A practicing physician and NIH-funded researcher draws on her research and experience to show that our unique patterns of thinking and feeling about ourselves, others and the world may be the key to how well and how fast we age.

An Oprah Editor's Pick, named as one of Globe & Mail's Best 100 Books of 2014, and one of Quill & Quire's Best Books of 2014. "Bewitching riddle of a novel." - O, the Oprah Magazine. "Baillie...

There’s something extraordinary about Thomas Langlois.Thomas is a young boy growing up in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with a French-Canadian father, Albert, and an American mother, Laura. But beyond the fact that he lives between two...

Private William Mandella is a reluctant hero in an interstellar war against an unknowable and unconquerable alien enemy. But his greatest test will be when he returns home. Relativity means that for every few months' tour of duty...

This collection of four of F. Scott Fitzgerald's most memorable short stories begins with 'The curious case of Benjamin Button,' in which the protagonist is born an old man and ages in reverse until he becomes a baby, and then finally...

In this course, Howard University professor John K. Young takes audiences through the microscope on a journey of discovery into the world of cells and tissues, where a complex scheme of activity is taking place all the time, literally...

Celui qui vieillit entend à la fois ses grinçantes articulations et les bruits de la société moderne. Ses souvenirs coexistent avec le flambant neuf. Il se rappelle Duplessis et vit sous des gouvernements minoritaires. Il revoit la...

'Certainly not!' says Marie Sharp, when a friend suggests she join a bookclub when she turns sixty. 'Bookclub people always seem to have to wade through Captain Corelli's Mandolin, or groan, The God of Small Things....

This book presents the Buddhist approach to facing the inevitable facts of growing older, getting sick, and dying. These tough realities are not given much attention by many people until midlife, when they become harder to avoid. Using...