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Books Recommended by OWL-Illinois |
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Aging in General
Perls, Thomas T., and Margery Hutter Silver, with John F. Lauerman. Living to 100: Lessons in living to your maximum potential at any age. NY: Basic Books, 1999.
Rowe, John W. and Robert L. Kahn. Successful aging. NY: Pantheon Books, 1998.
Caregiving and Care Receiving
Lustbader, Wendy. Counting on Kindness: The dilemmas of dependency. NY: Free Press, 1991.
Lustbader, Wendy, and Nancy R. Hooyman. Taking care of aging family members: A practical guide. Revised and expanded. NY: Free Press, 1994.
Mace, Nancy L. and Peter V. Rabins. The 36-hour day: A family guide to caring for persons with Alzheimer disease, related dementing illnesses, and memory loss in later life. Third Edition. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Shulman, Bernard H., and Raeann Berman. How to survive your aging parents...so you and they can enjoy life. Chicago: Surrey Books, 1988.
Finances
Insuring the Essentials: Bob Ball on Social Security. A selection of articles and essays from 1942 through 2000 by Robert M. Ball. Edited by Thomas N. Bethel. NY: Century Foundation Press, 2000.
Health
Orbach, Susie. Fat is a feminist issue: A self-help guide for compulsive eaters. NY: Paddington Press Ltd., 1978.
Roizen, Michael F., with Elizabeth Anne Stephenson. RealAge: Are you as young as you can be? NY, HarperCollins, 1999.
Rossi, Alice S. (Ed.) Sexuality across the life course. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Organizations
Puntenney, Deborah L. A guide to building sustainable organizations from the inside out: An organizational capacity building toolbox from the Chicago Foundation for Women. 146 pages. One to nine copies, $30.00 each (includes shipping and handling in the U.S.; Canadian orders add $3.00 per book.) Discounts available on larger orders. Order from ACTA Publications, 4848 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL 60640. To order by credit card, phone 1-(800) 397-2282.
Marriage
Polston, Betty L., with Susan K Golant. Loving midlife marriage: A guide to keeping romance alive from the empty nest through retirement. NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
Personal Development
Sheehy, Gail. New passages: Mapping your life across time. NY: Ballantine Books, 1995.
Sher, Barbara. It's only too late if you don't start now: How to create your second life at any age. NY: Dell Publishing, 1998.
Work
Zemke, Ron, Claire Raines and Bob Filipczak. Generations at work: Managing the clash of Veterans, Boomers, Xers, and Nexters in your workplace. NY: AMACOM (American Management Association), 2000.
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