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New Lifestyles in Old Age
The Policy Press 2004; US$ 25.00This report explores what it is like to live and work in the new Berryhill Retirement Village in Stoke-on-Trent (developed by The ExtraCare Charitable Trust and Touchstone Housing Association), and shows that retirement housing does not have to be planned and developed solely with middle-class professionals in mind. more...
Critical Perspectives on Ageing Societies
The Policy Press 2007; US$ 39.95This important new book brings together some of the best known international scholars working within a critical gerontology perspective to review and update our understanding of how the field has developed over the last twenty-five years and provide a challenging assessment of the complex practical and ethical issues facing older people, and those... more...
Environmental Gerontology
Springer Publishing Company 2013; US$ 65.00The environments in which people live out their later lives have a strong impact on their identity and provide opportunities for nourishing social interactions. This volume translates the insights derived from contemporary research on residential environments and public spaces that enhance well-being into practical recommendations for the design of... more...
Family and Community Life of Older People
Routledge 2000; US$ 57.95Reflects the interest in how older people are affected by social change which is currently a key theme in social science. more...
Public Enemies
Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 17.00The international publishing sensation is now available in the United States?two brilliant, controversial authors confront each other and their enemies in an unforgettable exchange of letters. In one corner, Bernard-Henri Lévy, creator of the classic Barbarism with a Human Face, dismissed by the media as a wealthy, self-promoting, arrogant do-gooder.... more...
Women Ageing
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 55.95Women Ageing provides a better understanding of what ageing is like for women and challenges the myths which have grown up around the ageing process. Blending the scholarly, the personal and the political, it reveals the range of strategies and identities women adopt to manage the transitions of the second half of the life course. In doing so it... more...
Public Enemies
Atlantic Books Ltd 2011; US$ 11.65'Everything separates us from one another, with the exception of one fundamental point: we're both utterly despicable individuals.' (Houellebecq to BHL) In 2008, two of the most celebrated of French intellectuals Michel Houellebecq and Bernard-Henri Lévy ('BHL') began a ferocious exchange of letters. Public Enemies is the result. In their inimitably... more...
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