[PDF] Always Too Young Or Too Old eBook

Author : Ashton Applewhite
Publisher : Celadon Books
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 15,52 MB
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1250311489

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“Wow. This book totally rocks. It arrived on a day when I was in deep confusion and sadness about my age. Everything about it, from my invisibility to my neck. Within four or five wise, passionate pages, I had found insight, illumination, and inspiration. I never use the word empower, but this book has empowered me.” —Anne Lamott, New York Times bestselling author Author, activist, and TED speaker Ashton Applewhite has written a rousing manifesto calling for an end to discrimination and prejudice on the basis of age. In our youth obsessed culture, we’re bombarded by media images and messages about the despairs and declines of our later years. Beauty and pharmaceutical companies work overtime to convince people to purchase products that will retain their youthful appearance and vitality. Wrinkles are embarrassing. Gray hair should be colored and bald heads covered with implants. Older minds and bodies are too frail to keep up with the pace of the modern working world and olders should just step aside for the new generation. Ashton Applewhite once held these beliefs too until she realized where this prejudice comes from and the damage it does. Lively, funny, and deeply researched, This Chair Rocks traces her journey from apprehensive boomer to pro-aging radical, and in the process debunks myth after myth about late life. Explaining the roots of ageism in history and how it divides and debases, Applewhite examines how ageist stereotypes cripple the way our brains and bodies function, looks at ageism in the workplace and the bedroom, exposes the cost of the all-American myth of independence, critiques the portrayal of elders as burdens to society, describes what an all-age-friendly world would look like, and offers a rousing call to action. It’s time to create a world of age equality by making discrimination on the basis of age as unacceptable as any other kind of bias. Whether you’re older or hoping to get there, this book will shake you by the shoulders, cheer you up, make you mad, and change the way you see the rest of your life. Age pride!

Author : Lucy Maud Montgomery
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 6520 pages
File Size : 32,40 MB
Release : 2023-12-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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This unique and meticulously edited collection of Lucy Maud Montgomery's greatest works includes: Anne of Green Gables Series:_x000D_ Anne of Green Gables_x000D_ Anne of Avonlea_x000D_ Anne of the Island_x000D_ Anne of Windy Poplars_x000D_ Anne's House of Dreams_x000D_ Anne of Ingleside_x000D_ Rainbow Valley_x000D_ Rilla of Ingleside_x000D_ Emily Starr Trilogy:_x000D_ Emily of New Moon_x000D_ Emily Climbs_x000D_ Emily's Quest_x000D_ The Story Girl Series_x000D_ The Story Girl_x000D_ The Golden Road_x000D_ Pat of Silver Bush Series_x000D_ Pat of Silver Bush_x000D_ Mistress Pat_x000D_ Other Novels_x000D_ Kilmeny of the Orchard_x000D_ The Blue Castle_x000D_ Magic for Marigold_x000D_ A Tangled Web_x000D_ Jane of Lantern Hill_x000D_ Short Stories:_x000D_ Chronicles of Avonlea_x000D_ The Hurrying of Ludovic_x000D_ Old Lady Lloyd_x000D_ Each in His Own Tongue_x000D_ Little Joscelyn_x000D_ The Winning of Lucinda_x000D_ Old Man Shaw's Girl_x000D_ Aunt Olivia's Beau_x000D_ Quarantine at Alexander Abraham's_x000D_ Pa Sloane's Purchase_x000D_ The Courting of Prissy Strong_x000D_ The Miracle at Carmody_x000D_ The End of a Quarrel_x000D_ Further Chronicles of Avonlea_x000D_ Aunt Cynthia's Persian Cat_x000D_ The Materializing of Cecil_x000D_ Her Father's Daughter_x000D_ Jane's Baby_x000D_ The Dream-Child_x000D_ The Brother Who Failed_x000D_ The Return of Hester_x000D_ The Little Brown Book of Miss Emily_x000D_ Sara's Way_x000D_ The Son of his Mother_x000D_ The Education of Betty_x000D_ In Her Selfless Mood_x000D_ The Conscience Case of David Bell_x000D_ Only a Common Fellow_x000D_ Tannis of the Flats..._x000D_ Poetry_x000D_ Collected Letters_x000D_ Autobiography:_x000D_ The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career

Author : Michael Hauskeller
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 25,81 MB
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1800082177

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While being rooted in the academic discourse, The Things That Really Matter comprehensively explores the most fundamental aspects of human life in an accessible, non-technical language, adding fresh perspectives and new arguments and considerations that are designed to stimulate further debate and, in some cases, a deliberate redirection of research interests in the respective areas. It features a series of conversations about the things in our life that we all, in one way or another, wrestle with if we are at all concerned about what kind of world we live in and what our role in it is: things like birth, age, and death, good and evil, the meaning of life, the nature of the self and the role the body plays for our identity, our gendered existence, love and faith, free will, beauty, and our experience of the sacred. Situating abstract ideas in concrete experience, The Things That Really Matter encourages the reader to participate in an open-ended dialogue involving a variety of thinkers with different backgrounds and orientations. Lively and accessible, it shows thinking as an open-ended process and a collaborative endeavour that benefits from talking to each other rather than against each other, featuring real conversations, where ideas are explored, tested, changed, and occasionally dropped. It is thinking in motion, personal yet universal.

Author : Stephanie Collins
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 903 pages
File Size : 26,41 MB
Release : 2015-01-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1490753311

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My name is Gemini, and my life is a bloody mess. I almost kill my mother; my overbearing father exiles me out of the nest; one of my sisters wants to neuter me so stupidity doesnt breed; my dead grandmother wants me to complete stupid missions for her, and a witch thinks Im an arrogant and rude dragon, so she turns me human. Then I get captured by guards from a kingdom notorious for being cruel to males, and they make me their slave for three years. Their queen decides shes had enough of my sarcastic idiocy and sells me to a neighboring kingdom where I get stuck in a new dungeon: kinghood. Apparently I make enemies wherever I go. I have dragon slayers poaching in my kingdom and my armys commander desperately wanting to kill me so he could be king. All I want is to find a way to break my curse and get my scales back . . . and for my father to stop treating me like a hatchling. Is that too much to ask for?

Author : Marvin H. Albert
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 19,17 MB
Release : 2019-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1479442364

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Paris-based private investigator Pete Sawyer is hired to find out what happened to a girl who was kidnapped ten years before. When Pete starts digging, he finds more than expected -- including a Neo Nazi movement!

Author : John W. Danford
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 31,13 MB
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1497648904

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Roots of Freedom is a primer on the thinkers and ideas that, over many centuries, have laid the foundations of free societies. Concepts such as the rule of law, independent judiciary, limited government, free markets, and individual autonomy are traced in the writings of (among others) Luther, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Hume, Adam Smith, the American founders, Alexis de Tocqueville, and John Stuart Mill.

Author : John McFetridge
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,93 MB
Release : 2006-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1554902622

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On a busy street on a Monday morning, a man behind the wheel of an SUV is shot in the head, and his killer drives off before the light changes. But what appears to be road rage or a random act of violence is actually an opportunity for everyone--everyone, that is, but the victim.