morton puner (19 risultati)

Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condizione: Good. First Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condizione: Good. First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condizione: Good. First Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Paperback in good condition, no damage or soiling. 320 pages.

Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. ISBN:0517529637.A USED BOOK STILL IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. LITTLE WEARS ON DUST JACKET CORNER AND EDGE. FORMER LIBRARY BOOK WITH LIMITED LIBRARY MARK.PAGES ARE STILL CLEAN AND BINDING STILL TIGHT. LITTLE YELLOWING PAPER BECAUSE OF AGE.TOTAL 182 PAGES.

Paperback. Condizione: VG++/VG++/ND. y First Edition. SOFTBACK ?AUTHOR SIGNED? SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1978* Publisher: Macmillan Press Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Soft textual card covers. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to corners. No creases to spine or hinge but very slightly faded. VG++ * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, gift inscription by author to title page ?Marjorie and Cyril with my gratitude and affection ~ Morton,? no reading wear. No tanning. VG++* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 269 pp. text. lii pp. Appendices & index at rear.* Product Description:- Throughout the last and the present centuries (and before that as well) life expectancy has been rising steadily. In Western industrialised countries a child born in 1960 can expect to live twenty years longer than one born in 1900. This book is about the quality of living we may look forward to in these extra years of life. The author explores the process of ageing in its biological, psychological and social aspects, and in the light of modern gerontological research challenges many current stereo-types about older people. An Open University set book.* This is a NEAR FINE AUTHOR SIGNED copy of the 1st. Edition with minimal shelf wear.*. y.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good +. First Edition. Explores "what we know about growing old" - the course of life, age and nutrition, mind/memory/time, sex and marriage, retirement and leisure, death and dying, and more. Dust jacket has some edge chips. INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Book.

Condizione: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. Freedom and Public Education. Book.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First edition. 320pp. Laid in is a publisher's complimentary slip. Some spotting to foredge, near fine in tape repaired very good dust jacket. Based on the latest findings of gerontology.

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Hard Cover. Condizione: Fair. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition 1st Printing. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Repaired; Front Free Endpaper Missing; Front, Rear Fixed Endpapers Pulled From Removal of Jacket Cover; Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library (Price Clipped); Lightly Creased; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. By Morton Puner, author of To the Good Long Life. JACKET DESIGN: Walter Harper. CONTENTS: Introduction 1. On Feeling Fifty 2. The Spirit Is Willing 3. On Losing Your Mind 4. Which Change of Life? 5. Sex and the Sexes 6. The Case for the Matriarch 7. Money, Money, Money 8. Our Turquoise World 9. Which War Do You Mean? 10. "A Question of Attitude"; Index. SYNOPSIS: Twenty-two million Americans have reached and are now living in their sixth decade of life; yet these people have been largely ignored by both the youth-oriented pop culture and the new research done on aging. But now, in Morton Puner's illuminating new book, the fifties finally come into their own as years to be savored and enjoyed, not just lived through. If you're in your fifties, then you know that sometimes these years seem to bring about a kind of second adolescence--a period characterized by as much instability, insecurity, and anxiety as when you were a teenager. The evidence is there for all to see: high rates of divorce and separation, uncertainty about sexual potency and physical attractiveness, worry about jobs, careers, and mental ability, fears abut retirement, making do with less money, and change of life. If you are approaching your fifties, you will know what to expect. In a series of informal interviews, the author probes the effects of these problems on people in their fifties, and delineates some of the more common reactions to them: --"I don't think I ever stared at them so before, the pretty girls on their bikes in the park on Saturday mornings. They look so fresh and delectable. Hell, even the tired ones, coming home from work on the subway. I want . . . you know what I want. Does that make me a dirty old man or a healthy young one at 53?" --"I want more now. Flowers, attention, and the conveniences of life, and all the things we couldn't afford years ago. I've worked hard and I'm still a woman with good years ahead of me. If my husband is too tired or indifferent, too bad for him. I'm now learning to lead my own life." --A husband, at 56, leaves his wife after 30 years of marriage. "She's into everything--women's lib, group groping, yin-yang, Erhard training, betel leaves, you name it," he explains. "She's changed and I can't stand it." But he is distraught alone, and feels that he has broken a sacred contract. --A widow who wants to remarry throws herself into the singles scene but is unable to cope with the wolves at her door, the dates who demand, "Do you or don't you?" She supposes she should, but she can't: "I have to be myself--I'm just a Jewish grandmother." --A 24-year-old daughter of a Cleveland accountant is living with a married man who says he's getting a divorce. "Ten years ago I would have killed the guy," says the father. "Now he comes over and I pour him whiskey." In Getting the Most Out Of Your Fifties, the author rescues the foundering fifty-year-old from upheaval and even despair, showing how most of his doubts about himself are based on myths and unscientific fears. Here is a wealth of sound advice from a man trained in gerontological research--on coping with the loss of a mate, planning a new career, achieving sexual fulfillment, maintaining good health, building strong emotional ties with one's spouse, even dealing with the younger generation. Puner's conclusion is that the fifties should be a time of ferment, of intelligent readjustment, and that this is a particularly auspicious time to be living through them, faced as we are with rapidly changing sexual and moral values. He explains how to use our experience and maturity creatively, and how to assault the years to come with vigor and style. The years had started to weigh heavily on the author, Morton Puner, before he undertook this book. He had come to describe himself as "a former everything"--a former book editor and a writer for such former magazines as Coronet and The Reporter, a former executive in a human rights agency, a former associate of the former Vice President Hubert Humphrey. "I am in my fifties--middle-aged by anyone's definition--and along with most of my contemporaries I don't quite know how it happened, where all the years went," he writes. "But research on this book has reassured me. We're living at a good time, with the knowledge and opportunities for a better long life, on our own terms, than ever existed before." Mr. Puner, a member of the Gerontological Society, is also a former New Yorker, now living and working in St.-Tropez, France. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.