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1) From strength to strength: finding success, happiness, and deep purpose in the second half of life
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English
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"The roadmap for finding purpose, meaning, and success as we age, from bestselling author, Harvard professor, and the Atlantic's happiness columnist Arthur Brooks. Many of us assume that the more successful we are, the less susceptible we become to the sense of professional and social irrelevance that often accompanies aging. But the truth is, the greater our achievements and our attachment to them, the more we notice our decline, and the more painful...
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Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Breasts and Eggs paints a portrait of contemporary womanhood in Japan and recounts the intimate journeys of three women as they confront oppressive mores and their own uncertainties on the road to finding peace and futures they can truly call their own. It tells the story of three women: the thirty-year-old Natsu, her older sister, Makiko, and Makiko's daughter, Midoriko. Makiko has traveled to Tokyo in search of an affordable breast enhancement...
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Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Old age is not what it used to be. For the first time, most people in the United States are living into their eighties. The first guide of its kind changes the understanding of old age with an upbeat and emotionally savvy view of the uncharted territory of the last stage of life. With insight and humor, Dr. Katharine Esty describes the series of dramatic and difficult transitions that eightysomethings usually experience and how, despite their losses,...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Women growing older contend with ageism, misogyny, and loss. Yet as Mary Pipher shows, most older women are deeply happy and filled with gratitude for the gifts of life. Their struggles help them grow into the authentic, empathetic, and wise people they have always wanted to be. In Women Rowing North, Pipher offers a timely examination of the cultural and developmental issues women face as they age. Drawing on her own experience as daughter, sister,...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Compnay
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Is it possible to grow older without getting sicker? Can you look and feel fifty through your eighties and nineties? Barzilai's life's work is tackling the challenges of aging to delay and prevent the onset of all age-related diseases including 'the big four': diabetes, cancer, heart disease, and Alzheimer's. His studies include SuperAgers: individuals who maintain active lives well into their nineties and even beyond-- and reached that ripe old age...
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Publisher
Pear Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
With so many discoveries over the years, science is literally changing our minds about the optimal care and feeding of the brain. Medina shares how you can make the most of the years you have left, in four sections. "Social brain" illustrates how our emotions change with age. "Thinking brain" explains how working memory and executive function change with time. "Body and brain" shows how certain kinds of exercise, diets, and sleep can slow the decline...
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Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"By age 50, Maria Leonard Olsen had drunk her way out of her 25-year marriage. She had, against advice, put all her eggs in the motherhood basket, willfully derailing her successful law career. As teenagers, her precious children did not need her in the hands-on way they previously had. She was depressed and stuck. So when she turned 50, her gift to herself was to go on a crusade to make the most of whatever time she had left. She set out to do 50...
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Publisher
T'iramisu
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Korean
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Reviving Ophelia, a guide to wisdom, authenticity, and bliss for women as they age.Women growing older contend with ageism, misogyny, and loss. Yet as Mary Pipher shows, most older women are deeply happy and filled with gratitude for the gifts of life. Their struggles help them grow into the authentic, empathetic, and wise people they have always wanted to be. In Women Rowing North, Pipher offers a timely...
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Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Part family memoir, part Studs Terkel, How To Live considers some unusual sources--deathbed confessions, late-in-life journals--as well as offering a rich compilation of interviews with the over-70 set to deliver a highly optimistic look at our dying days.
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Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"There comes a time in our lives when we wonder, "What's next?"--when one chapter is finished and the next one has yet to be written. For many it happens at midlife, but it can happen at any point. It's a time full of enormous potential, a whole new phase of life. It's called Life Reimagined. Here is your GPS for navigating this new life phase. You can use the powerful set of tools, practices, and insights--enhanced online at AARP's Life Reimagined...
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Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better. She describes how we over-prepare and worry way too much about what is inevitable. One by one, Ehrenreich topples the shibboleths that guide our attempts to live a long, healthy life, from the importance of preventive medical screenings to the concepts of wellness and mindfulness, from dietary fads to fitness culture. We tend to believe we have agency over our bodies,...
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Publisher
Aguilar
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"Envejecer es una parte natural del ciclo de la vida. Sin embargo, todos queremos vernos y sentirnos más jóvenes, y tener la energía y vitalidad de años pasados. La clave está en dos cosas: prevenir y tratar adecuadamente. Para el Doctor Daniel Campos envejecer es un sinónimo de victoria, una victoria que requiere estar preparados para poder vivir más y vivir mejor. Con la preparación y la información adecuada, podemos disfrutar de nuestros...
16) Still Doing It
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Flying in the face of this culture’s extreme ageism, STILL DOING IT explores the lives of older women. Partnered, single, straight, gay, black and white, nine extraordinary women, 67-87, express with startling honesty and humor how they feel about themselves, sex and love in later life and the poignant realities of aging. Outspoken for their generation these women mark a sea change. Women over 65 are already the fastest growing segment of the population...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A leading expert on the psychology of aging discusses how our individual beliefs about aging can have a profound effect on our life expectancy and offers stunning new revelations about the mind-body connection.
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