The Third Age at Harvard

2021-01-07 Education

Author : Michael Shinagel
Release : 2021-01-07
Genre : Education
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Download or read book The Third Age at Harvard written by Michael Shinagel. This book was released on 2021-01-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Third Age at Harvard is the first history of the HILR, and it has the distinction of being written by the founder, Dean Michael Shinagel, who established it in 1977 and watched it evolve over the years into a Harvard institution and a national model of excellence among learning-in-retirement institutes. At his retirement in 2013, Dean Shinagel was acknowledged as “the longest-serving dean in the history of Harvard,” and in 2019, he was invited to join the HILR as a member by the current director/dean, Tess O’Toole. In writing his HILR history, Dean Shinagel had the advantage of a dual perspective, both from above as the longtime dean and from below as an active member participating in HILR study groups. The scope of his history covers the genesis of the idea for the Institute in 1976 until its move to new quarters under a new dean of continuing education and a new director/dean of the HILR in 2015. The history of the HILR is a story of the exceptional women and men whose dedication from the early years was matched by the directors who served them. From the 92 charter members in 1977, the HILR grew steadily to the 550 women and men who attend today, representing career fields in education, law, medicine, the arts, engineering, government, finance, science, business, the military, and public service. More than two out of five have Harvard affiliations through degrees, careers, spouses, or children, but the majority have undergraduate and graduate degrees from colleges and universities throughout the United States and several foreign countries. The HILR is diverse and cosmopolitan in every sense of the word, and the members are sui generis: they epitomize the motto that “learning never ends.”

Wildhood

2019-09-17 Family & Relationships

Author : Barbara Natterson-Horowitz
Release : 2019-09-17
Genre : Family & Relationships
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Download or read book Wildhood written by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz. This book was released on 2019-09-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publishers Weekly Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2019 A New York Times Editor’s Pick People Best Books Fall 2019 Chicago Tribune 28 Books You Need to Read Now Booklist’s Top Ten Sci-Tech Books of 2019 “It blew my mind to discover that teenage animals and teenage humans are so similar. Both are naive risk-takers. I loved this book!” —Temple Grandin, author of Animals Make Us Human and Animals in Translation A revelatory investigation of human and animal adolescence and young adulthood from the New York Times bestselling authors of Zoobiquity. With Wildhood, Harvard evolutionary biologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and award-winning science writer Kathryn Bowers have created an entirely new way of thinking about the crucial, vulnerable, and exhilarating phase of life between childhood and adulthood across the animal kingdom. In their critically acclaimed bestseller, Zoobiquity, the authors revealed the essential connection between human and animal health. In Wildhood, they turn the same eye-opening, species-spanning lens to adolescent young adult life. Traveling around the world and drawing from their latest research, they find that the same four universal challenges are faced by every adolescent human and animal on earth: how to be safe, how to navigate hierarchy; how to court potential mates; and how to feed oneself. Safety. Status. Sex. Self-reliance. How human and animal adolescents and young adults confront the challenges of wildhood shapes their adult destinies. Natterson-Horowitz and Bowers illuminate these core challenges through the lives of four animals in the wild: Ursula, a young king penguin; Shrink, a charismatic hyena; Salt, a matriarchal humpback whale; and Slavc, a roaming European wolf. Through their riveting stories—and those of countless others, from adventurous eagles and rambunctious high schooler to inexperienced orcas and naive young soldiers—readers get a vivid and game-changing portrait of adolescent young adults as a horizontal tribe, sharing behaviors and challenges, setbacks and triumphs. Upending our understanding of everything from risk-taking and anxiety to the origins of privilege and the nature of sexual coercion and consent, Wildhood is a profound and necessary guide to the perilous, thrilling, and universal journey to adulthood on planet earth.

What Retirees Want

2020-06-09 Business & Economics

Author : Ken Dychtwald
Release : 2020-06-09
Genre : Business & Economics
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Download or read book What Retirees Want written by Ken Dychtwald. This book was released on 2020-06-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dychtwald and Morison offer a brilliant and convincing perspective: an essential re-think of what 'aging' and 'retirement' mean today and an invitation to help mobilize the best in the tidal wave of Boomer Third Agers." —Daniel Goleman, PhD, Author, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ Throughout 99 percent of human history, life expectancy at birth was less than 18 years. Few people had a chance to age. Today, thanks to extraordinary medical, demographic, and economic shifts, most of us expect to live long lives. Consequently, the world is witnessing a powerful new version of retirement, driven by the power and needs of the Baby Boomer generation. Consumers over age 50 account for more than half of all spending and control more than 70% of our total net worth – yet are largely ignored by youth-focused marketers. How will work, family, and retirement be transformed to accommodate two billion people over the age of 60 worldwide? In the coming years, we'll see explosive business growth fueled by this unprecedented longevity revolution. What Retirees Want presents the culmination of 30 years of research by world-famous "Age Wave" expert Ken Dychtwald, Ph.D., and author and consultant Robert Morison. It explains how the aging of the Baby Boomers will forever change our lives, businesses, government programs, and the consumer marketplace. This exciting new stage of life, the "Third Age," poses daunting questions: What will "old" look like in the years ahead? With continued advances in longevity, all of the traditional life-stage markers and boundaries will need to be adjusted. What new products and services will boom as a result of this coming longevity revolution? What unconscious ageist marketing practices are hurting people – and business growth? Will the majority of elder boomers outlive their pensions and retirement savings and how can this financial disaster be prevented? What incredible new technologies of medicine, life extension, and human enhancement await us in the near future? What purposeful new roles can we create for elder boomers so that the aging nations of the Americas, Europe, and Asia capitalize on the upsides of aging? Which pioneering organizations and companies worldwide have created marketing strategies and programs that resonate with the quirky and demanding Boomer generation? In this entertaining, thought-provoking, and wide-ranging book, Dychtwald and Morison explain how individuals, businesses, non-profits, and governments can best prepare for a new era – where the needs and demands of the "Third Age" will set the lifestyle, health, social, marketplace, and political priorities of generations to come.

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

2019-01-15 Business & Economics

Author : Shoshana Zuboff
Release : 2019-01-15
Genre : Business & Economics
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Download or read book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism written by Shoshana Zuboff. This book was released on 2019-01-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior. In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in the twenty-first century just as industrial capitalism disfigured the natural world in the twentieth. Zuboff vividly brings to life the consequences as surveillance capitalism advances from Silicon Valley into every economic sector. Vast wealth and power are accumulated in ominous new "behavioral futures markets," where predictions about our behavior are bought and sold, and the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new "means of behavioral modification." The threat has shifted from a totalitarian Big Brother state to a ubiquitous digital architecture: a "Big Other" operating in the interests of surveillance capital. Here is the crucible of an unprecedented form of power marked by extreme concentrations of knowledge and free from democratic oversight. Zuboff's comprehensive and moving analysis lays bare the threats to twenty-first century society: a controlled "hive" of total connection that seduces with promises of total certainty for maximum profit -- at the expense of democracy, freedom, and our human future. With little resistance from law or society, surveillance capitalism is on the verge of dominating the social order and shaping the digital future -- if we let it.

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