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"Swimming Past 50 offers age-appropriate fitness and competition training programs and insights for swimmers who have lapped the 50-year mark. Written by Masters swimming coaches, this book will help you reach your target fitness level, improve performance, and increase your enjoyment of swimming."--Jacket.
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Holding pattern examines the chronically single--the midlife adult who has failed to find the intimacy he or she seeks. Karen Buzzard illuminates how human communication styles influence our capacity for intimacy, tracing the roots of adult miscommunications to three critical stages of development that are crucial in shaping our ability to communicate intimately. Buzzard offers a new and strong theoretical paradigm for intimacy, which does not assume,...
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Bookman takes a detailed look at the goals and motivations of high-income middle-aged women who want to enter the labor force after having spent most of their adult lives tending their homes, raising children, and volunteering in the community. The book examines the supply of their labor, their incentives, their motivations, and the fears they face as they evaluate their future options. Bookman also discusses the demand for their skills by reviewing...
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"Increase your strength to improve your health, your appearance, and your performance with Strength Training Past 50. Strength training offers many benefits for active adults, including enhanced athletic performance, reduced risk of disease, and decreased symptoms of arthritis, diabetes, and osteoporosis. Whether your are just getting started or have been training your entire life, Strength Training Past 50 has you covered."--Page 4 of cover.
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One ordinary man's quest to become a serious man. Physics professor Larry Gopnik (Stuhlbarg) can't believe his life. His wife is leaving him for his best friend, his unemployed brother won't move off the couch, someone is threatening his career, his kids are a mystery and his neighbor is tormenting him by sunbathing nude. Struggling to make sense of it all, Larry consults three different rabbis and their answers lead him on a twisted journey of faith,...
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Most Americans take it for granted that a thirteen-year-old in the fifth grade is "behind schedule," that "teenagers who marry "too early" are in for trouble, and that a seventy-five-year-old will be pleased at being told, "You look young for your age." Did an awareness of age always dominate American life? Howard Chudacoff reveals that our intense age consciousness has developed only gradually since the late nineteenth century. In so doing, he explores...
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This book is an illuminating exploration of how seven of the greatest English novels of the 19th and 20th centuries -- Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Between the Acts -- portray the essential experiences of life. For Edward Mendelson, a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, these classic novels tell life stories that are valuable to readers who are thinking...
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For many people today, disillusionment is the midlife plot: troubles compounded by losses and ending in despair. Margaret Morganroth Gullette uncovers in contemporary fiction an alternative plot, one in which adult protagonists are ultimately undaunted by their aging bodies, their inner weaknesses, their responsibility for their own lives, or the worst blows dealt them by fate. Using the works of Saul Bellow, Margaret Drabble, Anne Tyler, and John...
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