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Univ. of Texas, Galveston. Discusses history of aging in different cultures, creativity and the arts, self representation and aging, the meaning of old age in films, aging in the Christian tradition, the uses of anthropology, positive development in later life, and more. Previous edition: c1992. ... Read more

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Edited by James Birren, one of the world's leading researchers in gerontology, this two-volume work is the most comprehensive work on age, aging, and the aged available. This entirely new encyclopedia covers the latest research on the biology, psychology, and sociology of aging in addition to covering how aging is depicted in the humanities. This dynamic field has grown over the years to encompass fascinating studies of development and change with age. This encyclopedia provides a reference source for identifying major areas of investigation and our knowledge to date. Prepared for a college- and professional-level readership, each article provides depth and breadth of coverage, including theory and summaries of empirical findings. Every article contains a definition paragraph, describing the subject at hand, a glossary of unfamiliar terms, and a bibliography of suggested readings. The set is fully cross-referenced and contains a complete subject index.

Biology--molecular and cellular aging; physiology and neurobiology of aging
Psychology--how aging affects sensation, perception, learning, and memory
Social sciences--home care, quality of life, economics of an aging population
Health science--epidemiology, mental health, Alzheimers, AIDS
Humanities--characterization of aging in research, literature, and film; perceptions of the aged ... Read more

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Containing The Cases Determined In Hilary, Easter, Trinity, Michaelmas And Hilary Terms, Nine And Ten, Victoria. ... Read more

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With A Sketch Of The Progress Of This Branch Of Natural History. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1906.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Great book whether your on a plane, train, or in an automobile....
The abeyance keeps you from putting the book down!And the escape from reality and into the world of Phil Grady, is truly entertaining!

Gin Clear Water- A Page Turner
New author, Thomas Cole Edwards,has hit a home run with his Gin Clear Water publication. If you liked Clancy and Grisham you are sure to be wowed by the Edwards version of suspense, mystery and Latin America politics as he weaves a page turner of allof these traditional topics that are combined with romance on a tropical Carribean island. It is a good read and worth every penny of the cost.

Gin Clear Water - - - not your typical mystery adventure thriller!!!!!
What starts out seemingly as another familiar fiction novel soon becomes a mystery thriller with environmental implications.
The author intertwines several interesting characters around a plot about an investigator called to fly to a Caribbean island to look into the mysterious death of the local dolphin population. Even though there is nothing unique about the first few chapters, the story starts taking twists and turns involving romance, guns and drugs. You don't even want to put this book down until you find out what happens next, and then you keep reading and reading and reading all the way to the end. This is not your typical adventure book. This is the stuff that entertaining movies are made of. I highly recommend it. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.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. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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"Gellin Foggal-son, I hereby curse you to an interesting life!" "That's a curse? " Gellin Foggal-son was no hero. All he wanted was a quiet, scholarly life. When his plans fell apart and he thought things couldn't get any worse, an immortal being put a strange curse on him. What it meant, he didn't know. The answer lay somewhere beyond the horizon where wizards schemed and powerful forces gathered. There was nothing to do but pack his bag and hit the road. ... Read more

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I enjoyed writing this book
OK, I'll level with you. I wrote this book so the number of stars I gave it doesn't mean anything. Since it was mandatory I thought I might as well give it five. When I saw my book in the Kindle Store I noticed the little description I wrote about it was nowhere to be found. Who's going to buy a book they've never heard of if they have no idea what it's about? I wouldn't. It ain't Hemingway, but I know that if you enjoy an action packed fantasy adventure you'll enjoy this book.

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"Gellin Foggal-son, I hereby curse you to an interesting life!"
"That's a curse?"
Gellin Foggal-son was no hero. All he wanted was a quiet, scholarly life. When his plans fell apart and he thought things couldn't get any worse, an immortal being put a strange curse on him. What it meant, he didn't know. The answer lay somewhere beyond the horizon where wizards schemed and powerful forces gathered. There was nothing to do but pack his bag and hit the road.
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This volumes begins with a long essay on the nature and structure of Saturnian verse. This is followed by two studies of Plautus (the Menaechmi seen as a comedy of errors and the prologue of the Poenulus as an editor's conflation of several scripts). There is an essay on nine graffito epigrams from Pompeii, and an analysis of the poetic quality of the scientific passages in the De Rerum Natura. Catullus 64 is studied as an epitome of the whole age of heroes; and there are two essays on Horace (his handling of the rhetorical recusatio in the odes to Bacchus and his lyric prayers for poetic inspiration). The volume ends with an investigation into how much Ovid actually knew of the law, and how he exploited this knowledge with piquancy and inventiveness in his writings. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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The Sea of Circles introduces the Circle Principle developed by author J. Cole Thomas, which shows how your thoughts and beliefs affect your sense of happiness. By sharing his own personal journey, J. Cole Thomas provides readers with keys to understand relationships and how our thoughts, beliefs and emotions impact those relationships. Who wouldn't want to have better relationships with their spouse, parents, children, friends or coworkers? Haven't you ever wondered why the relationships between mothers and daughters or fathers and sons seem to struggle when the sons and daughters reach adolescence? What about when you were on a date and things seemed to be going well and then all of a sudden went completely wrong. What changed? Why is it that after several years of marriage, sometimes our partners seems like strangers? In this book, J. Cole Thomas helps to answer these questions and more from examples of his own life's trial and tribulations. As you read this book, you may come to understand how agreements are made in relationships and that these agreements serve as their foundation. ... Read more

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This ground-breaking new volume is the first of its kind to conceptualize and study the emerging field of faculty health and well-being in academic health science centers across North America. In Faculty Health and Academic Medicine: Physicians, Scientists, and the Pressures of Success, scholars already published in areas related to faculty health, as well as those primed to break new ground, have created a volume that will help define this new and evolving field. Recent years have brought the realization that clinicians and researchers in academic medicine, performing daily under high levels of stress, do so at great cost to their health. Socialized to diagnose and treat disease through biomedical science and technology, physicians often wall themselves off from emotional connection with their patients. Health does not thrive under these layers of pressures, and family and personal relationships are stretched under the need to constantly perform. Faculty Health and Academic Medicine: Physicians, Scientists, and the Pressures of Success draws from medicine, the social sciences, the humanities, and the arts. In addition to surveys, meta-analyses, and interviews, chapter data also calls upon history, literature, religious studies, and film to create a title that serves as a point of departure for understanding academic medicine and for designing new and innovative interventions to enhance faculty health.