Gerontology
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A View from Life’s Edge: Discovering What Really Matters with Older Women Across the Globe
$29.95 Add to cartIn today’s death-denying, success-driven society, older women’s countercultural voices call for our attention. Recounting emotionally charged conversations from across the world, A View from Life’s Ed… [more below]
- Series: Global Perspectives on Aging
- Author: Dempsey, Corinne G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1978844646
- Language: English
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Healthy to 100: How Strong Social Ties Lead to Long Lives
$30.00 Add to cartIn this “must-read” (Chip Conley), an internationally recognized longevity and aging expert uncovers the secret to an enduring, thriving life: meaningful social connections
Contrary to popular belief- Author: Stern, Ken
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1541705017
- Language: English
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Aging While Black: A Radical Reimagining of Aging and Race in America
$22.95 Add to cartAging in America is not a race-neutral experience. Firmly entrenched disadvantages
compound over a lifetime, making Black aging a unique and urgent issue. Yet, Black
elders don’t just survive-they build
- Author: Jetson, Raymond A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: June 06 2025
- ISBN10: 9798889264538
- Language: English
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Longevity Guidebook: How to Slow, Stop, and Reverse Aging – and NOT Die from Something Stupid
$25.99 Add to cartWe are in the midst of a healthspan revolution that will enable us to live vitally beyond 100 years old. Advanced diagnostics are now able to catch any disease at inception, while advanced therapies i
- Author: Diamandis, Peter H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: January 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1636804284
- Language: English
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Longevity Guidebook: How to Slow, Stop, and Reverse Aging – and NOT Die from Something Stupid
$15.99 Add to cartWe are in the midst of a healthspan revolution that will enable us to live vitally beyond 100 years old. Advanced diagnostics are now able to catch any disease at inception, while advanced therapies i
- Author: Diamandis, Peter H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: January 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1636804276
- Language: English
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Extra Time: 10 Lessons for an Aging World
$18.99 Read more‘An inspirational call to arms’ DAILY MAIL
‘This book is so sensible, so substantially researched, so briskly written, so clear in its arguments, that one wishes Baroness Cavendish was still whispering
- Author: Cavendish, Camilla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0008362823
- Language: English
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The Second Half: Forty Women Reveal Life After Fifty
$35.00 Add to cartA frank, honest, and insightful look into the lives of women over fifty.
The Second Half explores, in photographic portraits and interviews, how the second half of life is experienced by women from m- Author: Warner, Ellen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 257
- Publish Date: January 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1684580862
- Language: English
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The Second Fifty: Answers to the 7 Big Questions of Midlife and Beyond
$29.99 Add to cartAs she approached her fiftieth birthday, Debra Whitman, a globally recognized expert on aging, wanted to delve deeper into why so many Americans struggled to live well as they aged. And she began to w
- Author: Whitman, Debra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 039386765X
- Language: English
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Generation We: The Power and Promise of Gen Z
$18.99 Add to cartThere are moments when the normal flow of time catches, hesitates, and shifts direction.
2020 was one of these moments.
Now, at this critical juncture, a new generation is coming of age and demanding a
- Author: Hayek, Annemarie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1544523130
- Language: English
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Third Chapter
$24.00 Add to cartIt’s this process of creative reinvention that the renowned sociologist Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot details in The Third Chapter, which redefines our views about the casualties and opportunities of aging.
- Author: Lawrence-Lightfoot, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 22 2009
- ISBN10: 0374532214
- Language: English
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The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Writing a Woman’s Life comes an inspirational reflection on aging and the gift of life in your 70s and beyond.
When she was young, distinguished author and critic Carolyn Heilbrun- Author: Heilbrun, Carolyn G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 07 1998
- ISBN10: 0345422953
- Language: English
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The Virtues of Aging
$17.00 Add to cartFormer president Jimmy Carter reflects on aging, blending memoir, anecdote, political savvy, and practical advice to truly illuminate the rich promises of growing older.
“As we’ve grown older, the res- Series: Library of Contemporary Thought
- Author: Carter, Jimmy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 13 1998
- ISBN10: 0345425928
- Language: English
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The Super Age: Decoding Our Demographic Destiny
$29.99 Add to cartA demographic futurist explains the coming Super Age–when there will be more people older than sixty-five than those under the age of eighteen–and explores what it could mean for our collective futu
- Author: Schurman, Bradley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0063048752
- Language: English
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This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism
$18.99 Add to cartAuthor, activist, and TED speaker Ashton Applewhite has written a rousing manifesto calling for an end to discrimination and prejudice on the basis of age.
In our youth obsessed culture, we’re bombard- Author: Applewhite, Ashton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1250297257
- Language: English
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The Measure of Our Age: Navigating Care, Safety, Money, and Meaning Later in Life
$30.00 Read moreAn expert on elder justice maps the challenges of aging, how things go wrong, and presents powerful tools we can use to forge better long lives for ourselves, our families, and our communities.
As te- Author: Connolly, M. T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541702727
- Language: English
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Honest Aging: An Insider’s Guide to the Second Half of Life
$24.99 Read moreYour indispensable guide to taking charge of the second half of your life.
From Dr. Rosanne M. Leipzig, a top doctor with more than 35 years of experience caring for older people, Honest Aging is an in
- Series: Johns Hopkins Press Health Books (Paperback)
- Author: Leipzig, Rosanne M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1421444704
- Language: English
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Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
$16.95 Add to cartFrom the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon’s CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of
- Author: Bruder, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 04, 2018
- ISBN10: 0393356310
- Language: English
