About this title: This book on the positive aspects of aging comes with a pretty high pedigree. It's author served as director for an extensive 50-year-plus study run by Harvard University, which followed 824 individuals from their teenage years into old age. These candidates were from three different groups: disenfranchised inner city males, Harvard professors, and women geniuses. In advancing into old age, many of the individuals who thrived were able to provide a wealth of wisdom, which Vaillant passes on in this generous book. It's an inspiring collection of life lessons, a revelation that surviving into ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780316090070ISBN:0316090077
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown
Date Published: 2002-01-09
ISBN-13:9780316989367ISBN:0316989363
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown 2002
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780316989367ISBN:0316989363
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780316090070ISBN:0316090077
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780316090070ISBN:0316090077
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 384 p. Audience: General/trade. Oversized softcover trade paperback, Fine Condition (Brand new book w/small remainder mark), Original price of $14.95 (L2). read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780316090070ISBN:0316090077
Description: New. Brand new. Just a bit of ever so slight shelf wear but it is new, crisp and unread! May have publishers remainder mark on the edge just to assure it is not returned to the store. From Publishers Weekly: This groundbreaking sociological analysis is based on three research projects that followed over 800 people from their adolescence through old age. Subjects were drawn from the Harvard Grant study of white males, the Inner City study of non-delinquent males and the Terman Women study of ... read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780316090070ISBN:0316090077
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Little Brown & Co
Date Published: 2003-01-08
ISBN-13:9780316090070ISBN:0316090077
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780316090070ISBN:0316090077
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Date Published: 2003-01-08
ISBN-13:9780316090070ISBN:0316090077
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"As any kind of a scientific study, this book has terrible blind spots and flaws. All of Vaillant's "good coping mechanisms" adhere to a watered-down brand of Northeastern male WASP values that is really irksome. But the idea of this great longitudinal study is a fabulous one, and the individual stories are quite thought-provoking. Most useful of all perhaps is Vaillant's suggestion that there are stages of adult development well into one's eighties, and that these include preservationist, localist and philanthropic impulses."
"The author teaches at Harvard, so the explanations of the research methods and analysis were, at times, a little over my head. But overall, the text was accessible, I found the discoveries fascinating...and what a great topic!"
"George E Vaillant is a medical doctor who followed a longintudinal study of three cohorts or individuals as they aged. It is full of inspiration albeit, a tad dry of a read."
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