OLLI Authors: Education & Health

Clay Carter -
Older, Wiser...HAPPIER: 10 Choices for Rebooting Your Life at 50+
Published:2010 by Create Space, a subsidiary of Amazon.com
Available for Purchase from: Amazon
Genre: Self-Help, Education
Author's Web Links:www.HappyAging.us
Written: After years of working in the field of recovery, as an approach for addressing chronic issues in aging
Author's note: I have been using the material as basis for support groups and classes with senior adults since 2008. Reviews by participants and professionals are included on the website.
OLLI Affiliation: OLLI at University of North Florida (Member & Instructor)

Jeremiah Conway -
The Alchemy of Teaching: The Transformation of Lives
Published: February, 2013
Publisher: Sentient Publications, LLC
Available for Purchase from: Amazon.com
Genre: Teaching...Adult Education...Personal Change
Website: The Alchemy of Teaching
Author's note: a collection of stories focused on incidents of personal transformation in college classrooms. The book takes readers into the midst of classes where the messy, inspiring actuality of human change occurs. A book for anyone who takes teaching seriously and recognizes that lives are at stake in it.
OLLI Affiliation: OLLI at the University of Southern Maine (University Faculty & OLLI Instructor)

Judi Culbertson -
The Clutter Cure
Published: 2007
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Available for Purchase from: Amazon, Barnes & Noble
Scaling Down: Living Large in a Smaller Space
Published: 2005
Publisher: Rodale Books
Available for Purchase from: Amazon, Barnes & Noble
Genre: Self-help, How-to, Psychology
Website: judiculbertson.net
Written: After retirement.
OLLI Affiliation: Stony Brook University (Member & Instructor)

Ruth Fisher Goodman -
Easy Steps to the Hebrew Aleph Bet (Teach yourself to read Hebrew)
Published: 2000 (Self Published)
Genre: Reference (A text-workbook)
Available for Purchase: Order directly from Ruth Fisher Goodman, 409 Sparrow’s Ridge, Glen Mills, PA 19342
Author's Note: This book was created for the students in my OLLI class who requested that I put the material they were being taught into a book.
OLLI Affiliation: OLLI at Delaware

Janet Fogler and Lynn Stern -
Improving Your Memory: A Guide for Older Adults, 3rd Ed.
Published: 2005
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Available for Purchase: Amazon
Genre: Health, Education
Web Link:
Written: While working at University of Michigan Health System’s Geriatric Center
Author’s note: Also published in Japanese, Spanish, and Portuguese
OLLI affiliation: University of Michigan

Ivan C. Frank -
Not From My Lesson Plans
Published: 2006 by Gifted Education Press in Manassas Virginia.
Available for Purchase from: Amazon & Borders Book Stores
Genre: Education
Website: http://www.GiftedEdPress.com
Written: In retirement
Authors Note: See more books by Ivan Frank in the History category
OLLI Affiliation: OLLI in Pittsburgh (C.M.U.)

Dave Kampfschulte -
I’m Dying to Talk with You; Twenty-five years of conversations on end of life decisions
Published: 2012
Publisher: Cascade Printing
Available for Purchase from: Amazon, amazingcircles.net
Genre: Health - education
Amazing Circles: Creating an environment where people can share and reflect on their life stories
Published in 2009 (Self Published)
Available for purchase from amazingcircles.net
Genre: Affective education, experiential education, group interaction, life stories
Website: amazingcircles.net
Written: After taking retirement.
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OLLI Affiliation: Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, MI (Member & Instructor)

Thomas Kochansky -
Exploring the Fourth Gospel
Published in 2009 by PublishAmerica. Available for Purchase from Amazon
Genre: Educational (Biblical Commentary)
Website: http://www.growlinggrizzly.com/
Written: Books written since taking retirement.
Authors Note: 1 title under Educational Books. 2 titles under Fiction
OLLI Affiliation: OLLI-USF at Tampa, Florida (Member & Instructor)

B. Kay Neal -
Teach Your Dog Latin: Your Introduction to Latin, an Eminently Practical Language for Man and Beast
Published: 2012
Publisher: Prelum Press
Available from: Amazon
Genre: Foreign Languages - Self-help - Education
Website / Blog: www.PrelumPress.com
Written: Before retirement
Author's note: I am on a mission to bring Latin to ordinary people who have no idea just how relevant this astounding language could be to their daily lives and their emotional well-being.
OLLI affiliation: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, instructor (96 students, filling a large classroom twice, signed up for the first-ever offering of a foreign language at our OLLI chapter).

Frederick Reif -
Applying cognitive science to education: Thinking and learning in scientific and other complex domains
Published: 2008 by MIT Press.
Available for Purchase from Amazon
Genre: Education, Science education, Psychology, and Cognitive Science
Website:
Written: I wrote the book after I retired in 2000
Authors Note:
OLLI Affiliation:OLLI at Carnegie Mellon University (Instructor)

Eleanor (Ellie) P. Taylor and Pamela Gould -
Feeding the Kids: The Flexible, No-Battles, Healthy Eating System for the Whole Family
Published: 2007 by Mancala Publishing
Available for Purchase from http://www.feedingthekids.com
Genre: Nutrition and Health
Website:http://www.feedingthekids.com
Written: In retirement
Authors Note: See more books by Ivan Frank in the History category
OLLI Affiliation: OLLI in Pittsburgh (C.M.U.)

Esther Winterfeldt, Ph.D. -
Aging in Good Health: A Guide to preserving Good Health Through the Third Stage of Life
Published: 2006 by Printworthy Publishing Company
Available for Purchase: Contact OLLI at Oklahoma State University
Genre: Nutrition and Health
Website: http://ches.okstate.edu/facultystaff/faculty-profile.php?FacID=300
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OLLI Affiliation: OLLI at Oklahoma State University