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The Time of Our Lives: Growing Older Well by Robert Dessaix
$35.00 NZD
Category: Ageing Well
At the height of his powers in this remarkable (and often witty) book, Robert Dessaix addresses these increasingly urgent questions in inimitable prose and comes up with some surprising answers. From Java to Hobart via Berlin, Dessaix invites us to eavesdrop on his intimate, no-nonsense conversations ab ...Show more
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
Somebody I Used to Know by Wendy Mitchell
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
How do you build a life when all that you know is changing?How do you conceive of love when you can no longer recognise those who mean the most to you? A phenomenal memoir - the first of its kind - Somebody I Used to Know is both a heart-rending tribute to the woman Wendy Mitchell once was, and a brave ...Show more
Younger Next Year for Women - Live Strong, Fit, Sexy, and Smart--Until You're 80 and Beyond by Chris Crowley; Henry S. Lodge; Allan J. Hamilton (As told to); Gail Sheehy (Foreword by)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Ageing Well | Series: Younger Next Year Ser.
Smart women don't grow older. They grow younger. A book of hope, Younger Next Year for Women shows you how to become functionally younger for the next five to ten years, and continue to live thereafter with newfound vitality. Learn how the Younger Next Year plan of following "Harry's Rules"--a program ...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
It's Never Too Late to Begin Again - Creativity in the Golden Years by Julia Cameron; Emma Lively
$45.00 NZD
Category: Creativity | Series: Artist's Way Ser.
"The book you hold in your hands is the distillate of a quarter century's teaching. It is my attempt to answer, 'What next?' for students who are embarking on their 'second act.'" --Julia Cameron Julia Cameron has inspired millions with her bestseller on creativity, The Artist's Way. In It's Never Too ...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
Live Longer Live Younger by Rajendra Sharma
$25.00 NZD
Category: Growing Older
This book, by leading integrated health practitioner Dr Rajendra Sharma, explains how we can all slow down the ageing process and lead a healthier and more productive later life by making simple and easy lifestyle changes. He reveals the key principles we can start to follow from day 1 that can prevent ...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
