Of Age

Author : Stephen Jenkinson
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1623172098
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Come of Age written by Stephen Jenkinson and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his landmark provocative style, Stephen Jenkinson makes the case that we must birth a new generation of elders, one poised and willing to be true stewards of the planet and its species. Come of Age does not offer tips on how to be a better senior citizen or how to be kinder to our elders. Rather, with lyrical prose and incisive insight, Stephen Jenkinson explores the great paradox of elderhood in North America: how we are awash in the aged and yet somehow lacking in wisdom; how we relegate senior citizens to the corner of the house while simultaneously heralding them as sage elders simply by virtue of their age. Our own unreconciled relationship with what it means to be an elder has yielded a culture nearly bereft of them. Meanwhile, the planet boils, and the younger generation boils with anger over being left an environment and sociopolitical landscape deeply scarred and broken. Taking on the sacred cow of the family, Jenkinson argues that elderhood is a function rather than an identity—it is not a position earned simply by the number of years on the planet or the title “parent” or “grandparent.” As with his seminal book Die Wise, Jenkinson interweaves rich personal stories with iconoclastic observations that will leave readers radically rethinking their concept of what it takes to be an elder and the risks of doing otherwise. Part critique, part call to action, Come of Age is a love song inviting us—imploring us—to elderhood in this time of trouble. That time is now. We’re an hour before dawn, and first light will show the carnage, or the courage, we bequeath to the generations to come.

Author : Bernice L. Neugarten
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226573830
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Meanings of Age written by Bernice L. Neugarten and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-12-15 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neugarten, who explains and highlights Neugarten's contributions in light of the most recent research in the fields of gerontology and social policy. Carefully edited by Dail A. Neugarten, each chapter presents the reader with Bernice Neugarten's original formulations on topics such as age norms and age constraints, the changing meanings of age, and age-neutral social policy.

Author : Charlotte Painter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gifts of Age written by Charlotte Painter and published by . This book was released on 1985-10 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer Charlotte Painter and artist/photographer Pamela Valois have combined their impressive talents to present these intimate glimpses into the lives of thirty-two remarkable women, each of whom has discovered in maturity the opportunity of exploring new and exciting challenges. These are the Gifts of Age: the time, the freedom, and hopefully the wisdom to develop creative new images of oneself and one's place in the complexities of a long life. All of the women in this book are more than sixty-five years of age, and included are such well-known personalities as Julia Child, M.F.K. Fisher, Joan Baez Senior, and Louise M. Davies. No two have followed the same path, but each has been successful in achieving some new, frequently unanticipated distinction in her latter years. Gifts of Age is a fascinating insight into just how productive one's extended life can be, and inspiration for anyone who believes that the creative talent for living need not diminish with the passage of years.

Author : Louise Aronson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620405482
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elderhood written by Louise Aronson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction A New York Times Bestseller Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Winner of the WSU AOS Bonner Book Award Winner of the 2022 At Home With Growing Older Impact Award As revelatory as Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson's Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life. For more than 5,000 years, "old" has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before, we've made old age into a disease, a condition to be dreaded, denigrated, neglected, and denied. Reminiscent of Oliver Sacks, noted Harvard-trained geriatrician Louise Aronson uses stories from her quarter century of caring for patients, and draws from history, science, literature, popular culture, and her own life to weave a vision of old age that's neither nightmare nor utopian fantasy--a vision full of joy, wonder, frustration, outrage, and hope about aging, medicine, and humanity itself. Elderhood is for anyone who is, in the author's own words, "an aging, i.e., still-breathing human being."

Author : John Lukacs
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300101614
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At the End of an Age written by John Lukacs and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the End of an Age isa deeply informed and rewarding reflection on the nature of historical and scientific knowledge. Of extraordinary philosophical, religious, and historical scope, it is the product of a great historian's lifetime of thought on the subject of his discipline and the human condition. While running counter to most of the accepted ideas and doctrines of our time, it offers a compelling framework for understanding history, science, and man's capacity for self-knowledge. In this work, John Lukacs describes how we in the Western world have now been living through the ending of an entire historical age that began in Western Europe about five hundred years ago. Unlike people during the ending of the Middle Ages or the Roman empire, we can know where we are. But how and what is it that we know? In John Lukacs's view, there is no science apart from scientists, and all of "Science," including our view of the universe, is a human creation, imagined and defined by fallible human beings in a historical continuum. This radical and reactionary assertion--in its way a summa ofthe author's thinking, expressed here and there in many of his previous twenty-odd books--leads to his fundamental assertion that, contrary to all existing cosmological doctrines and theories, it is this earth which is the very center of the universe--the only universe we know and can know.

Author : Ira Jacknis
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803268386
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coming of Age in Chicago written by Ira Jacknis and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Collection of scholarly essays and primary documents exploring the significance of the 1893 World's Fair and the history of American anthropology"--

Author : New South Wales. Department of Labour and Industry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1718 pages
Book Rating : 4.SZ/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Industrial Gazette written by New South Wales. Department of Labour and Industry and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : New South Wales. Department of Industrial Relations and Technology
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1226 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New South Wales Industrial Gazette written by New South Wales. Department of Industrial Relations and Technology and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nevada. Legislature
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 940 pages
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Download or read book Appendix to Journals of Senate and Assembly ... of the Legislature written by Nevada. Legislature and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual Report Upon the Births, Marriages, Divorces, and Deaths in the State of Maine for the Year Ending Dec. 31, ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: