Digest: reviews of books and articles

Books about retiring and retirement come in every size and shape: from inspirational 'self-help' workbooks to weighty scholarly tombs. And the number of new titles appears to grow with each passing month.

At Re-vision we started to write mini-reviews of these just so we could keep track of what was being published. What we found is that often a new book adds only one or two original ideas to the field - often very good ideas but not worth suggesting that the others read the whole book.

Since we were writing reviews for one another, we thought we might post them here.

Picture05.jpgPerhaps there is a hint of nostalgia here, too. Back in the late 1980s, Jane produced and presented the popular weekly program  Science Bookshop on ABC Radio National. She loved doing it: thinking about how a book might best be shared with a wider audience, and that is a little what we are trying to do here.

We would really appreciate feedback from you about these reviews and any suggestions from you about others we might consider.

The 'reviews' posted (starting with the most recent)  are:

Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career by Herminia Ibarra
What is unconventional about Ibarra's strategies is that she turns traditional advice about planning your next steps on its head. Just take the steps, she says. Less planning, more doing
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The Third Age: Six Principles for Growth and Renewal After Forty 
This book deals with the puzzling contradictions we have to learn to live with - for example being realistic AND optimistic about the future.
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Aged by Culture
This book is one campaign in the wider 'war' to remove ageism and age stereotypes - well, it is more than that, it is a plea that we all find value in every age and all look forward to each next age.
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Granny @ Work
First be warned that the Granny of the title really means men over 55 as well as women of that age - it is about their use of technology and that of their grandchildren: the Digital Immigrants and the Digital Natives and how they can come together
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