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9780226188409 | Univ of Chicago Pr, September 22, 2016, cover price $27.50
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9781410450494 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, September 15, 2012), cover price $31.99
9780374151195 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 22, 2012, cover price $26.00
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9780374533908 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 11, 2013), cover price $15.00
In the twenty-first century, a developmental phase of life is emerging as significant and distinct, capturing our interest, engaging our curiosity, and expanding our understanding of human potential and development. Demographers talk about this new chapter in life as characterized by peopleâbetween fifty and seventy-fiveâwho are considered âneither young nor old.â In our âthird chaptersâ we are beginning to redefine our views about the casualties and opportunities of aging; we are challenging cultural definitions of strength, maturity, power, and sexiness. This is a chapter in life when the traditional norms, rules, and rituals of our careers seem less encompassing and restrictive; when many women and men seem to be embracing new challenges and searching for greater meaning in life. In The Third Chapter, the renowned sociologist Dr. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot offers a strong counterpoint to the murky ambivalence that shrouds our clear view of people in their third chapters. She challenges the still prevailing and anachronistic images of aging by documenting and revealing the ways in which the years between fifty and seventy-five may, in fact, be the most transformative and generative time in our lives, tracing the ways in which wisdom, experience, and new learning inspire individual growth and cultural transformation. The women and men whose voices fill the pages of The Third Chapter tell passionate and poignant stories of risk and vulnerability, failure and resilience, challenge and mastery, experimentation and improvisation, and insight and new learning. "Insightful vignettes of people navigating the squirrelly years between 50 and 70. Lawrence-Lightfoot profiles 40 individuals who had, by one measure or another, successful working lives and then took a new tack after age 50âvoluntarily or not. They may be educated and financially secure, but they are also fragile and assailable in ways they haven't experienced for many years as they make their way over foreign ground. They frequently find it discomfiting to be scrutinizing their identities and seeking to align their values with their actions, notes the author: 'Something in us feels we are being irresponsible, or inappropriate, or maybe even unseemly, when we admit our lust for new learning,' especially when society assumes it's time for them to be put out to pasture. Lawrence-Lightfoot's investigation is anything but a dry, academic study. Her voice is by turns thoughtful, soothing and plaintive, as well as hungry for understanding what does and doesn't work for these pilgrims. Standardized educational formats aren't much help, she discovers; 'school values and practices may distort organic learning across the life span, compromising and masking the impulses that might makes us productive and skirmishes with the new, including a lot of inefficiency and circling. (Happily, readers also learn that 'old burdens become lighter.') Tension, strangely enough, may prove crucialânot the kind of tension that leads to stress, but the kind that demands reconciliation between opposing forces or the charting of new scenarios by confronting ancient traumas. Other qualities worth having in your quiver; 'openness, fearlessness, humility, and [the] capacity to look foolish.' It helps to be surrounded by a caring societyâwhich is either the good news or the bad news, depending on your reservoir of another helpful virtue: hope. Heady, fruitful explorations of ill-charted terrain destined for a population explosion."âKirkus ReviewsÂ
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9781410414960 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, April 15, 2009), cover price $31.95 | About this edition: In the twenty-first century, a developmental phase of life is emerging as significant and distinct, capturing our interest, engaging our curiosity, and expanding our understanding of human potential and development.
9780374275495 | 1 edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 6, 2009), cover price $25.00
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9780374532215 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, December 22, 2009, cover price $15.00
Miscellaneous:
9781429980883 | 1 edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 6, 2009), cover price $9.99
Hardcover:
9780375505270 | 1 edition (Random House Inc, August 1, 2003), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Offers guidelines on establishing effective dialogue between parents and teachers, examining the dynamics of conversations, the nature of the learning process, and principles and practices of improving family-school relationships.
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9780345475800 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, September 28, 2004), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Offers practical guidelines on how to establish an effective dialogue between parents and teachers, examining the dynamics of such conversations, the nature of the learning process, and the diverse principles and practices of improving family-school relationships.
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9780787962425 | Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, October 17, 2002, cover price $32.00
Advancing the idea that respect is the key ingredient to successful relationships of all kinds, the Harvard University professor reveals the importance of practicing respect throughout life. Reprint.
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9780738203188 | Basic Books, February 17, 2000, cover price $17.50 | About this edition: Advancing the idea that respect is the key ingredient to successful relationships of all kinds, the Harvard University professor reveals the importance of practicing respect throughout life.
Looks at the nature of respect through profiles of individuals who share the ability to reach others in all social and economic levels
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9780738200934 | Perseus Books, April 1, 1999, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Looks at the nature of respect through profiles of individuals who share the ability to reach others in all social and economic levels
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9780787910648 | Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, August 11, 1997, cover price $58.00
Product Description: Mixing biography and autobiography, casual talk with soul-bearing revelations, the author of Balm in Gilead uses a kind of "human archaeology" to reveal the complex, nuanced lives of six middle-class African-American achievers. Strikingly candid portraits explore the experiences and events that have shaped their identities and influenced the course of their lives...read more
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9780201581201, titled "I'Ve Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and Liberation" | Perseus Books, September 1, 1994, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A narrative of the lives of six African Americans in middle age combines the interviews and dialogues of people experiencing change, scrutinizing their lives, reflecting on the consequences of their decisions, and preparing for the future
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9780140249705, titled "I'Ve Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and Liberation" | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, September 1, 1995), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Mixing biography and autobiography, casual talk with soul-bearing revelations, the author of Balm in Gilead uses a kind of "human archaeology" to reveal the complex, nuanced lives of six middle-class African-American achievers.
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9780201093124 | Addison-Wesley, October 1, 1988, cover price $18.95 | also contains The Boy in the Oversized Smock: School Memories in Living Color | About this edition: Professor Lightfoot candidly conveys the strength, endurance, and reliance upon a supportive family that pushed a Black woman, the author's mother, on to become a distinguished child psychoanalist in the face of racism, sexism, and poverty
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9780140249675 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, September 1, 1995), cover price $13.95 | also contains Remembering Youngstown: Tales from the Mahoning Valley
Probes the teacher-student relationship, classroom interaction, and the role of the teacher by developing and applying strategies for describing, recording, and interpreting classroom processes and activities
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9780674068827 | Harvard Univ Pr, June 1, 1979, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Probes the teacher-student relationship, classroom interaction, and the role of the teacher by developing and applying strategies for describing, recording, and interpreting classroom processes and activities
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9780465092444 | Basic Books, September 1, 1978, cover price $13.50 | also contains Superfoods Red Smoothies: Over 40 Energizing, Detoxifying & Nutrient-dense Smoothies Blender Recipes: Detox Cleanse Diet, Smoothies for Weight Loss Diabetes, Detox Green Cleans | About this edition: Probes the interaction of families and schools from social, historical, educational, and psychological perspectives, and offers strategies for facilitating the often traumatic transition children must make from home to classroom
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