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Stages of senior care: your step-by-step guide to making the best decisions
Par Lori Hogan, Paul Hogan. 2010
Guide for families who are making decisions about senior care. Evaluates available options, including retirement communities, adult day-care centers, assisted-living…
facilities, nursing homes, hospice, and in-home caregivers. Discusses bereavement and covers funerals, finances, and estate planning. 2010Mammoths and mastodons: titans of the Ice Age
Par Cheryl Bardoe. 2010
Discusses what scientists have learned from the 2007 discovery in Siberia of a frozen baby woolly mammoth given the name…
Lyuba. Explains how research on fossil tusks, teeth, and droppings reveals differences between mammoths, mastodons, and modern elephants. For grades 4-7. 2010Beyond the cleavage: Beyond the Cleavage
Par Raquel Welch. 2010
Movie star Jo-Raquel Tejada, born in 1940, offers a brief synopsis of her life that covers her childhood in California,…
marriage, divorce, motherhood, and Hollywood career. Provides tips for women over fifty on makeup, hair, exercise, nutrition, fashion, and staying positive. 2010Time magazine columnist describes the family dynamics that come into play when parents age. Discusses the "twilight transition," the time…
when the family in which siblings grew up ends and they become the oldest generation in a clan. Russo uses case studies from her research to highlight salient topics. Some strong language. 2010Global warming and the dinosaurs: fossil discoveries at the poles
Par Caroline Arnold, Laurie A. Caple. 2009
Discusses fossil evidence and scientific discoveries in Alaska, Canada, Siberia, Antarctica, Australia, New Zealand, and Patagonia showing that dinosaurs lived…
not just in warm, tropical places but also in the cold and seasonally dark environments of the polar circles. For grades 3-6. 2009What's age got to do with it?: living your healthiest and happiest life
Par Robin Mcgraw, Robin McGraw. 2009
The author of Inside My Heart (RC 63472), who is married to television's Dr. Phil, addresses aging and women. McGraw…
and a panel of professionals offer advice on health, fashion, psychological well-being, and self-care. They answer common questions concerning fitness programs, nutrition, and hair and skin care. Bestseller. 2009Bizarre dinosaurs: some very strange creatures and why we think they got that way
Par Christopher Sloan. 2008
Discusses the unusual features--giant beak, musical head, or wide muzzle--of eleven different dinosaurs and provides scientists' interpretations of the uses…
of these characteristics. Covers the 2006 discovery of a spiky skull that looked so nasty it was named Dracorex hogwartsia, meaning dragon king of Hogwarts. For grades K-3. 2008Dinosaurs big and small (Let's-read-and-find-out science. Stage 1)
Par Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld, Lucia Washburn. 2002
Shelved: a memoir of aging in America
Par Sue Matthews Petrovski. 2018
The author discusses the benefits and deficits of American for-profit elder care, while reflecting on her move to a senior…
living community with her husband. Drawing on extensive research to demonstrate the cultural value of elders and their potential for leading vital, creative lives, she offers a cogent, informed critique of elder care options and delivers compelling suggestions for the transformation of the elder care systemAging wisely ... wisdom of our elders
Par Irving Silverman Irving Silverman, Ellen Beth Siegel, Irving Silverman. 2018
Frank Springer and New Mexico: from the Colfax County War to the emergence of modern Santa Fe
Par David L. Caffey. 2007
Frank Springer rode into Cimarron, New Mexico, and found himself in the middle of the Colfax County War. He was…
a foe of the speculators known as "the Santa Fe Ring" and helped establish Highlands University and the Museum of New Mexico and as president of the Maxwell Land Grant company developed natural resourcesJean Carnahan served in the U.S. Senate from 2001-2002. She agreed to serve after her husband, Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan…
was elected posthumously after being killed in a plane crash along with his son and a close personal friend. In this inspirational memoir Carnahan writes about family, politics, history, and change with wit and insightDig those dinosaurs
Par Lori Haskins Houran, Francisca Marquez. 2013
Digging Snowmastodon: discovering an Ice Age world in the Colorado Rockies
Par Kirk Johnson, Ian Miller, Kirk R Johnson. 2012
In October 2010, a bulldozer operator working at the base of the Snowmass ski area in Colorado's Rocky Mountains uncovered…
the skeleton of a young female mammoth. Over the next 11 months, this location would yield a treasure trove of amazingly well-preserved ice age fossils - more than 5,000 bones of over 40 kinds of animals - and would change forever our understanding of alpine life in the ice age. The Snowmastodon Project's two lead scientists tell the dynamic story of this discovery and dig: the excitement, emotion, and the colorful cast of characters who made the project a successFrom age-ing to sage-ing: a profound new vision of growing older
Par Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Ronald S. Miller. 2014
In this updated version of his popular 1995 book, rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi shares his wisdom and experience with readers on…
finding a way to turn aging into the most meaningful and joyous time of life. He shows readers how to create an aging process for themselves that is full of adventure, passion, mystery, and fulfillment, rather than anxiety. Using scientific research--both neurological and psychological-- Reb Zalman offers techniques that will expand horizons beyond the narrow view of "the present" into a grand and enduring eternityBone wars: the excavation and celebrity of Andrew Carnegie's dinosaur
Par Tom Rea. 2001
When Diplodocus carnegii was unearthed from the Wyoming badlands in 1899, philanthropist Andrew Carnegie set out to display his prized…
dinosaur. This soon set off a public storm of interest for these incredible creatures around the world. Here is the intrigue, manipulation, rivalry, and skullduggery by which Andrew Carnegie obtained his dinosaur, and by which his opponents did their best to thwart him. For high school and adult readersWings, horns, & claws: a dinosaur book of epic proportions
Par Christopher Wormell, Chris Wormell. 2006
The beauty of dusk: On vision lost and found
Par Frank Bruni. 2022
From New York Times columnist and bestselling author Frank Bruni comes a wise and moving memoir about aging, affliction, and…
optimism after partially losing his eyesight. One morning in late 2017, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni woke up with strangely blurred vision. He wondered at first if some goo or gunk had worked its way into his right eye. But this was no fleeting annoyance, no fixable inconvenience. Overnight, a rare stroke had cut off blood to one of his optic nerves, rendering him functionally blind in that eye—forever. And he soon learned from doctors that the same disorder could ravage his left eye, too. He could lose his sight altogether. In The Beauty of Dusk , Bruni hauntingly recounts his adjustment to this daunting reality, a medical and spiritual odyssey that involved not only reappraising his own priorities but also reaching out to, and gathering wisdom from, longtime friends and new acquaintances who had navigated their own traumas and afflictions. The result is a poignant, probing, and ultimately uplifting examination of the limits that all of us inevitably encounter, the lenses through which we choose to evaluate them and the tools we have for perseverance. Bruni's world blurred in one sense, as he experienced his first real inklings that the day isn't forever and that light inexorably fades, but sharpened in another. Confronting unexpected hardship, he felt more blessed than ever before. There was vision lost. There was also vision foundMidlife bites: Anyone else falling apart, or is it just me?
Par Jen Mann. 2022
A smart, personal, darkly funny examination of what it&’s like to be a woman at the crossroads of a midlife…
crisis, from the New York Times bestselling author of People I Want to Punch in the Throat &“I inhaled this book in one sitting; it&’s a must-read for anyone over forty. This should become the gift all girlfriends give one another.&”—Zibby Owens, host of the award-winning podcast Moms Don&’t Have Time to Read Books Jen Mann had what appeared to be the perfect life: a successful career as a bestselling author and award-winning blogger, a devoted husband, teenage kids who weren&’t total jerks, and a badass minivan. So imagine her surprise when, at forty-seven years old, a midlife crisis kicked her straight in the ladybits. Midlife Bites offers Jen&’s trademark wit and honesty when it comes to important conversations and observations about women in midlife. Here, readers will be able to come together and find anecdotes and practical ideas to help navigate through this major point in their lives. For women who may feel isolated or overlooked, this collection of original essays offers valuable insights, takeaways, and, most important, a productive way forward. Jen shares her own story as well as advice and wisdom from the online community she built, tackling everything that bites about midlife, where nothing is off-limits: raging hormones; sex (after forty); finding your purpose; learning to make new friends (yes, even as a grown-up); moving out of your comfort zone; having conversations that count, no more small talk; and how to deal with rogue chin hairs (and other nuisances). Jen Mann is leading the movement to create a new space where middle-aged women can share openly and honestly with one another. This no-BS collection of essays will help start the conversation and keep it going, because as women, we all have a right to be happy, fulfilled, and whole, no matter what stage of lifeThe last days of the dinosaurs: An asteroid, extinction, and the beginning of our world
Par Riley Black. 2022
In The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, Riley Black walks readers through what happened in the days, the years, the…
centuries, and the million years after the impact, tracking the sweeping disruptions that overtook this one spot, and imagining what might have been happening elsewhere on the globe. Life's losses were sharp and deeply-felt, but the hope carried by the beings that survived sets the stage for the world as we know it now. Picture yourself in the Cretaceous period. It's a sunny afternoon in the Hell Creek of ancient Montana 66 million years ago. A Triceratops horridus ambles along the edge of the forest. In a matter of hours, everything here will be wiped away. Lush verdure will be replaced with fire. Tyrannosaurus rex will be toppled from their throne, along with every other species of non-avian dinosaur no matter their size, diet, or disposition. They just don't know it yet. The cause of this disaster was identified decades ago. An asteroid some seven miles across slammed into the Earth, leaving a geologic wound over 50 miles in diameter. In the terrible mass extinction that followed, more than half of known species vanished seemingly overnight. But this worst single day in the history of life on Earth was as critical for us as it was for the dinosaurs, as it allowed for evolutionary opportunities that were closed for the previous 100 million years