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The Longevity Revolution: The Benefits and Challenges of Living a Long Life
by Robert N., M.d. Butler  Publisher Comments Pulitzer-prize winning author Dr. Robert Butler coined the term "ageism" and made "Alzheimer's" a familiar word. Now he brings his formidable knowledge and experience in aging issues to a recent and unprecedented achievement: the extension of human life...
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Designated Daughter: The Bonus Years with Mom
by D G Fulford Synopsis Moving, insightful, and above all, honest, "Designated Daughter" speaks to the joys and privileges of bringing generations together toward the end of life. With incredible sensitivity and humor, Fulford recounts her own uplifting story of how she became...
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Old Age: Journey into Simplicity
by Helen M. Luke Publisher Comments In this classic text on aging wisely, the renowned Jungian analyst Helen M. Luke reflects on the final journeys described in Homer’s Odyssey, Shakespeare’s King Lear and The Tempest, and T. S. Eliot’s Little Gidding, and also on...
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Encore: Finding Work That Matters in the Second Half of Life
by Marc Freedman Publisher Comments The movement of millions of sixty-somethings into a new phase in their working lives constitutes one of the most significant social trends in this country in nearly half a century. Encore describes the competing visions for work that are already lining...
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The Fountain of Ages
by Betty Friedan Synopsis Betty Friedan launches a new revolution with this powerful, bestselling book breaking through the American mystique of aging as decline. Through hundreds of interviews, Friedan confronts our denial and demolishes society's compassionate contempt--to...
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A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance
by Jane Juska Publisher Comments “Round-heeled” is an old-fashioned label for a woman who is promiscuous—someone who nowadays might be called “easy.” It’s a surprising way for a cultured English teacher with a passion for the novels of Anthony...
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Aging Concepts & Controversies 5TH Edition
by Harry R Moody Publisher Comments Since its initial publication in 1994, Moody's text has been hailed as a creative innovation in the teaching or college-level aging courses within the United States and Canada. This is the only text that can be used for: - Introduction to social...
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Old Friends
by Tracy Kidder Synopsis Tracy Kidder won the Pulitzer Prize for The Soul of a New Machine. House and Among Schoolchildren were national bestsellers. Now this "crackerjack reporter with a common touch" (Philip Lopate, The Washington Post) has turned his talents to his most...
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The Oldest We've Ever Been: Seven True Stories of Midlife Transitions
by Maud Lavin Publisher Comments I had this idea of where I should be in middle age, an image that had been born in the 1950s when I'd been a child watching Lassie on TV. As outdated as it was, that blurred snapshot somewhere at the back of my mind actually did have a green lawn, a...
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How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free: Retirement Wisdom That You Won't Get from Your Financial Advisor
by Ernie J. Zelinski Publisher Comments The perfect guidebook for the Saga generation....
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The Fountain of Age
by Betty Friedan Publisher Comments Struggling to hold on to the illusion of youth, Friedan wrote, we have denied the reality and evaded the new triumphs of growing older. We have seen age only as decline. In this powerful and very personal book, Betty Friedan charted her own voyage of...
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The Virtues of Aging (Library of Contemporary Thought)
by Jimmy Carter Publisher Comments As he enters what he considers to be his most influential and happiest time, Jimmy Carter gives us a deeply personal meditation on the new experiences that come to us with age. He paints a glowing portrait of his long, happy marriage to Rosalynn, a...
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Empowering Frail Elderly People: Opportunities and Impediments in Housing, Health, and Support Service Delivery
by Leonard F Heumann Publisher Comments This book provides a unique analysis of provider-, environment-, client-, and societal-based obstacles to the empowerment of frail elderly persons in a philosophical framework of social values, as well as an applied framework wherein a variety of...
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Learning To Be Old (03 Edition)
by Margaret Cruikshank Synopsis What does it mean to grow old in America today? Is successful aging our responsibility, and what will happen if we fail to grow old gracefully? Especially for women, the onus on the aging population in the U.S. is growing rather than diminishing. Gender,...
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New Passages
by Gail Sheehy Publisher Comments Millions of readers literally defined their lives through Gail Sheehy's landmark bestseller Passages. Seven years ago she set out to write a sequel, but instead she discovered a historic revolution in the adult life cycle. People are taking longer to...
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Cultural Aging
by Stephen (edt) Katz Book News Annotation Katz (sociology, Trent U., Peterborough, Ontario) presents this interdisciplinary collection of 11 essays, generated between 1994 and 2004, to expand the limited number of critical theory gerontology texts. Part one examines how life course patterns...
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International Perspectives on the Well-Being
by Toni Antonucci Synopsis An increasing number of people are ageing. This affects not only individuals, but also families, communities, and societies. The focus of this special issue is the well-being of older adults on different continents. Scientists from around the world...
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Methodological Issues in Aging Research (Notre Dame)
by Cindy S. Bergeman Publisher Comments Methodological Issues in Aging Research is the first volume in the "Notre Dame Series on Quantitative Methodology." This new series provides practical training on the latest quantitative methods used in social and behavioral research. Each volume...
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What Are Old People For?: How Elders Will Save the World
by William H Thomas Synopsis Nodding to popular culture, history, science, and literature, a passionate and persuasive case is made for removing our ageist blinders and seeing old age as a developmental stage of life....
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Tangled Lives: Daughters, Mothers, and the Crucible of Aging
by Lillian B. Rubin Publisher Comments 'The best-selling psychotherapist Lillian B. Rubin reflects on the struggle to forge an acceptable identity through middle age and into old age. She examines the lives of women as they grow from daughters into mothers, and move on into the intimidating...
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