Growing Old Disgracefully

Author : Rohan Candappa
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1407079476
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growing Old Disgracefully written by Rohan Candappa and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does your mother think it's really charming to talk to every rose bush on the street? Has your father taken up obsessive fundraising for a donkey sanctuary on retirement? Does he collect elastic bands because 'you never know when you'll need one'? Do your parents make jokes about sheltered housing? Have they guessed that you've already sent off for the brochures? Do they seem to be having too much fun for a couple with two fake hips, a pacemaker and three steel pins between them? Then you need Rohan Candappa. The man who bought you The Little Book of Stress, The Little Book of Wrong Shui and The Autobiography of a One Year Old has hit the nail on the head once more. Full of wit and wisdom, Rohan will give you a much needed laugh in the face of your parents' increasingly barmy behaviour. Just one thing, you'll probably find your parents have bought it too. And they'll probably think its really funny.

Author : Danny Cahill
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN 13 : 1626343993
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aging Disgracefully written by Danny Cahill and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does it count as a midlife crisis if you screw up your life and you happen to be entering middle age, or did you screw up your life because you are entering middle age? ​And does it matter if you take the kind of life most people envy—wealth and success and recognition—and blow it up, hurting everyone you love along the way? Who does that?! Danny Cahill had made it, by any measure: He was a recruiting industry icon with a brilliant, lucrative career, hugely in demand as a motivational speaker, and a noted playwright and writer. But once a serious gym injury began to unravel his childhood deprivations, his mother’s shame-based modus operandi, and the choices he made in search of love, he realized he had thrown it all away in spectacular fashion. In Aging Disgracefully, Cahill takes on the emotionally tricky territory of memoir and charges into deep water to tell a frequently humorous and wonderfully dark tale that spares no one in his life, least of all himself. Painfully authentic and unapologetic, Cahill’s account reveals that no matter how the world rewards you for being at the top of your game, an unresolved past can follow you, shape your choices, and lead to comic and tragic results when lines are crossed. Cahill’s story is ultimately about climbing out of messes, saving ourselves from ourselves, finding exactly what we’ve been looking for, and realizing that it was there all along.

Author : Michael John Lowis
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781634844888
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ageing Disgracefully, with Grace written by Michael John Lowis and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A doctor was once heard to say that it is a pity we know our own age; otherwise, we could just say that we are as old as we feel. The populations of most countries are ageing, and because of this we can anticipate many years of retirement. We need to make the most of this opportunity, but we are faced with exhortations such as "act your age." Does this mean that older people should not have fun anymore, but should instead conform to conventional stereotypes such as being unproductive, conventional, inflexible, serene, and no longer interested in intimacy? In other words, should people have to grow old gracefully? The answer is no. Instead, we should enjoy ageing while still having fun and living life to the fullest. The author, Dr. Mike Lowis, is a psychologist and theologian who has numerous academic publications to his name, including over sixty articles in peer-reviewed journals, two books and two book chapters. His vast research experience, plus being himself in the third age' of life, adequately qualifies him to write on the topic of making the most of the retirement years. He delights in debunking the myths and stereotypes of ageing, and gives many examples of individuals who have achieved great things in later life. The book includes details on several ways that can help older people to cope with life, including making full use of both music and humour. This book is written in an accessible style that should also appeal to the interested general reader. The book also includes some simple self-test exercises that readers are invited to complete, the results of which should help those interested to gauge their own levels of progress toward life satisfaction.

Author : Hen Co-op
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growing Old Disgracefully written by Hen Co-op and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hermione Gingold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780749302412
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Grow Old Disgracefully written by Hermione Gingold and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gingold recalls her eventful life from her first appearance on the stage, at the age of eight. She tells of her marriages to Michael Joseph, to Eric Maschwitz, her exploits on the London cabaret scene, and her relationships with Noel Coward, Maurice Chevalier and Hermione Baddeley.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growing Old Disgracefully written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are never too old to live life with self-esteem and playfulness. Written by six women between the ages of sixty-four and seventy-seven, this book challenges stereotypes and suggests ways to make life at any age more joyous and creative.

Author : Laura Way
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839825707
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Punk, Gender and Ageing written by Laura Way and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using in-depth interviews with punk women growing old disgracefully, Way explores how women construct punk identities. Reflecting on punk ‘then’ and ‘now’, they reveal the constraints punk women experience on their identities growing older, the complex relationship between appearance and dress, and the impact of social expectations around aging.

Author : Kate Mulvey
Publisher : Hodder Christian Books
ISBN 13 : 9781742573281
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flirting with the Barman written by Kate Mulvey and published by Hodder Christian Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb

Author : Alan Lakey
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780946719457
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pretty Things written by Alan Lakey and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decadence, drugs, delirium and trauma. The action-packed story of the British Beat Boom's "Enfants Terribles."

Author : Virginia Ironside
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141901748
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No! I Don't Want to Join a Bookclub written by Virginia Ironside and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-07-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too young to get whisked away by a Stannah Stairlift, or to enjoy the luxury of a walk-in bath (but not so much that she doesn't enjoy comfortable shoes), Marie is all the same getting on in years - and she's thrilled about it. She's a bit preoccupied about whether to give up sex - Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! - but there are compensations, like falling in love with her baby grandson, and maybe falling in love with someone else too? Curmudgeonly, acute, touching and funny, this diary is what happens when grumply old women meet Bridget Jones.