FURTHER READING ON ACTIVE WISDOM, CREATIVITY AND AGING
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= Particularly worth reading
ON
WISDOM:
ON
THE FUTURE OF AGING:
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Bateson,
Mary Catherine - Full Circles, Overlapping Lives: Culture and
Generation in Transition
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Cohen,
Gene - The Mature Mind
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Cruikshank,
Margaret - Learning
to Be Old: Gender, Culture and Aging
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Cusack,
Sandra and Wendy Thompson - Mental Fitness for Life: 7 Steps to
Healthy Aging
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Dass,
Ram - Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and
Dying
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Dychtwald,
Ken - The
Power Years: A User's Guide to the Rest of Your Life
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Freedman, Marc - Prime Time: How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize
Retirement and Transform America
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Friedan,
Betty - Fountain
of Age
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Goldberg,
Elkhonon - The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger As
Your Brain Grows Older
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Gullette,
Margaret Morganroth - Aged by Culture
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Jamieson,
Anne - Researching
Ageing and Later Life
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Miller,
Ronald - From
Age-Ing to Sage-Ing: A Profound New Vision of Growing Older
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Montagu,
Ashley - Growing
Young
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Price,
Joan - Better
Than I Ever Expected: Straight Talk about Sex After Sixty
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Restak,
Richard - Older and Wiser: How to Maintain Peak Mental Ability for
As Long As You Live
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Roszak,
Theodore - Longevity
Revolution: As Boomers Become Elders
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Sarton,
May - At
Seventy: A Journal
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Sarton,
May - At
Eighty-Two: A Journal
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Snowdon, David - Aging With Grace
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Thomas,
William H. - What Are Old People For? How Elders Will Save the
World
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Vaillant,
George - Aging Well: Surprising Guideposts to a Happier Life from
the Landmark Harvard Study of Adult Development
ON
CREATIVITY AND LIFELONG LEARNING:
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Ackerman,
Diane - Deep Play
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Bateson, Mary Catherine - Willing to Learn
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Bleedorn, Berenice - Education is Everybody's Business: A Wake-Up
Call to Advocates of Educational Change
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Claxton,
Guy - Wise Up: The Challenge of Lifelong Learning
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Cohen, Gene - The Creative Age
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Land,
George and Beth Jarman - Breakpoint and Beyond: Mastering the
Future Today
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Osborn,
Alex - Applied Imagination
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Raines,
Robert - A Time to Live: Seven Tasks of Creative Aging
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Ueland, Brenda - If You Want to Write: A Book about Art,
Independence and Spirit
ON
PURPOSEFUL LIFE, RETIREMENT AND TRANSITIONS:
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Bateson, Mary Catherine - Composing a Life
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Bateson, Mary Catherine - Peripheral Visions
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Berman,
Phillip and Connie Goldman (Eds.) - The Ageless Spirit:
Reflections on Living Life to the Fullest in Our Later Years
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Blythe,
Ronald - The View in Winter: Reflections on Old Age
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Bornstein,
David - How to Change the World
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Bridges,
William - Transitions:
Making Sense of Life's Changes
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Bronfman,
Edgar - The Third Act:
Reinventing Yourself After Retirement
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Bruner,
Jerome - Acts of Meaning: Four Lectures on Mind and Culture
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Carlsen, Mary Baird - Creative Aging: A Meaning-Making
Perspective
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Cantor,
Dorothy - What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up? Starting the
Next Chapter of Your Life
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Carter,
Jimmy - The Virtues of Aging
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Dychtwald,
Maddy - Cycles: How We Will Live, Work
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Helen,
Mary - The Retirement Sourcebook
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Hinden,
Stan - How To Retire Happy: Everything You Need to Know About the
12 Most Important Decisions You Must Make Before You Retire
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Houston,
Jean - A Passion for the Possible: A Guide to Realizing Your True
Potential
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Ibarra, Herminia - Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for
Reinventing Your Career
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Jaworski, Joseph - Synchronicity: The Inner Path of
Leadership
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Kaufman,
Sharon - The Ageless Self: Sources of Meaning in Later Life
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Langer,
Ellen - On
Becoming an Artist: Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful
Creativity
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Langer,
Ellen - Mindfulness
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Leider, Richard - The Power of
Purpose: Creating Meaning in Your Life and Work
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Leider,
Richard - Claiming Your Place at the Fire:
Living the Second Half of Your Life on Purpose
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Levine,
Suzanne - Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second
Adulthood
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Mead,
Margaret - Culture and Commitment
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Moen,
Phyllis and Patricia Roehling - The Career Mystique: Cracks in the
American Dream
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Palmer,
Parker - The
Active Life: Wisdom of Work, Creativity and Caring
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Sarton,
May - Journal
of a Solitude
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Scott,
Maxwell - The Measure of Our Days
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Sheehy,
Gail - New Passages
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Sheehy,
Gail - Understanding Men's Passages: Discovering the New Map of
Men's Lives
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Warner,
Ralph - Get a Life: You Don't Need a Million to Retire Well
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Zelinski,
Ernie - How to Retire Happy, Wild and Free: Retirement Wisdom That
You Won't Get from Your Financial Advisor
ON
DIALOGUE AND CONVERSATION:
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Baldwin,
Christina - Calling the Circle: The First and Future Culture
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Bohm,
David - On Dialogue
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Garfield,
Charles, Cindy Spring and Sedonia Cahill - Wisdom Circles: A Guide
to Self-Discovery and Community Building in Small Groups
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Grudin,
Robert - On Dialogue: An Essay in Free Thought
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Owen,
Harrison - Open Space Technology: A User's Guide
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Phillips, Christopher - Socrates Café: A Fresh Taste of
Philosophy
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Utne, Eric - The Salon-Keeper's Companion: An Utne Reader Guide to
Conducting Salons, Council and Study Circles (free online)
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Wheatley, Margaret - Turning to One Another
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Weisbord,
Marvin - Discovering Common Ground
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Weisbord,
Marvin and Sandra Janoff - Future Search: An Action Guide to
Finding Common Ground in Organizations and Communities
ARTICLES,
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