Global Aging Aspirations Confront Cultural and Regional Realities
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Grains from Grass: Aging, Gender, and Famine in Rural Africa, by Lisa Cliggett. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2005, 193 pp., $54.95 (cloth), $19.95 (paper). Handbook of Asian Aging, edited by Hyunsook Yoon and Jon Hendricks. Baywood Publishing Company, Inc., Amityville, NY, 2006, 512 pp., $74.50 (cloth). Intergenerational Support and Old Age in Africa, by Isabella Aboderin. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, NJ, 2006, 221 pp., $39.95 (cloth). The Greying of India: Population Ageing in the Context of Asia, by Rajagopal Dhar Chakraborti. SAGE Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, 2004, 467 pp., $56.95 (cloth).
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تاریخ انتشار 2006