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Author : Lois Kaufman
Publisher : Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781441301550
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Old Age Is Not for Sissies written by Lois Kaufman and published by Peter Pauper Press, Inc.. This book was released on 1998-08 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A witty look at aging.
Author : Marshall L. Cook
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426924879
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Growing Old Isn't for Sissies written by Marshall L. Cook and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ninety-six-year-old man, on admission to a nursing home, was interviewed by a social worker. She asked, "Did you have a happy childhood?" With a twinkle in his eye, he replied: "So far, so good!" One of the undeniable facts of life is that we are all aging. Many people dread growing old. It was Bette Davis who said, "Old age ain't no place for sissies!" And yet Dr. Cook believes that what really matters as we age is not the condition of the body, but that of the spirit. We can find meaning and purpose no matter what our age. Growing Old Isn't for Sissies focuses on the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual challenges we encounter as we age, primarily after age sixty-five, and what our Christian faith has to say to those challenges and changes. Our faith in God can help us in our journey through life, no matter what our age. This book will help those who are growing older to understand some of the changes and problems associated with growing older, whether you are twenty, forty, sixty or eighty. It will help you understand the spiritual resources that are important in coping with growing older.
Author : Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030626016
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The CEO Whisperer written by Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At this critical junction in the history of humankind, leaders that are proficient in magical thinking aren’t going to solve our problems. Creating alternative realities is not the answer. We need a very different kind of leadership—leaders who can resist the calls of regression and whose outlook is firmly based in reality. We need leaders who analyze and draw conclusions from, or use their own experiences as a development tool, face their strengths and weaknesses, and critique their own experiences in order to build new understandings. In this very personal and entertaining book, Manfred Kets de Vries, one of the “gurus” in the field of leadership studies offers his thoughts on leadership and life, reflections written for executives and the people who deal with them. As a psychoanalyst and leadership professor let loose in the world of renowned global organizations—as a passionate educator and scholar, or just a human being at the receiving end of heart-rending emails—he examines the pitfalls of leadership and the challenges for the professionals who work with senior executives in today’s AI-focused world. He points out why leaders can derail, and what steps they can take to prevent this from happening. Ultimately, this book encourages you to “Know yourself,” but makes no bones about the challenge it represents. Understanding our “inner theatre” will always be an uphill struggle. Kets de Vries points out why deep dives into our inner world are always fraught with many anxieties. Included in the many subjects covered by the author are the loneliness of command, the management of disappointment, the destructive role of greed, the impact of stubbornness, the role of storytelling, the importance of wellness, and the role of corporate culture. In addition, the book addresses the important topic of how to create great teams and best places to work. Furthermore, the book touches on endings– the ending of our career and the growing realization of the inevitable ending of our life. As time grows short, Kets de Vries emphasizes that we have no time to lose in dealing with our anxieties, regrets, and the things we spend much of our life determined not to see. Taking a deep dive into self-knowledge requires courage and support, and he is here to guide you through it.
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Publisher : Robson
ISBN 13 : 9781861055897
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (558 download)
Download or read book Old Age Comes at a Bad Time written by and published by Robson. This book was released on 2002-11-21 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ageing is about losing youth and finding a varicose vein. It is about fighting your children and making peace with your parents. It is about gaining wisdom and mislaying your reading glasses. Throughout time, people have feared ageing, laughed at it, cried about it, defied it, accepted it - and written about it. This delightful collection gathers together the most memorable quotations about ageing, including those of William Shakespeare, D H Lawrence, Oscar Wilde and Evelyn Waugh, right up to Margaret Thatcher, Joan Rivers and Jerry Seinfeld.
Author : Alice Fryling
Publisher : NavPress
ISBN 13 : 1641583614
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (415 download)
Download or read book Aging Faithfully written by Alice Fryling and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you like to grow in life-giving ways as you age? Do you have the courage to let go of former ways of thinking to receive God’s love and life in new ways? As we age, we experience the loss of physical stamina, independence, and career fulfillment. Yet within each of these losses is a holy invitation to grow. God calls us to let go of our need for accomplishment and embrace the gift of fruitfulness so that we might be transformed in this final season of our lives. In Aging Faithfully, spiritual director Alice Fryling explores how to navigate the journey of retirement, lifestyle changes, and new limitations. In this season of life, we are invited to hold both grief and hope, to acknowledge ways of thinking that no longer represent who we are, and to receive peace in the midst of our fears. We all age differently, and God calls each of us to new spiritual birth as we mature. When we embrace the aging process, we grow closer to God and experience his grace as he renews us from within. Whether you are approaching the beginning, middle, or end of your senior years, you are invited. Come and be transformed. Aging Faithfully includes questions for group discussion and suggestions for personal meditation.
Author : Steve Dickenson
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780740718427
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (184 download)
Download or read book Old Age Isn't for Sissies written by Steve Dickenson and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2001-08-08 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't mess with Lola. She's too old for you to be asking, she bucks stereotypes like a bronco, and she suffers adult sons, daughters-in-law, and potential suitors badly. In Old Age Isn't for Sissies, Lola continues her brash march through life, stepping over proper diet, exercise, and political correctness. She's a take-no-prisoners, cigar-chomping, beer-on-the-doily kind of gal who will whack you with her cane if given half a chance. But Lola's lack of charm is her most charming trait-and what makes her such a delight to fans of all ages.
Author : Karen O'Connor
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0736931457
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (369 download)
Download or read book Gettin' Old Ain't for Wimps written by Karen O'Connor and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2004-08-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speaker and author Karen O'Connor urges her post-fifty friends to "laugh and love all the way home to the Father's house." With humor and wisdom, Karen shares personal and gathered stories about the blessings of surviving and surpassing middle-age. Gettin' Old Ain't for Wimps overflows with candor and helps the boomin' baby boomer market celebrate with: funny stories of the antics and adventures of getting older "conversations with God" for a deeper prayer life hopeful words for the tough times For those who have already traded in their wimp status for a more courageous existence or those still wondering about the future, this delightful read affirms that the latter decades are filled with God's promises and joys.
Author : Bette Davis
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0316441295
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)
Download or read book The Lonely Life written by Bette Davis and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1962, The Lonely Life is legendary silver screen actress Bette Davis's lively and riveting account of her life, loves, and marriages--now in ebook for the first time, and updated with an afterword she wrote just before her death. As Davis says in the opening lines of her classic memoir: "I have always been driven by some distant music--a battle hymn, no doubt--for I have been at war from the beginning. I rode into the field with sword gleaming and standard flying. I was going to conquer the world." A bold, unapologetic book by a unique and formidable woman, The Lonely Life details the first fifty-plus years of Davis's life--her Yankee childhood, her rise to stardom in Hollywood, the birth of her beloved children, and the uncompromising choices she made along the way to succeed. The book was updated with new material in the 1980s, bringing the story up to the end of Davis's life--all the heartbreak, all the drama, and all the love she experienced at every stage of her extraordinary life. The Lonely Life proves conclusively that the legendary image of Bette Davis is not a fable but a marvelous reality.
Author : Roz Chast
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620406381
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? written by Roz Chast and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times Bestseller 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST In her first memoir, New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When it came to her elderly mother and father, Roz held to the practices of denial, avoidance, and distraction. But when Elizabeth Chast climbed a ladder to locate an old souvenir from the “crazy closet”-with predictable results-the tools that had served Roz well through her parents' seventies, eighties, and into their early nineties could no longer be deployed. While the particulars are Chast-ian in their idiosyncrasies-an anxious father who had relied heavily on his wife for stability as he slipped into dementia and a former assistant principal mother whose overbearing personality had sidelined Roz for decades-the themes are universal: adult children accepting a parental role; aging and unstable parents leaving a family home for an institution; dealing with uncomfortable physical intimacies; managing logistics; and hiring strangers to provide the most personal care. An amazing portrait of two lives at their end and an only child coping as best she can, Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant will show the full range of Roz Chast's talent as cartoonist and storyteller.
Author : Barbara Bradley Hagerty
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101622970
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Life Reimagined written by Barbara Bradley Hagerty and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dynamic and inspiring exploration of the new science that is redrawing the future for people in their forties, fifties, and sixties for the better—and for good. There’s no such thing as an inevitable midlife crisis, Barbara Bradley Hagerty writes in this provocative, hopeful book. It’s a myth, an illusion. New scientific research explodes the fable that midlife is a time when things start to go downhill for everybody. In fact, midlife can be a great new adventure, when you can embrace fresh possibilities, purposes, and pleasures. In Life Reimagined, Hagerty explains that midlife is about renewal: It’s the time to renegotiate your purpose, refocus your relationships, and transform the way you think about the world and yourself. Drawing from emerging information in neurology, psychology, biology, genetics, and sociology—as well as her own story of midlife transformation—Hagerty redraws the map for people in midlife and plots a new course forward in understanding our health, our relationships, even our futures.
Author : Elsa Joubert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780624087809
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (878 download)
Download or read book Cul-de-sac written by Elsa Joubert and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated author Elsa Joubert completed this memoir in her 95th year: a searing, honest account of ageing, as she settles into a cosmopolitan Cape Town retirement home along with the Englishman across the passage, her Dutch friend Jo Struik, and the support of StomJapie. Interspersing acute insights with dark humour, this book is wise, courageous and deeply moving.
Author : Nicole Hollander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781410403858
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial written by Nicole Hollander and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to some of the most important decisions that come in one's mature years, for example: Accept the senior citizen discount or feign indignation?
Author : Art Linkletter
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 1418525669
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (185 download)
Download or read book How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life written by Art Linkletter and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2007-12-02 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baby Boomer Alert Get ready for the next prime of your life! Today we're living so much longer and more productively that age sixty has truly become the new age forty-the prime of life when our careers are in full swing, our minds are at their most creative, and our passions burn their hottest. -Mark Victor Hansen and Art Linkletter So how do we ensure that our bodies remain fit, our minds alert and creative, our finances stable-even growing-throughout our senior years? TV icon Art Linkletter (incredibly active in several enterprises at the age of 94) and Chicken Soup for the Soul® cocreator Mark Victor Hansen team up to show us how. Much more than a pep talk about maintaining a youthful attitude in our Second Prime, How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life provides tools we can use: strategies, self-tests, worksheets and resources, plus dozens of inspiring stories and humorous anecdotes. Woven together by the authors' own invincible spirits, these empowering principles come alive as Hansen and Linkletter motivate us to find greater purpose and passion in what we do, making the rest of our lives the best ever.
Author : Margaret Morganroth Gullette
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022610186X
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Agewise written by Margaret Morganroth Gullette and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let’s face it: almost everyone fears growing older. We worry about losing our looks, our health, our jobs, our self-esteem—and being supplanted in work and love by younger people. It feels like the natural, inevitable consequence of the passing years, But what if it’s not? What if nearly everything that we think of as the “natural” process of aging is anything but? In Agewise, renowned cultural critic Margaret Morganroth Gullette reveals that much of what we dread about aging is actually the result of ageism—which we can, and should, battle as strongly as we do racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry. Drawing on provocative and under-reported evidence from biomedicine, literature, economics, and personal stories, Gullette probes the ageism thatdrives discontent with our bodies, our selves, and our accomplishments—and makes us easy prey for marketers who want to sell us an illusory vision of youthful perfection. Even worse, rampant ageism causes society to discount, and at times completely discard, the wisdom and experience acquired by people over the course of adulthood. The costs—both collective and personal—of this culture of decline are almost incalculable, diminishing our workforce, robbing younger people of hope for a decent later life, and eroding the satisfactions and sense of productivity that should animate our later years. Once we open our eyes to the pervasiveness of ageism, however, we can begin to fight it—and Gullette lays out ambitious plans for the whole life course, from teaching children anti-ageism to fortifying the social safety nets, and thus finally making possible the real pleasures and opportunities promised by the new longevity. A bracing, controversial call to arms, Agewise will surprise, enlighten, and, perhaps most important, bring hope to readers of all ages.
Author : May Sarton
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393309577
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (95 download)
Download or read book As We Are Now written by May Sarton and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992-09 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the page proofs of her novel.
Author : Diane Swearingen
Publisher : Smallest Tadpole
ISBN 13 : 9780692509746
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (97 download)
Download or read book The Smallest Tadpole's War in the Land of Mysterious Waters written by Diane Swearingen and published by Smallest Tadpole. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1860's a Northern newspaper referred to Florida as the "smallest tadpole in the dirty pool of secession." Political power in the state was held largely by wealthy white planters. In early 1861, Florida was a rural frontier state that had joined the Union just fifteen years before. Its population of 140,000 was by far the smallest of any of the states that formed the Confederacy. Nearly 63,000 of the population were African Americans, most of whom were slaves working in an agricultural-based economy. The majority of the white population was relatively poor and rural, with a smaller number of tradespeople and their families living in small towns. This work of historical fiction tells the story of one Florida family in the 1860s.
Author : Rhona Richman Kenneally
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781846826481
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)
Download or read book The Vibrant House written by Rhona Richman Kenneally and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '3' / Vona Groarke -- 'I am off-white walls': exploring and theorizing domestic space / Rhona Richman Kenneally -- OUR HOUSE -- A moving house / Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin -- Four paintings and a cloakroom / Mary Morrissy -- Omphalos / Colette Bryce -- Home is where you start from / Theo Dorgan -- Liturgies of fire and water / Macdara Woods -- THE VIBRANT HOUSE : A VISUAL ESSAY -- THEIR HOUSE -- 'Flung open': walking into the parlour in Victorian Irish literature / Howard Keeley -- Inside the house: Synge's stage spaces / Nicholas Grene -- Hairpins among the rifles: the domestic site in women's accounts of 1916 / Lucy McDiarmid -- The house that never blew up: Maeve Brennan's Dublin home / Angela Bourke -- The vibrancy of first houses in the poetry of Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon / Adam Hanna -- Melancholy ornaments in the house of Edna O'Brien's fiction / Maureen O'Connor -- A wandering to find home: Adam & Paul (2004) / Tony Tracy -- 'How to read a building' /Vona Groarke
