9781416572893-1416572899-In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age

In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age

ISBN-13: 9781416572893
ISBN-10: 1416572899
Edition: First Edition
Author: Patricia Cohen
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: Scribner
Format: Hardcover 320 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781416572893
ISBN-10: 1416572899
Edition: First Edition
Author: Patricia Cohen
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: Scribner
Format: Hardcover 320 pages

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In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age (ISBN-13: 9781416572893 and ISBN-10: 1416572899), written by authors Patricia Cohen, was published by Scribner in 2012. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.59.

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From the New York Times reporter whose beat is culture and ideas comes a fascinating, revelatory, and timely social history of the concept of middle age. For the first time ever, the middle-aged make up the biggest, richest, and most influential segment of the country, yet the history of middle age has remained largely untold. This important and immensely readable book finally fills the gap. In Our Prime is a biography of the idea of middle age from its invention in the late nineteenth century to its current place at the center of American society, where it shapes the way we view our families, our professional obligations, and our inner lives. Patricia Cohen ranges over the entire landscape of midlife, exploring how its biological, psychological, and social definitions have shifted from one generation to the next. Middle age has been a symbol both of decline and of power and wealth. Explaining why, Cohen takes readers from early-twentieth-century factories that refused to hire middle-aged men to twenty-first-century high-tech laboratories where researchers are currently conducting cutting-edge experiments on the middle-aged brain and body.

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