Aging

PublicAffairs, 2008. Hardcover with DJ. First edition As New with a tiny tear to the bottom of the spine and a corresponding tear to the DJ. 608 pages; some b&w illustrations and charts; 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Pulitzer-prize winning author Butler brings his formidable knowledge and experience in aging issues to a recent and unprecedented achievement: the extension of human life expectancy by thirty years. As Butler shows, our society has not yet adapted to this change. The U.S. has not made a research investment in aging. We have not solidified private pension plans or strengthened Social Security to ensure that people do not outlive their resources. In this urgent and ultimately optimistic book, Dr. Butler shows why and how we must re-examine our personal and societal approach to aging right now. FREE SHIPPING within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging. more information

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St. Martin's Press, 2007. Hardcover with DJ. First edition As New 400 pages; 6 x 9.5 inches. Recent progress in genetic manipulations and calorie-restricted diets in laboratory animals hold forth the promise that someday science will enable us to exert total control over our own biological aging. The authors explain that the aging of the human body, just like the aging of man-made machines, results from an accumulation of various types of damage. We already know what types of damage accumulate in the human body, and we are moving rapidly toward the comprehensive development of technologies to remove that damage. By demystifying aging and its postponement for the nonspecialist reader, de Grey and Rae systematically dismantle the fatalist presumption that aging will forever defeat the efforts of medical science. FREE SHIPPING within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging. more information

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MIT Press, 2006. Hardcover with dust jacket. First edition. AS NEW. 277 pages; 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Galasso argues that the success of any retirement benefits reform proposals depends on political factors rather than economic theory. He offers a comparative analysis of the future political sustainability of social security in six countries with rapidly aging populations. He concludes that an aging population will lead to more pension spending; yet postponing retirement mitigates the impact of this, and may be the only politically viable alternative for social security reform. FREE SHIPPING within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging. more information

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Boston: Bulfinch / Little, Brown & Co., 1996. First edition. Very Good in Stiff Wraps with a bump to the foot of the spine and a short tear to the cover at that point. Edited by Philip Brookman, Jane Livington and Dena Andre. Essays by Marilyn Webb and Jane Livingston. Interviews by Philip Brookman. 170 pages; 54 color and 50 duotoned b&w plates; 9 x 11.25 inches. Out of Print. Exhibition catalog published in conjunction with the Corcoran Gallery of Art , Washington, DC. Each of the five photogaphers gets a 24 to 30 page portfolio. FREE SHIPPING within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging. more information

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Yale University Press, 2008. Hardcover with DJ. First edition AS NEW. 320 pages; 6 x 8.5 inches. Publisher's press release laid in. An obsession with perpetual youth may seem a particularly modern phenomenon, but it is a goal that western scientists and philosophers have aspired to (and worked towards) for the last four hundred years. Mortal Coil explores the medical, scientific, and philosophical theories behind the quest for the prolongation of human life. From Adam and Eve to human cloning and designer babies, from seventeenth-century lifestyle guides to science fiction, Haycock's gripping story is full of fascinating individuals, extraordinary stories and valuable insights. This is a curious, witty, and captivating exploration into our unceasing desire to live forever. FREE SHIPPING within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging. more information

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Harvard University Press, 2008. Hardcover with DJ. First edition As New. 448 pages; 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Publisher's press release laid in. Fighting disease, combating hunger, preserving the balance of life on Earth: the future of biotechnological innovation may well be the future of our planet itself. And yet the vexed state of intellectual property law--a proliferation of ever more complex rights governing research and development--is complicating this future. At a similar point in the development of information technology, "open source" software revolutionized the field, simultaneously encouraging innovation and transforming markets. The question that Janet Hope explores in Biobazaar is: can the open source approach do for biotechnology what it has done for information technology? FREE SHIPPING within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging. more information

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University of California Press, 2008. Hardcover with DJ. First edition AS NEW with a review stamp to the bottom of the text block. 288 pages; 6 x 9 inches. In Nature's Clocks, Macdougall tells how scientists who were seeking to understand the past arrived at the ingenious techniques they now use to determine the age of objects and organisms. By examining radiocarbon dating and several other techniques that geologists use to decode the distant past, Macdougall unwraps the last century's advances, explaining how they reveal the age of our fossil ancestors, the timing of the dinosaurs' extinction, and the precise ages of tiny mineral grains that date from the beginning of the earth's history. Relating these advances through the stories of the scientists themselves, Macdougall shows how they used ingenuity and inspiration to construct one of modern science's most significant accomplishments: a timescale for the earth's evolution and human prehistory. FREE SHIPPING within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging. more information

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St. Martin's Press, 2008. Hardcover with DJ. First edition AS NEW. 368 pages; 6.5 x 9.5 inches. In Futurecast, Shapiro, former U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce, looks into the future to tell us what our world will be like over the next dozen years. Though that time span seems brief, Shapiro foresees monumental changes caused by three historic new forces--globalization, the aging of societies, and the rise of America as a sole superpower with no near peer--that will determine the paths of nations and the lives of countless millions. What jobs will there be for you and your children? What will happen to your health care? How safe will you be at home or abroad? Robert Shapiro's clear-eyed Futurecast is the knowledge portfolio you need to prepare for the years to come. FREE SHIPPING within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging. more information

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University Of Chicago Press, 2001. Hardcover with DJ. First edition As New. 368 pages; 6.5 x 9.5 inches. This book explores the economic ramifications of aging. It begins by looking at the implications of private and public personal retirement plans, focusing in particular on the impact of 401(k) programs on retirement strategies in light of potential social security reform and factors such as annuitization and on asset accumulation. Next, the often-observed relationship between health and wealth is dissected from two different perspectives and correlated with striking increases in health-care spending over the past two decades. The volume concludes with an investigation of the retirement effects of various social security provisions in both U.S. and German systems. FREE SHIPPING and tracking within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging. more information

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