San Antonio College Library

" ... 29 fun and creative structured exercises to help group leaders guide people middle-aged and up in setting goals and making lifestyle choices for the best half of life."--Back cover.

In this program, 85-year-old Gordon Parks discusses his multifaceted, lifelong career in the arts. Best known, perhaps, for his photography, Mr. Parks has documented the plight of the poor as a photojournalist with Life magazine, the lives of the famous, and the looks of the fashion elite. A distinguished film director, poet, author, composer, and digital art pioneer as well, Gordon Parks has spent his life getting to know the world one person at...

The author describes her family's move to Los Angeles; her father's loss of sanity and brutalization of his family; her careers as a gang girl, professional forger, and porno model; and her marriage to an older man.

In this video lesson, Paul Andersen explains how radioactive nuclei can decay by releasing an alpha, beta, or gamma particle. The exact moment of decay for each nucleus cannot be determined, but probability is useful in predicting the half-life. The half-life is the amount of time required for half of the radioactive nucleus to decay, and it depends on the decay constant. Several examples of decay and several half-lives are included.--Publisher.

Half-Earth proposes an achievable plan to save our imperiled biosphere: devote half the surface of the Earth to nature. In order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet, says Edward O. Wilson in his most impassioned book to date. Half-Earth argues that the situation facing us is too large to be solved piecemeal and proposes a solution commensurate with the magnitude...

Autobiography of Paul Monette focusing on his struggle of growing up gay, coming out of the closet, and dealing with bigotry.

The half-life of an element is the amount of time it takes for that element to decay to half of its original amount.

"The Second Half explores, in portraits and interviews, how the second half of life is experienced by women from many cultures"--

Includes profiles of Velma Simpson, Robert Chambers, Jacqueline Khan, Ed Speedling, and Sally Bingham as examples of points the author makes about later-in-life career choices.

This book assembles "for the first time" fairy tales in which elders are protagonists. The stories are delightful in them selves, but interpreted under Chinen's skillful hand, they offer a psychology of maturity where wit and wisdom replace the audacity and strength of youth.