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  • Population ageing and international development

    From generalisation to evidence

    by Peter Lloyd-Sherlock ...
    Over the next 40 years the number of people aged 60+ in the world, many of whom live in developing regions, will grow by 1¼ billion. What will old age be like for them?This original book provides an analysis of links between development, population ageing and older people, challenging some widely held misconceptions. It highlights the complexity of international experiences and argues that the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The New Dynamics of Ageing Volume 1

    by Joao Saboia, Constantinos Maganaris, Clare Lawton, Eleanor van den Heuvel, Catherine Hagan Hennessy, Amanda Crummett, Jane Elliott, Adelina Comas-Herrera, Michael Murphy, Penny Vera-Sanso, Julia Mase, Peter Lloyd-Sherlock, Valerie Moller, Armando Barrientos, Leonie Kellaher, Russ Marshall, Colette Nicolle, Martin Maguire, John Percival, Sheila Peace, Jane McCann, Jatinder Sandhu, Wendy Olphert, Leela Damodaran, Robin Means, Michael Murray, Andrea Creech, Susan Hallam, Ann Bowling, Rachel Cooper, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Catharine Gale, Rebecca Hardy, Diana Kuh, Cheryl Haslam, Bo Hu, Raphael Wittenberg, Ruth Hancock ...
    Series series The New Dynamics of Ageing
    This volume and its companion, The new dynamics of ageing volume 2, provide comprehensive multi-disciplinary overviews of the very latest research on ageing. It reports the outcomes of the most concerted investigation ever undertaken into both the influence shaping the changing nature of ageing and its consequences for individuals and society.This book concentrates on three major themes: active ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Living Longer

    Ageing, Development and Social Protection

    Edited by Peter Lloyd-Sherlock ...
    Accelerated population ageing, long a significant issue for developed countries, is now becoming important in the developing world too. Population ageing is one of the great achievements of the past century - although it brings its own social, economic, political and cultural challenges. The quality of life of older people is strongly conditioned by their capacity to manage opportunities and risks ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

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  • The Virtues of Aging

    by Jimmy Carter ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Former 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 results have been surprisingly good,” writes former president Jimmy Carter in this wise, deeply personal meditation on the new experiences that come to us with age. President ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Facing Age

    Women Growing Older in Anti-Aging Culture

    by Laura Hurd Clarke ...
    Series series Diversity and Aging
    The first book in the new series Diversity and Aging, Laura Hurd Clarke's Facing Age examines the relationship between aging and women in a culture obsessed with youthfulness. From weight gain, to wrinkles, to sagging skin, to gray hair, the book explores older women's complex and often contradictory feelings about their bodies and the physical realities of growing older. Although the women in the ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Happiness Handbook

    by Ruth Clydesdale ...
    An innovative guide to achieving contentment, The Happiness Handbook is both contemporary and timely. It offers a tried and tested method of teaching wisdom backed up with practical exercises to try at work and at home. All the important areas of life are covered, from daily nourishing of health and energy and enjoying fulfilling relationships to finding the ideal job and discovering the spiritual ... Read more

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  • Tourism and Sustainability

    Development, globalisation and new tourism in the Third World

    by Martin Mowforth, Ian Munt ...
    By January 2015 the world’s richest 80 people had as much wealth as the poorest 50 per cent of the world’s population. It is a global unevenness through which the barriers to in-migration of Third World migrants to wealthy First World nations go ever higher, while the barriers to travel in the reverse direction are all but extinct.So how exactly does tourism contribute to narrowing this glaring ... Read more

    $95.99 USD

  • Long-Term Care in an Aging Society

    Theory and Practice

    by Graham D. Rowles, PhD ...
    This comprehensive graduate textbook focuses on the full spectrum of long-term care settings ranging from family and community based care through supportive housing options to a variety of institutional long-term care alternatives. Integrating theory and practice, the book features the perspectives of diverse fields regarding current long-term care options and new directions for the future. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Peaceful People: The Penan and their Fight for the Forest

    by Paul Malone ...
    The Peaceful People is the story of the Penan, the jungle nomads of Sarawak, Malaysia, on Borneo island who for decades have fought for possession and preservation of their traditional forest lands. Drawing on extensive first-hand interviews, as well as the diaries and journals of explorers, botanists and colonial administrators, and the observations of missionaries, Paul Malone provides the most ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Geriatric Psychiatry Review and Exam Preparation Guide

    A Case-Based Approach

    by Dallas Seitz, Evan Lilly, Mark Rapoport, Andrew Wiens ...
    Geriatric psychiatry is a relatively young discipline within the field of North American psychiatry. The development of a workforce to meet the needs of an aging population has been identified as an urgent priority, but there is still much we don’t know about fulfilling the mental health needs of older adults.For Mark J. Rapoport, geriatric psychiatrists must assess and treat patients today in ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Researching Sustainability

    A Guide to Social Science Methods, Practice and Engagement

    Edited by Alex Franklin, Paul Blyton ...
    This book is for students and researchers across the social sciences who are planning, conducting and disseminating research on sustainability-related issues. Real-world sustainability problems cross many boundaries, and this is the first book to guide students and practitioners through the practical and theoretical challenges of doing interdisciplinary research in this vital and emerging area ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Pulmonary Pathophysiology: A Clinical Approach, Third Edition

    by Juzar Ali, Warren G. Summer, Michael G. Levitzky ...
    A unique system/disease-based approach to learning pulmonary pathophysiology as it relates to clinical medicineNo other review puts disorders of lung structure and function in such clear clinical perspective as Pulmonary Pathophysiology. Bridging the gap between basic science and clinical medicine, Pulmonary Pathophysiology guides you from symptom identification to underlying disease mechanisms ... Read more

    $51.89 USD