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  • Aging, Media, and Culture

    The intersections of aging, media, and culture are under-explored given trends in population aging, rapid increases in the mediation of everyday life, and the growing cultural significance of media consumption at the global level. This book brings together an international collection of critical scholars, both well-established and up-and-coming, from the various academic disciplines that share a ... Leer más

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  • Enlightenment and Secularism

    Essays on the Mobilization of Reason

    Enlightenment and Secularism is a collection of twenty eight essays that seek to understand the connection between the European Enlightenment and the emergence of secular societies, as well as the character or nature of those societies. The contributors are drawn from a variety of disciplines including History, Sociology, Political Science, and Literature. Most of the essays focus on a single text ... Leer más

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  • Der 3. WELT-GELD-Krieg oder Der Wandel von Mensch und Erde

    Die Entstehung einer neuen Welt

    Der Zeitgeist hat sich gewandelt. Nicht mehr Globalisierung, Profitmaximierung, Materialismus, Individualismus ist das Zauberwort, sondern wir Menschen betreten ein neues Feld. Allmählich wachen die Menschen auf. Putin hat den Weckruf eingeleitet. Bisher dachten viele - Politiker, Wirtschaftsführer, Finanzindustrie - wir leben fast wie in einem Paradies. Geld ist genug da - geflutet durch die ... Leer más

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    Susanna may be mute, but not stupid. And although she is still a child she can draw wonderful pictures. But as it was in the Soviet Union behind the iron curtain in those days it was not easy to raise a deaf child that didn't fit into the communist ideal, and the state would whisk her swiftly away into a home if they found her. Her mother Antonia had a stroke of luck as she, although a lowly ... Leer más

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  • Eternity Soup

    Inside the Quest to End Aging

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    Mix the latest and most rigorous scientific research, irrepressible old-fashioned entrepreneurship, and the ancient human desire to live forever (or at least a lot longer) and the result is today’s exploding multibillion-dollar antiaging industry. Its achievements are so far mostly marginal, but its promises flow with all the allure of a twenty-first-century fountain of youth. In Eternity Soup, ... Leer más

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  • Multigenerational Family Therapy

    Multigenerational Family Therapy is a book about honoring and helping families. Rich with personal reflections and anecdotes from the author’s many years as a family therapist, this volume’s major strength lies in its precise definition of the process and content of the therapy itself. As the family is the major resource system available to an individual, this important book provides therapists ... Leer más

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  • What's Worth Knowing

    Colorful and enlightening vignettes about life by everyday people in their seventies, eighties, and nineties.When social worker Wendy Lustbader was asked to take down the histories of residents in a retirement community, she discovered that "the man with Alzheimer's in room 410" was actually ninety-six-year-old Ole Harlen, a former concert pianist. "The woman who people-watches in the lobby" was ... Leer más

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  • Towards Human Rights in Residential Care for Older Persons

    International Perspectives

    Series series Routledge Research in Human Rights Law
    People are leading significantly longer lives than previous generations did, and the proportion of older people in the population is growing. Residential care for older people will become increasingly necessary as our society ages and, we will require more of it. At this moment in time, the rights of older people receive attention at international and regional levels, with the United Nations, the ... Leer más

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  • The Silvering Screen

    Old Age and Disability in Cinema

    de Sally Chivers ...
    Popular films have always included elderly characters, but until recently, old age only played a supporting role onscreen. Now, as the Baby Boomer population hits retirement, there has been an explosion of films, including Away From Her, The Straight Story, The Barbarian Invasions, and About Schmidt, where aging is a central theme.The first-ever sustained discussion of old age in cinema, The ... Leer más

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  • Independent for Life

    Homes and Neighborhoods for an Aging America

    Do you want to age independently in your own home and neighborhood? Staying home, aging in place, is most people's preference, but most American housing and communities are not adapted to the needs of older people. And with the fastest population growth among people over 65, finding solutions for successful aging is important not only for individual families, but for our whole society. In ... Leer más

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  • Aging, Society, and the Life Course

    Doody's Score: 91, 4 Stars"[This] book's unfading preoccupation with social context, social processes, and social structures distinguishes itself and greatly contributes to the discourse in gerontology."--The GerontologistThis is a comprehensive textbook for both undergraduate and graduate level courses, detailing the impact of societal forces on the aging process. The book focuses on the ... Leer más

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