Additional Reading, Center for Spirituality and Healing, Academic Health Center at the University of Minnesota

The Purpose Project

Richard Leider's Books

Claiming Your Place At the Fire: Living the Second Half of Your Life On Purpose. (2004). Berrett-Koehler.

Repacking Your Bags: Lighten Your Load for the Rest of Your Life.  (2002). Berrett-Koehler.

The Power of Purpose: Creating Meaning in Your Life and Work. (1997). Berrett-Koehler.

Whistle While You Work: Heeding Your Life's Calling. (2001). Berrett-Koehler.

Other Related Publications

Carlson, M.B. (1991). Creative Aging: A Meaning-Making Perspective. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Carter, Jimmy. (1998). The Virtues of Aging. New York, Ballantine.

Chinen, A.B. (1989). In the Ever After: Fairy Tales and the Second Half of Life. Wilmette Illinois, Chiron Publications.

Crowley, Chris & Henry S. Lodge, M.D. (2005). Younger Next Year: A Guide to Living Like 50 Until Your 80's and Beyond.  New York, Workman.

Cohen, G.D. (2000). The Creative Age: Awakening Human Potential in the Second Half of Life.  New York, Avon Books, Inc.

Cole, T.R. & M.G. Winkler, Eds. (1994). Oxford Book of Aging: Reflections on the Journey of Life.  New York, Oxford University Press.

Creagan, E.T., M.D., ED. (2001). Mayo Clinic on Healthy Aging. Mayo Clinic.

Dass, Ram. (2000). Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing and Dying.  New York, Putnam.

de Beauvoir, Simone. (1972). The Coming of Age.  New York, Putnam.

Freidan, B. (1993). The Fountain of Age.  New York, Simon & Schuster.

Goldman, C. (2004). The Ageless Spirit.  Minneapolis, Fairview Press.

Hudson, F.M. (1999). The Adult Years: Mastering the Art of Self-Renewal.   San Francisco, Jossey-Bass.

Hillman, James. (1999). The Force of Character and The Lasting Life. New York, Random House.

Roszak, T.(2001). Longevity Revolution: As Boomers Become Elders. Berkeley Hills Books.

Rowe, J.W. & R.L. Kahn. (1998). Successful Aging. New York, Pantheon.

Sadler, W.A. (2000). The Third Age: 6 Principals for Growth and Renewal After Forty. Cambridge, MA, Perseus.

Schachter-Shalomi, Z. & R.S. Miller (1995). From Age-ing to Sage-ing. New York, Warner Books, Inc.

Suzuki, David & Peter Knudtson. (1992). Wisdom of the Elders: Sacred Native Stories of Nature. New York, Bantam.

Thomas, William H., M.D. (2004). What are Old People For?  How Elders Will Save the World. Acton, MA, VanderWyk & Burnham.

Trafford, Abigail. (2004). My Time: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life. New York, Basic Books.

Vaillant, George E. (2002). Aging Well. Boston, Little, Brown & Co.


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