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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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This book explores how the forces of development have shaped the experience of aging in countries in the global south. It points to the challenges and opportunities that lie in developing innovative, sustainable programs to support elderly care services.

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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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'Al-Qaida's Jihad in Europe' unveils a new angle to the deadly international terrorist organization and includes recently declassified American and European intelligence reports, secret Al- Qaida records and international documents and interviews with figures such as Bin Laden recruiter Abu Hamza Al-Masri.

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'Al-Qaida's Jihad in Europe' unveils a new angle to the deadly international terrorist organization and includes recently declassified American and European intelligence reports, secret Al- Qaida records and international documents and interviews with figures such as Bin Laden recruiter Abu Hamza Al-Masri.

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A study of Alaskan indigenous communities. It explores the relationship between land and education. It reveals how Euro-American institutions attempt to redefine indigenous understandings of land and spirituality to make them conform to those in the dominant society. It proposes educational agendas that are components of native sovereignty.

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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.