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This book is the first comprehensive account of the lives of the Jews who remained in Germany immediately following the war. Gathering never-before-published eyewitness accounts from Holocaust survivors. Michael Brenner presents a remarkable history of this period.

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

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The contributors to this volume collectively seek a concept of alienation that will be a useful tool in social diagnosis - a key to identifying causes of undesirable social conditions. The result is a collection of essays in policy-orientated social theory, keyed to problems of modern living.

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The essays in this volume offer the reader a broad, interdisciplinary perspective on the ways in which theories of alienation are influencing current debates in psychology, psychiatry, sociology, and social philosophy.

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This collection provides a range of different perspectives on women as consumers. It focuses on popular culture and its female consumers; this includes examinations of popular media and their targetting of female audiences, issues and themes associated with produce purchase.

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One of the most compelling figures in American history-John Brown-as portrayed in two classic works by a renowned African-American historian, with a new introduction

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Haven tells the stories of the first American woman doctor, the first social worker, the first American woman to fly a plane, the first U.S. congresswoman, and 36 other women of note.