"It is the year 2149 and thousands of people are leaving Earth, frozen in fast-moving space capsules, taking giant leaps into the future past all known boundaries of space and time. Lured by the mystery of the unknown, the promise of new beginnings, or the quest for power, will any find what they are seeking in the vastness of the universe?"--Page 2 of cover.

Daybook of R.M. Robinson of Syracuse, N.Y., recording the daily transactions of a grocery store, which sold such items as bread, eggs, sugar, tobacco, tea, coffee, etc. The final twelve pages of the daybook contain lists of some of Robinson's personal expenses. These pages are labeled Fayetteville, DeWitt, and Syracuse, and dated 1872-1873.

Follows a family of planetary explorers through their experiences pleasantly coexisting with friendly aliens known as the Tattoo People, but when giant aliens hostile to all life but their own invade, humans turn to strategies as diverse as nuclear weapons and music to stop them.

Evidence indicates inequalities in socioeconomic status (SES), especially those that result in differential access to early detection as well as to high-quality medical and supportive care, as the primary drivers of persistent disparities in outcomes following colorectal cancer (CRC) diagnosis. Yet research is limited on the independent and joint effects of individual SES (iSES) characteristics and neighborhood SES (nSES) on the likelihood of survival and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) following a CRC diagnosis. Further, no prior study of CRC outcomes has attempted to disentangle the effects of area-level SES from the effects of neighborhood contextual factors (e.g., population density, level of high-intensity development). We used data from 3949 incident CRC cases (51% women) diagnosed between 1997-2018, who lived in the 13-county catchment area of the population-based Western Washington Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) cancer registry, and who participated in the Puget Sound Colorectal Cancer Cohort (PSCCC). We first focused on assessing the independent and joint effects of two self-reported iSES factors (i.e., educational attainment and household income) and census block group-level nSES on all-cause and disease-specific survival following a CRC diagnosis. We performed both overall and gender-specific analyses. In the same study population, we also evaluated nSES effects as well as the effects of two other neighborhood factors, population density and high-intensity development level, when all three factors were included in the same analytic model. Finally, using a subset of this study population - cases diagnosed between 2016-2018 - we investigated the possible independent and joint effects of three iSES characteristics (i.e., self-reported educational attainment and household income, SEER-reported insurance type) and nSES on overall HRQoL in individuals recently diagnosed with CRC. After a median 4.0 years of follow-up, 1591 cases died (844 due to CRC). After adjusting for iSES factors and nSES, lower household income was associated with poorer all-cause survival (p-trend: 0.04), especially in women (p-trend: