1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910810512703321

Autore

Tillinghast Richard

Titolo

An armchair traveller's history of Istanbul : city of forgetting and remembering / / Richard Tillinghast

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, [England] : , : Armchair Traveller at the bookHaus, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

1-907822-50-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (368 p.)

Collana

Armchair Traveller

Disciplina

914.9618044

Soggetti

Istanbul (Turkey) History

Istanbul (Turkey) Description and travel

Istanbul (Turkey) Guidebooks

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""An Armchair Travellerâ€?s History of Istanbul""; ""Contents""; ""Part I: Arrival""; ""1. First Impressions""; ""2. Istanbul and Constantinople""; ""3. Istanbul As It Used To Be""; ""4. Neighbourhoods""; ""5. TuÌ?rkÃe""; ""Part II: Roman and Byzantine Constantinople""; ""6. Constantine the Great""; ""7. Justinian and Theodora: A walk through imperial Constantinople""; ""8. The Holy City""; ""9. Looking at Byzantine Art""; ""10. Haghia Sophia and Ayasofya""; ""Part III: Ottoman Istanbul""; ""11. Mehmed the Conqueror""; ""12. Mehmed the Conqueror and Gentile Bellini""

Sommario/riassunto

The great crossroads, Istanbul has absorbed several millennia of different influences; it is both modern and ancient, fluid and constant. Standing at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, Istanbul is a tapestry of the different cultures and ideas that have shaped it over time. It has seen merchants, travelers, different religions, and politics all stamp their mark. Richard Tillinghast has watched the city evolve and he beautifully evokes its many distinct neighborhoods.  Richard Tillinghast is the author of Finding Ireland: A Poet's Explorations of Irish Literature and Culture (2009).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910826551603321

Autore

Lustig Tracy A.

Titolo

Hearing loss and healthy aging : workshop summary / / Tracy A. Lustig and Steve Olson, rapporteurs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, Distict of Columbia : , : The National Academies Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-309-30229-3

0-309-30227-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (129 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

617.8

Soggetti

Deafness

Aging - United States

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Introduction, Background, and Overview of the Workshop -- Hearing Loss: Two Perspectives -- The Connection Between Hearing Loss and Healthy Aging -- Current Approaches to Hearing Health Care Delivery -- Hearing Technologies -- Innovative Models -- Contemporary Issues in Hearing Health Care -- Collaborative Strategies for the Future.

Sommario/riassunto

"Being able to communicate is a cornerstone of healthy aging. People need to make themselves understood and to understand others to remain cognitively and socially engaged with families, friends, and other individuals. When they are unable to communicate, people with hearing impairments can become socially isolated, and social isolation can be an important driver of morbidity and mortality in older adults. Despite the critical importance of communication, many older adults have hearing loss that interferes with their social interactions and enjoyment of life. People may turn up the volume on their televisions or stereos, miss words in a conversation, go to fewer public places where it is difficult to hear, or worry about missing an alarm or notification. In other cases, hearing loss is much more severe, and people may retreat into a hard-to-reach shell. Yet fewer than one in seven older Americans



with hearing loss use hearing aids, despite rapidly advancing technologies and innovative approaches to hearing health care. In addition, there may not be an adequate number of professionals trained to address the growing need for hearing health care for older adults. Further, Medicare does not cover routine hearing exams, hearing aids, or exams for fitting hearing aids, which can be prohibitively expensive for many older adults. Hearing Loss and Healthy Aging is the summary of a workshop convened by the Forum on Aging, Disability, and Independence in January 2014 on age-related hearing loss. Researchers, advocates, policy makers, entrepreneurs, regulators, and others discussed this pressing social and public health issue. This report examines the ways in which age-related hearing loss affects healthy aging, and how the spectrum of public and private stakeholders can work together to address hearing loss in older adults as a public health issue."--