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  • The Big Move

    Life Between the Turning Points

    by Anne M. Wyatt-Brown, Ruth Ray Karpen, Helen Q. Kivnick, Margaret Morganroth Gullette ...
    "A fascinating attempt to marry personal experience with academic analysis to help us all reconceive of one option for later-life living." — The Huffington PostWhen her husband's ill health forces them to move into an assisted living facility, Anne M. Wyatt-Brown suddenly finds herself surrounded by elderly residents. In this lively and provocative collection, other distinguished gerontologists ... Read more

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  • Public Executions

    From Ancient Rome to the Present Day

    by Nigel Cawthorne ...
    'The sentence of this court is that you be taken from this place to whence you came, and from there to a place of lawful execution, there to be hanged by the neck till you be dead, and may the Lord have mercy on your soul'-Extract from judicial death sentence, England c.16th-20th centurySocieties throughout history have adopted many and varied methods of meting out the ultimate sanction of capital ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Never Say Die

    The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age

    by Susan Jacoby ...
    Susan Jacoby, an unsparing chronicler of unreason in American culture, now offers an impassioned, tough-minded critique of the myth that a radically new old age—unmarred by physical or mental deterioration, financial problems, or intimate loneliness—awaits the huge baby boom generation. Combining historical, social, and economic analysis with personal experiences of love and loss, Jacoby turns a ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Ultimate Guide to Sex After 50

    How to Maintain – or Regain – a Spicy, Satisfying Sex Life

    by Joan Price ...
    The population over age 50 is larger than ever in history. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 32.1 percent of the U.S. population were age 50 and over in 2011. This demographic is also healthier, more aware, more youthful, and more vocal than any previous older generation. Thanks to ongoing medical discoveries, the sexual revolution, and the Internet, today’s seniors are also sexier than ever — ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • This Chair Rocks

    A Manifesto Against Ageism

    by Ashton Applewhite ...
    Author, 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 bombarded by media images and messages about the despairs and declines of our later years. Beauty and pharmaceutical companies work overtime to convince people to purchase products that will retain their ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Final Exam

    by Pauline W. Chen ...
    **A brilliant transplant surgeon brings compassion and narrative drama to the fearful reality that every doctor must face: the inevitability of mortality.“Uncommonly moving ... A revealing and heartfelt book." —Atul Gawande, #1 New York bestselling author of Being Mortal**When Pauline Chen began medical school, she dreamed of saving lives. What she could not predict was how much death would be a ... Read more

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  • How to Say It® to Seniors

    Closing the Communication Gap with Our Elders

    by David Solie ...
    A practical guide to bridging the generation gap.In How to Say It to Seniors, geriatric psychology expert David Solie offers help in removing the typical communication blocks many experience with the elderly. By sharing his insights into the later stages of life, Solie helps in understanding the unique perspective of seniors, and provides the tools to relate to them. ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Caregivers

    A Support Group's Stories of Slow Loss, Courage, and Love

    by Nell Lake ...
    A moving, intimate, and compassionate book that chronicles the experiences of a group of long-term caregivers—spouses, parents, and friends of the elderly and ill—illuminating critical issues of old age, end-of-life care, medical reform, and social policy—and “providing comfort in the time-honored form of shared experience” (The Minneapolis Star-Tribune).In 2010, journalist Nell Lake began sitting ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Aging Our Way: Independent Elders, Interdependent Lives

    by Meika Loe ...
    America is quickly going grey. There are more Americans alive today over the age of 80 than ever before in our history; by 2030, that number is expected to almost triple. But when we discuss how long people live, we must also consider how well they live. Aging Our Way follows the everyday lives of 30 elders (ages 85-102) living at home and mostly alone to understand how they create and maintain ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Lioness in Winter

    Writing an Old Woman's Life

    by Ann Burack-Weiss ...
    When she started working with the aged more than forty years ago, Ann Burack-Weiss began storing the knowledge and skills she thought would help when she got old herself. It was not until she hit her mid-seventies that she realized she had packed sneakers to climb Mount Everest, not anticipating the crevices and chasms that constitute the rocky terrain of old age. The professional gerontological ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Rough Likeness

    Essays

    by Lia Purpura ...
    “All about looking: at a landscape, at language, at a sign . . . Purpura goes beneath the surface, writing not just about what she sees but what it means.” —Los Angeles TimesLia Purpura’s essays are full of joy in the act of intense observation; they’re also deliciously subversive and alert to the ways language gets locked and loaded by culture. These elegant, conversational excursions refuse to ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Ecstasy of Rita Joe

    by George Ryga ...
    Rita Joe is a Native girl who leaves the reservation for the city, only to die on skid row as a victim of white men’s violence and paternalistic attitudes towards First Nations peoples. As perhaps the best-known contemporary Canadian play and a poetic drama of enormous theatrical power, The Ecstasy of Rita Joe had a major influence in awakening consciousness to the “Indian problem” both in whites ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD