn't have time to be sad.

Book When You Visit Grandma   Grandpa

Download or read book When You Visit Grandma Grandpa written by Anne Bowen and published by Carolrhoda Books. This book was released on 2004-08-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staring out the car window at the road flashing by, a young girl explains to her new baby brother what happens When You Visit Grandma and Grandpa: you get to play hide and seek with Grandma in the summer and carve pumpkins with her in the fall. Pausing to ask, "Are we there yet?" one more time, she continues: in the winter, you get to build snow forts with Grandpa and watch his magic tricks during spring rains.

Book Police Women

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sandra K. Wells
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2005-09-30
  • ISBN : 0313038317
  • Pages : 174 pages

Download or read book Police Women written by Sandra K. Wells and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-09-30 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is often said that a woman must do a job twice as well as a man in order to get half the credit. This is particularly true of women in law enforcement. Women have been involved in various forms of policing for the last 100 years, but it wasn't until the Equal Employment Act of 1970 that women could move from the job of meter maids to patrol and detective work. Yet less than 1% of all top-level cops are women, and there remain significant obstacles in the career paths of women in the force. This book looks at the history of women police officers and provides first-hand accounts of women at every level, including those who drop out. It addresses discrimination, competition, lack of mentoring, differential treatment and sexual harrassment, examining what issues play into the decision to stick it out or leave that many policewomen face. It also considers the family issues these women return home to at the end of the day. It is often said that a woman must do a job twice as well as a man in order to get half the credit. This is particularly true of women in law enforcement. Women have been involved in various forms of policing for the last 100 years, but it wasn't until the Equal Employment Act of 1970 that women could move from the job of meter maids to patrol and detective work. Yet less than 1% of all top-level cops are women, and there remain significant obstacles in the career paths of women in the force. This book looks at the history of women police officers and provides first-hand accounts of women at every level, including those who drop out. It addresses discrimination, competition, lack of mentoring, differential treatment, and sexual harrassment. It looks at what plays into the decision to stick it out or leave that many policewomen face. It also considers the family issues these women return home to at the end of the day. Unlike other treatments of the subject, Alt and Wells show how women have changed police work into a more community-oriented model of policing, reduced police violence, served as a strong force to promote a more effective response to domestic violence within police departments, and helped with community-police relations. With a combination of first-hand accounts, careful research, and lively analysis, the authors are able to convey the actual experiences of women who have made their careers behind the shield.

Book When Grandpa and Grandma Visit

Download or read book When Grandpa and Grandma Visit written by Patricia Witt and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A weekend visit from grandparents is always so much fun. While mom cooks healthy stuff, Grandma always brings the fudge and other goodies. Grandpa always has a new story to tell when we get to sit on his lap. Time is spent laughing and playing without a care in the world. With all of this fun, everyone wishes the weekend would never end! This book is an eLIVE book, meaning each book contains a code to redeem a free audio book download from the Tate Publishing website!

Book Just Grandma  Grandpa  and Me

Download or read book Just Grandma Grandpa and Me written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ming s Big Adventure to Grandma   Grandpa

Download or read book Ming s Big Adventure to Grandma Grandpa written by Johanna Barnes and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a three-year-old boy named Ming and his brothers going on a big adventure to their grandparents house.

Book Kidnapped by Grandma and Grandpa

Download or read book Kidnapped by Grandma and Grandpa written by Harri Gravelle and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rupert is a four-year-old boy, with a great imagination and a hunger for excitement. Luckily for him, his fun-loving grandparents share his infectious spirit. This story sees the three adventurers whizz off to Monaco to take part in the Formula 1, but will they stand a chance at winning and will Mum and Dad believe their wondrous tale?

Book Grandma and Grandpa Visit Connor

Download or read book Grandma and Grandpa Visit Connor written by Nadége Cochard and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes parents must take short-term trips, leaving children in the care of other trusted guardians. Readers follow along as Connor adjusts to being watched by his grandparents. He soon learns that taking a break from his mom and dad can be fun. His grandfather creates a magical dinner and his grandmother sews a special costume.

Book My Grandma and Grandpa

Download or read book My Grandma and Grandpa written by Jenny Giles and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Home Equity and Ageing Owners

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lorna Fox O'Mahony
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2012-01-06
  • ISBN : 1847319017
  • Pages : 413 pages

Download or read book Home Equity and Ageing Owners written by Lorna Fox O'Mahony and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growing use of housing equity to support a range of activities and needs raises complex issues, particularly for older owners. In an environment in which older owners are pushed towards housing equity transactions to meet income and welfare costs, they are required to make choices from a complex and sometimes bewildering range of options. The transactions which facilitate the use of home equity as a resource to spend in later life - from 'trading down' and 'ordinary' secured and unsecured debt to targeted products including reverse/lifetime mortgages, home reversion plans and sale-and-rentback agreements - raise important legal and regulatory issues. This book provides a contextual analysis of the financial transactions that older people enter into using their housing equity. It traces the protections afforded to older owners through the 'ordinary' law of property and contract, as well as the development of specific regulatory protections focused on targeted products. The book employs the notion of risk to highlight the nature and causes of the 'situational' vulnerabilities to which older people are now subject as 'consumers' of housing equity, showing that the older owner's personal situation is crucial in determining whether and why they may seek to release equity, the options and products available to them, and the impact of harms resulting from adverse transactions. The book critically evaluates the extent to which this context is incorporated in the legal frameworks through which these transactions are governed, as a measure of the 'appropriateness' of existing legal provision, as well as considering the arguments surrounding 'special protection' for older owners in housing equity transactions.

Book Introduction to Aging

    Book Details:
  • Author : Judith Sugar
  • Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 0826108806
  • Pages : 335 pages

Download or read book Introduction to Aging written by Judith Sugar and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Print+CourseSmart

Book Introduction to Aging

    Book Details:
  • Author : Judith A. Sugar, PhD
  • Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
  • Release : 2013-12-03
  • ISBN : 0826108849
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book Introduction to Aging written by Judith A. Sugar, PhD and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This new textbook creates a paradigm shift with a very practical approach to problem solving. Aging is an asset. Its focus on well care rather than just sick care by understanding physical fitness, sexual fitness, consumer fitness, nutritional fitness and social fitness among others, all point to aging as an asset leading to civic fitness and the potential for intergenerational support. This text may help springboard Gerontology into the 21st Century as the field creating excitement and hope for students and teachers alike." Cullen T. Hayashida, Ph.D. Director, Kupuna (Elder) Education Center Kapi'olani Community College University of Hawaii This research-based yet highly engaging textbook for undergraduate and masters-level college students ushers in a new paradigm of aging-that of aging as a positive stage of life. It offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the broad range of topics that comprise gerontology, using theoretical and research-based information while providing engrossing narratives and real examples of new trends, surprising findings, and controversial topics. The volume dispels many of the myths about aging through careful reporting of facts, issues, and trends. It sheds a positive light on getting older by viewing the elderly and near old as a diverse, capable subset of our population. A discussion of roles in the family, workplace, and greater society along with physical changes, health, sexuality, living environment, work, retirement, and cultural considerations reveal the challenges and opportunities faced by our rapidly aging population. This text comes with access to PowerPoint slides and an instructor's manual including learning objectives, key terms, test questions, suggested topics for essays and discussion, and suggested classroom activities and homework assignments. Key Features: Conceptualizes aging in America as a positive social revolution with far-reaching consequences Dispels negative myths about aging Engages the reader with vivid narratives Includes practical applications of knowledge throughout the text Includes instructor's manual, PowerPoint slides, and resources for additional learning opportunities Targeted to the needs of undergraduate and masters-level gerontology students

Book Running Rich

    Book Details:
  • Author : Betty L. Alt
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2021-01-25
  • ISBN : 166415342X
  • Pages : 101 pages

Download or read book Running Rich written by Betty L. Alt and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-01-25 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful and well-educated in business, Olivia remembers that her late grandmother always emphasized that money was the key to independence. At a fundraising event for a pet charity, she meets and eventually marries wealthy Ronald Ridgeway, heir to the Ridgeway Foundation. When her husband asks for help with the foundation’s accounting, Olivia sees her chance over several years to take and secrete several million dollars in a private bank account. Not wishing to take the chance that her theft eventually may be discovered, she leaves on a shopping trip and disappears. Brought in to find Olivia is Boston Detective Randall Hunter who follows her trail of to many cities across the U.S.

Book Secret Waters

    Book Details:
  • Author : Betty Alt
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2022-01-26
  • ISBN : 1669808785
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Secret Waters written by Betty Alt and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-01-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the town of Paramont, over a two-year period in the late 1940s, several women have been murdered. For some reason all of the bodies have been placed in or near water -- a river or lake. Detectives Amos Taylor and Richard Samms spend months attempting to track down the elusive killer identified merely as young, “good-looking” and driving a light-colored sedan.

Book Running in the Shadows

    Book Details:
  • Author : Betty L. Alt
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2022-06-01
  • ISBN : 166982814X
  • Pages : 162 pages

Download or read book Running in the Shadows written by Betty L. Alt and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having left Boston and Chicago with millions of stolen dollars from former husbands, Ridgeway and Simpson, the beautiful and elusive woman is now living in Kansas under the name Janet Johansen. There, she meets and marries widower billionaire, Allen Randolphe, who resides in Kansas City, Missouri with his daughter, Margaret. For Janet, life is beautiful until at a Randolphe business event, Chicago guest Rusty Aldred tells Margaret that he knew her stepmother under another name and that a private detective is trying to locate that woman. When Margaret mentions Aldred's comments to her stepmother, Janet has to make a decision: assume that Margaret doesn't believe Aldred and that the detective will never find her . . . or run!

Book Land of Oppression Instead of Land of Opportunity

Download or read book Land of Oppression Instead of Land of Opportunity written by Gaines Bradford Jackson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land of Oppression Instead of Land of Opportunity, was written to enlighten the American public about the responsibility of government; how Franklin D. Roosevelt had proposed the Second Bill of Rights yet they never were implemented; how our own government is now being controlled by the very wealthy and tuning our democracy into a powerful money-controlled Oligarchy; how the American Constitution is continually being desecrated when it is supposed to be defended since it is the enshrined supreme law of the land, and finally, forty suggestions addressing what has taken place and addressing what needs to be changed to bring the government back to the respectful organization portrayed by the Constitution and the re-installment of stolen civil liberties (which were once guaranteed by the Bill of Rightsfirst ten amendments of the Constitution).