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Old age -- Social aspects

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• Old age
• Social aspects

• 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)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• 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)

• 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)

• Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas: Rethinking Translocality Beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2018), ed. by Manja Stephan-Emmrich and Philipp Schröder (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Language in Our Time: Bilingual Education and Official English, Ebonics and Standard English, Immigration and the Unz Initiative (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1999; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1999), ed. by James E. Alatis and Ai-Hui Tan (PDF at Georgetown)

• Untimely Interventions: AIDS Writing, Testimonial, and the Rhetoric of Haunting (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), by Ross Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• AIDS: The Burdens of History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), ed. by Elizabeth Fee and Daniel M. Fox (HTML at UC Press)

• Personal Effects: The Social Character of Scholarly Writing (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2001), ed. by Deborah H. Holdstein and David Bleich (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• The Revolution Will Be Improvised: The Intimacy of Cultural Activism, by Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Heritage, Tourism, and Race: The Other Side of Leisure (New York and London: Routledge, c2020), by Antoinette T. Jackson (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Aging in the Social Space (Białystok-Kraków: Association of Social Gerontologists, 2015), by Łukasz Tomczyk and Andrzej Klimczuk
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at SSOAR

• Social, Economic, and Institutional Aspects of Agro-Forestry (c1984), ed. by J. K. Jackson (HTML at UNU)

• The Violence of the Letter: Toward a Theory of Writing (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Melanie McMahon (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine: One Health and Its Histories (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, c2018), by Abigail Woods, Michael Bresalier, Angela Cassidy, and Rachel Mason Dentinger (PDF and Epub with commentary at Springer)

• How to Make a Human: Animals and Violence in the Middle Ages (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Karl Steel (PDF at Ohio State)

• Writing Signs: The Fatimid Public Text, by Irene A. Bierman (HTML at UC Press)

• Digital Archives and Collections: Creating Online Access to Cultural Heritage (Anthropology of Media v11; New York and Oxford: Berghahn, c2021), by Katja Müller (PDF and EPub with commentary at Berghahn Books)

• Towards a New Enlightenment? A Transcendent Decade (Madrid: BBVA, c2018), contrib. by Francisco González Rodríguez, Martin J. Rees, José M. Sánchez Ron, María Martinón-Torres, Alex Pentland, Sandeep Tiwari, Joanna J. Bryson, Ramon López de Mántaras, José M. Mato, Daniela Rus, Samuel H. Sternberg, Peter Kalmus, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, Victoria Robinson, Barry J. Eichengreen, Michelle Baddeley, Nancy H. Chau, S. M. Ravi Kanbur, Vivien Ann Schmidt, Diana Marie Owen, Yang Xu, Carlo Ratti, and Amos N. Guiora (multiple formats with commentary at bbvaopenmind.com)
• Artificial Communication: How Algorithms Produce Social Intelligence (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2022), by Elena Esposito (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• The Amazing Journey of Reason: From DNA to Artificial Intelligence (Cham: Springer, c2020), by Mario Alemi (PDF and Epub with commentary at Springer)
• The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its Role in Society (2018), by Microsoft Corporation (PDF with commentary at microsoft.com)

• The Impact of Space Activities Upon Society (2005), by International Academy of Astronautics and European Space Agency (PDF at esa.int)

• Re-Awakening Languages: Theory and Practice in the Revitalisation of Australia's Indigenous Languages (Sydney: Sydney University Press, c2010), ed. by John Robert Hobson, Kevin Lowe, Susan Poetsch, and Michael Walsh (HTML and PDF with commentary at Sydney University Press)

• Social Rule: A Study of the Will to Power (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's sons, 1916), by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality (open access edition; New York and London: Routledge, 2022), by Zachary J. McDowell and Matthew A. Vetter (PDF files at taylorfrancis.com)

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