Product Description: This volume explores the moral, spiritual, and cultural terrain of aging through interdisciplinary scholarship and clinically based research. Aging has long been of interest to scholars and practitioners in a vast array of academic fields and professions...read more

Product Description: The landmark text in death education, providing an interdisciplinary approach to understanding death and the dying process. Using case examples and exercises, students can reflect upon their own experiences with death. "I have found no better text on the market that deals as fully and as completely with issues of death as Kastenbaum's Death, Society, and Human Experience...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This classic book has fascinated readers for over 35 years and now, in its first paperback reprint release, will continue to provide lasting information to students, teachers, researchers, and anyone else interested in how we construct death...read more

Explores a new way of understanding the final transition from life to death, drawing on observations from psychology, religion, biology, anthropology, and personal experience and explaining how studying this forward looking process enriches an understanding of life. (view table of contents)

Product Description: A resource on the contribution of the humanities to our understanding of ageing and the aged, spanning history, the arts, religious/ spiritual studies and philosophy. This new edition includes chapters on Eastern and Western perspectives on the elderly, Christian and Jewish traditions in ageing, spirituality and ageing...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume explores how hospice care has been taking root throughout much of the world and illustrates how people are finding ways to shape hospice care to the particular needs and resources of their countries and communities. The book begins with a hospice mission statement by Dame Cicely Saunders and is followed by an overview of the international hospice movement by Dr...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

In his latest and perhaps most adventuresome book, Robert Kastenbaum offers a fresh view of the quest for perpetual youth. The focus is on the "pretty monster" that Oscar Wilde created a century ago in "The Picture of Dorian Gray". We see Dorian first within the frame of his own times, responding to the pressures of modernization by attempting to escape the natural progression of time. Next we enter Dorian, the Opera, a re-imagining of his quest in the postmodern world of interactive computers. Finally, we observe Dorian's obsession and plight in our own graying society. This insightful analysis of the dangers inherent in becoming "terminally young" also provides a set of propositions worth consideration by gerontologists, educators, philosophers, media mavens, and policy-makers.

Product Description: "Defining Acts" consists of 8 plays, each followed by an Afterword offering suggestions for in-class as well as staged productions. The plays are suitable as fully staged productions; script-in-hand performances at conferences and in class; and, assignments and discussions in theater and gerontology courses...read more

Product Description: A resource on the contribution of the humanities to our understanding of ageing and the aged, spanning history, the arts, religious/ spiritual studies and philosophy. This new edition includes chapters on Eastern and Western perspectives on the elderly, Christian and Jewish traditions in ageing, spirituality and ageing...read more

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Essays discuss the cost-effectiveness of hospices, hospice patients, the design of the national study, and the medical and social aspects of hospice care

Examines near death experiences, astral projection, ghostly apparitions, telepathy, poltergeists, mediums, automatic writing, and psycho kinesis and assesses the evidence for each phenomenon

Product Description: This book was digitized and reprinted from the collections of the University of California Libraries. It was produced from digital images created through the libraries’ mass digitization efforts. The digital images were cleaned and prepared for printing through automated processes...read more

Product Description: 1979. Allyn and Bacon, Inc., Boston., 644 pages. 3lbs. (Over-sized 9.5 x 8 x 1.25 inches white hardcover with green and blue accents and blue and black lettering). Title: Humans Developing: A Lifespan Perspective by Robert Kastenbaum. ISBN#0205065139. Category: Psychology

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Product Description: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process...read more