Product Description: This work reflects the growing interest within gerontology in fictional representations of old age. It is about stories of ageing - full-length novels with central characters who are in the later part of life (50+) and experiencing the process of ageing as they move into old age...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "Mike Hepworth appears to have read every British novel from the last quarter century that is worth reading about old people (or not so old people) and he has percipiently focused on what matters in each of them. On many of the debates that stir Age Studies (are cyborgs the answer to physical decline? Can selfhood survive dementia? What exactly is the use of reading about old age?) he has thought long and written pithily...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This biography evaluates Nommensen's basic beliefs, his missionary methods, collegial spirit, and his strategy from missiological, ecclesial and sociological perspectives. Interviews with living relatives, native Bataks, and German colleagues are included, enabling light to be shed on Nommensen's methods, style and achievements as a missionary...read more