"Full Moon at Noontide is the story of Ann Putnam’s mother and father and her father’s identical twin, and how they lived together with their courage and their stumblings, as they made their way into old age and then into death. It’s the story of the journey from one twin’s death to the other, of what happened along the way, of what it means to lose the other who is also oneself. And it’s the story of how Ann Putnam herself struggled to ..."
Old Man Country(1st Edition) My Search for Meaning Among the Elders by ThomasR. Cole Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 2019 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-068998-8, ISBN: 0-19-068998-6
"We aspire to live in a country where old men are celebrated as vital elders but not demeaned if they become ill and dependent. We aspire to maintain health as well as maintain dignity and fulfillment in frailty. Old Man Country helps readers see and imagine these possibilities for themselves. The book follows the journey of a writer in search of wisdom, as he encounters twelve distinguished American men over 80 -- including Paul Volcker ..."
"A critical gerontology requires more than a simple elaboration of existing humanistic scholarship on aging. This exceptional new work introduces a basis for genuine dialogue across humanistic, scientific, and professional disciplines. Among the topics addressed are industrial employment, retirement, life styles of older women, and biological research. From philosophical reflections on the “third age” to critical perspectives on insti ..."
The Journey of Life(Updated) A Cultural History of Aging in America (Canto original series) by ThomasR. Cole Paperback, 298 Pages, Published 1997 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-59579-7, ISBN: 0-521-59579-7
"The Journey of Life is both a cultural history of aging and a contribution to public dialogues about the meaning and significance of later life. The core of the book shows how central texts and images of Northern middle-class culture, first in Europe and then in America, created and sustained specifically modern images of the life course between the Reformation and World War I. During this long period, secular, scientific, and individua ..."
No Color Is My Kind(Updated) The Life of Eldrewey Stearns and the Integration of Houston by ThomasR. Cole Paperback, 285 Pages, Published 1997 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-0-292-71198-3, ISBN: 0-292-71198-0
"No Color Is My Kind is an uncommon chronicle of identity, fate, and compassion as two men—one Jewish and one African American—set out to rediscover a life lost to manic depression and alcoholism. In 1984, Thomas Cole discovered Eldrewey Stearns in a Galveston psychiatric hospital. Stearns, a fifty-two-year-old black man, complained that although he felt very important, no one understood him. Over the course of the next decade, Cole ..."
"Most of us today can expect to live into our seventies in reasonably good health. (In fact, the fastest growing segment of the population is the group eighty-five and older.) Yet our culture offers few convincing ways to help us find purpose in our later years. The ancient and medieval vision of aging as a mysterious part of the eternal order of things has given way to the secular, scientific, and individualistic outlook of modernity. N ..."
The Journey of Life A Cultural History of Aging in America by ThomasR. Cole Paperback, 300 Pages, Published 1992 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-44765-2, ISBN: 0-521-44765-8
"The Journey of Life is both a cultural history of aging and a contribution to public dialogue about the meaning and significance of later life. The core of the book shows how central texts and images of Northern middle-class culture, first in Europe and then in America, created and sustained specifically modern images of the life course between the Reformation and World War I. During this long period, secular, scientific and individuali ..."
The Journey of Life A Cultural History of Aging in America by ThomasR. Cole Hardcover, 295 Pages, Published 1991 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-41020-5, ISBN: 0-521-41020-7
What Does It Mean to Grow Old?(Updated) Reflections from the Humanities by ThomasR. Cole, Sally Gadow Paperback, 316 Pages, Published 1987 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-0817-1, ISBN: 0-8223-0817-7
"Editor's Introduction. In his wide-ranging philosophical essay, Harry R. Moody
reminds us that timeless questions ("The Meaning of Life and the Meaning of Old
Age") do not have timeless answers. All thought is historically conditioned — that
is, related to changing structures of power and patterns of culture. This insight
encourages Moody to analyze contemporary philosophical discussions of
meaning in light of our modern "therapeut ..."
"In What Does It Mean to Grow Old? essayists come to grips as best they can with the phenomenon of an America that is about to become the Old Country. They have been drawn from every relevant discipline--gerontology, social medicine, politics, health, anthropology, ethics, law--and asked to speak their mind. Most of them write extremely well [and their] sharply individual voices are heard."
"Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork."
"This textbook brings the humanities to students in order to evoke the humanity of students. It helps to form individuals who take charge of their own minds, who are free from narrow and unreflective forms of thought, and who act compassionately in their public and professional worlds. Using concepts and methods of the humanities, the book addresses undergraduate and premed students, medical students, and students in other health profess ..."
"This textbook brings the humanities to students in order to evoke the humanity of students. It helps to form individuals who take charge of their own minds, who are free from narrow and unreflective forms of thought, and who act compassionately in their public and professional worlds. Using concepts and methods of the humanities, the book addresses undergraduate and premed students, medical students, and students in other health profess ..."
"Teaching Health Humanities expands our understanding of the burgeoning field of health humanities and of what it aspires to be. The volume's contributors describe their different degree programs, the politics and perspectives that inform their teaching, and methods for incorporating newer digital and multimodal technologies into teaching practices. Each chapter lays out theories that guide contributors' pedagogy, describes its applicati ..."
Justification An Introduction (Short Studies in Systematic Theology) by ThomasR. Schreiner Paperback, Published 2023 by Crossway Books ISBN-13: 978-1-4335-7573-0, ISBN: 1-4335-7573-6
"Edwidge Danticat, “Not Your Homeland,” The Nation, September 8, 2005,
accessed October 30, 2012, https://www.thenation.com/article/not-your-homeland
/. 27. ... Renee H. Shea, “The Dangerous Job of Edwidge Danticat: An Interview,”
Callaloo 19, no. ... Danticat, Brother, I'm Dying. ... Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans,
2008."
"This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work ..."
"This ground-breaking new volume is the first of its kind to conceptualize and study the emerging field of faculty health and well-being in academic health science centers across North America. In Faculty Health and Academic Medicine: Physicians, Scientists, and the Pressures of Success, scholars already published in areas related to faculty health, as well as those primed to break new ground, have created a volume that will help define ..."
No Color Is My Kind The Life of Eldrewey Stearns and the Integration of Houston by ThomasR. Cole 285 Pages, Published 2012 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-0-292-74367-0, ISBN: 0-292-74367-X
"they walked toward Weingartens, four more students joined the march, raising
their number to seventeen: Holly Hogrobrooks, Ted Hogrobrooks, Eddie Rigsby,
Jessie Purvis, Eldrewey Stearns, Charles Lee, Earl Allen, Curtis Graves, John
Hutchins, Clarence Coleman, Deanna Lott, Guy Boudois, Roger Ash, Bernice
Washington, Jimmy Lofton, Harold Stovall, and Pat Patterson. Stearns left the
group to phone the white press and police. Roger Ash ..."