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Author : Nicole Hollander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1410403858
A guide to some of the most important decisions that come in one's mature years, for example: Accept the senior citizen discount or feign indignation?
Author : Ellyn Lem
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-28
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781978806337
Winner of the 2021 Excellence in Research and Scholarly Activity Award from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Finalist for the 2021 American Book Fest Best Book Awards Aging is one of the most compelling issues today, with record numbers of seniors over sixty-five worldwide. Gray Matters: Finding Meaning in the Stories of Later Life examines a diverse array of cultural works including films, literature, and even art that represent this time of life, often made by people who are seniors themselves. These works, focusing on important topics such as housing, memory loss, and intimacy, are analyzed in dialogue with recent research to explore how “stories” illuminate the dynamics of growing old by blending fact with imagination. Gray Matters also incorporates the life experiences of seniors gathered from over two hundred in-depth surveys with a range of questions on growing old, not often included in other age studies works. Combining cultural texts, gerontology research, and observations from older adults will give all readers a fuller picture of the struggles and pleasures of aging and avoids over-simplified representations of the process as all negative or positive.
Author : John C. Norcross Ph.D.,Linda F. Campbell Ph.D.,John M. Grohol PsyD,John W. Santrock Ph.D.,Florin Selagea M.S.,Robert Sommer Ph.D.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199333646
Self-help is big business, but alas, not always a scientific one. Self-help books, websites, and movies abound and are important sources of psychological advice for millions of Americans. But how can you sift through them to find the ones that work? Self-Help That Works is an indispensable guide that enables readers to identify effective self-help materials and distinguish them from those that are potentially misleading or even harmful. Six scientist-practitioners bring careful research, expertise, and a dozen national studies to the task of choosing and recommending self-help resources. Designed for both laypersons and mental-health professionals, this book critically reviews multiple types of self-help resources, from books and autobiographies to films, online programs, support groups, and websites, for 41 different behavioral disorders and life challenges. The revised edition of this award-winning book now features online self-help resources, expanded content, and new chapters focusing on autism, bullying, chronic pain, GLB issues, happiness, and nonchemical addictions. Each chapter updates the self-help resources launched since the previous edition and expands the material. The final chapters provide key strategies for consumers evaluating self-help as well as for professionals integrating self-help into treatment. All told, this updated edition of Self-Help that Works evaluates more than 2,000 self-help resources and brings together the collective wisdom of nearly 5,000 mental health professionals. Whether seeking self-help for yourself, loved ones, or patients, this is the go-to, research-based guide with the best advice on what works.
Author : Martha H. Kennedy
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496815934
Published in partnership with the Library of Congress, Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists presents an overarching survey of women in American illustration, from the late nineteenth into the twenty-first century. Martha H. Kennedy brings special attention to forms that have heretofore received scant notice--cover designs, editorial illustrations, and political cartoons--and reveals the contributions of acclaimed cartoonists and illustrators, along with many whose work has been overlooked. Featuring over 250 color illustrations, including eye-catching original art from the collections of the Library of Congress, Drawn to Purpose provides insight into the personal and professional experiences of eighty women who created these works. Included are artists Roz Chast, Lynda Barry, Lynn Johnston, and Jillian Tamaki. The artists' stories, shaped by their access to artistic training, the impact of marriage and children on careers, and experiences of gender bias in the marketplace, serve as vivid reminders of social change during a period in which the roles and interests of women broadened from the private to the public sphere. The vast, often neglected, body of artistic achievement by women remains an important part of our visual culture. The lives and work of the women responsible for it merit much further attention than they have received thus far. For readers who care about cartooning and illustration, Drawn to Purpose provides valuable insight into this rich heritage.
Author : Mira Falardeau
Publisher : Mosaic Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781771613521
In this volume, Mira Falardeau looks at the work of great women artists and their experiences in the industry to reveal advice and positive encouragement for future cartoonists. Heavily illustrated with cartoons and artwork from many of the best in the field, the book also asks serious questions about why there have been so few women cartoonists in the field of visual humor and if the digital age is opening more opportunities for female humorists. Falardeau is uniquely positioned to ask these questions. She has spent decades as an art historian, a specialist in visual humor, and the author of several books and essays on cartoonists and their history. She was also a former cartoonist herself—among the first generation of women in her field during the 1970s and 1980s. A History of Women Cartoonists is the first book to offer a truly global survey and analysis of the great women cartoonists of the last three decades—and a welcome addition to the history of comics and cartoons.
Author : Nicole Hollander
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-07
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781683960102
Nicole Hollander’s internationally syndicated comic strip, Sylvia, ran for thirty years. We Ate Wonder Bread is veteran cartoonist Hollander’s first graphic novel, a coming-of-age story starring the gangsters, the glamourous, the bed bugs, the (enviable) Catholic girls, the police, the jukebox, the fortune teller, and the blue Hudson—the family car, always at the ready for frequent drives into better neighborhoods. Much of the milieu and many of the characters who inhabited Hollander’s progressive comic strip, Sylvia, originated in her childhood neighborhood; not only does this illustrated memoir give insight into how Hollander developed her style and wit, it’s a chronicle of a Chicago community that has since disappeared into an expressway.
Author : Susan Peters
Publisher : Author House
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781449075316
PONDERS II is a follow-up to my first book, "It Is To Ponder... A Collection of Reflections". All ponders and poems were written while working forour local newspaper (The Clark Count Press) as a reporter/photographer, and thenas acolumnist.
Author : Margo Hammond,Ellen Heltzel
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780786727001
With wit and wisdom, the bibliophile's Ebert & Roeper recommend more than 600 books based on what women care about most. Between the Covers is organized around their wide-ranging curiosity—about themselves, friends and family, the larger world—and their concerns, from health to sex to managing their finances. With such sections as “Babes We Love” (Role Models Real and Imagined), “The Babe Inside” (Focusing on Body and Soul), and “Love, Sex & Second Chances,” this unique collection of fiction and nonfiction reflects how women really read.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Health
ISBN : UCSC:32106019551362
Author : Anne Snowden Crosman
Publisher : Danforth Book Distribution
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1887542205
Author Anne Snowden Crosman, inspired by her own parents' graceful aging, interviewed hundreds of elderly people, each of whom continued to lead vibrant lives. She spoke with the famous and non-famous, those born in this country and those who had immigrated, some who had endured a difficult life, others who had known a life of privilege. To each she posed the same question: What was their secret of living long and well?
Author : Ted Fishman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781416551034
In "Shock of Gray," Ted Fishman explains the astouding economic and political changes we face as our world suddenly grows old.
Author : Robert Bailor
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781728372419
Is getting older to be feared or embraced? Is it merely a matter of deterioration and death or is it a platform for a new lifestyle with new opportunities and new joys? This is a story about getting older. The main character, Don, a 73-year-old retired widower is initially confused and depressed about getting older. The book takes him through the fears, the challenges and the merits of being a senior citizen. It does so on three levels of narrative. First, there is the primary story of Don’s sharing in one-on-one counseling to help him resolve his issues with aging. The Epilogue is a surprise conclusion to this counseling journey. Second, there is the presentation of Don’s own internal dialogue regarding getting older with his inner reflections combined with his counseling journal entries. Third, there are five short stories spread out over the journal entries which emphasize the truths that Don is trying to get at with his journal entries. There have been several notable books written about aging, its causes and its challenges. Yet, there has never been a book like this one. Through the art of fiction it gets to the core of the questions haunting the prospects of getting older in a way that readers can personally identify with and use to resolve their own issues with aging. If readers follow the intertwining stories, perhaps they will discover answers for themselves, at least that is the intention of this book.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : UCSD:31822037943222
Author : Jane Gross
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780307472403
Wise, smart, and ever-helpful, an essential guide to caring for aging parents. When Jane Gross found herself suddenly thrust into a caretaker role for her eighty-five year-old mother, she was forced to face challenges that she had never imagined. As she and her younger brother struggled to move her mother into an assisted living facility, deal with seemingly never-ending costs, and adapt to the demands on her time and psyche, she learned valuable and important lessons. Here, the longtime New York Times expert on the subject of elderly care and the founder of the New Old Age blog shares her frustrating, heartbreaking, enlightening, and ultimately redemptive journey, providing us along the way with valuable information that she wishes she had known earlier. We learn why finding a general practitioner with a specialty in geriatrics should be your first move when relocating a parent; how to deal with Medicaid and Medicare; how to understand and provide for your own needs as a caretaker; and much more. Includes chapters on the following subjects: Finding Our Better Selves The Myth of Assisted Living The Vestiges of Family Medicine The Best Doctors Money Can Buy The Biology, Sociology, and Psychology of Aging Therapeutic Fibs
Author : Ken Druck
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-16
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781683504498
“An inspirational guide for aging with confidence packed with insight and wisdom for living life to its fullest. A must read” (John Gray, author of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus). When it comes to getting older, there are so many destructive and limiting myths, biases, stereotypes, and misconceptions. In this book, Dr. Ken Druck, drawing on both his personal and professional experience, shows how people can make peace with—and find joy in—every stage of life. It offers a refreshingly realistic view of the aging process, touching upon its physical and psychological challenges, its aches and pains and feelings of vulnerability—as well as the new peace, freedom, and confidence it can give birth to. This practical and inspirational approach speaks to anyone who wants to redefine what it means to age and embrace the transition into a new chapter in life, filled with potential.
