Product Description: In recent years, major social forces such as: ageing populations, social trends, migration patterns, and the globalization of economies, have reshaped social welfare policies and practices across the globe. Multinational corporations, NGOs, and other international organizations have begun to influence social policy at a national and local level...read more

Product Description: In 1962, George Maciunas declared Fluxus "anti art, concept art, automatism, Bruitism, brutalism, Dadaism, concretism, Lettrism, nihilism, indeterminacy--theatre, happenings, prose, poetry, philosophy, plastic arts, music, cinema, dance...read more

Product Description: ABOUT THE BOOK A silver tsunami is sweeping across Asia. In western countries, the rising tide of population aging took 100 years to alter the face of societies, but Asia is experiencing comparable changes in not much more than a quarter of a century...read more

Product Description: Enduring Questions in Gerontology provides a comprehensive perspective on the abiding issues in gerontology. Both current and future gerontologists will find this book useful in examining emerging dilemmas and creating a context for further progress in the field of aging...read more

Product Description: Is age by itself inclusive enough to make sense of changes and transitions over the life course? The Need for Theory explores how best to alloy the standard analytic techniques employed by social gerontologists to provide a more effective, nuanced, and insightful view of the assumptive realities thought to characterize the later years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Born of necessity in 1961, fathered by George Maciunas and mothered by the rejection of high art and commerical values, the anti-art Fluxus movement is here recorded with encyclopedic thoroughness. With historical essays by Fluxus artists including George Brecht, Robert Filliou, Dick Higgins, Allan Kaprow, Per Kirkeby, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, and Maciunas, and critical passages by Arthur Danto, Joan Rothfuss, and others, this book questions what it asks, in true Fluxus fashion...read more

A fully illustrated retrospective look at the long and influential career of a challenging avant-garde artist reviews forty years of Ono's work, including films, music, and Conceptual art, and includes thought-provoking essays from respected scholars and a music CD. (view table of contents)

Product Description: In this volume, K. Warner Schaie and Jon Hendricks examine age-related changes and their impact upon the concept of self, as we grow older. The self-concept is central to our sense of well being, life satisfaction, and how we perceive our quality of life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "Fluxus" is an enigma. Can it be called an art movement? Or does it defy categorization? Associated with artists such as Joseph Beus and George Brecht," Fluxus" was founded in 1961 by George Maciunas, a New York design student who was involved with the group until his death in 1978...read more

Product Description: Robert Butler's call for life reviews has exerted a key influence on the way gerontologists have looked at reminiscence and remembering. Widely thought to be a helpful mechanism for integrating past and future, the process of life review needs better specification and evaluation based on sound research...read more

Product Description: The debate over national health insurance has renewed attention on the health and health care utilization of the elderly. Few questions have been more poignant than the health of the United States' elderly. As a broad-ranging critical look, Health and Health Care Utilization in Later Life brings the central questions facing the elderly into bold relief...read more

Product Description: ...translating the symposium into a set of documents that would enrich the gerontological literature... Devoted to the description of The Georgia Centenarian Study, an interdisciplinary study of the "oldest-old," conducted by the University of Georgia and the Medical College of Georgia...read more

Product Description: Sex is easy; it is a biological characteristic based on one's chromosomes. Two X's or one: that is the question. The question of gender and its effects on aging, now that is a bit more difficult. Gender is the public or societal meaning of one's chromosomes...read more

Product Description: Fluxus was an art movement of the 1960s and 70s that set out to abolish the canonized art idioms of the day. Pioneers of Conceptual Art and Minimalism, the Fluxus artists were known for their environments, performance art and mass-producible objects...read more

Product Description: How does aging affect the interaction between people and their social environment? This intriguing book examines that question from various perspectives, exploring in detail the social and psychological dimensions of the aging process...read more