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Losing It : In Which an Aging Professor Laments His Shrinking Brain...

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (337 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300178371
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Losing ItDDC classification:
  • 305.26092
LOC classification:
  • HQ1061 -- .M534 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Striking Out -- PART I: THE HORROR -- 1 The You behind Your Eyes Is Out of Date -- 2 Can You Recall What You Had for Dinner, Cronus? -- 3 Shrink Wrap -- 4 Old Views of Old Age -- PART II: WISDOM -- 5 Older, Yes, but Wiser? -- 6 The Dark Side of Wisdom -- PART III: COMPLAINING -- 7 Homo Querelus (Man the Complainer) -- 8 Old Saints, Old Killers, and More Complaints -- 9 Complaining against the Most High -- PART IV: RETIREMENT, REVENGE, AND TAKING IT WITH YOU -- 10 Giving Up Smoting for Good -- 11 Paralysis of the Spirit -- 12 Yes, You Can Take It with You -- PART V: SENTIMENTS -- 13 Owing the Dead -- 14 Going Soft -- 15 Little Things -- or, What If ? -- 16 Defying Augury -- 17 Frankly, I Do Give a Damn -- PART VI: REDEMPTION FROM THE PASTURE? -- 18 Going through All These Things Twice -- 19 Do Not Go Gentle: A Valediction -- Addendum: "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Striking Out -- PART I: THE HORROR -- 1 The You behind Your Eyes Is Out of Date -- 2 Can You Recall What You Had for Dinner, Cronus? -- 3 Shrink Wrap -- 4 Old Views of Old Age -- PART II: WISDOM -- 5 Older, Yes, but Wiser? -- 6 The Dark Side of Wisdom -- PART III: COMPLAINING -- 7 Homo Querelus (Man the Complainer) -- 8 Old Saints, Old Killers, and More Complaints -- 9 Complaining against the Most High -- PART IV: RETIREMENT, REVENGE, AND TAKING IT WITH YOU -- 10 Giving Up Smoting for Good -- 11 Paralysis of the Spirit -- 12 Yes, You Can Take It with You -- PART V: SENTIMENTS -- 13 Owing the Dead -- 14 Going Soft -- 15 Little Things -- or, What If ? -- 16 Defying Augury -- 17 Frankly, I Do Give a Damn -- PART VI: REDEMPTION FROM THE PASTURE? -- 18 Going through All These Things Twice -- 19 Do Not Go Gentle: A Valediction -- Addendum: "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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