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The retirement time bomb: how to achieve financial independence in a changing world
By Gordon Pape. 2006
Financial expert Pape explains how to avoid a retirement crisis. Offers strategies for setting realistic goals that will help achieve…
financial security for retirement. Provides advice on pension plans, RRSPs, and government benefits, and includes tax-saving strategies. 2006.The new old: how the boomers are changing everything---again
By David Cravit. 2008
With the oldest Baby Boomers turning 60, there is talk about what it will mean for welfare rates or health-care…
costs, but what no one is saying is that they are not the same as the older people of any previous generation. The Boomers' simple act of refusing to age is creating a revolution - in education, employment, housing, health and beauty and, of course, sex. Offers a sneak preview of an entirely new society that is coming - a society in which getting your gold watch at the age of 65 will simply mean that the first half of your life is over. Some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. c2008.The new retirement: how it will change our future
By Sherry S Cooper. 2008
Economist Cooper provides financial advice to baby boomers contemplating their retirement. But she also draws from the latest literature in…
psychology and gerontology to offer counsel on how boomers can live the second half of their adult lives productively and in good health. c2008.The memory doctor: fun, simple techniques to improve memory & boost your brain power
By Douglas J Mason, Spencer Xavier Smith. 2005
Do you have trouble finding your keys in the morning or forget what you were looking for altogether? When you…
meet new people, do you often forget their names-as soon as they leave the room? Don't panic! Just because you can't remember doesn't mean you're losing your mind-or even your memory. It's more likely that stress and information overload are making it harder for you to get information into your head in the first place. No matter what age we are, the way we remember things is a process: understand and pay more attention to the steps of the process, and your memory will improve. 2007.The human story: where we come from and how we evolved
By Charles Lockwood. 2007
This book is a guide to man's ancestors, from the earliest hominids such as Sahelanthropus, dating back 6-7 million years,…
through to our own species, Homo sapiens. Over the past twenty years there has been an explosion of species' names in the story of human evolution, due both to new discoveries and to a growing understanding of the diversity that existed in the past. Drawing on this new information the author explains what each of the key species represents and how it contributes to our knowledge of human evolution. He describes the main sites, the individual fossils, the people and stories involved in the key discoveries and the basic facts about each species - what it looked like, how and when it lived and what it ate as well as explaining how we know all this. 2007.Avec le temps (Collection des idées & des hommes ; #8)
By Marguerite. 1980
Récit très simple qui vise à susciter ou stimuler la sympathie pour les personnes âgées. L'auteur a visité une vingtaine…
de centres d'accueil pour le troisième âge. c1980. (Collection des idées & des hommes ; 8)La jeunesse au coeur: vers une vieillesse heureuse
By Marcelle Auclair. 1970
Fire on earth: doomsday, dinosaurs, and humankind
By John R Gribbin. 1996
British science writers provide an overview on how interstellar collisions and meteoroidal impacts have shaped life on earth, beginning with…
the dinosaurs. They discuss different technologies that could be used in the future to prevent a calamitous collision between the Earth and an asteroid. 1996.L'âge dort?: pour une retraite citoyenne ((Best-sellers).)
By Jean Carette. 1999
Mûres confidences
By Robert Blondin. 2003
La révolte du 3e âge: pour en finir avec le tabou de la vieillesse
By Betty Friedan, Jacqueline Lahana. 1995
Tout l'amour du monde
By Marie Gendron. 1985
Vivre âgé sans jamais devenir vieux ou La mure saison
By Charles Cachin. 1993
Avec l'âge, nos forces diminuent, la vue baisse, la mémoire se fait plus fragile. Cependant, on peut vieillir en restant…
jeune et vivre heureux en sa "mure saison"! C'est une affaire d'énergie, de douceur et de patience envers soi, mais aussi de vigilance. L'auteur nous fait ainsi bénéficier du secret de ceux qui veulent vieillir sans jamais devenir vieux. 1993.Wonderful life: the Burgess Shale and the nature of history
By Stephen Jay Gould. 1989
The Burgess Shale is a rock formation containing the fossilized remains of a large number of marine creatures that no…
longer exist. An account of the studies, the misinterpretations and the revisions of opinion which arose from the Burgess Shale findings. 1989.The coming of age
By Simone De Beauvoir. 1972
Nearing her 60th birthday, Beauvoir displays an intense personal concern with the ways old people experience aging and questions whether…
society treats the old as human beings or as outcasts. 1972. Uniform title: Vieillesse.Quand le silence prend parole
By Jacqueline Montvic. 1988
Quand la tête vieillit: quelle place pour les personnes âgées?
By Jean, m. 1989 Vimort. 1991
Le tyrannosaure (Les sciences naturelles de Tatsu Nagata.)
By Tatsu Nagata, Dedieu. 2016
Catapulté en pleine Préhistoire, Tatsu Nagata observe le terrifiant tyrannosaure. Ce lézard géant pouvait peser jusqu'à 7 tonnes et mesurer…
12 mètres. Ce terrible prédateur, friand de chair fraîche Heureusement lorsqu'ils étaient sur terre, les hommes n'existaient pas encore ! Années M-2 et plus.Une vie en plus: la longévité, pour quoi faire?
By Joël De Rosnay. 2005
Le vieillissement
By Brian L Mishara, Robert G Riedel. 1984