Poetry: Aging Redefined
ISBN: 9780988865464 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mary Anne Miceli's fifth poetry book, "Poetry: Aging Redefined," reflects on many aspects of change through Life and examines how on-going positive thinking and questioning ever motivate us. Her seascape photos, all taken at Hospital Point-overlooking the Beverly/Salem MA Harbor at twilight, visually display on-going changes- reflective of Life's continual changes.
Mary Anne Miceli's fifth poetry book, "Poetry: Aging Redefined," reflects on many aspects of change through Life and examines how on-going positive th...
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138,57 zł |
Memory, Attention, and Aging: Selected Works of Fergus I. M. Craik
ISBN: 9781138648302 / Angielski / Twarda / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Memory, Attention, and Aging is a collection of some of the most influential journal articles previously published by Fergus Craik and his collaborators, with new introductory material unifying the research of this noted cognitive psychologist. The reprinted articles are grouped into six sections reflecting Craik's various research interests across his career. The first section on short-term memory focuses on research concerns Craik uncovered in the 1970s, but are still valid today. They comprise theoretical suggestions and data on the nature of STM, including the notion that... Memory, Attention, and Aging is a collection of some of the most influential journal articles previously published by Fergus Craik and his collabor... |
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790,07 zł |
Men's Stories for a Change: Ageing Men Remember
ISBN: 9781612298597 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Men's Stories for a Change records and analyses stories written by a group of older men who met over thirteen years to share memories about ageing and masculinity. So here there are stories of love and sex, bodily change, crisis and disturbance, politics and power, struggles with violent feelings and action, work, sport, clothes, peeing, hair, and hairlessness. These men share a view of manhood, gender, and ageing that, while critical of dominant frames and inspired by feminist politics, is optimistic without underestimating the challenges of older age and old age, including the approach to...
Men's Stories for a Change records and analyses stories written by a group of older men who met over thirteen years to share memories about ageing and...
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214,73 zł |
The Fifth Revelation
ISBN: 9781910406403 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book started as an analysis of the heroic fallacy but became several other kinds of story. Primarily, the portrait of a protracted breakdown in the author Michael Scotts psychological and physical make-up, although he struggles hard not to go under, making his account more useful for others to read. Its neither pathological, nor self-indulgently self-pitying.
There are useful accounts of coping strategies, particularly appropriate to age-related weakness and physical infirmity, especially when their onset is sudden as it was for Scott. The book focuses on puzzling features of human... This book started as an analysis of the heroic fallacy but became several other kinds of story. Primarily, the portrait of a protracted breakdown in t...
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96,15 zł |
Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things That Matter
ISBN: 9780393353563 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What will you remember if you live to be 100? Diana Athill charmed readers with her prize-winning memoir Somewhere Towards the End, which transformed her into an unexpected literary star. Now, on the eve of her ninety-eighth birthday, Athill has written a sequel every bit as unsentimental, candid, and beguiling as her most beloved work. Writing from her cozy room in Highgate, London, Diana begins to reflect on the things that matter after a lifetime of remarkable experiences, and the memories that have risen to the surface and sustain her in her very old age. "My... What will you remember if you live to be 100? Diana Athill charmed readers with her prize-winning memoir Somewhere Towards the End, ... |
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64,21 zł |
Still Growing: The Creative Self in Older Adulthood
ISBN: 9780718893910 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bringing together both pastoral awareness and psychoanalytical knowledge, this is a life-affirming study of the growth and creativity of old age.
Bringing together both pastoral awareness and psychoanalytical knowledge, this is a life-affirming study of the growth and creativity of old age.
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119,29 zł |
Ageing & Mental Health: Global Perspectives
ISBN: 9781634847773 / Angielski / Twarda / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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1039,78 zł |
The Six Stages of Parenthood
ISBN: 9780201105292 / Angielski / Miękka / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Almost all books for parents focus on the way children develop. Ellen Galinsky, instead, writes about how parents develop. Drawing on the work in adult development of Erik Erikson and Daniel Levinson, she describes six distinct stages in the life of a parent: the image-making that occurs during pregnancy; the nurturing role that swallows parents up from birth through the first couple of years; the authority parents must develop as small children show independence; the interpretive stage when parents explain the world and their values to school-age children; the interdependent stage when...
Almost all books for parents focus on the way children develop. Ellen Galinsky, instead, writes about how parents develop. Drawing on the work in adul...
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118,99 zł |
Memory Improved: Reading and Memory Enhancement Across the Life Span Through Strategic Text Structures
ISBN: 9781138995741 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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239,52 zł |
Retirement: A New Adventure
ISBN: 9781524646974 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Retirement, A New Adventure is full of ideas to have an active, fun and enriching life in retirement. The thesis of the book is that life in retirement involves much more than just ensuring financial security. Retirement opens up opportunities for doing new things and learning new things, exploring new places and meeting new people, discovering hidden talents and showcasing them, and, experimenting with new tools and technologies to reconnect with the past and connect to the future. Retirement affords time to fulfil long-held dreams and aspirations on the journey to self-actualization.... Retirement, A New Adventure is full of ideas to have an active, fun and enriching life in retirement. The thesis of the book is that life in retire... |
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56,16 zł |
Scary Old Sex
ISBN: 9781408865330 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A breathtaking, funny, moving debut collection of short stories about aging, relationships and sex 'A bold, hilarious and intelligent debut' Irish Times 'The author writes with such intimacy and precision that she frequently makes you feel like a trespasser in the bedroom' Daily Mail _____________________ A woman goes about certain rituals of sex with her second husband, sharing the bed with the ghosts of her sexual past. A beautiful young art student embarks on an affair with a much older, married, famous artist. A middle-aged woman struggles with the decline of her mother, once...
A breathtaking, funny, moving debut collection of short stories about aging, relationships and sex 'A bold, hilarious and intelligent debut' Irish Ti...
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48,24 zł |
Poems for and about Elders
ISBN: 9781939686183 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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85,68 zł |
Cognitive Stimulation Therapy for Dementia: History, Evolution and Internationalism
ISBN: 9781138631175 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) is a novel, evidence-based therapy, which uses simple cognitive and psychological strategies, including implicit learning and multisensory stimulation, in order to improve cognition and quality of life for people with dementia. CST has made a huge global, clinical impact within the last ten years and this landmark book is the first to draw all of the published research together in one place. Edited by Aimee Spector, who initially developed the therapy, Cognitive Stimulation Therapy for Dementia will provide a broad overview of the entire research... Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) is a novel, evidence-based therapy, which uses simple cognitive and psychological strategies, including implici... |
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662,64 zł |
Critical Gerontology Comes of Age: Advances in Research and Theory for a New Century
ISBN: 9781138630284 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The academic study of aging has flourished in recent decades, along with the growth in the aging population of the U.S. and other advanced nations. However, there are several reasons why a more contemporary edited volume on aging and the life course is invaluable: first, much of the published research in the past was conceived and conducted before the implications of the large "baby boomer" cohorts of the post WWII period could be known. This diverse group, numbering some 80 million, has altered not only the demographic structure of the U.S. (whose older population will soon constitute... The academic study of aging has flourished in recent decades, along with the growth in the aging population of the U.S. and other advanced nations.... |
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265,01 zł |
Critical Gerontology Comes of Age: Advances in Research and Theory for a New Century
ISBN: 9781138630277 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The academic study of aging has flourished in recent decades, along with the growth in the aging population of the U.S. and other advanced nations. However, there are several reasons why a more contemporary edited volume on aging and the life course is invaluable: first, much of the published research in the past was conceived and conducted before the implications of the large "baby boomer" cohorts of the post WWII period could be known. This diverse group, numbering some 80 million, has altered not only the demographic structure of the U.S. (whose older population will soon constitute... The academic study of aging has flourished in recent decades, along with the growth in the aging population of the U.S. and other advanced nations.... |
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662,64 zł |
Perspectives on Behavioural Interventions in Palliative and End-Of-Life Care
ISBN: 9780415791526 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The challenges faced by individuals and families at the end of life are still incredibly diverse, yet more than ever is now known about the needs that cut across the great diversity of experiences in the face of death. A number of behavioural interventions and clinical approaches to addressing these needs have been developed and are available to help providers care for clients and assist them in achieving their goals. Global Perspectives on Behavioural Interventions in Palliative and End-of-Life Care explores interventions that can be used to address a range of behavioural,... The challenges faced by individuals and families at the end of life are still incredibly diverse, yet more than ever is now known about the needs t... |
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662,64 zł |
Cognitive Development and the Ageing Process: Selected Works of Patrick Rabbitt
ISBN: 9781848723702 / Angielski / Twarda / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Professor Patrick Rabbitt has been a prominent contributor to our ongoing knowledge of cognitive performance and cognitive ageing for over half a century. From the development of information processing theories in the 1960s to a new understanding of decision making and the ageing process in subsequent decades, Rabbitt has been at the forefront of geronotological research. This unique collection of his research articles represents a timely opportunity to understand how our knowledge of cognitive performance and cognitive ageing has progressed in the past 50 years. Whilst the... Professor Patrick Rabbitt has been a prominent contributor to our ongoing knowledge of cognitive performance and cognitive ageing for over half a c... |
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688,13 zł |
Arts & Aging in America: Challenges, Opportunities, Research Avenues
ISBN: 9781536104127 / Angielski / Miękka / 81 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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402,63 zł |
Thriving in Retirement: Lessons from Baby Boomer Women
ISBN: 9781440859960 / Angielski / Twarda / 155 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Thriving in Retirement: Lessons from Baby Boomer Women, profiles of highly diverse professional women are interwoven with information gleaned from surveys, interviews, and focus groups, thereby allowing readers to identify with individuals similar to themselves, whether through profession, education, personal concerns, or demographics. In spite of dissimilarities in backgrounds, career paths, and personal experiences, these women have much in common. As they leave their full-time careers, they are committed to exploring new post-career identities while finding ways... In Thriving in Retirement: Lessons from Baby Boomer Women, profiles of highly diverse professional women are interwoven with information gle... |
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336,98 zł |
Living an Examined Life: Wisdom for the Second Half of the Journey
ISBN: 9781683640479 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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77,26 zł |