Product Description: Mary Catherine Bateson—author of the landmark bestseller Composing a Life—gives us an inspiring exploration of a new life stage that she calls Adulthood II, a result of the longer life spans and greater resources we now enjoy...read more

Product Description: Writer and educator Mary Catherine Bateson is best known for the proposal that lives should be looked at as compositions, each one an artistic creation expressing individual responses to the unexpected. This collection can be read as a memoir of unfolding curiosity, for it brings together essays and occasional pieces, many of them previously unpublished or unknown to readers who know the author only from her books, written in the course of an unconventional career...read more

Product Description: Mary Catherine Bateson sees aging today as an "improvisational art form calling for imagination and willingness to learn," and in this ardent, affirming study, she relates the experiences of men and women-herself included-who, upon entering this second adulthood, have found new meaning and new ways to contribute, composing their lives in new patterns...read more

Product Description: The two volumes, the award-winning A Punjabi Village in Pakistan and The Economic Life of a Punjabi Village are based on extensive fieldwork in Pakistan and contain relevant insights into Pakistani society, particularly women, still pertinent today, as well as a more holistic and humanistic view of village life...read more

A compilation of personal and professional correspondence from the renowned anthropologist spans some sixty years and provides an incisive glimpse of Mead's relationships with family, friends, and colleagues, as well as her intimate thoughts on friendship, children, sexuality, marriage, career, and life.

'The first and third parts deal chronologically with her life. Part Two expounds upon Boulding's philosophy of education, her role as a member of the Religious Society of Friends, her espousal of the conceptual evolution of cultures of peace, and her theoretical work in women's studies and peace research'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: Our Own Metaphor, now being re-issued by Hampton Press, provide an approach to the basic question of whether humans, with their increasingly powerful technologies, will ultimately destroy the environment on which they depend or prove capable of a new level of adaptation...read more

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This extraordinary book explores that act of creation that engages us all--the composition of our lives. Through the comparative biographies of herself and four of her close friends, Mary Catherine Bateson provides a fascinating framework for her inquiryinto the creative potential of complex lives, where energies are not narrowly focused toward a single ambition but rather are continually refocused and redefined. Each of the women in Composing a Life faced discontinuity at periods in her life, yet was rich in professional achievement and personal relationships. Bateson's life-affirming conclusion is that life is an improvisational art form, and that the interruptions, conflicted priorities, and exigencies that are a part of all our lives can and should be seen as a source of wisdom. Important and empowering, Composing a Life will change lives.Uses examples from the lives of five women, including herself, to show how each faced conflict and managed time and energy in her life

The author of the best-selling Composing a Life offers her own revolutionary take on the role of longer life spans and recent lifestyle changes in reshaping individual identity and self-fulfillment. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Provides a study of the art of learning and explains how continuation of the learning process throughout a lifetime adds pleasure and understanding to human life and helps ensure the future

A portrait of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson by their daughter offers new insight into the lives, careers, and achievements of two distinguished and controversial American anthropologists

Documents the effects of the lethal virus on the human immune system, its influence upon modern civilization, and the opportunity afforded by this tragedy to form a more informed, realistic, and humanist society