Laura Joan Katz

Genomics And Evolution of Microbial Eukaryotes

Dancing the Fairy Tale: Producing and Performing The Sleeping Beauty

In Dancing the Fairy Tale, Laura Katz Rizzo claims that The Sleeping Beauty is both a metaphor for ballet itself, and a powerful case study for examining ballet and its production and performance. Using Marius Petipa and Pyotr Tchaikovsky's classical dance--specifically as it was staged in Philadelp...

Handbook of Long-Term Care Administration and Policy (Public Administration and Public Policy)

Attitudes toward long-term care contain a strong residue of negativity in today’s society and current problems with the system augment such perceptions. Unless dealt with now, this will only get worse, as the 85-and-older crowd is the fastest growing part of the population, and the first wave of Bab...

The Not-So-Golden Years: Caregiving, the Frail Elderly, and the Long-Term Care Establishment

Since the 1990s, the politics and policies of aging and elder care have emerged as one of the more important issues both nationally and worldwide. Because of population aging and the lengthening of the life span itself, the prevalence of chronic disabling diseases is increasing considerably, renderi...

Genomics and Evolution of Microbial Eukaryotes

Genomics and Evolution of Eukaryotic Microbes synthesizes the rapidly emerging fields of eukaryotic diversity and genome evolution. Eukaryotes, cells with nuclei, evolved as microbes and have existed on Earth for approximately two billion years. The tremendous diversity of eukaryotic microbes (proti...

The Princess Who Wore Glasses

This magical and richly illustrated book opens with King Edward and Queen Victoria noticing that their daughter, Princess Liana, can’t see very far, which means she’s missing out on all the wonders of the Kingdom of TuaLuna. What can they do? She can’t see little flowers, stars in the night sky, o...

The Politics of Medicaid

In 1965, the United States government enacted legislation to provide low-income individuals with quality health care and related services. Initially viewed as the friendless stepchild of Medicare, Medicaid has grown exponentially since its inception, becoming a formidable force of its own. Funded jo...

Age through Ethnic Lenses: Caring for the Elderly in a Multicultural Society

An ever-more diverse America is getting older, but American policies are not growing with the needs of our ethnic and aging society. Age Through Ethnic Lenses explores the distinct characteristics and unique social, political, economic, and cultural situations of America's aged, while highlighting t...

The Political Economy of Aging: The State, Private Power, and Social Welfare

Columbia University Press, 1982, Good., Top corner bumped, otherwise very good. Text clean. [Political Science, Social Studies, Aging, Social Welfare, Gerontology] Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933. We pack and ship with care.