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W. Andrew Achenbaum, Older Americans, Vital Communities: A Bold Vision for Societal Aging, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
David Bornstein, How to Change the World, New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Po Bronson, What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question, New York: Ballantine Books, 2005.
Bob Buford, Halftime: Changing Your Game Plan from Success to Significance, Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1997.
Robert Butler, Why Survive?: Growing Old in America, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
Civic Ventures, Metlife Foundation/Civic Ventures New Face of Work study, San Francisco: Civic Ventures, 2005.
Gene Cohen, The Creative Age: Awakening Human Potential in the Second Half of Life, New York: Harper, 2001.
Gene Cohen, The Mature Mind: The Positive Power of the Aging Brain, New York: Basic Books, 2007.
Jim Collins, Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great, New York: HarperCollins, 2005.
Dave Corbett and Richard Higgins, Portfolio Life: The New Path to Work, Purpose, and Passion After 50, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006.
Sara Davidson, Leap!: What Will We Do with the Rest of Our Lives?, New York: Random House, 2007.
Ken Dychtwald and Daniel Kadlec, The Power Years: A User's Guide to the Rest of Your Life, Indianapolis: Wiley, 2006.
Ken Dychtwald, Tamara Erikson, and Robert Morison, Workforce Crisis: How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills And Talent, Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2006.
Lee Eisenberg, The Number: A Completely Different Way to Think About the Rest of Your Life, New York: Free Press, 2006.
David Ekerdt, The Busy Ethic: Moral Continuity Between Work and Retirement, Gerontologist, v26 n3 p239-44 (June 1986).
Jonathan Englert, The Collar, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
Richard Fein, The Baby Boomer's Guide to the New Workplace, Lanham, MD: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2006.
Robert Putnam, Lewis Feldstein and Donald Cohen, Better Together: Restoring the American Community, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.
Robert William Fogel, The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism, Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2002.
Ellen Freudenheim, Looking Forward: An Optimist's Guide to Retirement, New York: Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 2004.
David Galenson, Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.
John Gardner, Self-Renewal: The Individual and the Innovative Society, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995.
Laura Gassner Otting, Change Your Career: Transitioning to the Nonprofit Sector, New York: Kaplan Publishing, 2007.
Steve Gillon, Boomer Nation: The Largest and Richest Generation Ever, and How It Changed America, New York: Free Press, 2004.
William Graebner, A History of Retirement: The Meaning and Function of an American Institution, 1885-1978, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1984.
Kelly Greene and Glenn Ruffenach, The Wall Street Journal Complete Retirement Guidebook: How to Plan It, Live It and Enjoy It, New York: Three Rivers Press, 2007.
Charles Handy, The Age of Unreason, Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1998.
Arlie Hochschild, The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work, New York: Henry Holt & Company, LLC, 2001.
Herminia Ibarra, Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career, Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2004.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Back to College: Ending a career will soon mark the start of a new life, AARP Magazine (July & August 2006).
Peter Laslett, A Fresh Map of Life, Great Britain: Palgrave Macmillan, 1996.
Richard Leider and David Shapiro, Claiming Your Place at the Fire: Living the Second Half of Your Life on Purpose, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2004.
Suzanne Braun Levine, Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood, New York: Viking Adult, 2004.
Phyllis Moen and Patricia Roehling, The Career Mystique: Cracks in the American Dream, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004.
Nancy Morrow-Howell, James Hinterlong and Michael Sherraden, Productive Aging, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Russell Muirhead, Just Work, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007.
Bill Novelli, 50+: Igniting a Revolution to Reinvent America, New York: St. Martin's Press, 2006.
Daniel Pink, Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself, New York: Warner Business Books, 2002.
Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
Theodore Roszak, America the Wise: The Longevity Revolution and the True Wealth of Nations, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998.
John Wallis Rowe and Robert Kahn, Successful Aging, New York: Dell, 1999.
Jeri Sedlar and Rick Miners, Don't Retire, ReWire!, Royersford, PA: Alpha Publishing, 2002.
Leonard Steinhorn, The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy, New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2007.
Howard and Marika Stone, Too Young to Retire: An Off-The Road Map to the Rest of Your Life, New York: Plume, 2004.
Studs Terkel, Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do, New York: New Press, 1997.
Abigail Trafford, My Time: Making the Most of the Bonus Decades After 50, New York: Basic Books, 2004.
John Bowe, Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs, New York: Three Rivers Press, 2001.