From a leading expert on longevity, an urgent call for individuals, institutions, and society to adapt to the reality of living longer lives Thanks to increases in life expectancy, we can now expect to live for a long time. Most of us would welcome an extra day in the week, so why do so many of us view the prospect of additional years with fear and skepticism? The reason is simple: society is not currently structured to support long lives. Rather than thinking in terms of the needs of a rising number of older people, we must instead support the young and middle-aged to prepare differently for the longer futures they can expect. The Longevity Imperative outlines the innovations needed to make the most of these longer lives: substantial changes to our health system, economy, and financial sector, as well as in how we manage our careers, health, finances, and relationships. Instead of seeing longevity as a problem, economist Andrew J. Scott challenges us to view it as an opportunity. This book charts a course to address the individual, social, political, economic, and cultural changes required so that all of us—regardless of age—can live lives that are not just longer but healthier, happier, and more productive.

This study takes issue with the notion of cultural relativism, a notion which translates into the proposition that all known (or knowable) cultures are co-equally worthy, valid in their own right, and need therefore to be addressed on their own terms so as to be genuinely appreciated. Accredited by the liberal school of Western cultural anthropology, the proposition is basically a moral concession, nay, a compulsion to redistributive egalitarianism within the cultural kaleidoscope that our planet has grown to be. But beyond its unctuously moral appeal, cultural relativism becomes an intellectual humbug. For it conceals the starkly conflictual dynamic to the very comparison of cultures or peoples in the first place. The dynamic is no other than the order of modernity, an order that has levered into relief, over the past four centuries, the inequality among cultures. It is mainly to help combat the propagation of said faith among Africans that I have contributed the "Agonistic Imperative". The last is a category for distinguishing among the culture complexes that make up the field of modernity. Underlying it is the idea of self-transcending, unrelenting struggle as a property of the human mind, an idea that finds expression in the survivalist potentials of given cultures.

The Innovation Imperative: Strategies for Managing Product Models and Families by Susan Sanderson and Mustafa Uzumeri traces the new competitive challenges to the patterns appearing in product variety and change. The authors successfully illustrate these patterns through a series of case studies that help to classify and explain the growing competitive challenge of "dynamic competition." Manufacturers are being forced to respond to new and different competitive challenges. The Innovation Imperative will make you aware of the patterns in global competition and inspire you to create new strategies and management styles.

Regional planning is imperative if North America has any hope of retaining continental biodiversity. This timely collection of essays that presents new protected area theory, method, and practice reinforces this theme of regional planning. With a North American focus, these essays consider the history, ecology, policy, and planning of protected areas while raising awareness of their contribution to society. Contemporary understanding of protected areas are challenged as the book forces readers to move from a mentality of the past that saw protected areas as "fortresses," to a wider understanding of where protected areas are seen as interdependent with other landscapes in the matters of biodiversity, ecological integrity, and environmental health. Public officials in resources and environmental management, NGOs concerned with parks and protected areas, and students of tourism, environment, and planning and education will find current ideology and application in this collection of essays by scholars from Canada, the United States, and Mexico.

A pocketbook of clinical medicine based on Kumar and Clark's Clinical Medicine (and cross-referenced to it by page number). In addition to being a portable version of Kumar for everyday on the job reference, this book offers added extras including exam questions, practical procedures, a dictionary of terms, abbreviations and normal values (on inside front and back covers) and space for notes after each section. It also features: medical emergency boxes (listed at the beginning of the book); a practical procedures chapter; final exam questions and answers; differential diagnosis tables for all major diseases and symptoms; coverage of social and psychological issues; and On the Net boxes - referring the reader to major relevant Web sites for specific diseases.

This text offers a definitive and positive contribution to the significance, responsibilities and accountabilities of Australian agriculture and highlights the underpinning role of science in environmental issues.

Covers these topics: adulthood, communicating, competency and coping, gender and sex influences, generations, health, illness, and survival, interpersonal relationships, mental health and illness, paths through life, perceiving self and world, personal change and development, social and environmental influences, theoretical perspectives, and thought processes.

This fascinating text provides a comprehensive overview of human development from conception until death. The text is arranged chronologically, as most Lifespan courses are taught. It blends solid theory with clever illustrations and lively examples that hold the students? attention. Lefrancois? engaging, friendly writing style and use of humor keeps the student interested. This edition has over 500 new references for cultural timeliness, and added pedagogical features to make it accessible and technologically updated.

As managers and consumers, many people are concerned about such issues as sweatshops, global warming and discrimination in the workplace, and are struggling to integrate their beliefs into their jobs, companies and purchases. The Ethical Imperative links these personal values to business performance.