East Asian societies are changing fast and one of the most important aspects of societal change is the aging of society. Active ageing is one of the few concepts available today to effectively address the problems arising from a highly-aged and...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:240
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Alan Walker
ISBN:9781847427151
This important book brings together many of the leading contributors in the field and provides a compelling manifesto for change in social justice....more details Format:Hardback Pages:320
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Alan Walker
ISBN:9781847427144
This important book brings together many of the leading contributors in the field and provides a compelling manifesto for change in social justice....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:320
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Alan Walker
ISBN:9780335215140
This book provides a comprehensive picture of quality of life in old age in five very different European Union countries. Based on systematic review of the evidence in Germany...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:312
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Alan Walker
ISBN:9780195368680
Hans von BA1/4low is a key figure in 19th century music whose career path was as broad as it was successful. Music history's first virtuoso orchestral conductor...more details Format:Hardback Pages:510
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Alan Walker
ISBN:9780674600751
On the slopes of the Nariokotome sand river in Kenya, sifting through sediments more than a million years old, Kamoya Kimeu uncovered a small piece of a skull. Piece followed piece--facial bones...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:457
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Alan Walker
ISBN:9781841811734
When things get tough, when major tragedies happen, when personal crises occur, human beings the world over have always turned to prayer. It is one of the simplest and most common spiritual practices. Most children are introduced to formal spirituality by learning to talk to God in their prayers. Through prayer we share our fears...more details Format:Paperback
Essentially a practical guide - the pack contains 20 prayer cards and a personal journal - offering suggestions about how to pray, about creating a personal prayer space and removing all distractions...more details Format:Hardback
This book provides a European dimension, examining and comparing the quality of life as experienced by older people in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands...more details Format:Paperback Pages:295
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Alan Walker
ISBN:9781445603506
Following a devastating fire in 2003, an area of moorland above
Robin Hood's Bay on the North Yorkshire coast was laid bare,
revealing a fascinating and previously unrecorded landscape...more details Format:Paperback Pages:208
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Alan Walker
ISBN:9780335215232
This book considers key findings from the "Growing Older" research programme and presents these in a lively thematic format. It discusses topics such as environment...more details Format:Paperback Pages:209
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Alan Walker
ISBN:9780335215249
Considers the key findings from the Growing Older research program and presents them in alively thematic format. It discusses essential topics such as environment...more details Format:Hardback Pages:224
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Alan Walker
ISBN:9781841812298
A personal retreat is a vacation for the spirit, when we turn away from everyday concerns to reconnect with our spiritual side. In religious traditions...more details Format:paperback Pages:128
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Franz Liszt;Alan Walker
ISBN:9780486431178
This musical interpretation of Goethe's great verse drama embodies Liszt's revolutionary approach. Brilliantly innovative and endlessly fascinating in the way its thematic materials are constantly transformed...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:210
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Alan Walker;Chack-kie Wong
ISBN:9781861345523
Eastern welfare systems have largely been neglected by Western social policy. There is very little information in the West about their operation and the differences between them. Yet...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:235
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Jane Alan Walker
ISBN:9780806351865
This volume contains narratives of the voyages of the discoverers and founders of the French empire in North America--narratives that capture the explorers' bravery...more details Format:Paperback Pages:622
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Jane Alan Walker
ISBN:9781115351119
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process...more details Format:Paperback Pages:196
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Heidrun Mollenkopf;Alan Walker
ISBN:9781402056819
This volume brings together leading researchers on quality of life in old age to focus on one of the most important issues in both gerontology and quality of life studies. Quality of life is a holistic construct and assessed from many different perspectives and by many disciplines. Moreover...more details Format:Hardback Pages:270
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Alan Walker;Franz Liszt's
ISBN:9780801443633
Muses on the phenomenon of the great composer and pianist. Liszt's musical influences and pupils are viewed against the musical and cultural life of nineteenth-century Europe....more details Format:Hardback Pages:272
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Joseph A Walker;Jane Alan Walker
ISBN:9780471534648
Combines a history of short selling with current strategies and applications to present a complete guide to this increasingly popular investment tool...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:224
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Gerhard Naegele;Alan Walker
ISBN:9780230520981
This collection offers a fascinating comparative analysis of two very different approaches to social policy on ageing. By analyzing the different foundations and systems established by Beveridge in Britain and Bismarck in Germany this book provides a well-constructed and truly comparative perspective on a range of key issues...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:304
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Alan Walker;Pat Shipman
ISBN:9780674016750
This book offers a unique insider's perspective on the unfolding discovery of a crucial link in our evolution: "Proconsul," a fossil ape named whimsically after a performing chimpanzee called Consul.
"The Ape in the Tree" is written in the voice of Alan Walker...more details Format:Hardback Pages:312
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Jane Alan Walker
ISBN:9781110324668
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process...more details Format:Paperback Pages:232
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Jane Alan Walker
ISBN:9781110324729
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:232
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Jane Alan Walker;Gerhard Walker AlanNaegele
ISBN:9780335200078
The politics of old age in Europe have entered a critical new phase. This timely collection of essays by leading authorities examines the new politics of old age from the perspectives of individual countries and the European Union as a whole. Case studies of Austria...more details Format:Paperback Pages:242
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Alan Walker;Gerhard Naegele
ISBN:9780335200085
The politics of old age in Europe have entered a critical new phase. This timely collection of essays by leading authorities examines the new politics of old age from the perspectives of individual countries and the European Union as a whole. Case studies of Austria...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:192
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Alan Walker;Pat Shipman
ISBN:9780679747833
In 1984 a team of paleoanthropologists in northern Kenya discovered the most complete skeleton to date of a classic "missing link" between apes and humans. Now team leader Alan Walker and his wife Pat Shipman tell the full story of this epochal find...more details Format:Paperback Pages:368
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Alan A Walker
ISBN:9780738515397
Founded in 1803 at the site of Ross's Landing on the Tennessee River, Chattanooga was once a small settlement centered around a trading post run by John Ross...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128