Download or read book Midlife Humanity s Secret Weapon written by Andrew Jamieson and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radical new take on one of humanity's most misunderstood periods of transition: the midlife crisis. Only two species of mammal have a post-reproductive life that lasts longer than their reproductive life: killer whales, whose elders are able to sniff out food supplies over vast oceanic distances to keep their pods fed, and Homo sapiens. While the evolutionary purpose of the killer whale’s extensive life seems clear, what is the point of ours? This was a question that intrigued the psychoanalyst Carl Jung, who observed that if a culture is to maintain its deepest, profoundest roots while moving forward to embrace the challenges of historical and technological change, it needs to find an equilibrium between the energy, vigor, and creativity of those in the ego-driven first half of life and the experience, dignity, and wisdom of those in the second. But to make it to that second half of life, we need to traverse the dreaded middle years, when so many of us find ourselves discontented with our jobs, unhappy in our relationships, and lamenting our fetishized youths. In this highly readable and groundbreaking new book, the psychoanalyst Andrew Jamieson examines the Jungian concept of the midlife crisis to show how it is an essential evolutionary and social rite of passage that we all must proceed through—a set of challenges that we either take advantage of or ignore, depending on whether our complex or neurosis blocks this developmental impulse. Drawing on history, psychology, science, and literature, Jamieson shows just how ubiquitous, and crucial, the “midlife crisis” is, and the devastating consequences for society at large if we continue to regard it as something we can, and should, avoid.

Download or read book Midlife Geographies written by Aija Lulle and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2024-09-23 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 21st century, global demographics are rapidly changing, with a higher population of middle-aged people than ever before. As the ‘sandwich’ generation, people in midlife often experience significant work and intergenerational caring responsibilities, yet they are the subject of relatively little research. This short, accessible book redresses the balance in offering a geographical approach to how people embody and claim space in midlife while analysing the influences of gender, class and location. The author considers midlife in varying sociocultural and geographical contexts, viewed through the lens of the global neoliberal shift.

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Happiness Quality of Life and Subjective Wellbeing written by Hilke Brockmann and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive Encyclopedia delves into the underpinnings, approaches, and recent advancements in the dynamic global landscape of happiness and wellbeing research. Laying out the foundational concepts and disciplinary perspectives in the field, international leading and diverse authors survey the determinants and mechanisms which are associated with happiness, quality of life and subjective wellbeing. This title contains one or more Open Access entries.

Download or read book Listening to Midlife written by Mark Gerzon and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1996-03-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on interviews with a wide variety of men and women and research on the literature of adult development, Mark Gerzon answers the question, "Is it possible that human beings experience a profound metamorphosis in midlife?" with a resounding "yes."

Download or read book Life Reimagined written by Barbara Bradley Hagerty and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Barbara Bradley Hagerty is a wise and engaging guide through the possibilities…of middle age.” —Daniel H. Pink, author of To Sell Is Human and Drive A dynamic and inspiring exploration of the new science that is redrawing the future for people in their forties, fifties, and sixties for the better—and for good. There’s no such thing as an inevitable midlife crisis, Barbara Bradley Hagerty writes in this provocative, hopeful book. It’s a myth, an illusion. New scientific research explodes the fable that midlife is a time when things start to go downhill for everybody. In fact, midlife can be a great new adventure, when you can embrace fresh possibilities, purposes, and pleasures. In Life Reimagined, Hagerty explains that midlife is about renewal: It’s the time to renegotiate your purpose, refocus your relationships, and transform the way you think about the world and yourself. Drawing from emerging information in neurology, psychology, biology, genetics, and sociology—as well as her own story of midlife transformation—Hagerty redraws the map for people in midlife and plots a new course forward in understanding our health, our relationships, even our futures.

Download or read book Not Too Late written by Gwendolyn Bounds and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning journalist tells the inspiring story of her unlikely midlife journey to master the daunting sport of obstacle course racing—a powerful, science-based account of the change possible at any age when we push limits. “This story of personal transformation is thrilling.”—Gretchen Rubin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project and Life in Five Senses In her midforties, Gwendolyn Bounds attended a dinner party where someone asked a little girl: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” It struck Bounds: In middle age, no one asks you that anymore. So she put the question to herself. The answer set her on an unexpected five-year path of transformation from an unathletic office executive glued to her screens to an age-group medalist and world championship competitor in obstacle course racing—a demanding military-style sport requiring speed, endurance, mobility, and strength. In Not Too Late, Bounds explores how tackling something new and hard upended her expectations for middle age—while also helping her reconcile regrets of her youth. Her story takes us from playgrounds and gyms, where Bounds relearns childhood movements (swinging from monkey bars, climbing a rope); to far-flung Spartan Race courses, where she strives to master running in difficult terrain and to conquer challenges such as scaling tall walls, crawling under barbed wire, and carrying heavy loads of rocks up mountains. Bounds’s journey offers inspiration and a road map for anyone craving more out of life. Woven through Not Too Late are insights from scientists, longevity doctors, philosophers, elite athletes, and performance experts on how to reimagine our limits and who we think we are. Through Bounds’s story, as she changes her body and mindset, we learn about humans’ capacity to tap inner reserves, face fears, locate intrinsic motivation, and push boundaries at any life stage. Ultimately, one message prevails: When unleashing our full potential, age can be a secret weapon.

Download or read book Hidden Blessings written by Jett Psaris and published by . This book was released on 2017-03 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** Winner - Personal Growth Category - 2017 National Indie Excellence Award ** Winner - Spiritual Self Help Category - 2017 Independent Press Award At Midlife Your Story is Only Half Told... Many people "die" in their 50s and just aren't buried until their 80s. That's because they did not take the full journey available to them at midlife. The whole point of midlife is to allow - even force - a re-evaluation of who you are and the life you have created, giving you your very best chance to discover, realize, and actualize your deepest spiritual nature in everyday life.

Download or read book Hidden Blessings written by Jett Psaris and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Midlife Your Story is Only Half Told. Many people "die" in their 50s and just aren't buried until their 80s. That's because they did not take the full journey available to them at midlife. The whole point of midlife is to allow - even force - a re-evaluation of who you are and the life you have created, giving you your very best chance to discover, realize, and actualize your deepest spiritual nature in everyday life.

Download or read book A Midlife CatAstrophe written by Morgana Best and published by Best Cosy Books. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Nell Darling moves to a small Aussie mountain town after a messy divorce, she decides her life will be purrfect. But life has decided to be no such thing. Nell discovers a body, buys a mysterious bookstore, and starts to suspect she is losing her mind--all because a local cat begins stopping by for a chat. Yet Nell has no time to paws and reflect. Soon she is chasing her tail to solve the murder. Hot on her heels is the dreamy Detective Caspian Cole, who seems to think Nell is mad fur real. But it doesn't matter what Detective Cole thinks, because Nell is about to discover that menopause doesn't mean her life is put on pause. In fact, menopause is a sign that Nell's has finally begun. Litter-ally a fun read for women who are coming into their power! A Midlife CatAstrophe is Book 2 in the MenoPaws Mysteries paranormal cozy mystery series from USA Today Bestselling author, Morgana Best.

Download or read book Midlife Hexes and Familiar Exes A Sexy Why Choose Fated Mates Reverse Age Gap Paranormal Romance written by Jennifer L. Hart and published by Elements Unleashed. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy this steamy older witch to younger shifters why choose paranormal women's fiction romance novel by USA Today bestselling author Jennifer L. Hart! Happily ever afters guarenteed! Bubble bubble, she’s stirring up trouble... New witch Samantha Sinclair is in over her head. There isn't a healer alive who can teach her how to use her magical gifts. When she unearths an ancient grimoire that belonged to a magical practitioner from the lost colony at Roanoke, she decides not to look gift cougars in the mouth. But the more she reads, the more Sam realizes that the similarities between herself and the long-dead healer aren't mere coincidence. It's like she's reading about her life. One son who became alpha shifter. Check. Two dominant shifters vying to be her fated mate? Check. A lost community never to be heard from again? Uh oh. Can Sam change course before history repeats itself? Or is her new home already slated for annihilation? Midlife Hexes and Familiar Exes is the enchanting second book in the Cougars and Cauldrons paranormal women midlife fiction series. If you like second chance romance, compelling characters, and magic after fifty stories, then you’ll love Jennifer L. Hart’s journey of transformation. Buy Midlife Hexes and Familiar Exes and conjure a cauldron of fun today! Fans of the following authors are known to enjoy this later-in-life sizzling pwf romance series: K.F. Breene, Shannon Mayer, and Robyn Peterman.

Download or read book Verification and Validation of Complex Systems Human Factors Issues written by John A. Wise and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its increasing importance, the verification and validation of the human-machine interface is perhaps the most overlooked aspect of system development. Although much has been written about the design and developmentprocess, very little organized information is available on how to verifyand validate highly complex and highly coupled dynamic systems. Inability toevaluate such systems adequately may become the limiting factor in our ability to employ systems that our technology and knowledge allow us to design. This volume, based on a NATO Advanced Science Institute held in 1992, is designed to provide guidance for the verification and validation of all highly complex and coupled systems. Air traffic control isused an an example to ensure that the theory is described in terms that will allow its implementation, but the results can be applied to all complex and coupled systems. The volume presents the knowledge and theory ina format that will allow readers from a wide variety of backgrounds to apply it to the systems for which they are responsible. The emphasis is on domains where significant advances have been made in the methods of identifying potential problems and in new testing methods and tools. Also emphasized are techniques to identify the assumptions on which a system is built and to spot their weaknesses.

Download or read book Staked in the Midlife written by Lia Davis and published by The Phantom Pen`. This book was released on with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vampire. Bounty Hunter. Middle-aged babe. Maybe? Now that Hailey is solidly settled in Philadelphia and her new vampire life, she's setting roots, tracking down criminals, and taking names. Things have happened so fast starting the moment she moved into her new home. But she's not one to sit on her duff and let life pass her by. Even an undead life. With her best friend, new friends, and her Mr. Buttinski Brother, Hailey is ready to take on the world and deal with what life has given her, one night at a time. But she didn't bargain for taking on the vampire elder council. Yeesh. This may be a little more than she can chew... er, suck. Bite? Somehow, Hailey must pass their challenges and survive the next bit of shocking news coming her way. Something a certain vampire maker is going to drop in her lap during the big trial with the elders. She's going to make it work and get herself and Jax out of this mess. These elders got nothing on Hailey Whitfield.

Download or read book Ready Made Book Displays written by Nancy M. Henkel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing more than 50 fiction display descriptions, this book identifies themes for the entire year and includes titles for signage, annotated book lists, prop and material ideas, as well as photographs that show how to pull it all together. Proper library merchandising doesn't have to be prohibitively expensive, time-consuming, or constitute a huge headache. Ready-Made Book Displays explains the principles behind effective displays and presents a wide variety of ready-made book displays that can be easily replicated, providing catchy titles, materials and props lists, reproducible hand-outs, and photographs to guide librarians in quickly assembling successful displays. These display ideas can be utilized in several different venues—in-shelf, point-of-checkout, display case, and others—and can be targeted to coincide with events, holidays, and celebrations, as well as for general book promotion. Each of the 55 fiction displays includes a prop idea list, a related Dewey subject list, media tie-ins, and an annotated and reproducible booklist. It's everything the busy librarian needs to create appealing, successful book displays—all contained in one handy guidebook.

Download or read book Midlife Eating Disorders written by Cynthia M. Bulik, Ph.D. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In most people's minds, "eating disorder" (ED) conjures images of a thin, white, upper-middle-class teenage girl. The ED landscape has changed. Countless men and women in midlife and beyond, from all ethnic backgrounds, also struggle with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, purging disorder, and binge eating disorder. Some people have suffered since youth; others relapsed in midlife, often after a stressor such as infidelity, divorce, death of a loved one, menopause, or unemployment. Still others experience eating disorder symptoms for the first time in midlife. Primary care physicians, ob-gyns, and other practitioners may overlook these disorders in adults or, even worse, demean them for not having outgrown these adolescent problems. Treatments for adults must acknowledge and address the unique challenges faced by those middle-aged or older. Midlife Eating Disorders-a landmark book-guides adults in understanding "Why me?" and "Why now?" It shows a connection between the rise in midlife ED and certain industries that foster discontent with the natural aging process. It also gives readers renewed hope by explaining how to overcome symptoms and access resources and support. Renowned eating disorder specialist Cynthia M. Bulik, Ph.D., helps partners and family members develop compassion for those who suffer with ED-and helps health professionals appreciate the nuances associated with detecting and treating midlife eating disorders.

Download or read book Midlife Healing and Hijinx A Sexy Why Choose Fated Mates Reverse Age Gap Paranormal Romance Novel written by Jennifer L. Hart and published by Elements Unleashed. This book was released on 2024-04-12 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy this steamy older witch to younger shifter and younger shifter supernatural steamy story by USA Today bestselling author Jennifer L. Hart! Happily ever after guarenteed! An accident leads to the threat of exposure. Some secrets can be deadly. When a celebrity gets injured at the bed and breakfast where Samantha Sinclair works, she responds instinctively and heals the wounded party. When her magic is captured on video word of the healer’s retreat on the Outer Banks spreads. Health-seeking tourists flock to the B&B, ruining the tranquil vibe of the community for aging witches and shifters. Sam can’t heal all of them without becoming overwhelmed. But the white witch has put more in danger than their peace of mind. A deadly assassin has awakened. His only job is to keep magic a secret from the mortal world by punishing the one who exposed the magical community. Can Sam and her cougars find a way out of this mess? Or will one act of mercy cost them everything? Midlife Healing and Hijinx is the fifth installment in the Cougars and Cauldrons paranormal women’s fiction series. If you like sexy why-choose romance, midlife magic, and pulse-pounding supernatural stories, you don’t want to miss Jennifer L. Hart’s spellbinding tale.Buy Midlife Healing and Hijinx and escape the daily grind today! Fans of the following authors are known to enjoy this sizzling reverse harem pwf romance series: K.F. Breene, Shannon Mayer, and Robyn Peterman.

Download or read book Bitten in the Midlife written by Lia Davis and published by The Phantom Pen. This book was released on with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailey Whitfield can’t take anymore run-ins with her ex. It’s time for a big change. She’s never considered moving away, but it’s her best plan yet. Bonus – her bestie lives next door! However, her new neighbor is… weird, to say the least. Extremely hot, but odd. So are his friends. But Hailey will take strange neighbors over facing her lying, cheat, deadbeat ex-fiancé all day, any day. Finding a job in a new town is more challenging than she realizes. With her savings depleted from the move, Hailey has to suck it up and take what she gets. After taking a job as a private nurse for an injured bounty hunter, things start to look up. Then a skip falls into her lap. Okay, sure. She was being nosy and reading an incoming fax intended for her patient. But with a little encouragement, Hailey takes on the task of tracking down the skip. It’s easy money. Right? Wrong. This skip is far more than Hailey bargained for. And her life is about to change in a very bloody and pointy kind of way. What a bite in the… Well, you know. With the help of her witchy best friend and her new, very pale neighbor, Hailey is going to collect her bounty. Or die trying. Fanged After Forty is a new witty spin-off from the bestselling series Witching After Forty by international bestselling authors Lia Davis and L.A. Boruff.

Download or read book Magic After Midlife Collection Books 1 3 A Humorous Paranormal Women s Fiction written by Deborah Wilde and published by Te Da Media Inc.. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 973 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring a slow burn shifter romance and intelligent snark, this clever mix of urban fantasy and mystery will take you on a wild ride. Miriam Feldman is ditching her shapewear and letting her magic fly free. When Miri­ was a teen, her parents were murdered by magic assassins. These days, her aggressively normal existence has excellent medical insurance and won’t get her daughter killed. But when her bestie, her ride or die, gets tangled up with some vampires and goes missing, Miriam unleashes the rare and powerful shadow magic she’s kept hidden. It’s heady, liberating—and totally dangerous. Now in a race against time to save her friend, this single mom is descending into the spiderweb of the secret supernatural community where not knowing the rules is a fast-track to a painful end. Her guide? A grumpy French wolf shifter with a particular set of skills, the drive to protect Miri at all costs, and the infuriating habit of constantly disagreeing with her. He may mock her To-Do lists, but he’s learned firsthand that her shadow magic packs a hell of a punch. The tricky thing about shadows, though, is the past casts a long one, and if Miri isn’t careful, those magic assassins will come back for the one who got away­­­—­and she’ll lose everything. Fans of Jana DeLeon, Robyn Peterman, and KF Breene, will adore Miri, a smart older heroine with zero effs left to give! Includes the titles: Throwing Shade Made in the Shade A Shade Too Far Get reading now!