Gerontology
15 Featured Titles
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Tuesdays with Morrie
An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Written by Mitch Albom
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $13.99
ISBN: 978-0-7679-0592-3 (0-7679-0592-X)
The National Bestseller and Top Adoption Title.
Selected for Common Reading, including:
Becker College
Concordia University
Gallaudet University
Iowa State University
SUNY—New Paltz
University of Buffalo
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
University of North Dakota
“One Book, One Springfield” (Springfield, MA)
After seeing his former professor Morrie Schwartz being interviewed on television, and there learning of his terminal illness, Mitch Albom... Read more >
An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Written by Mitch Albom
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $13.99
ISBN: 978-0-7679-0592-3 (0-7679-0592-X)
The National Bestseller and Top Adoption Title.
Selected for Common Reading, including:
Becker College
Concordia University
Gallaudet University
Iowa State University
SUNY—New Paltz
University of Buffalo
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
University of North Dakota
“One Book, One Springfield” (Springfield, MA)
After seeing his former professor Morrie Schwartz being interviewed on television, and there learning of his terminal illness, Mitch Albom... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and in
large print trade paperback.
Final Exam
A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
Written by Pauline W. Chen
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27537-0 (0-307-27537-X)
A brilliant transplant surgeon brings compassion and narrative drama to the fearful reality that every doctor must face: the inevitability of mortality.
When Pauline Chen began medical school, she dreamed of saving lives. What she could not predict was how much death would be a part of her work. Almost immediately, she... Read more >
A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
Written by Pauline W. Chen
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27537-0 (0-307-27537-X)
A brilliant transplant surgeon brings compassion and narrative drama to the fearful reality that every doctor must face: the inevitability of mortality.
When Pauline Chen began medical school, she dreamed of saving lives. What she could not predict was how much death would be a part of her work. Almost immediately, she... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
A Very Easy Death
Written by Simone De Beauvoir
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: February 12, 1985
Price: $11.95
ISBN: 978-0-394-72899-5 (0-394-72899-8)
A poignant account of her mother's death from cancer. Read more >
Written by Simone De Beauvoir
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: February 12, 1985
Price: $11.95
ISBN: 978-0-394-72899-5 (0-394-72899-8)
A poignant account of her mother's death from cancer. Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
The Age Wave
How The Most Important Trend Of Our Time Can Change Your Future
Written by Ken Dychtwald, Ph.D. and Joe Flower
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: January 1, 1990
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-34806-4 (0-553-34806-X)
Based on 15 years of research by Dr. Dychtwald, a leading expert on aging, this is the first comprehensive analysis of the consequences of the aging baby-boomer population on society. Examining the choices and challenges for the future, Age Wave discusses topics such as the "cyclic life-style," "reinventing the family," "elderpower... Read more >
How The Most Important Trend Of Our Time Can Change Your Future
Written by Ken Dychtwald, Ph.D. and Joe Flower
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: January 1, 1990
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-34806-4 (0-553-34806-X)
Based on 15 years of research by Dr. Dychtwald, a leading expert on aging, this is the first comprehensive analysis of the consequences of the aging baby-boomer population on society. Examining the choices and challenges for the future, Age Wave discusses topics such as the "cyclic life-style," "reinventing the family," "elderpower... Read more >
Sister Age
Written by M.F.K. Fisher
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 12, 1984
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-72385-3 (0-394-72385-6)
In these fifteen remarkable stories, M.F.K. Fisher, one of the most admired writers of our time, embraces age as St. Francis welcomed Brother Pain. With a saint to guide us, she writes in her Foreword, perhaps we can accept in a loving way "the inevitable visits of a possibly nagging harpy... Read more >
Written by M.F.K. Fisher
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 12, 1984
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-72385-3 (0-394-72385-6)
In these fifteen remarkable stories, M.F.K. Fisher, one of the most admired writers of our time, embraces age as St. Francis welcomed Brother Pain. With a saint to guide us, she writes in her Foreword, perhaps we can accept in a loving way "the inevitable visits of a possibly nagging harpy... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
A Bittersweet Season
Caring for Our Aging Parents--and Ourselves
Written by Jane Gross
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-47240-3 (0-307-47240-X)
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... Read more >
Caring for Our Aging Parents--and Ourselves
Written by Jane Gross
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-47240-3 (0-307-47240-X)
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... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
The Force of Character
And the Lasting Life
Written by James Hillman
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: July 5, 2000
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-42405-1 (0-345-42405-0)
From the bestselling author of The Soul’s Code comes a revolutionary vision of aging. Hillman recasts life’s later years as a time with an important purpose: the fulfillment and confirmation of one’s character. Drawing on his grounding in Jungian psychology, Hillman explains here the archetypes and myths that govern the self’s... Read more >
And the Lasting Life
Written by James Hillman
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: July 5, 2000
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-42405-1 (0-345-42405-0)
From the bestselling author of The Soul’s Code comes a revolutionary vision of aging. Hillman recasts life’s later years as a time with an important purpose: the fulfillment and confirmation of one’s character. Drawing on his grounding in Jungian psychology, Hillman explains here the archetypes and myths that govern the self’s... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Never Say Die
The Myth of the New Old Age
Written by Susan Jacoby
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-45628-1 (0-307-45628-5)
In Never Say Die, Susan Jacoby delivers a brave, impassioned, and exceptionally important wake-up call to Americans who have long been deluded by the dangerous myth that a radically new old age awaits the huge baby boom generation.
Combining historical, social, and economic analysis with personal experiences of love and loss... Read more >
The Myth of the New Old Age
Written by Susan Jacoby
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-45628-1 (0-307-45628-5)
In Never Say Die, Susan Jacoby delivers a brave, impassioned, and exceptionally important wake-up call to Americans who have long been deluded by the dangerous myth that a radically new old age awaits the huge baby boom generation.
Combining historical, social, and economic analysis with personal experiences of love and loss... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Who Dies?
An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying
Written by Stephen Levine and Ondrea Levine
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 18, 1989
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-26221-7 (0-385-26221-3)
Who Dies?—“the Bible of the Conscious Dying Movement” (Harpers)—reveals the philosophical and spiritual underpinnings of the new Hospice movement with its focus on providing a warm, supportive, and open environment for the dying individual—as opposed to sterile environments that separate the dying person from family, friends, children and familiar surroundings. Future... Read more >
An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying
Written by Stephen Levine and Ondrea Levine
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 18, 1989
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-26221-7 (0-385-26221-3)
Who Dies?—“the Bible of the Conscious Dying Movement” (Harpers)—reveals the philosophical and spiritual underpinnings of the new Hospice movement with its focus on providing a warm, supportive, and open environment for the dying individual—as opposed to sterile environments that separate the dying person from family, friends, children and familiar surroundings. Future... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
How We Die
Reflections of Life's Final Chapter, New Edition
Written by Sherwin B. Nuland
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 15, 1995
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74244-9 (0-679-74244-1)
Winner of the National Book Award
Attempting to demythologize the process of dying, Nuland explores how we shall die, each of us in a way that will be unique. Through particular stories of dying--of patients, and of his own family--he examines the seven most common roads to death: old age, cancer, AIDS... Read more >
Reflections of Life's Final Chapter, New Edition
Written by Sherwin B. Nuland
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 15, 1995
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74244-9 (0-679-74244-1)
Winner of the National Book Award
Attempting to demythologize the process of dying, Nuland explores how we shall die, each of us in a way that will be unique. Through particular stories of dying--of patients, and of his own family--he examines the seven most common roads to death: old age, cancer, AIDS... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download.
Lost in America
A Journey with My Father
Written by Sherwin B. Nuland
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 9, 2004
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72722-1 (0-375-72722-1)
“He walks with me through every day of my life, in that unsteady, faltering gait that so embarrassed me when I was a boy. Always, he is holding fast to the upper part of my right arm . . . As we make our way together, my father—I called him Daddy... Read more >
A Journey with My Father
Written by Sherwin B. Nuland
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 9, 2004
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72722-1 (0-375-72722-1)
“He walks with me through every day of my life, in that unsteady, faltering gait that so embarrassed me when I was a boy. Always, he is holding fast to the upper part of my right arm . . . As we make our way together, my father—I called him Daddy... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
New Passages
Written by Gail Sheehy
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: May 28, 1996
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-40445-9 (0-345-40445-9)
The old demarcations and descriptions of adulthood--beginning at twenty-one and ending at sixty-five--are hopelessly out of date. In New Passages, Gail Sheehy discovers and maps out a completely new frontier--a Second Adulthood in middle life.
"Stop and recalculate," Sheehy writes. "Imagine the day you turn forty-five as the infancy of another life."... Read more >
Written by Gail Sheehy
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: May 28, 1996
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-40445-9 (0-345-40445-9)
The old demarcations and descriptions of adulthood--beginning at twenty-one and ending at sixty-five--are hopelessly out of date. In New Passages, Gail Sheehy discovers and maps out a completely new frontier--a Second Adulthood in middle life.
"Stop and recalculate," Sheehy writes. "Imagine the day you turn forty-five as the infancy of another life."... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
The Forgetting
Alzheimer's: Portrait of an Epidemic
Written by David Shenk
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 14, 2003
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49838-8 (0-385-49838-1)
Afflicting nearly half of all persons over the age of 85, Alzheimer’s disease kills nearly 100,000 Americas a year as it insidiously robs them of their memory and wreaks havoc on the lives of their loved ones. It was once minimized and misunderstood as forgetfulness in the elderly, but Alzheimer’s is... Read more >
Alzheimer's: Portrait of an Epidemic
Written by David Shenk
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 14, 2003
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49838-8 (0-385-49838-1)
Afflicting nearly half of all persons over the age of 85, Alzheimer’s disease kills nearly 100,000 Americas a year as it insidiously robs them of their memory and wreaks havoc on the lives of their loved ones. It was once minimized and misunderstood as forgetfulness in the elderly, but Alzheimer’s is... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Aging with Grace
What the Nun Study Teaches Us About Leading Longer, Healthier, and More Meaningful Lives
Written by David Snowdon
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: April 30, 2002
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-38092-7 (0-553-38092-3)
In 1986, epidemiologist Dr. David Snowdon embarked on a revolutionary scientific study that would forever change the way we view aging and old age. Dubbed the “Nun Study” because it involves a unique population of 678 Catholic sisters, this remarkable long-term research project remains today at the forefront of some of... Read more >
What the Nun Study Teaches Us About Leading Longer, Healthier, and More Meaningful Lives
Written by David Snowdon
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: April 30, 2002
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-38092-7 (0-553-38092-3)
In 1986, epidemiologist Dr. David Snowdon embarked on a revolutionary scientific study that would forever change the way we view aging and old age. Dubbed the “Nun Study” because it involves a unique population of 678 Catholic sisters, this remarkable long-term research project remains today at the forefront of some of... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith
Written by Studs Terkel
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: November 26, 2002
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-45120-0 (0-345-45120-1)
Whether it’s Working or The Great War, the legendary oral histories of Studs Terkel have offered indispensable insights into all areas of American life. Now, at eighty-eight, the Pulitzer Prize winner creates his most important work on a subject few can comfortably discuss: death.
Here, in the voices of people both esteemed... Read more >
Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith
Written by Studs Terkel
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: November 26, 2002
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-45120-0 (0-345-45120-1)
Whether it’s Working or The Great War, the legendary oral histories of Studs Terkel have offered indispensable insights into all areas of American life. Now, at eighty-eight, the Pulitzer Prize winner creates his most important work on a subject few can comfortably discuss: death.
Here, in the voices of people both esteemed... Read more >
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