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Methods in Nucleic Acids Research

By: Gregory W. Warr,James D. Karam,Lee Chao

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Methods in Nucleic Acids Research

By: Gregory W. Warr,James D. Karam,Lee Chao

Methods in Nucleic Acids Research provides extensively referenced overviews of chapter topics, in addition to step-by-step laboratory protocols. Topics include discussions regarding the preparation and assay of antibodies against oligopeptides, RNA footprinting, gel-retardation assays for nucleic acid binding proteins, in vitro transcription and translation assays for studies of eukaryotic gene expression, human genome mapping, forensic analysis of DNA polymorphism, in situ hybridization for the detection of specific RNA, and other methods. Biochemists, molecular biologists, immunologists, cell biologists, and geneticists will find this book invaluable for their research.

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CRC Press

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0849353114

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Telling the Stories of Life through Guided Autobiography Groups

By: James E. Birren,Kathryn N. Cochran

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Telling the Stories of Life through Guided Autobiography Groups

By: James E. Birren,Kathryn N. Cochran

Telling the Stories of Life through Guided Autobiography Groups, based on James Birren's 25 years of conducting autobiography groups, discusses all the topics an organizer faces while developing a program for adults who want to recall and write down their life histories. This book is ideal for adult education programs, church groups, social workers, psychologists, gerontologists, and others who work with adults who might be interested in exploring, recording, or sharing their personal histories. It helps professionals and trained workshop leaders at community centers, senior centers, schools and other settings guide group participants in exploring major themes of their lives so that they can organize and write their stories and share them in a group with others on the same journey. This exercise is rewarding for adults of any age in a period of transition or with interest in gaining insight from their own stories. Personal development and a feeling of connection to other participants and their stories is a natural outcome of this process. This book provides background material and detailed lesson plans for those who wish to develop and lead an autobiography group. The authors explain the concept of guided autobiography, discuss the benefits to the group participants, and provide logistical information on how to plan, organize, and set up a group. An appendix provides exercises, handouts, and suggested adaptations for specific groups. The book also explains a systematic method of priming memories, including the history of family and of one's life work, the role of money, health and the body, and ideas about death. At a time when rapid change has created a widespread yearning to write down and exchange personal accounts, sharing life stories can reveal a great deal about how we have come to be the persons we are. Telling the Stories of Life through Guided Autobiography Groups shows how to organize, record, and share life experiences through a proven and effective technique.

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JHU Press

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0801877636

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9780801877636

Guiding Autobiography Groups for Older Adults

Exploring the Fabric of Life

By: James E. Birren,Donna E. Deutchman

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Exploring the Fabric of Life

By: James E. Birren,Donna E. Deutchman

Guided autobiography," write the authors, "is ideally suited to foster in the older adult a belief that his or her life is meaningful and something of which to be proud." This book helps professionals—at senior centers, community centers, and other service facilities—guide older adults and others in preparing their autobiographies. Many older adults, the authors explain, have limited social networks. Widowhood, retirement, and other "involuntary transitions" create a loss of roles, which can damage the older adult's sense of identity and self-worth. Guided autobiography can be used very effectively with such persons—to promote their general well- being, develop friendships, and create increased feelings of self-sufficiency. The book's chapters treat such topics as eliciting themes from people's lives, promoting creative thinking, facilitating group interaction, and mastering obstacles in the group process. Based on the authors' fourteen years of experience leading groups in guided autobiography, this book will be of special interest to gerontologists, psychologists, social workers, and other professionals who conduct activity programs for older people.

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JHU Press

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1421400502

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9781421400501

Telling the Stories of Life Through Guided Autobiography Groups

By: James E. Birren,Kathryn N. Cochran

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Telling the Stories of Life Through Guided Autobiography Groups

By: James E. Birren,Kathryn N. Cochran

Birren has conducted more than twenty-five years of autobiography groups, where participants recall, write, and share their life stories. He offers "how-to" tips for organizing, complementing, and understanding oral history works. He finds that the exercise is rewarding for adults entering periods of transitions, such as the elderly population, and encourages the sharing of experiences with others on the same journey.

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Taylor & Francis US

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0801866340

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Ethics and Aging

The Right to Live, the Right to Die

By: James Edward Thornton,Earl Raye Winkler

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Ethics and Aging

The Right to Live, the Right to Die

By: James Edward Thornton,Earl Raye Winkler

This book is an important and timely look at issues of ethics in aging. It reflects the complexity of these questions, but develops them in relation to a single general theme: that of the involvement of the elderly in the design of social policy and the research which affects them. Moral problems involving the elderly are many-faceted. Accurate understanding and social response demand some integration of experience, sensibility, and knowledge provided by different perspectives. Ethics and Aging incorporates viewpoints from gerontology, philosophy, law, theology, sociology, psychology, medicine, nursing, and economics.

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UBC Press

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0774844248

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Wisdom

Folk, Arcane, Practical, Religious, Philosophical, Mystical

By: James Kellenberger

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Wisdom

Folk, Arcane, Practical, Religious, Philosophical, Mystical

By: James Kellenberger

This book is an investigation of wisdom in its diverse nature and types. Wisdom may be as everyday as folk adages or as arcane as a religious parable. In one form it is highly practical, and in another it addresses what is fundamentally real. In another form it is moral wisdom, and when it is psychological wisdom it can inform wise judgment. It can be philosophical, and it can be religious. And in one form it is mystical wisdom. These types of wisdom are essentially different, even when they overlap. Often wisdom is proffered in wise sayings—such as proverbs, aphorisms, or maxims—but one form, mystical wisdom, defies articulation. In this book all these types of wisdom will be presented, drawing upon a diversity of sources, and critically examined. Offered wisdom carries in its train a number of issues, not the least of which is how to distinguish between true wisdom and pseudo-wisdom.Also it may be asked of wisdom, when it is true, whether it is true relativistically, varying with culture, or true universally. Many types of wisdom have their origin in antiquity, but can there be new forms of wisdom? Does wisdom, as contemporary philosophers have maintained, have an underlying universal nature? This book addresses these issues and others.

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Lexington Books

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1498509401

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9781498509404

Guiding Autobiography Groups for Older Adults

Exploring the Fabric of Life

By: James E. Birren,Donna E. Deutchman

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Exploring the Fabric of Life

By: James E. Birren,Donna E. Deutchman

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0801842131

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Book's by James E. Birren

Methods in Nucleic Acids Research

Methods in Nucleic Acids Research

Telling the Stories of Life through Guided Autobiography Groups

Telling the Stories of Life through Guided Autobiography Groups

Guiding Autobiography Groups for Older Adults

Guiding Autobiography Groups for Older Adults

Telling the Stories of Life Through Guided Autobiography Groups

Telling the Stories of Life Through Guided Autobiography Groups

Ethics and Aging

Ethics and Aging

Wisdom

Wisdom

Guiding Autobiography Groups for Older Adults

Guiding Autobiography Groups for Older Adults

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