Ageless Obsession

Author : Beverly Ungar
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 1611391210
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ageless Obsession written by Beverly Ungar and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melody Fox, disillusioned psychologist, is the only person who suspects the sudden death of Grant Fisher, her husband's friend and business partner, was not due to a previously undiagnosed bad heart. She has absolutely nothing to support her gut feelings--at first. Melody begins delving into places she shouldn't go and finds answers to questions she wished she'd never asked. The tenacious Melody Fox finds herself in perilous, life-threatening predicaments as she attempts to uncover the truth about the prestigious Scottsdale Anti-Aging Clinic and Grant Fisher's death. A quintessential shattered dream...an undaunted search for truth...and an exhaustive struggle for survival turn Melody Fox's once tranquil life into a daring excursion. BEVERLY UNGAR moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1994 from Davenport Iowa. She has also resided in London, England, and Hanau, Germany. She has been the owner of an award winning advertising agency in the Midwest, co-hosted and produced a weekly movie review television program, and has been marketing director for an Indian casino in New Mexico before becoming a novelist.

Author : Stacy Enyeart
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 9781478703334
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ageless Obsession written by Stacy Enyeart and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Searching for the so-called fountain of youth is exciting, challenging, expensive, frustrating, and a target for some form of future success. Growing into adulthood, we long to look older, more sophisticated. With maturity a stunning reversal occurs and youthfulness becomes the fashion focus, a seductive state of being but a love affair with limited duration, i.e. ageing is acceptable so long as the glow of youthful appearance stays decently in place. Since that big dream is impossible we struggle to compensate for the loss by exhibiting every artificial fix know to mankind! This is good, it is proactive and often creates some positive but, alas, temporary relief to the wounded psyche. "The Ageless Obsession...finding the fountain of youth" begins with a tongue-in-cheek approach to enhancing the aging process ARTIFICIALLY, and the great cover-up to conceal the magic method used. As time marches on the magic loses its luster and finding an alternative youthful aging strategy becomes an obsession. Voila, this book presents REAL senior people revealing through interviews their current style of retaining youthfulness. These women and men continue a love affair with life, irrespective of age and inspire their peers and baby boomers to follow suit. As an eye witness to the journey the author presents through this book an exciting perspective on the subject. Signs of success in youthful aging are illustrated, an eye-opener for many as they transition from decade to decade. A one-size-fits-all process and surprise! we have a plan, a reliable solution for men and women ready to take on the challenge as suggested in "The Ageless Obsession, finding the fountain of youth."

Author : Britteny M. Howell
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813072573
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anthropological Perspectives on Aging written by Britteny M. Howell and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth and wide-ranging approach to the study of older adults in society Taking a holistic approach to the study of aging, this volume uses biological, archaeological, medical, and cultural perspectives to explore how older adults have functioned in societies around the globe and throughout human history. As the world’s population over 65 years of age continues to increase, this wide-ranging approach fills a growing need for both academics and service professionals in gerontology, geriatrics, and related fields. Case studies from the United States, Tibet, Turkey, China, Nigeria, and Mexico provide examples of the ways age-related changes are influenced by environmental, genetic, sociocultural, and political-economic variables. Taken together, they help explain how the experience of aging varies across time and space. These contributions from noted anthropological scholars examine evolutionary and biological understandings of human aging, the roles of elders in various societies, issues of gender and ageism, and the role of chronic illness and “successful aging” among older adults. This volume highlights how an anthropology of aging can illustrate how older adults adapt to shifting life circumstances and environments, including changes to the ways in which individuals and families care for them. The research in Anthropological Perspectives on Aging can also help researchers, students, and practitioners reach across disciplines to address age discrimination and help improve health outcomes throughout the life course.

Author : Sarah Lamb
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813585368
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession written by Sarah Lamb and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, the North American public has pursued an inspirational vision of successful aging—striving through medical technique and individual effort to eradicate the declines, vulnerabilities, and dependencies previously commonly associated with old age. On the face of it, this bold new vision of successful, healthy, and active aging is highly appealing. But it also rests on a deep cultural discomfort with aging and being old. The contributors to Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession explore how the successful aging movement is playing out across five continents. Their chapters investigate a variety of people, including Catholic nuns in the United States; Hindu ashram dwellers; older American women seeking plastic surgery; aging African-American lesbians and gay men in the District of Columbia; Chicago home health care workers and their aging clients; Mexican men foregoing Viagra; dementia and Alzheimer sufferers in the United States and Brazil; and aging policies in Denmark, Poland, India, China, Japan, and Uganda. This book offers a fresh look at a major cultural and public health movement of our time, questioning what has become for many a taken-for-granted goal—aging in a way that almost denies aging itself.

Author : Helaine Selin
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030765016
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aging Across Cultures written by Helaine Selin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together chapters about aging in many non-Western cultures, from Africa and Asia to South America, from American Indians to Australian and Hawaii Aboriginals. It also includes articles on other issues of aging, such as falling, dementia, and elder abuse. It was thought that in Africa or Asia, elders were revered and taken care of. This certainly used to be the case. But the Western way has moved into these places, and we now find that elders are often left on their own or in institutions, as younger people have migrated to other cities and even countries. Grandparents often find themselves being parents to their grandchildren, a far cry from the kind of life they believed they would have as they aged. This book will explore all these issues and will be of use to students and researchers in this relatively new field.

Author : Aharon W. Zorea
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finding the Fountain of Youth written by Aharon W. Zorea and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-04-26 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Separating truth from hype, this book introduces readers to the topic of life extension in a holistic manner that provides scientific, historical, and cultural perspectives. While the story of 16th-century explorer Juan Ponce de León futilely searching for the Fountain of Youth is likely a myth, it is true that for many centuries, mankind has sought "a cure for aging." Today, the anti-aging and longevity industry is a multibillion-dollar industry, and medical advances are continuing to find ways to add to our time on earth. Finding the Fountain of Youth: The Science and Controversy behind Extending Life and Cheating Death introduces readers to the topic of life extension in a holistic manner, examining the topic through scientific, historical, and cultural perspectives. It also highlights key medical and ethical controversies related to this particular area of gerontology and serves as a gateway for further research and study. The book's chapters address the history of movements to remain youthful, from ancient times through the modern era; past medical advances that significantly extended the average lifespan; and our cultural obsession with "staying young" that has spawned the anti-aging industry. Readers will learn about basic principles of aging and anti-aging, as well as the science behind the methods—both proven and hypothetical—that serve to extend the lifespan. The final section of the book examines controversial issues and debates related to life extension, such as global overpopulation, length of life versus quality of life, and socioeconomic concerns.

Author : Peter Boxall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107057493
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Value of the Novel written by Peter Boxall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Value of the Novel offers a reappraisal of the political and literary value of the novel as a genre.

Author : Steven Z. Levine
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857736965
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lacan Reframed written by Steven Z. Levine and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are your students baffled by Baudrillard? Dazed by Deleuze? Confused by Kristeva? Other beginners' guides can feel as impenetrable as the original texts to students who 'think in images'. "Contemporary Thinkers Reframed" instead uses the language of the arts to explore the usefulness in practice of complex ideas. Short, contemporary and accessible, these lively books utilise actual examples of artworks, films, television shows, works of architecture, fashion and even computer games to explain and explore the work of the most commonly taught thinkers. Conceived specifically for the visually minded, the series will prove invaluable to students right across the visual arts. Single-handedly responsible for the influential and ominous notion of 'the gaze', quoted by everybody yet fully understood by few, Lacan's work can be difficult to grasp. Going back to basics, this introduction guides the reader through Lacan's key concepts by looking at art from the Mona Lisa through to Bridget Riley's paintings, and by looking afresh at key works discussed by Lacan himself, from Holbein's famous 'The Ambassadors' to Velazquez's 'Las Meninas'. Making sense of Lacan's sometimes convoluted style, this highly readable introduction to one of the most frequently quoted thinkers also explores the reasons why human beings make - and look at - art.

Author : Gary Kinnaman
Publisher : Gospel Light Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780830733941
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beginner's Guide to Praise and Worship written by Gary Kinnaman and published by Gospel Light Publications. This book was released on 2003-10-24 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this short, readable and inspiring book, top-selling author and pastor Gary Kinnaman explains the purpose, power and practicalities of praise and worship in the Christian life. Readers will take away not only an eye-opening understanding of worship, but will also learn how to enter into expressive praise both at church and home. And the book shows us how to extend worship into our daily routines.

Author : Carmen Webber
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1466873000
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Denim Mania written by Carmen Webber and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designers Carmen Webber, a contestant on Season 4 of Bravo's Project Runway, and Carmia Marshall, aka Sistahs of Harlem, have created a sensation with their fabulous blend of street couture and uptown chic, as seen in the pages of many fashion magazines and on the backs of many style-conscious fashionistas. In Denim Mania Carmen and Carmia teach you to make 25 of their hottest designs, with patterns and instructions so easy you can start the project in the morning and wear it out that night. With their unique blend of vintage and couture designs you can transform your denim, both old and new, into fabulous tops, bottoms, jackets, and accessories. Their designs reflect a fusion of many influences--including the sassy street style of New York City, distant world cultures, and the rich cultural legacy of Harlem. Full-color photographs, how-to illustrations, sketches, and complete step-by-step instructions accompany each project. Denim Mania shows you how to transform basic blue jeans into sassy denim couture in no time at all--so you can make it today and wear it tonight!