Choices & Changes
ISBN: 9781425711603 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the first time in human history, the prospect of living a long, healthy and productive life has become a reality for the majority of people. What was the privilege of the few has become the destiny of the many. Robert Butler, MD, Gerontologist Choices & Changes is offered as a guide on how to plan to get the most from life's second half-not how to plan to get the most from "retirement." While you may think this is splitting hairs, you will come to realize how the words we use impact our perceptions, our self-image and ultimately our reality when planning for and experiencing the future. I...
For the first time in human history, the prospect of living a long, healthy and productive life has become a reality for the majority of people. What ...
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Strategies for Transitions to Retirement: 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9781552124420 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive guide to successful retirement transition.
New updated & expanded edition, January, 2002. A comprehensive guide to successful retirement transition.
New updated & expanded edition, January, 2002. |
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Aging Beyond Belief: 69 Tips for Real Wellness
ISBN: 9781570252204 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If you plan to age, prepare yourself - it's later than you think and the challenge of aging well should be taken seriously. Discover what aspects of aging can't be changed and guide the rest that can. Aging Beyond Belief includes 69 recommendations for a more healthful, enjoyable and meaningful existence at every stage of life, written by the world's most prolific, outrageous, humorous and athletic expert on wellness.
If you plan to age, prepare yourself - it's later than you think and the challenge of aging well should be taken seriously. Discover what aspects of a...
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Claiming Your Place at the Fire: Living the Second Half of Your Life on Purpose
ISBN: 9781576752975 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More than 10,000 people turn 50 every day in the U.S.; how do they handle this shift? Claiming Your Place at the Fire invites this group of ""new elders"" to ask four key questions: Who am I? New elders synthesize and transfer the wisdom of the past into the present. Where do I belong? They have a powerful sense of where they have come from, where they are, and where they are going. How do I bring my passions alive? They rejoice in rediscovering their life's work, their calling, their vocation. What is my life's purpose? Freed from imposed schedules and demands, new elders now find the...
More than 10,000 people turn 50 every day in the U.S.; how do they handle this shift? Claiming Your Place at the Fire invites this group of ""new elde...
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For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth about Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance
ISBN: 9781580052047 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nearly every aging woman has a complicated relationship with her body.
For Keeps, an inspirational collection of personal essays from writers on their ever-changing bodies, will resonate with every maturing woman. Editor Victoria Zackheim brings together women with unique voices who have all struggled, at one time or another, to make peace with the bodies that at times they don t even recognize as their own. From a mastectomy that renewed one woman s lease on life, to the emergence of gray hairs and wrinkles, each woman addresses aging, illness, injury, and life circumstances with... Nearly every aging woman has a complicated relationship with her body.
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Woman X Turns Thirty: Myths, Mysteries and Mental Meltdowns
ISBN: 9781581127362 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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74,15 zł |
Midlife Clarity (Original)
ISBN: 9781582700762 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A woman's wisdom is one of the Earth's greatest natural resources. With a perspective that only a certain number of years on Earth can bring, the thirty-two women in Midlife Clarity show that midlife can be a release of our true self, a chance to be free of others' expectations, and a time to inventory our blessings. With personal anecdotes, essays, short poetry, and plenty of humor, Midlife Clarity focuses on issues common to every woman. Whether the topic is men, self-discovery, death, or struggle, each woman finds those small moments of satisfaction and joy...
A woman's wisdom is one of the Earth's greatest natural resources. With a perspective that only a certain number of years on Earth can bring, the thir...
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Senior Encores: A Guide to Fulfillment in the Third Age of Life
ISBN: 9781583482896 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Conquering the Rapids of Life: Making the Most of Midlife Opportunities
ISBN: 9781589790124 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written in her characteristically breezy and humorous style, Dr. Ruth expertly explains the unique challanges and opportunities encountered with the onset of middle age, including issues of health, family, and career. Designed for both singles and couples, and employing numerous case studies, Conquering the Rapids of Life candidly offers solid, practical advice to help one cope with the physical and emotional changes associated with midlife.
Written in her characteristically breezy and humorous style, Dr. Ruth expertly explains the unique challanges and opportunities encountered with the o...
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The Second Half of Life: Opening the Eight Gates of Wisdom
ISBN: 9781591795728 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -There is a grace in this book, an invitation to beautiful, deep wisdom, a banquet to refresh your spirit for the years ahead.---Jack Kornfield, PhD, author of A Path with Heart-The Second Half of Life is a wise, unique, and beautifully written guidebook for those who want to live every day of their lives. A book for everyone who plans to grow old.---Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, author of Kitchen Table Wisdom and My Grandfather's BlessingsWhen you find the courage to change at midlife, - Angeles Arrien teaches, a miracle happens. Your character is...
-There is a grace in this book, an invitation to beautiful, deep wisdom, a banquet to refresh your spirit for the years ahead.---Jack Kornfield, PhD, ...
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The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger as Your Brain Grows Older
ISBN: 9781592401871 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Wisdom Paradox explores the aging of the mind from a unique, positive perspective. In an era of increasing fears about mental deterioration, world-renowned neuropsychologist Elkhonon Goldberg provides startling new evidence that though the brain diminishes in some tasks as it ages, it gains in many ways. Most notably, it increases in what he terms -wisdom- the ability to draw upon knowledge and experience gained over a lifetime to make quick and effective decisions. Goldberg delves into the machinery of the mind, separating memory into two distinct types: singular (knowledge of a...
The Wisdom Paradox explores the aging of the mind from a unique, positive perspective. In an era of increasing fears about mental deterioration...
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Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally Really Grow Up
ISBN: 9781592402076 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What does it really mean to be a grown up in today's world? We assume that once we -get it together- with the right job, marry the right person, have children, and buy a home, all is settled and well. But adulthood presents varying levels of growth, and is rarely the respite of stability we expected. Turbulent emotional shifts can take place anywhere between the age of thirty-five and seventy when we question the choices we've made, realize our limitations, and feel stuck-- commonly known as the -midlife crisis.- Jungian psycho-analyst James Hollis believes it is only in the second half of...
What does it really mean to be a grown up in today's world? We assume that once we -get it together- with the right job, marry the right person, have ...
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Don't Retire Until You Check With Your Honey
ISBN: 9781599261751 / Angielski / Twarda / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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AgeEsteem: Growing a Positive Attitude Toward Aging
ISBN: 9781600372674 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A great elixir to feel happy and healthy is to live your age with passion and purpose. The beauty and excitement for life that we associate with youth exudes from within. This same zest for living also keeps the rest of us attractive and dynamic. It's not a question of age but of age-esteem. How we feel about ourselves in relation to our age governs our well being. Living with passion and purpose promotes both quality and longevity. Bonnie Fatio provokes a positive image of age being synonymous with confidence and self-esteem. Threading inspirational real life vignettes, examples of people...
A great elixir to feel happy and healthy is to live your age with passion and purpose. The beauty and excitement for life that we associate with youth...
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The Greatest Companion: Reflections on Life, Love, and Marriage After Sixty
ISBN: 9781933167435 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ARE LOVE AND MARRIAGE ONLY FOR THE YOUNG? Through prose and poetry, The Greatest Companion explores the joys of late-in-life love, provides reminders of what such a love needs to flourish, and reflects upon love's agelessness. Topics covered include: oWhat is love? oWhat is "senior intimacy" and how is it expressed? oWhat will adult children say? oWhat practical issues are important in a senior marriage? oHow are love and spirituality linked for seniors? oWhat happens after the perfect love?
ARE LOVE AND MARRIAGE ONLY FOR THE YOUNG? Through prose and poetry, The Greatest Companion explores the joys of late-in-life love, provides reminders ...
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114,23 zł |
ABC's for Seniors: Successful Aging Wisdom from an Outrageous Gerontologist
ISBN: 9781933167442 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Are you aging OUTRAGEOUSLY and COURAGEOUSLY? In ABC's for Seniors, Dr. Ruth Jacobs presents the essentials that enable a reader to harvest life fully for creative, healthy, successful, vigorous, and meaningful aging.
Are you aging OUTRAGEOUSLY and COURAGEOUSLY? In ABC's for Seniors, Dr. Ruth Jacobs presents the essentials that enable a reader to harvest life fully ...
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Mona Lisa Stratagem
ISBN: 9780446694810 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Around the time a woman reaches 45, there is one enemy with the power to threaten her confidence, steal her beauty, make her feel invisible, and turn even the pleasures of life against her. That enemy is Time. Most women feel that an essential part of them dies when their youth is gone, yet the reality is women can grow more beautiful, experience new pleasures, and accomplish their best work later in life. Now, taking inspiration from a masterpiece of female beauty, mystery, and immortality, Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Harriet Rubin reveals a powerful stratagem for finding happiness and...
Around the time a woman reaches 45, there is one enemy with the power to threaten her confidence, steal her beauty, make her feel invisible, and turn ...
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86,06 zł |
The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully
ISBN: 9781933346106 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Not only accepting but celebrating getting old, this inspirational and illuminating work looks at the many facets of the aging process, from purposes and challenges to struggles and surprises.
Not only accepting but celebrating getting old, this inspirational and illuminating work looks at the many facets of the aging process, from purposes ...
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Sixty, Sexy, and Successful: A Guide for Aging Male Baby Boomers
ISBN: 9780275999285 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As a psychotherapist who focuses on working with the issues that challenge midlife and older men, Robert Schwalbe feels that the 60s and beyond can be the most rewarding or the most miserable period in a man's life. An aging male baby boomer looking at 60 encounters very specific psychological and physical changes. The impact of these changes can be felt in relationship to others and in how a man sees himself in his world. Does he continue to fit in? In particular, how a man adapts to being in his 60s is an indicator of how he feels about living the rest of his life. Dr. Schwalbe knows... As a psychotherapist who focuses on working with the issues that challenge midlife and older men, Robert Schwalbe feels that the 60s and beyond can... |
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Girls with Grandmother Faces: A Celebration of Life's Potential for Those Over 55
ISBN: 9780786881994 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author of I'm Not As Old As I Used to Be uses humor and homespun wisdom to share her practical and inspirational advice for women over fifty-five, challenging women to keep their freedom, independence, imagination, and curiosity.
The author of I'm Not As Old As I Used to Be uses humor and homespun wisdom to share her practical and inspirational advice for women over fi...
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126,78 zł |