Fifty year olds fear what sixty-five will look like, while thirty year olds dread fifty, and twenty year olds thirty. The fears of aging are like one long cascading domino effect of the fears of aging. And there is something to worry about, though it isn't what you'd expect: research shows that having a bad attitude toward aging when we're young is associated with poorer health when we're older. But many eighty year olds would tell people old age is better than they think. In fact, worries tend to peak in midlife, according to the "U-Bend" studies (so-called because the pattern of well-being throughout the lifespan resembles a "U") that show that the older we get, the greater our sense of well-being. In the words of philosopher William May, we learn to "travel light." Over the course of a lifetime of crises and accomplishments, we learn who we are and what our character strengths and virtues are. And we discover we may actually like ourselves. Here, Jimmie Holland and Mindy Greenstein explore positive aging and the role of character strengths and virtues along the way. They touch on compassion, empathy, kindness, justice, beauty, optimism, and hope in the context of community, experience, and culture. They go on to explore self-control, humor, courage, and wisdom, and what elderly people can teach the young. Lighter as We Go-a joint venture by an eighty-five year old and a fifty year old-explores what it means to travel light, and the fascinating process of getting there.

Meet the hardest men from a country where the streets are the most dangerous and the gangsters and criminals are the scariest in Britain. These faces have seen it all: the guns, the knives, the fights and the toughest prisons. This book will take you deep inside the rough, mad, bad, drug-infested, cut-throat, back-stabbing world of the Scottish prison system, bringing to light the last fifty years of infamous incidents that have taken place behind bars in some of the highest security prisons. With a frightening in-depth look at the most notorious prisons and institutions and the most daunting and fearsome of inmates, this compulsive guide covers them all from murderers to armed-robbers, a female crime clan with a family feel to it and some of the most notorious cases in Scottish criminal history.

Jimmy Holland was born into a family suffering at the hands of their drunk and abusive father. At the age of just two weeks, he was placed into care. The beginning of a life lived in a constantly changing environment of homes, authorities and institutions began. Let down and frequently abused, it wasn't long before Jimmy strayed onto the wrong side of the tracks. Before long, the mould for a problem child was set. He quickly turned from substance abuse to drug use and, in turn, to crime - his only means of an escape. An inevitable lifetime of crime faced him and he soon became associated with the ringleaders of an infamous gang responsible for prison riots and hostage taking. A heartfelt, shocking and despairing insight into life as a state-raised boy, "Lost in Care" is the heart-rending tale of a man who has lost his childhood and also lost his way.

Durante ms de veinte aos, Jimmie C. Holland ha sido una pionera en el estudio de los problemas psicolgicos que afectan tanto a pacientes con cncer como a sus allegados -de los que ella dice que los verdaderos expertos en la enfermedad. En La cara humana del cncer, Holland comparte su largo aprendizaje sobre cmo enfrentar la enfermedad y cmo ayudar a sobrellevar los sentimientos de ansiedad e incertidumbre que genera el viaje a travs del cncer. Se trata de una gua teraputica, prctica y realista, que explora el espectro de emociones que experimentan los enfermos -y sus familiares y amigos- desde el momento del diagnstico y el a menudo largo y doloroso tratamiento de la enfermedad, hasta el despus del cncer. El punto de partida del libro es que existen tantas maneras de enfrentarse a la enfermedad y tantas terapias de apoyo como personas que la padecen. Por este motivo, los autores ofrecen un amplio abanico de estrategias fsicas y psicolgicas, tanto tradicionales como alternativas, para luchar contra la depresin, la culpa, el miedo al dolor y a la ciruga, o las secuelas fsicas que sufren tanto los enfermos de cncer como los que les acompaan.