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In this searing and controversial polemic, esteemed American journalist David Rieff argues against our passion for the past. He looks at how memory serves nationalistic history every ANZAC Day and annual pilgrimage to Gallipoli, and at its worst, how memory of past horrors inflame deep-seated ethnic hatreds, violence and wars.

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An analysis of pluralist, Afrocentric, and postmodernist advocacies of multicultural education and multiculturalism, grounded in critical-sociological, anthropological, and philosophical traditions. It reveals formidable flaws in their conceptions of gender, race, culture, knowledge, learning, and social change.

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An analysis of pluralist, Afrocentric, and postmodernist advocacies of multicultural education and multiculturalism, grounded in critical-sociological, anthropological, and philosophical traditions. It reveals formidable flaws in their conceptions of gender, race, culture, knowledge, learning, and social change.

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An examination of the ageing process and an analysis of the concept of age equality in terms of employment, education and health.

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This volume examines literary treatments, cinematic depictions, and artistic portraits of ageing from Shakespeare to Hemingway, from Horton Foote to Disney, from Rembrandt to Alice Neale. It also compares attitudes toward ageing in Native American, African-American and Anglo-American literature.

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Heumann and Boldy define and analyze emerging programs to help the frail and low-income elderly stay out of institutions and age in place in their communities with proper support systems.

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With the impending retirement of some 76 million Baby Boomers, understanding the various issues related to the aging population is paramount. The author's agree that there is considerable cause for concern, but with a variety of policies in place and smart individual choices, the elderly can prosper, and a demographic tsunami is not inevitable.

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The 500 entries are arranged alphabetically by author under nine topics: physical aging, psychological aging, social aging, family, living arrangements, work and economics, education and leisure, politics, and religion.

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Explains the physiological realities of aging and guides readers in taking positive steps to retain health, dignity, and vitality through their later years. This book includes strategies to optimize self-esteem as well as health, including attention to nutrition, exercise, health care, education and mind stimulation, and sexuality.

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The text includes strategies to optimize self-esteem as well as health, including attention to nurtrition, exercise, health care, education and mind stimulation, sexuality, social activities, and cosmetics and cosmetic surgery.

Readers are shown the physiological facts of aging, from cellular to systemic changes.

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This reference brings together a wealth of information about pioneering women who took risks and made remarkable strides in a diversity of fields. Whether in the name of sport, science of humanitarianism, the spirit of adventure runs through the lives of these 75 daring women.

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In both societies, support for the elderly comes from formal institutional programs as well as informal family arrangements, and it seems equally true in both cases that the elderly get most of their support through kinship assistance.

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In this book, experts on AIDS, bereavement, and children draw together and analyze research and practice models that may be vital to individual and public policy solutions.

The first chapter sets the stage by examining how Western culture approaches death.

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A behind-the-scenes look at women's magazines for the millions of women who read them

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In this work of narrative sociology, Zajdow (sociology, Deakin U., Australia) presents the stories that Australian women involved with alcoholic men tell, both in the contexts of interviews with the Zajdow and in the self-help group Al-Anon. She argues that the narratives reveal the cultural context

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This text provides up-to-date, comprehensive, and accessible information about alcohol use in western society and other cultures.

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