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Galaxy Race!

Offers practical advice for preparing for and enjoying one's retirement years--financially, legally, physically, psychologically, and materially-and for resolving critical issues

By James Davies (illustrator)

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Hardcover:

9780385280761, titled "Hugh Downs: The Best Years" | Delacorte Pr, February 1, 1981, cover price $14.95 | also contains Galaxy Race!, Hugh Downs: The Best Years | About this edition: Offers practical advice for preparing for and enjoying one's retirement years--financially, legally, physically, psychologically, and materially-and for resolving critical issues

Paperback:

9780385279109, titled "Vegetariana: A Rich Harvest of Wit, Folklore, and Recipes" | Doubleday, March 1, 1984, cover price $2.98 | also contains Galaxy Race!, Vegetariana: A Rich Harvest of Wit, Folklore, and Recipes

Galaxy Race!

Offers practical advice for preparing for and enjoying one's retirement years--financially, legally, physically, psychologically, and materially-and for resolving critical issues

By L. A. Courtenay and James Davies (illustrator)

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Paperback:

9781434297877 | Reprint edition (Stone Arch Books, January 1, 2015), cover price $5.95

Library:

9781434297839 | Stone Arch Books, January 1, 2015, cover price $21.99

Supporting the Elderly Through Service Learning

Product Description: Loads of learning takes place in the classroom, but it is by no means the only place for students to gain knowledge and experience. This innovative resource introduces service learning and why it can be such a helpful tool for students, the elderly, and the larger community...read more

By Marcia Amidon Lusted

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Library:

9781477779576 | Rosen Young Adult, January 1, 2015, cover price $34.60 | About this edition: Loads of learning takes place in the classroom, but it is by no means the only place for students to gain knowledge and experience.

Out of Time: The Pleasures and Perils of Ageing

By Lynne Segal and Elaine Showalter (introduced by)

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Hardcover:

9781781681398 | Verso Books, November 5, 2013, cover price $26.95

70 Things to Do When You Turn 70: More Than 70 Experts on the Subject of Turning 70

By Mark Evan Chimsky (editor)

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Paperback:

9781416209157 | Sellers Pub Inc, September 12, 2013, cover price $15.95

30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans

By Karl Pillemer

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Hardcover:

9781594630842 | Hudson st Pr, November 10, 2011, cover price $25.95

Losing It: In Which an Aging Professor Laments His Shrinking Brain, which he flatters himself formerly did him Noble Service

Product Description: Debunking patronising attitudes to ageing, this book ranges across issues from retirement rituals & the art of complaining to vengeance strategies & going out in style. Miller offers a novel way of thinking about growing old & how the indignities of old age might be experienced without entirely 'losing it'...read more

By William Ian Miller

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Paperback:

9780300188233 | Yale Univ Pr, August 29, 2012, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Debunking patronising attitudes to ageing, this book ranges across issues from retirement rituals & the art of complaining to vengeance strategies & going out in style.

The Third Third of Life: Preparing for Your Future

Product Description: Considering retirement can be daunting. How do you know how to best plan for the future? Now there's a helpful guidebook to lead you thoughtfully into the third third of life. In this brief workbook Walter C. Wright provides eight sessions to help those moving toward retirement plan out their next steps...read more

By Max De Pree (foreword by) and Walter C. Wright

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Paperback:

9780830837960 | Ivp Books, May 31, 2012, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Considering retirement can be daunting.

30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans

After a chance encounter with an extraordinary ninety-yearold, renowned gerontologist Karl Pillemer wondered what older people know about life that the rest of us don't. His quest led him to interview more than one thousand Americans over the age of sixty-five to seek their counsel on all the big issues: children, marriage, money, career, and aging. And he found that he consistently heard advice that pointed to these thirty lessons for living.

By Pillemer

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Hardcover:

9781410447371 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, April 20, 2012), cover price $31.99 | About this edition: After a chance encounter with an extraordinary ninety-yearold, renowned gerontologist Karl Pillemer wondered what older people know about life that the rest of us don't.

Paperback:

9780452298484 | Reprint edition (Plume, October 30, 2012), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: âHeartfelt and ever-endearingâequal parts information and inspiration.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781596599918 | Unabridged edition (Gildan Audio, October 30, 2012), cover price $29.98

Losing It: In Which An Aging Professor Laments His Shrinking Brain, Which he Flatters Himself Formerly Did Him Noble Service--A Plant, Tragi-Comical, Historical,

By William Ian Miller

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Hardcover:

9780300171013 | Yale Univ Pr, October 25, 2011, cover price $30.00

Elder Wisdom: Crafting Your Own Elderhood

Product Description: Jimmy Carter, Tillie Olsen, Desmond Tutu and 100 others invite readers in their 50s, 60s, and beyond to grown inwardly and participate more fully in life. In this refreshing new vision of aging, Bianchi offers the varied experiences of others to inspire readers, offering practical wisdom for personal enrichment...read more

By Eugene C. Bianchi

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Hardcover:

9780824513597 | Crossroad Pub Co, May 1, 1994, cover price $21.95

Paperback:

9781610975445 | Wipf & Stock Pub, August 17, 2011, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Jimmy Carter, Tillie Olsen, Desmond Tutu and 100 others invite readers in their 50s, 60s, and beyond to grown inwardly and participate more fully in life.

At Our Age

By James A. Simpson

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Paperback:

9781904246343 | Steve Savage Pub Ltd, September 29, 2010, cover price $9.90

The Goat Lady

Tells the story of Noelie Houle, an elderly French-Canadian woman who lived in Massachusetts and raised goats to provide milk for people who needed it and who sent her extra goat kids to poor people in poor countries through The Heifer Project.

By Jane Bregoli

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Hardcover:

9780884482604 | Tilbury House Pub, September 1, 2004, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Tells the story of an elderly French-Canadian woman who lived in Massachusetts and raised goats to provide milk for people who needed it.

Discourses On Aging And Dying

Product Description: The first section is both philosophical and prescriptive. It explores our rich religious and philosophical tradition to probe the very concepts of life and death and then suggests strategies - age old and time-tested - for coping with the inevitability of aging and dying...read more

By Suhita Chopra Chatterjee (editor), Vijayaraghavan M. Cyariar (editor) and Priyadarshi Patnaik (editor)

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Paperback:

9780761936442 | Sage Pubns Pvt Ltd, May 13, 2008, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The first section is both philosophical and prescriptive.

What Are Old People For?: How Elders Will Save the World

By William H. Thomas

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Hardcover:

9781889242200 | Vanderwyk & Burnham, August 1, 2004, cover price $24.95

Age Matters: Realigning Feminist Thinking

By Toni M. Calasanti (editor) and Kathleen F. Slevin (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780415952231 | 1 edition (Routledge, June 30, 2006), cover price $150.00

Paperback:

9780415952248 | 1 edition (Routledge, September 30, 2006), cover price $41.95

The Futures of Old Age

By Murna Downs (editor), Chris R. Phillipson (editor) and John A. Vincent (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781412901079 | Sage Pubns Ltd, June 2, 2006, cover price $143.00

Paperback:

9781412901086 | Sage Pubns Ltd, June 2, 2006, cover price $57.00

In the Arms of Elders: A Parable of Wise Leadership And Community Building

'A parable about a thriving community guided by elders on the fictional island of Kallimos provides the vision behind the author's real-life efforts in the Eden Alternative and Green House programs to replace medical-model nursing homes with healing communities'--Provided by publisher.

By William H. Thomas

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9781889242101 | Vanderwyk & Burnham, June 1, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: 'A parable about a thriving community guided by elders on the fictional island of Kallimos provides the vision behind the author's real-life efforts in the Eden Alternative and Green House programs to replace medical-model nursing homes with healing communities'--Provided by publisher.

Retirement: Bliss or The Pits

By Grady Fox

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Paperback:

9780533150625 | 1 edition (Vantage Pr, August 31, 2005), cover price $11.95

Longevity in Action: How to Feel Young and Energetic at Any Age

When his wife nearly died of cancer at age fifty-nine, the author took his own life in another direction--off the couch and into preventative medicine--which led him to the study of nutrition and physical fitness, where he eventually became America's Oldest Certified Aerobics Instructor. Original

By Arnold Bull

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Hardcover:

9781401902971 | Hay House Inc, December 1, 2003, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Although the life expectancy of Americans was rising, an alarming number of the authorâs family members, boyhood chums, and military buddies were passing away .

Paperback:

9781401902964, titled "Longevity in Action!: How to Feel Young and Energetic at Any Age" | Hay House Inc, November 1, 2004, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: When his wife nearly died of cancer at age fifty-nine, the author took his own life in another direction--off the couch and into preventative medicine--which led him to the study of nutrition and physical fitness, where he eventually became America's Oldest Certified Aerobics Instructor.

How Does It Feel to Be Old

Product Description: Old age explains to youth some of the thoughts and feelings, advantages and disadvantages that accompany being old

By Norma Farber

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9780887394201 | Reprint edition (Creative Arts Book Co, May 1, 2002), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Old age explains to youth some of the thoughts and feelings, advantages and disadvantages that accompany being old

9780140547597, titled "How Does It Feel to Be Old?" | Reprint edition (Dutton Childrens Books, October 1, 1990), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Old age explains to youth some of the thoughts and feelings, advantages and disadvantages that accompany being old

9780807201527, titled "How Does It Feel to Be Old?" | Pap/cas edition (Listening Library, February 1, 1989), cover price $15.98 | About this edition: Old age explains to youth some of the thoughts and feelings, advantages and disadvantages that accompany being old.

9780916870423 | Creative Arts Book Co, October 1, 1981, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Illustrations of the past and present highlight a seventy-year-old woman's response to children's questions about growing old, a response--in verse--that is charged with affection, sensitivity, and courage.

Aging in a Changing Society

Product Description: The field of gerontology, the study of aging, has emerged as an area of increasing importance. This book is an introduction to the multidisciplinary field of gerontology. The text, with its friendly narrative style, assumes no prior knowledge of gerontology, sociology, or psychology...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By James A. Thorson

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9781583910092 | 2 edition (Routledge, April 1, 2000), cover price $60.95 | About this edition: The field of gerontology, the study of aging, has emerged as an area of increasing importance.

9780534241988 | Wadsworth Pub Co, October 1, 1994, cover price $239.95

The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty

In a best-selling study by the author of Reinventing Womanhood, the literary critic describes the emotional and intellectual pleasures of life after sixty, from making new friends to the peace of solitude. Reprint. NYT.

By Carolyn G. Heilbrun

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Hardcover:

9780385313254 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, April 1, 1997, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The feminist writer and author of the Amanda Cross mystery series looks back on a youthful pledge to commit suicide at seventy, explaining why, given that her sixties have been her happiest decade, she decided not to take her life

Paperback:

9780345422958 | Ballantine Books, May 1, 1998, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The feminist writer and author of the Amanda Cross mystery series looks back on a youthful pledge to commit suicide at seventy, explaining why, given that her sixties have been her happiest decade, she decided not to take her life

You're Not Old Until You're Ninety: Best to Be Prepared, However

Product Description: Blue Dolphin Publishing

By Rebecca H. Latimer

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Paperback:

9781577330097 | Blue Dolphin Pub, June 1, 1997, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Blue Dolphin Publishing

The Gift of Years

Reflects on the joy and pain, the laughter and tears, the success and defeat, and the triumph and tragedy of old age, offers a message of hope and faith, stressing that every day is a new beginning, and includes a variety of quotations on the subject

By Marion Stroud

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Hardcover:

9780835807548 | Upper Room, August 1, 1996, cover price $7.00

9780884860464 | Bbs Pub Corp, November 1, 1991, cover price $9.98 | About this edition: Reflects on the joy and pain, the laughter and tears, the success and defeat, and the triumph and tragedy of old age, offers a message of hope and faith, stressing that every day is a new beginning, and includes a variety of quotations on the subject

Paperback:

9780745916439, titled "Gift of Years" | Chariot Victor Pub, November 1, 1989, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: A mix of quotations, Bible passages and prayers, which focus on maturing with grace.

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