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In the Country of the Old by Jon Hendricks
RRP: $154.80Booksplease Price: $142.40Aging is a universal experience, and an individual one. But it is also a cultural phenomenon. Our ethnic and social background has a strong influence on how we deal with growing old. This collection... -
Being and Becoming Old by Jon Hendricks
RRP: $154.80Booksplease Price: $142.40How does aging affect the interaction between people and their social environment? This intriguing book examines that question from various perspectives, exploring in detail the social and... -
The Ties of Later Life by Jon Hendricks
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.88Helps you recognise the continuity that runs across the generations from grandparents to grandchildren. This work provides a clear perspective on the actual experiences of the lives of our family and... -
Being and Becoming Old by Jon Hendricks 9780895030146
Booksplease Price: $90.29Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Ties of Later Life by Jon Hendricks 9780895031662
Booksplease Price: $139.33Helps you recognise the continuity that runs across the generations from grandparents to grandchildren. This work provides a clear perspective on the actual experiences of the lives of our family and... -
The Meaning of Reminiscence and Life Review by Jon Hendricks
RRP: $154.80Booksplease Price: $142.79Robert Butler's call for life reviews has exerted a key influence on the way gerontologists have looked at reminiscence and remembering. Widely thought to be a helpful mechanism for integrating past... -
Institutionalization and Alternative Futures by Jon Hendricks 9780895030160
RRP: $90.29Booksplease Price: $82.99No one wants to put an aging relative in a "home." But very few people have an understanding of the issues involved and options available for an older person who needs outside care. This important... -
Health and Health Care Utilization in Later Life by Jon Hendricks
RRP: $154.80Booksplease Price: $138.46The debate over national health insurance has renewed attention on the health and health care utilization of the elderly. Few questions have been more poignant than the health of the United States'... -
This is Bop: Jon Hendricks and the Art of Vocal Jazz by Peter Jones 9781781798744
Booksplease Price: $34.33If any man could be defined as the epitome of the modern jazz singer, it would surely be Jon Hendricks. His contributions to jazz as a whole were colossal: a hipster, a bopster, a comic and... -
Simple Finance: Tried & True Money Management by Jon Hendrickson 9798822909182
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $15.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798822909182Author Jon HendricksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Nextone IncPublisher Nextone... -
Programmed Cell Death: a Sci-fi Revenge Thriller by Jonathan Hendricks 9781951143015
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $12.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951143015Author Jonathan HendricksFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Clockwork PinesPublisher... -
Conversations in Jazz: The Ralph J. Gleason Interviews by Ralph J. Gleason
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorRalph J. Gleason (1917-1975) was cofounder of Rolling Stone magazine and the author of numerous articles... -
Invitation to the Life Course: Towards new understandings of later life by Richard Settersten
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $60.36Invitation to the Life Course: Toward New Understandings of Later Life discusses in depth the challenges of age, time, and social contexts for the study of aging and later life. Understanding aging... -
Serving the Elderly: Skills for Practice by Paul Kim
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $57.24Broadly speaking there are two kinds of professional practice skills relevant to the burgeoning field of gerontological human service: clinical modalities and macro strategies. This book identifies... -
The Need for Theory: Critical Approaches to Social Gerontology by Simon Biggs 9780895037824
RRP: $167.70Booksplease Price: $154.55The "Need for Theory" speaks to the burgeoning need for critical thinking in social gerontology. The editors have brought together some of the foremost contributors to theoretical advances in the... -
Handbook of Asian Aging Hyunsook Yoon 9780415784559
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $50.53In western countries, the rising tide of population aging took 100 years to alter the face of societies, but Asia is experiencing comparable changes in not much more than a quarter of a century... -
Talking Jazz by Ben Sidran
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $21.30Miles Davis, Gil Evans, Dizzy Gillespie, Jon Hendricks, Max Roach, Betty Carter, Jackie McLean, Don Cherry, Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner, Archie Shepp, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams, Keith Jarrett,... -
Ben Patterson: In the State of Fluxus by Benjamin Patterson
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $29.22Performing and visual artist Ben Patterson (born 1934) was a founding member of Fluxus' participatory, do-it-yourself, anticommercialist avant-garde network. While many Fluxus artists, influenced by... -
Fluxus Means Change - Jean Brown's Avant-Garde Archive Marcia Reed 9781606066621
Booksplease Price: $58.42An exploration of the radical artists who transformed the ways art is conceived, exhibited, and collected, through the Dada, Surrealist, and Fluxus collections of Jean and Leonard Brown. Throughout... -
An ABC for Jazz Lovers by Pascal Kober 9789461613868
RRP: $29.61Booksplease Price: $21.16For more than thirty years, Jazz Hot, the world's oldest jazz magazine (launched in 1935, as DownBeat), has regularly published Pascal Kober's photos, breakfast interviews, album and festival reviews... -
New Dynamics in Old Age: Individual, Environmental and Societal Perspectives Hans-Werner Wahl 9780415784627
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $64.36This book was nurtured by the belief that the new dynamics of today's and tomorrow's aging has not yet been treated well in the gerontology literature. Several questions drove the choice of substance... -
Library of Light: Encounters With Artists And Designers: 2018 by Jo Joelson 9781848222533
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $55.99Library of Light brings together established and emerging practitioners who work with light, as material or subject, from theatre, music, performance, fine art, photography, film, public art,... -
Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind by Juliet Bingham 9781849768917
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $35.22An extraordinary publication with new research and writing on world renowned Japanese multi-media artist, singer, songwriter and peace activist, Yoko Ono (born 1933). Yoko Ono is an artist who has... -
Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind by Juliet Bingham 9781849768849
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $29.15An extraordinary publication with new research and writing on world renowned Japanese multi-media artist, singer, songwriter and peace activist, Yoko Ono (born 1933). Yoko Ono is an artist who has... -
Nightfly: The Life of Steely Dan's Donald Fagen by Peter Jones 9780913705292
RRP: $23.16Booksplease Price: $16.22Donald Fagen will forever be associated with Steely Dan, the band he formed with Walter Becker and four other musicians in 1972.The smooth, radio-friendly veneer of the duo's songs made Steely Dan... -
Social Integration in the Second Half of Life by Karl Pillemer 9780801864544
Booksplease Price: $44.67Social scientists use the term social integration to refer to individuals' connections with others in their environments. The concept and its consequences have been the subject of considerable study... -
Productive Aging: Concepts and Challenges by Nancy Morrow-Howell 9780801865572
Booksplease Price: $67.73"Will 69 million baby boomers suddenly drop out of the workforce when they turn 65? It is difficult to imagine this generation, with its talent, education, and experience, idling away the last thirty... -
The Last Balladeer: The Johnny Hartman Story by Gregg Akkerman 9780810882812
Booksplease Price: $98.18Just after recording with John Coltrane in 1963, baritone singer Johnny Hartman (1923-1983) told a family member that "something special" occurred in the studio that day. He was right - the album,... -
The Last Balladeer: The Johnny Hartman Story by Gregg Akkerman 9780810888722
Booksplease Price: $56.45Just after recording with John Coltrane in 1963, baritone singer Johnny Hartman (1923-1983) told a family member that "something special" occurred in the studio that day. He was right - the album,...