The field of gerontology the study of aging has emerged as an area of increasing importance This book is an introduction to the multidisciplinary field of gerontology The text with its friendly narrative style assumes no prior knowledge of gerontology sociology or psychology ...

No field of study more completely integrates the mature person over the life course than does gerontology Understanding senior citizens-who represent a continually growing population-is becoming increasingly important AGING THE INDIVIDUAL & SOCIETY introduces readers to gerontology in a compassionate way that helps them understand older people & know how to work with them The book balances academic research & practical discussions integrating social & cultural perspectives with the story of the individual aging process Activities & enhance reader's understanding & skills by providing many opportunities for experiential learning ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Anjelica Huston both directs & stars in this tale of hard times & friendship in late 1960s Dublin Agnes Browne (Huston) is a recently widowed woman forced to bring up her seven children all by herself Life is very difficult for her as she struggles to pay off her debts to the local loan shark (Ray Winstone) by working on a fruit & veg stall but she still has her dreams of Tom Jones to keep her smiling ...

When her family becomes impoverished after a disastrous financial speculation Agnes Grey determines to find work as a governess in order to contribute to their meagre income & assert her independence But Agnes&s enthusiasm is swiftly extinguished as she struggles first with the unmanageable Bloomfield children & then with the painful disdain of the haughty Murray family; the only kindness she receives comes from Mr Weston the sober young curate Drawing on her own experience Anne Bronte&s first novel offers a compelling personal perspective on the desperate position of unmarried educated women for whom becoming a governess was the only respectable career open in Victorian society ...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SAMANTHA ELLIS When Agnes’s father loses the family savings young Agnes determines to make her own living – as a governess Working for the Bloomfields her enthusiasm is soon dampened by isolation & the cruelty of the children in her charge Agnes hopes for better in her second job but when the scheming elder daughter Rosalie makes designs on Agnes’s new friend the kind curate Mr Weston she feels herself silenced & sidelined Becoming a governess is one thing becoming invisible is quite another ...

Set in the dramatic northern landscape made familiar by the author's more famous sisters this title tells the story of Helen Graham a mysterious single woman who rents the semi-ruinous Hall of the title 744 pages Bronte Anne ...

Agnes Martin Paintings Writings Remembrances by Arne Glimcher is a beautiful collection of the artist's most important art works illuminated by her own notes & writings Martin's writings are fascinatingly direct in explaining her philosophies on art & on the themes of life that inspire her paintings & drawings & facsimilies presenting her words in her own handwriting intimately convey her thoughts More than 150 of Martin's paintings present the full extent of her artistic career & her own words explain how they were inspired by ideas on love joy beauty humility solitude perfection 'freedom from the cares of this world' destiny & the nature of existence The artist's works & writings are here introduced by art dealer & film director Arne Glimcher who represented the artist for most of her career & was good friend He opens the book with reminiscences of working with Martin & how her art developed during her life & later in the book are notes on visits he made to Martin's studio & home in New Mexico With beautifully accurate reproductions of Martin's works & foldouts to show her series as groups as well as the comprehensive presentation of works & writings this luxurious book is unprecedented a uniquely full & intimate celebration of the artist ...

Tracklist Falling Catching Riverside Brother Sparrow Just So Beast Louretta Avenue Philharmonics Close Watch Wallflower Over The Hill On Powdered Ground ...

Tracklist Falling Catching Riverside Brother Sparrow Just So Beast Louretta Avenue Philharmonics Close Watch Wallflower Over The Hill On Powdered Ground ...

In a Victorian-era German asylum seamstress Agnes Richter painstakingly stitched a mysterious autobiographical text into every inch of the jacket she created from her institutional uniform Despite every attempt to silence them hundreds of other patients have managed to get their stories out at least in disguised form & so it continues today A vast gulf exists between the way medicine explains psychiatric illness & the experiences of those who suffer Hornstein's brilliant work helps us to bridge that gulf guiding us through the inner lives of those diagnosed with schizophrenia bipolar illness depression & paranoia & emerging with nothing less than a new model for understanding so-called 'mental illness' one another & ourselves One which asks not 'what's wrong with you' but 'what happened to you & how did you manage to survive?' ...