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Rethinking Aging : Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society
ISBN: 9780807835067 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For those fortunate enough to reside in the developed world, death before reaching a ripe old age is a tragedy, not a fact of life. Although aging and dying are not diseases, older Americans are subject to the most egregious marketing in the name of "successful aging" and "long life," as if both are commodities. In Rethinking Aging, Nortin M. Hadler examines health-care choices offered to aging Americans and argues that too often the choices serve to profit the provider rather than benefit the recipient, leading to the medicalization of everyday ailments and blatant overtreatment....
For those fortunate enough to reside in the developed world, death before reaching a ripe old age is a tragedy, not a fact of life. Although aging and...
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Baby Boomer Lamentations: Metaphysical Essays to Die for
ISBN: 9781462010349 / Angielski / Miękka / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Baby Boomer Lamentations" is a book of honesty for all seventy-six million baby boomers born from 1946 to 1965. It is not about the health, wealth, and happiness in old age that we see in those sleek magazines about retirement. Instead, this is an exploration of the metaphysics of aging in America, something unpleasant to contemplate but inevitable. The fact is that aging baby boomers and their families who are not prepared for the changes that are coming will have to meet them anyway. So you better have a firm and reliable belief system to handle the impact of this new reality the aging...
"Baby Boomer Lamentations" is a book of honesty for all seventy-six million baby boomers born from 1946 to 1965. It is not about the health, wealth, a...
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Baby Boomer Lamentations: Metaphysical Essays to Die for
ISBN: 9781462010356 / Angielski / Twarda / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Baby Boomer Lamentations" is a book of honesty for all seventy-six million baby boomers born from 1946 to 1965. It is not about the health, wealth, and happiness in old age that we see in those sleek magazines about retirement. Instead, this is an exploration of the metaphysics of aging in America, something unpleasant to contemplate but inevitable. The fact is that aging baby boomers and their families who are not prepared for the changes that are coming will have to meet them anyway. So you better have a firm and reliable belief system to handle the impact of this new reality the aging...
"Baby Boomer Lamentations" is a book of honesty for all seventy-six million baby boomers born from 1946 to 1965. It is not about the health, wealth, a...
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The Power of Positive Aging: Seeing Life as a Glorious Voyage
ISBN: 9781461118039 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Donna Devall's book offers great insights on how we approach aging. As a clinical social worker working with the elderly, Devall presents her expertise in a thoughtful and provocative way in THE POWER OF POSITIVE AGING: SEEING LIFE AS A GLORIOUS VOYAGE. Her professional experience has contributed to her strong conviction that getting older can be a boon and a privilege. While not denying or minimizing the challenges that aging can present, Devall maintains that it is entirely possible to approach old age with a positive, even embracing attitude. Chapters include important topics such as...
Donna Devall's book offers great insights on how we approach aging. As a clinical social worker working with the elderly, Devall presents her expertis...
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How to Survive Your Husband's Midlife Crisis
ISBN: 9780982561751 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this guide, readers will find wisdom from both midlife wives and experts on recognizing the symptoms of their husbands' midlife crisis, coping with the threat or reality of infidelity, and making it through the crisis and coming out stronger, saner, and more self-reliant.
In this guide, readers will find wisdom from both midlife wives and experts on recognizing the symptoms of their husbands' midlife crisis, coping with...
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Precious Window of Time: Our Journey with Alzheimer's Disease
ISBN: 9781467037716 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alzheimer's is an insidious disease. Currently, there is no cure; there is only the buying of time. My purpose in writing this book is to show how precious that window of time is and how it can be a very special time for both the person with Alzheimer's and for the caregivers. I know for my husband and me the other shoe will drop before too long, but I intend to make (not waste) the most of these years before it does. This book is about facing the realities of Alzheimer s with a focus on seeing the positive side of the disease there is a positive side "
Alzheimer's is an insidious disease. Currently, there is no cure; there is only the buying of time. My purpose in writing this book is to show how pre...
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The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife
ISBN: 9781610390996 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An invaluable and inspiring read* offering a new perspective to people entering their 50s, 60s, and 70s asking the question: What's next? (*Wall Street Journal)
An invaluable and inspiring read* offering a new perspective to people entering their 50s, 60s, and 70s asking the question: What's next? (*Wall Stree...
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Reboot!: What to do when your career is over but your life isn't
ISBN: 9781770672994 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "It's better to wear out than rust out." That is the message of 'Reboot ' While American culture glamorizes the "Golden Years" of endless leisure and amusement, Phil Burgess rejects retirement, as he makes the case for returning to work in the post-career years, a time he calls later life. Based on solid research from the social and medical sciences, the author says, "It is better to die with your boots on, fully engaged in helping others and repairing the world." 'Reboot ' is partly autobiographical. Indeed, the author is working well into his own post-career years, following two failed...
"It's better to wear out than rust out." That is the message of 'Reboot ' While American culture glamorizes the "Golden Years" of endless leisure and ...
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Feel the Love : 111 Tips When Visiting Someone in Hospital: Volume 1 : Feel the Love 111 Tips
ISBN: 9780993351327 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Road Map for Mainstreaming Ageing: Armenia
ISBN: 9789211170382 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "United Nations publication. Sales no. E.11.II.E.2"--T.p. verso.
"United Nations publication. Sales no. E.11.II.E.2"--T.p. verso.
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Never Too Late: A 90-Year-Old's Pursuit of a Whirlwind Life
ISBN: 9780762782956 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Never Too Late is career correspondent and author Roy Rowan's rousing testament to the fact that if you are still in reasonably good health and have a career or set of interests to pursue, your swan-song years can be among your most productive. He shares his views of the pleasures and potentials of old age based on a long life of adventure from his decades covering wars and revolutions across the globe to the jogging that took him through his eighties and the fishing that fills so many of his days as a nonagenarian. Throughout he weaves in the lessons he has learned along the way and...
Never Too Late is career correspondent and author Roy Rowan's rousing testament to the fact that if you are still in reasonably good health and have a...
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Second-ACT Careers: 50+ Ways to Profit from Your Passions During Semi-Retirement
ISBN: 9781607743828 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A career guide that rethinks the golden years, this handbook offers 50+ income models for creating flexible, fulfilling, and profitable work during the encore stage of one's career. RETHINK YOUR RETIREMENT For many people, retirement is no longer a trifecta of golf, grandkids, and gardening--it's an opportunity for new pursuits that involve both earning income and exploring personal passions. If you're planning for retirement or already at "retirement age" but want to continue working--whether to supplement your income or to stay mentally and physically active--veteran career...
A career guide that rethinks the golden years, this handbook offers 50+ income models for creating flexible, fulfilling, and profitable work during...
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Oxford Handbook of Retirement
ISBN: 9780199746521 / Angielski / Twarda / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the Baby Boom generation approaches traditional retirement age, the aging of the global labor force will continue to lead to an increase in the number of people who will transition into retirement in the next decade. Retirement researchers have made several important advances in their field in recent years that represent a shift from examining retirement through an economic to a psychological perspective. Retirement is not simply a one-time decision-making event; rather, it represents a process through which workers decrease their psychological commitment to work and behaviorally withdraw...
As the Baby Boom generation approaches traditional retirement age, the aging of the global labor force will continue to lead to an increase in the num...
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How We Love Now: Women Talk about Intimacy After 50
ISBN: 9780452299009 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Where do we find the relationships that matter in our second adulthood? Susanne Braun Levine, author of Inventing the Rest of Our Lives, anwers these questions with charming wit, experience, and intrigue in How We Love Now, with a new introduction by the author.
Today, women in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are defining a totally new love narrative. Whether they are already experiencing intimacy and great sex or longing to, these women are discovering unparalleled freedom and joy. Continuing Suzanne Braun Levine s ongoing conversation with women in Second Adulthood,... Where do we find the relationships that matter in our second adulthood? Susanne Braun Levine, author of Inventing the Rest of Our Lives, anwers...
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Younger Brain, Sharper Mind: A 6-Step Plan for Preserving and Improving Memory and Attention at Any Age from America's Brain Doctor
ISBN: 9781609619886 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No one can avoid gray hair and wrinkles, but what about preventing the brain from aging? Dr. Eric Braverman, "America's Brain Doctor" and bestselling author has created a simple, science-based plan that can help prevent the worst mental side effects of aging: memory loss, cognitive decline, and mood changes. Dr. Braverman distills 35 years of research and clinical experience into a 6-step program that helps spur neurogenesis: growing new brain cells as one ages. By following the plan, readers can self-detect cognitive decline, reverse it, and boost the brain's power and speed. In... No one can avoid gray hair and wrinkles, but what about preventing the brain from aging? Dr. Eric Braverman, "America's Brain Doctor" and bestselli... |
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Retirement Migration: Paradoxes of Ageing
ISBN: 9780415511612 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book is the first ethnographic study of international retirement migration and offers a sometimes surprising picture of the potentials, seductions and limitations of the lifestyles. People envision retirement as freedom from responsibilities through shedding the restrictive shackles of their former selves in a time of life dedicated to fun, friendship, healthy activity and individual fulfillment. However, as Oliver documents, a number of contradictions underpin the pursuits of such a lifestyle. She shows how retirees must balance time-use to achieve both freedoms and busy social... The book is the first ethnographic study of international retirement migration and offers a sometimes surprising picture of the potentials, seducti... |
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Hollywood Beauty Secrets: Remedies to the Rescue
ISBN: 9781456608651 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Celebrity Body Parts Model -Turned -- Top Beauty Expert, Louisa Graves, is one of the most highly sought-after experts in the media. She reveals scientifically proven, non-invasive "look and feel good" alternatives that dont cost a fortune.
Louisa has appeared on myriad television shows including: The Talk, The Doctors, Extra, Eye on LA, The Style Network, Discovery Channel, Los Angeles CBS2/CKAL, KTLA Morning News, and Nip Tucks Documentary, "The Science of Beauty", just to name a few. She is a beauty advisor for FIRST Magazine, contributes a regular "Look & Feel Good" column for AOL... Celebrity Body Parts Model -Turned -- Top Beauty Expert, Louisa Graves, is one of the most highly sought-after experts in the media. She reveals scien...
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Essential Writings: A Journey through Time: A Modern De Rerum Natura
ISBN: 9781475936339 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Essential Writings" A Journey Through Time
The journey begins with viewing the origin of our universe and following natural evolution, leading to an analysis of the human mind, our greatest asset. After a discussion of the meaning and direction in our life, thoughts are presented to guide and support us in our path, as pronouced in the biblical Beatitutes and in a meditation for nonbelievers. In the end, aging is described as one experiences it. A view to the future indicates the fundamental problems and opportunities for mankind which should concern us all. Helmut Schwab's writings... "Essential Writings" A Journey Through Time
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Not Ready for Granny Panties--The 11 Commandments for Avoiding Granny Panties
ISBN: 9781456609290 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It happens to the best of us. On a day like any other, you look in the mirror and find a cranky, worn-out, middle-aged woman staring back at you. A woman who is firmly strapped into a giant pair of GRANNY PANTIES.
Yes, aging is inevitable, but looking, and acting, like your grandma is not. So join Mary Fran Bontempo and learn a new set of Commandments that will enable you to avoid the Granny Panties and love life in the middle years. Youll laugh, learn a few things and with any luck, bid a permanent goodbye to GRANNY PANTIES and the old hag in the mirror! It happens to the best of us. On a day like any other, you look in the mirror and find a cranky, worn-out, middle-aged woman staring back at you. A wo...
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Statins: Miraculous or Misguided?
ISBN: 9781579511661 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most cholesterol doesn't come from foods -- it's made by the body itself Statins work by interfering with the body's ability to manufacture cholesterol. Statins: Miracle or Mistake? explains both the pro and con sides of this incredible drug, using interviews with statin researchers and prescribers and presenting the findings in clear, jargon-free language. Learn how to watch for warning signs if you are using statins. Discover how statins are a huge business for both drug companies and anti-statin forces. This guide talks with people on all sides of the statin issue, finding out what...
Most cholesterol doesn't come from foods -- it's made by the body itself Statins work by interfering with the body's ability to manufacture cholester...
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