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Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable Than Ever Before

Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable Than Ever Before

by Jean M. Twenge

Called "The Entitlement Generation" or Gen Y, they are storming into schools, colleges, and businesses all over the country. In this provocative new book, headline-making psychologist and social commentator Dr. Jean Twenge explores why the young people she calls "Generation Me" -- those born in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s -- are tolerant, confident, open-minded, and ambitious but also cynical, depressed, lonely,... (more)

It's a Wonderful Lie: 26 Truths About Life in Your Twenties

It's a Wonderful Lie: 26 Truths About Life in Your Twenties

by Emily Franklin

These provocative original essays aim to empathize with, encourage and inspire 20-something women. It's a Wonderful Lie will pick up where Quarter-life Crisis left off and will offer perspective and wisdom. Writers will shed a light on what one should and should not expect from what you've been led to believe are the best years of your life. The essays range from comedic to reflective and pensive, all looking at... (more)

when i was a girl

by Alison Pollet, Women's Entertainment Network

Discover the defining moments and fondest memories of some of the world's most celebrated women! Based on the popular WE: Women's Entertainment television series and featuring an introduction by famed television journalist and author Linda Ellerbee, When I Was a Girl presents a collection of timeless girlhood tales. Extraordinary women from the worlds of politics, sports, entertainment, literature, music, and... (more)

To Be a Man: Visions of Self, View from Within

To Be a Man: Visions of Self, View from Within

by Daniel S. Kaufman

Photographic self-portraits and handwritten sentiments from men nationwide, aged eleven to ninety-two, reveals their answers to the author's question: What is it to be a man? National ad/promo.

Grow Old Along With Me the Best Is Yet to Be

Grow Old Along With Me the Best Is Yet to Be

Falling in love again after being widowed, redefining roles with children, men facing retirement, women discovering new opportunities for growth--this eloquent anthology appreciates the similarities and differences between men and women aging, transforming our myths of aging into a real sense of wonder and expectation. ABA promo.

Learning to Sit in the Silence: A Journal of Caretaking

Learning to Sit in the Silence: A Journal of Caretaking

by Elaine Marcus Starkman

Learning to Sit In The Silence: A Journal of Caretaking is the compelling story of one family's efforts to provide love and support to an aging parent. It does not offer simple answers, but is instead a catalyst for personal reflection and family discussions on the issues of aging, family and self-definition.

ReGeneration PA

by Jennifer Karlin, Amelia Borofsky

In this breakthrough collection, editors Jennifer Krlin and Amelia Borofsky bring forth the fresh voices of more than forty writers and artists, all of whom are in their twenties. Featuring a unique combination of writings, poetry, photography, and painting, this is the first significant work in the genre. From a lament on the life of an office temp to an elegy to college days, from travels abroad to... (more)

The Second Life Herald: The Virtual Tabloid that Witnessed the Dawn of the Metaverse

The Second Life Herald: The Virtual Tabloid that Witnessed the Dawn of the Metaverse

by Peter Ludlow

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008. and Winner, Media and Cultural Studies category, 2007 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Awards for Excellence Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc. When a virtual journalist for a virtual newspaper reporting on the digital world of an online game lands on the real-world front page of the New York Times, it just might signal the dawn... (more)

Generation to Generation: Reflections on Friendships Between Young and Old

Generation to Generation: Reflections on Friendships Between Young and Old

by Sandra Martz

An important collection about intergenerational relationships, reflecting the special bonds between people who are separated by many years, but who are connected by warmth, understanding, and mutual appreciation.

Grown Up Digital

How the Net Generation is Changing the World

by Don Tapscott

SELECTED AS A 2008 BEST BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST The Net Generation Has Arrived. Are you ready for it? Chances are you know a person between the ages of 11 and 30. You've seen them doing five things at once: texting friends, downloading music, uploading videos, watching a movie on a two-inch screen, and doing who-knows-what on Facebook or MySpace. They're the first... (more)

Simulation and Its Discontents (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)

Simulation and Its Discontents (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)

by Sherry Turkle

Over the past twenty years, the technologies of simulation and visualization have changed our ways of looking at the world. In Simulation and Its Discontents, Sherry Turkle examines the now dominant medium of our working lives and finds that simulation has become its own sensibility. We hear it in Turkle's description of architecture students who no longer design with a pencil, of science and engineering... (more)

Not Everyone Gets A Trophy: How to Manage Generation Y

Not Everyone Gets A Trophy: How to Manage Generation Y

by Bruce Tulgan

This book will frame Generation Y (children born between 1978-1991) for corporate leaders and managers at time when the corporate world is desperate to recruit and retain worked in this age group. It will debunk dozens of myths, including that young employees have no sense of loyalty, won't do grunt work, won't take direction, want to interact only with computers, and are only about money. This book will... (more)

Fifty on Fifty: Wisdom, Inspiration, and Reflections on Women's Lives Well Lived

Fifty on Fifty: Wisdom, Inspiration, and Reflections on Women's Lives Well Lived

by Bonnie Miller Rubin

In this beautifully photographed gift book, 50 famous, accomplished determined women celebrate, reflect upon, and embrace life at 50 and beyond. Hillary Clinton. Faye Dunaway. Linda Ellerbee. Jane Fonda. Sue Grafton. Donna Karen. Diane Keaton. Linda Ronstadt. Christine Todd Whitman. What do these high-profile women have in common? In some way, they have changed the world; they are also about to or have... (more)

Heredity Produced: At the Crossroads of Biology, Politics, and Culture, 1500-1870 (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)

Heredity Produced: At the Crossroads of Biology, Politics, and Culture, 1500-1870 (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)

by Laure Cartron, François Duchesneau, Carlos López Beltrán, Peter McLaughlin, Renato Mazzolini, Helmuth Müller-Sievers, Ohad Parnes, Nicolas Pethes, Marc J. Ratcliff

Until the middle of the eighteenth century, the biological makeup of an organism was ascribed to an individual instance of "generation"—involving conception, pregnancy, embryonic development, parturition, lactation, and even astral influences and maternal mood—rather than the biological transmission of traits and characteristics. Discussions of heredity and inheritance took place largely in the legal and political... (more)

The May Queen: Women on Life, Love, Work, and Pulling It All Together in Your 30s

The May Queen: Women on Life, Love, Work, and Pulling It All Together in Your 30s

by Andrea N. Richesin

This intriguing collection of original essays by women in their thirties celebrates this often maligned period in a woman's life as, in fact, a productive, dynamic, and vibrant time of self-invention and personal and professional creativity. If recent bestsellers such as The Bitch in the House and Midlife Crisis at Thirty serve as any indication of how women are experiencing their thirties, who can blame... (more)

When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple

When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple

by Sandra Haldeman-Martz

This enchanting collection of writings and photographs evokes the beauty, humor and courage of women living in their later years and tells of the endearing moments of joy--and passion--to be found in the rich and varied world of midlife and beyond. An award-winning anthology that takes a refreshing look at issues of aging in a society that glorifies youth.

On Beauty

by Zadie Smith

Winner of the 2006 Orange Prize for fiction and from the celebrated author of White Teeth comes another bestselling masterwork Having hit bestseller lists from the New York Times to the San Francisco Chronicle , this wise, hilarious novel reminds us why Zadie Smith has rocketed to literary stardom. On Beauty is the story of an interracial family living in the university town of Wellington, ... (more)

Wild Swans

Three Daughters of China

by Rowena Cooper, Jung Chang

A new edition of one of the best-selling and best-loved books of recent years. The publication of Wild Swans in 1991 was a worldwide phenomenon. Not only did it become the best-selling non-fiction book in British publishing history, with sales of well over two million, it was received with unanimous critical acclaim, and was named the winner of the 1992 NCR Book Award and the 1993 British Book of the Year Award.... (more)

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