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• How Healthy Are We? A National Study of Well-Being at Midlife (2004), ed. by Orville Gilbert Brim, Carol D. Ryff, and Ronald C. Kessler (PDF files at Wisconsin)

• Hear Him Roar (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2005), by Andrew Wingfield
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Dangerous Age: Letters and Fragments from a Woman's Diary (New York: John Lane Company, 1911), by Karin Michaëlis, contrib. by Marcel Prévost
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Professor's House (1925), by Willa Cather (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)

• The Occupations of a Retired Life (New York: G. Routledge and Sons, 1868), by Isabella Fyvie Mayo (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Occupations of a Retired Life (3 volumes, published under Edward Garrett pseudonym; London: Tinsley Bros., 1868), by Isabella Fyvie Mayo
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org

• Death in Venice, by Thomas Mann, trans. by Martin C. Doege (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Der Tod in Venedig (in German; Munich: H. von Weber, 1912), by Thomas Mann (Gutenberg text)

• How Healthy Are We? A National Study of Well-Being at Midlife (2004), ed. by Orville Gilbert Brim, Carol D. Ryff, and Ronald C. Kessler (PDF files at Wisconsin)

• Young Women Past Forty: A Modern Sex and Health Primer of the Critical Years (New York: Herald Pub. Co., c1934), by Edward Podolsky (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Menopause, Hormone Therapy, and Women's Health (OTA-BP-BA-88; 1992), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• The Menopause, Hormone Therapy, and Women's Health (OTA-BP-BA-88; 1992), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Old Age: Two Discourses Upon This Theme (Bloomington, IN: S. C. Dodds and Co., 1879), by Elisha Ballantine (illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana)
• Past Meridian (New York: D. Appleton and co.; Boston: J. P. Jewett and Co., 1854), by L. H. Sigourney (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Opinions, Literary and Otherwise (New York: Macmillan, 1934), by Henry W. Taft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life at Threescore and Ten (New York, American Tract Society, c1871), by Albert Barnes
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Cure of Old Age, and Preservation of Youth (with Arrais's Arbor Vitae; London: Printed for T. Flesher and E. Evets, 1683), by Roger Bacon, trans. by Richard Browne, contrib. by Duarte Madeira Arrais
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• M. T. Cicero de Senectute et de Amicitia, Ex Editionibus Oliveti et Ernesti, Accedunt Notae Anglicae (third edition, with main text in Latin and commentary in English; Philadelphia: Perkins and Purves; Boston: B. Perkins, 1842), by Marcus Tullius Cicero, ed. by Charles K. Dillaway
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Treatises on Friendship and Old Age, by Marcus Tullius Cicero, trans. by Evelyn S. Shuckburgh (Gutenberg text)

• Ciba Foundation Colloquia on Ageing, ed. by G. E. W. Wolstenholme, Margaret P. Cameron, Elaine C. P. Millar, Cecilia M. O'Connor, and Maeve O'Connor (full serial archives)

• Aging in the Past: Demography, Society, and Old Age (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), ed. by David I. Kertzer and Peter Laslett (HTML at UC Press)

• Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2022), by Devoney Looser (PDF with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Extending Work Life: Employer Interests and Concerns (Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2016), by Robert L. Clark and Melinda S. Morrill (PDF at upjohn.org)

• What Women Need to Know About Retirement (ca. 2007), ed. by J. Lewis and C. Hounsell, contrib. by Teresa Heinz Kerry (PDF at wiserwomen.org)

• Ending Mandatory Retirement for Tenured Faculty: The Consequences for Higher Education (1991), ed. by P. Brett Hammond and Harriet P. Morgan (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Graying Teachers: A Report on State Pension Systems and School District Early Retirement Incentives (Eugene, OR: ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management, 1992), by Frank V. Auriemma, Bruce S. Cooper, and Stuart Carl Smith (PDF at Oregon)

• Ending Mandatory Retirement for Tenured Faculty: The Consequences for Higher Education (1991), ed. by P. Brett Hammond and Harriet P. Morgan (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Uncanny Subjects: Aging in Contemporary Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Amelia DeFalco (PDF at Ohio State)
• At Last, the Real Distinguished Thing: The Late Poems of Eliot, Pound, Stevens, and Williams (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1980), by Kathleen M. Woodward (PDF files at Ohio State)
• Adventures of the Spirit: The Older Woman in the Works of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), ed. by Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis (PDF at Ohio State)

• Costs and Effectiveness of Cholesterol Screening in the Elderly (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Life-Sustaining Technologies and the Elderly (OTA-BA-306; Washington: GPO, 1987), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files with commentary at Princeton

• Costs and Effectiveness of Prostate Cancer Screening in Elderly Men (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• The Aging Population in the Twenty-First Century: Statistics for Health Policy (1988), ed. by Dorothy M. Gilford (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Aging Population in the Twenty-First Century: Statistics for Health Policy (1988), ed. by Dorothy M. Gilford (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Health of Older Americans (1997), ed. by Linda G. Martin and Beth J. Soldo (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Costs and Effectiveness of Cervical Cancer Screening in Elderly Women (1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• How to Retire Without Money (New York: Castle Books, c1958), by Bob Belmont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Demography of Aging (1994), ed. by Linda G. Martin and Samuel H. Preston (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Naval Retiring Board: Speech of Hon. Sam Houston, of Texas, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 18, 1856 (Washington: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1856), by Sam Houston (page images at HathiTrust)

• Idealia, a Utopian Dream, or, Resthaven (Albany, NY: J. B. Lyon Co., c1923), by H. Alfarata Chapman Thompson, contrib. by J. W. Thompson and Melvil Dewey
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• What Women Need to Know About Retirement (ca. 2007), ed. by J. Lewis and C. Hounsell, contrib. by Teresa Heinz Kerry (PDF at wiserwomen.org)

• The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture is Reinventing Capitalism (free download requires name and email (kept private); New York et al.: Free Press, 2008), by Matt Mason (PDF with commentary at thepiratesdilemma.com)
• At Work With Young Adults (New York: Association Press, 1950), by Allen S. Ellsworth (page images at HathiTrust)

• Elinor Wyllys (with commentary), by Susan Fenimore Cooper, ed. by James Fenimore Cooper
  • volume 1: Gutenberg text
  • volume 2: Gutenberg text
• Elinor Wyllys: or, The Young Folk of Longbridge: A Tale (2 volumes; Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1846), by Susan Fenimore Cooper (HTML with commentary at James Fenimore Cooper Society)
• These Twain (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1915), by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)

• Redbook (partial serial archives)

• The Call of the Twentieth Century: An Address to Young Men (1903), by David Starr Jordan (Gutenberg text)
• Familiar Letters to Young Men on Various Subjects, by William A. Alcott (page images at MOA)
• Lectures to Young Men on Various Important Subjects (1853), by Henry Ward Beecher (searchable page images at Google)
• Lectures to Young Men on Various Important Subjects (New York: J. C. Derby, 1856), by Henry Ward Beecher (searchable page images at Google)
• Plain Words to Young Men, by Augustus Woodbury (page images at MOA)
• The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion (1860 edition), by Margaret C. Conkling (page images at MOA)
• Tempted London: Young Men (New York: A. C. Armstrong and Son, c1889) (HTML at victorianlondon.org)

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