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Whether rural or urban, black or white, rich or poor, these elderly people emerge as strong and inspiring individuals who deserve our respect and admiration, and who show us how to live our later years to the fullest.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49576295104785,"sku":"GOR010276400","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50618257506577,"sku":"CIN0393319121G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50820255154449,"sku":"CIN0393319121VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0393319121.jpg?v=1750877860"},{"product_id":"old-and-on-their-own-book-robert-coles-md-9780393046069","title":"Old and on Their Own","description":"On the fiftieth anniversary of the independence of India and Pakistan comes this riveting account of the end of the Raj, the most romantic of all the great empires. In 1835, Lord Macaulay, in his Minute on Indian Education, had prophesied that the eventual self-rule of India would be \"the proudest day in British history.\" Yet when independence came on the stroke of midnight of August 14, 1947, events unfolded with a violence that shocked the world: entire trainloads of Muslim and Hindu refugees were slaughtered on their flight to safety--not by the British, but by each other. Macaulay's dream had become a flawed and bloody reality. On paper, it could be remembered as an orderly retreat, a model of organization and civilized behavior; Lord Mountbatten, the last viceroy, described his breathtaking gallop to divide and quit as a personal triumph. But how justified are those extravagant claims? Anthony Read and David Fisher put the events of 1947 into perspective, telling the whole epic story in compelling and colorful detail from its beginnings more than a century earlier. Their powerful narrative takes a fresh look at many of the events and personalities involved, especially the three charismatic giants, Gandhi, Nehru, and Jinnah, who dominated the final, increasingly bitter thirty years. Meanwhile, a succession of British politicians and viceroys veered wildly between liberalism and repression until the Raj became a powder keg, wanting only a match.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50161201152273,"sku":"CIN0393046060G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0393046060.jpg?v=1750696420"},{"product_id":"youngest-parents-book-robert-coles-md-9780393319965","title":"The Youngest Parents","description":"The Youngest Parents throws a major societal problem into startling focus.-Publishers Weekly Prominent child psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Coles asks us to shed our preconceptions and listen to the compelling voices of young women and men who are soon to become parents though barely out of childhood themselves. These teenage parents are black, white, and Hispanic; city dwellers and residents of small towns. From conversations with these teenagers, Dr. Coles weaves a subtle yet dramatic narrative that reveals the aspirations and apprehensions of these youngest parents whose prospects aren't very promising and whose assumptions aren't always those he, or we, share. Young mothers don't have an easy time ahead of them, but many pregnant teens believe that the babies they carry will lead lives very different from their own, that their babies may find the success that eludes them and may escape the limitations they've suffered. Dr. Coles finds that the fathers' confusion and, sometimes, resentment give way to a deep longing for respect and a desire for a way out of lives limited by poverty and poor education.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50351650373905,"sku":"CIN0393319962G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52109599932689,"sku":"GOR013787629","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0393319962.jpg?v=1751196737"},{"product_id":"when-they-were-young-book-robert-coles-md-9780967007656","title":"When They Were Young","description":"For the first time, the Library of Congress presents a collection of touching and timeless photographs of children from its extraordinary photographic archive.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53461330166033,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53461330690321,"sku":"CIN0967007658VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780967007656.jpg?v=1777114843"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-robert-coles-md.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}