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Stop the Clock - A Memoir on Ageing with Dignity, Grace and Humour by Gordon McLauchlan
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ History/Society
The best way to learn anything is by doing it - this is a maxim that goes back to Aristotle. Gordon McLauchlan agrees. He has concluded that the only way of learning how to manage growing old is by growing old. He doesn't believe that wisdom is necessarily a concomitant of old age but suggests that, whi ...Show more
Women Rowing North - Navigating Life's Currents and Flourishing As We Age by Mary Pipher
$25.00 NZD
Category: Ageing Well
New York Times Bestseller *USA Today Bestseller *Los Angeles Times Bestseller *Publishers WeeklyBestseller The instantNew York Times bestseller from the author ofReviving Ophelia--a guide to wisdom, authenticity, and bliss for women as they age--now with a new foreword by the author. Women growing old ...Show more
The Memory Activity Book by Dk
$40.00 NZD
Category: Growing Older
Combat and manage the symptoms of dementia and Alzheimer's disease, from memory loss to disorientation with this practical activity book. From physical activities to crafts and puzzles, The Memory Activity Bookprovides those with memory loss and their carers with ideas, tools and guidance. There are tw ...Show more
We Need To Talk About Mum & Dad by Jean Kittson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Ageing Well
Everything you need to know about supporting ageing parents, from author and comedian Jean Kittson.This warm and witty practical guide is a one-stop shop for information on how to support your ageing loved ones: how to protect their health and wellbeing, keep them safe and secure, and enable them to ...Show more
Depression and Anxiety in Later Life: What Everyone Needs to Know by Mark D. Miller
$45.00 NZD
Category: Growing Older | Series: A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book
Physical problems and emotional stresses, such as bereavement, health conditions, pain, concerns about the future, side effects of medications, and the accumulated effects of lifestyle choices, may lead to depression or anxiety in older people. However, as Drs. Mark D. Miller and Charles F. Reynolds III ...Show more
Growing, Older: A Chronicle of Death, Life, and Vegetables by Joan Dye Gussow
$42.00 NZD
Category: Growing Older
Michael Pollan calls her one of his food heroes. Barbara Kingsolver credits her with shaping the history and politics of food in the United States. And countless others who have vied for a food revolution, pushed organics, and reawakened Americans to growing their own food and eating locally consider he ...Show more
Life is for Living by John Shackleton
$25.00 NZD
Category: Growing Older
John Shackleton challenges anyone to live to 100, and to get there happily, healthy and full of zest to last another 100 years. Part autobiography, this top athlete discovered he was faster at the age of 50 than he had been years earlier during international championship swimming meets and trials fo ...Show more
The Aging Mind: An owner's manual by Patrick Rabbitt
$60.00 NZD
Category: Ageing Well
No-one approaches aging with enthusiasm. Activities we accomplish easily in our 20s and 30s become more difficult as we grow old but, though change is inevitable, recognising and understanding precisely what is happening to our bodies and minds allows us to continue to manage and enjoy our lives. Patri ...Show more
Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom by Mary Catherine Bateson
$57.00 NZD
Category: Ageing Well
From the author of Composing a Life (first published in 1991 and still in print), an inspiring exploration of a new stage of the life cycle, "Adulthood II," created by unprecedented levels of health, energy, time, and resources--of which we have barely begun to be fully conscious. Mary Catherine Bateson ...Show more
The Invisible Woman: Taking on the Vintage Years by Helen Walmsley-Johnson
$25.00 NZD
Category: Ageing Well
Sixty is the new forty, we're constantly told. Or is it that seventy is the new fifty? Either way, there's nothing middle-of-the-road about middle age. From coping with bodies that are 'heading south' to rampant ageism in the workplace, this time in our lives, in the words of Bette Davies, 'is no place ...Show more
A Walk on the Beach: Tales of Wisdom from an Unconventional Woman by Joan Anderson
$33.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Shortly after arriving on Cape Cod to spend a year by herself, Joan Anderson's chance encounter with a wise, playful, and astonishing woman helped her usher in the transformations and self-discoveries that led to her ongoing renewal. First glimpsed as a slender figure on a fogged-in beach, Joan Erikson ...Show more
Women of a Certain Age by Jodie Moffat
$35.00 NZD
Category: Feminism
Anne Aly, Liz Byrski, Sarah Drummond, Mehreen Faruqi, Goldie Goldbloom, Krissy Kneen, Jeanine Leane, Brigid Lowry and Pat Torres are among fifteen voices recounting what it is like to be a woman on the other side of 40. These are stories of identity and survival, and a celebration of getting older and w ...Show more
