Coping with Aging

Richard S. Lazarus Bernice N. Lazarus

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Richard S. Lazarus and Bernice N. Lazarus

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2006

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2006 by Oxford University Press, Inc.

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To R.S.L., my knight on a white horse —B.N.L.

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Foreword Z

This book is historic. It represents the last publication of its senior author, Richard S. Lazarus, who died of one of the environmental hazards he spoke of in this book—a bathroom fall. It also marks the