In 1998, approximately 30 million people worldwide were living with HIV/AIDS, about 5 million of whom became infected that year. The epidemic continues to expand, with an estimated doubling time of 10 years, making AIDS the leading infectious cause of death ahead of tuberculosis and malaria. Even in the U.S.A. where the death rate from AIDS is declining as a result of effective drug therapies, HIV infection rates continue to climb in several population groups. The prevalence of AIDS among people over the age of 50 is steadily increasing, and most older people are unprepared to address it for a number of reasons, including the widespread discomfort with matters sexual and homosexual and the belief that elderly people are not sexually active and therefore not at risk. This guide for care providers seeks to educate and inform readers about the difficulties and complications that accompany the disease in older people. Thus, while the appendix includes technical descriptions of methodology, data, and results, the narratives in the chapters describing the findings and their practical implications are written in layman's language. Topics covered include biomedical aspects, demographics, sexuality, stressors, mental health, older women, and patient care, all of which are supported by case studies.

Aging with HIV: Psychological, Social, and Health Issues

Politics & Social Sciences

Watson, Mary

Nichols, Janice E.

Speer, David C.

Watson, Betty J.

Vergon, Tiffany L.

Vallee, Colette M.

Meah, Joan M.

Social Sciences

Academic Press

Poems

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Literature & Fiction

United States

Wentworth Press

A sly merchant gets rich when she devises a contraption for collecting mangos, but a dream teachs her a lesson about greed

The Market Lady and the Mango Tree

Children's Books

Geography & Cultures

Harpercollins

When his family comes to America, Jake brings special seeds that produce a wonderful reminder of his grandfather

Butterfly Seeds, The

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Looking forward to moving to a new country but saddened at having to leave his grandfather behind, Jake is comforted by his grandfather's parting gift of magic butterfly seeds, which will bring the butterflies of the old world to Jake's new home.

A dark, all-pervading sexuality haunts this beautifully wrought collection of interlinked short stories set against the backdrop of the diverse communities of Cape Town. The voice of the collection opens up territory that has only been gingerly approached in South African literature, tenderly probing the occult regions of the psyche in order to expose sexuality and repression, passion and inhibition, and joy and sin. The intriguing overlap of ambiguities and contradictions exposed by this gentle inquiry illuminates the rifts and tears in the tapestry of ardent yet unrecognized South African longings and desires. André Brink writes about this book: "Moss is a collection of some of the most exquisite short stories I have read in a long time. If this seems like extravagant praise, I can only say that I believe they can be compared to some of the best work by Margaret Laurence. Each story has been finely carved, with every little detail in place, creating such a dense system of interrelated meanings that the reader cannot skip a line without missing something vital. This sense of interrelatedness applies not only to the details of each story in its own right, but also to the collection as a whole: several of the characters (Jessica, Eva, Sean, Luke Loyola etc)feature in different stories, which means that a web of reference is created within which meanings are constantly related, enhanced or relativised. Even more pervasive than characters is the recurrence of certain symbols (the moss garden, the church and cross, the sinful woman etc), and the fixation with constantly interchanging moral values. Just as the stories in Zoe Wicomb's You Can t Get Lost in Cape Town are subtly interwoven through space and time, Watson s stories share a frame-work of reference in their beautifully understated immersion in the moral problematic of good and evil, the (often deceptive)opposition of virginal purity and the contamination of the flesh. I can honestly say that I have seldom, in South African literature, come across short stories of such suggestive power as these. And the deft way in which they are all, in an almost subterranean or submarine manner, related to one another, creates the possibility of reading the volume, not just as a collection of short stories, but perhaps as a redefinition of the form of the novel. [...] "

Moss

Short Stories & Anthologies

Kwela Books

Making crafts projects with one child or one hundred has never been simpler! This unique book features forty-two crafts – from apple garlands to wooly sheep – each accompanied by two sets of instructions that make it easy to plan and do crafts with children. "Before Craft Time" tells the instructor what materials to buy and pre-assemble before craft day arrives. "Craft Time" instructions describe the steps children take to assemble the finished craft. These delightful craft activities are the perfect addition to any birthday party, scout meeting, or after school program.

The More the Merrier: Children's Craft Book for Groups

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Shenanigan Books

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

History

BiblioLife

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