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Product Description: Deconstructs fiction and nonfiction to further understandings of how aging and old age are created. In lively, accessible prose, this book expands the reach and depth of age studies. A review of age studies methods in theory, literature, and practice leads readers to see how their own intersectional identities shape their beliefs about age, aging, and old age...read more

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9781438456973 | State Univ of New York Pr, July 1, 2015, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Deconstructs fiction and nonfiction to further understandings of how aging and old age are created.

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9781438456966 | Reprint edition (State Univ of New York Pr, July 2, 2016), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Deconstructs fiction and nonfiction to further understandings of how aging and old age are created.

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Product Description: Is midlife for gay men the start of a slide towards the rejection, exclusion and misery associated with the spectre of the lonely old queen? Whilst exclusion is possible as gay men age, Middle Aged Gay Men, Ageing and Ageism offers a more nuanced view of gay ageing, using sociological tools to advance understanding beyond stereotypes...read more

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9781137435231, titled "Middle-Aged Gay Men, Ageing and Ageism: Over the Rainbow?" | Palgrave Macmillan, September 29, 2015, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Is midlife for gay men the start of a slide towards the rejection, exclusion and misery associated with the spectre of the lonely old queen?

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By Lena N„re (editor)

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9781138887862 | Routledge, March 24, 2016, cover price $145.00
9780395637784, titled "Applied Finite Mathematics" | Houghton Mifflin College Div, February 1, 1995, cover price $102.76 | also contains Applied Finite Mathematics

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Product Description: Within contemporary youth research there are two dominant streams - a 'transitions' and a 'cultures' perspective. This collection shows that it is no longer possible to understand the experience of young people through these prisms and proposes new conceptual foundations for youth studies, capable of bridging the gap between these approaches...read more
By Andy Bennett (editor)

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9781137377227 | Palgrave Macmillan, July 28, 2015, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Within contemporary youth research there are two dominant streams - a 'transitions' and a 'cultures' perspective.

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Product Description: With the aspiration for a long life now achievable for many individuals, the status of old age as a distinct social position has become problematic. In this radical re-examination of the nature of old age, Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard reveal the emergence of a 'fourth age' that embodies the most feared and marginalised aspects of old age, conceptually linked to and yet distinct from traditional models of old age...read more

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9781137383990 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 15, 2015, cover price $120.00

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9781137383983 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 15, 2015, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: With the aspiration for a long life now achievable for many individuals, the status of old age as a distinct social position has become problematic.

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Product Description: This book looks at the symbolic side of globalization, development, and aging. Many of the dimensions that are discussed represent updates of past debates but some are entirely new. In particular, globalization is accompanied by subtle social imagery that profoundly shapes the way institutions and identities are imagined...read more
By John W. Murphy (editor)

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9781461445074 | Springer Verlag, September 14, 2012, cover price $149.00 | About this edition: This book looks at the symbolic side of globalization, development, and aging.

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9781489990754 | Springer Verlag, October 15, 2014, cover price $149.00 | About this edition: This book looks at the symbolic side of globalization, development, and aging.

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Product Description: The fears of aging have been one long cascading domino effect through the years: twenty year-olds dread thirty; forty year-olds fear fifty; sixty fears seventy, and so it goes. And there is something to worry about, though it isn't what you'd expect: research shows that having a bad attitude toward aging when we're young is associated with poorer health when we're older...read more

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9780199360956 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 23, 2014, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The fears of aging have been one long cascading domino effect through the years: twenty year-olds dread thirty; forty year-olds fear fifty; sixty fears seventy, and so it goes.

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Product Description: This book touches upon a few of the major challenges that all modern societies will have to face in the near future: how to set up a resilient pay-as-you-go pension system; whether the current balance between expenses and revenues in social expenditure is viable in the future, and, if not, what changes need to be introduced; whether the relative well-being of the current and future cohorts of the old will be preserved, and how their standards of living compare to those experienced by the old in the recent past...read more
By Gustavo De Santis (editor)

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9789400743380 | Springer Verlag, June 19, 2012, cover price $139.00 | About this edition: This book touches upon a few of the major challenges that all modern societies will have to face in the near future: how to set up a resilient pay-as-you-go pension system; whether the current balance between expenses and revenues in social expenditure is viable in the future, and, if not, what changes need to be introduced; whether the relative well-being of the current and future cohorts of the old will be preserved, and how their standards of living compare to those experienced by the old in the recent past.

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9789401784573 | Springer Verlag, July 18, 2014, cover price $139.00 | About this edition: This book touches upon a few of the major challenges that all modern societies will have to face in the near future: how to set up a resilient pay-as-you-go pension system; whether the current balance between expenses and revenues in social expenditure is viable in the future, and, if not, what changes need to be introduced; whether the relative well-being of the current and future cohorts of the old will be preserved, and how their standards of living compare to those experienced by the old in the recent past.

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Product Description: The collective, inclusive, and intersectional framework used in this book speaks to the significance of understanding aging across diverse cultures from multiple perspectives, but still as a shared human experience. The underlying message of the book is that although we are unique and different in our aging processes, we are ultimately connected through this physical, mental and spiritual experience of aging...read more
By Nancy Giunta (editor)

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9789401785938 | Springer Verlag, February 7, 2014, cover price $129.00 | About this edition: The collective, inclusive, and intersectional framework used in this book speaks to the significance of understanding aging across diverse cultures from multiple perspectives, but still as a shared human experience.

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Product Description: Presents a guide for ensuring that retirement can be lived comfortably, providing tips on such topics as insurance, health, fitness, estate planning, and housing.

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9781410462350 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, November 13, 2013), cover price $33.99 | About this edition: Presents a guide for ensuring that retirement can be lived comfortably, providing tips on such topics as insurance, health, fitness, estate planning, and housing.

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Product Description: Includes bibliographical references (pages 55-70) and index.
By Jason L. Powell (editor)

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9781628082128 | Nova Science Pub Inc, October 10, 2013, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: Includes bibliographical references (pages 55-70) and index.

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By Jason L. Powell (editor)

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9781626187450 | Nova Science Pub Inc, September 2, 2013, cover price $52.00

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By Jason L. Powell (editor)

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9781628083804 | Nova Science Pub Inc, August 31, 2013, cover price $52.00

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9780199975723 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, March 1, 2013), cover price $25.95

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By Jason Danely (editor)

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9780857457783 | Berghahn Books, April 1, 2013, cover price $120.00

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9781782389064 | Reprint edition (Berghahn Books, February 28, 2015), cover price $34.95

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Product Description: Population ageing - a growth in the proportion of a population that is in older age - is now occurring in every region and nearly every country of the world. Indeed, the growth of older populations is among the important global phenomena of the twenty-first century...read more
By Zachary Zimmer (editor)

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9781409432708 | Ashgate Pub Co, January 28, 2013, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Population ageing - a growth in the proportion of a population that is in older age - is now occurring in every region and nearly every country of the world.

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Product Description: aThe image of the aging rock-and-roller is not just Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger on stage in their sixties. aIn his timely book "Music, Style, and Aging," cultural sociologist Andy Bennett explains how people move on from youth and effectively grow older with popular music...read more

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9781439908075 | Temple Univ Pr, January 4, 2013, cover price $74.50 | About this edition: aThe image of the aging rock-and-roller is not just Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger on stage in their sixties.

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9781439908082 | Temple Univ Pr, January 4, 2013, cover price $26.95

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Product Description: In this deeply considered meditation on aging in Western culture, Jan Baars argues that, in today’s world, living longer does not necessarily mean living better. He contends that there has been an overall loss of respect for aging, to the point that understanding and "dealing with" aging people has become a process focused on the decline of potential and the advance of disease rather than on the accumulation of wisdom and the creation of new skills...read more

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9781421406466 | 1 edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, August 20, 2012), cover price $60.00 | About this edition: In this deeply considered meditation on aging in Western culture, Jan Baars argues that, in today’s world, living longer does not necessarily mean living better.

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By Sheying Chen (editor)

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9781621009368 | Nova Science Pub Inc, June 30, 2012, cover price $140.00

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