This comprehensive and compassionate book covers both SSDI and SSI, shows the reader how to prove a disability, and explains how one's age, education, and work experience affect their chances. Parents will find special information about benefits available to children with a disability. The reader will learn how to find the disability criteria for a medical condition, prove the severity of a disability, appeal if benefits are denied, work part-time...

Solar Energy is a wonderful concept. Take free energy from the sun and use it to power electrical equipment. No ongoing electricity bills, no reliance on an electricity socket. ‘Free’ electricity that does not harm the planet.Generating electricity from sunlight alone is a powerful resource, with applications and benefits throughout the world. But how does it work? What is it suitable for? How much does it cost? How do I install it? This best-selling,...

Gives informative descriptions and photographs of more than five hundred specimens of rocks and minerals.

Over the past few years, fact-checking has been widely touted as a corrective to the spread of misinformation, disinformation, conspiracy theories, and propaganda through the media. While political fact-checkers focus on the claims of public figures, their editorial counterparts check stories being readied for publication for a wide range of errors, from inaccurate names and dates to false quotations and misleading descriptions and interpretations...