Author: Richard A. Shweder
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226756073
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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This pathology of midlife has even recently begun to be exported to all territories in the contemporary world system; people around the world are being invited to change the way they think about mature adulthood and to adopt the middle-class American version of middle age.
Author: Richard A. Shweder
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226756084
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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This pathology of midlife has even recently begun to be exported to all territories in the contemporary world system; people around the world are being invited to change the way they think about mature adulthood and to adopt the middle-class American version of middle age.
Author: David Bainbridge
Publisher: Granta Publications
ISBN: 1846274362
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 187
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“There's lots of good news for the middle aged…A very jolly book with clear scientific explanations.”—The Telegraph David Bainbridge is a vet with a particular interest in evolutionary zoology—and he has just turned forty. As well as the usual concerns about greying hair, failing eyesight, and goldfish levels of forgetfulness, he finds himself pondering some bigger questions: have I come to the end of my productive life as a human being? And what I am now for? By looking afresh at the latest research from the fields of anthropology, neuroscience, psychology, and reproductive biology, it seems that the answers are surprisingly, reassuringly encouraging. In clear, engaging and amiable prose, Bainbridge explains the science behind the physical, mental and emotional changes men and women experience between the ages of 40 and 60, and reveals the evolutionary—and personal—benefits of middle age, which is unique to human beings and helps to explain the extraordinary success of our species. Middle Age will change the way you think about midlife, and help turn the crisis into a cause for celebration. “Bainbridge's zoological examination of the human animal results in a study that is full of surprises...Heartening.”—Sunday Times “Thought-provoking. [It] should certainly shed some new light on one's own potbellied or menopausal mid-life crisis...Fascinating.”—Evening Standard
Author: Lynn Johnston
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 9780836268225
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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A collection of comics from Lynn Johnston's daily strip "For Better or For Worse", which chronicles the daily ups and downs of the Patterson family.
Author: Patricia Cohen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416572899
Category : Aging
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Author: Craig Morgan Teicher
Publisher: American Continuum
ISBN: 9781950774333
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Neo-confessional poems about moving back to the suburbs, raising a family, sustaining a marriage, and facing the humility that comes with not being young anymore.
Author: Walter Farquhar Hook
Publisher:
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Category : Bishops
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Author: Walter Farquhar Hook
Publisher:
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Category : Bishops
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: Ecco
ISBN: 9780066209463
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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A darkly comic novel from the author of Blonde and We Were the Mulvaneys In Salthill-on-Hudson, a half-hour train ride from Manhattan, everyone is rich, beautiful, and -- though they look much younger -- middle-age. But when Adam Berendt, a charismatic, mysterious sculptor, dies suddenly in a brash act of heroism, shock waves rock the town. But who was Adam Berendt? Was he in fact a hero, or someone more flawed and human? His loss and the rumor that surface of his possible lovers plunge his friends into grief, confusion, and self-reflection. The women who loved Adam find themselves engaging in life-altering romantic adventures. The men who were Adam's closest friends become utterly transformed in his absence. Adam's lawyer, Roger Cavenagh, who has broken the law for Adam's sake, becomes invlolve with an elusive and perhaps treacherous young woman. Marina Troy exiles herself to fullfill a wish Adam had made for her. Lionel Hoffman sets out, unwisely but with great hope, to recapture his lost youth after a lifetime of soulless financial success, even as his wife, Camille, discovers an unspeckable joy close to home. Augusta Cutler, a hitherto sensuous, unreflective woman defiantly endeavors to solve the mystery of Adam's origins, even if it means losing her marriage and family. Middle Age: A Romance is an intimately drawn, richly sympathetic, yet unsparingly comic portrait of the affluent class at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Incisive, insightful, and never predictable, it's a uniquely American sage of self-determination and identity from one of our finest writers of contemporary fiction.
Author: Johannes Janssen
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Category : German literature
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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