Author: Douglas Coupland
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312054366
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Three twenty-something young adults, working at low-paying, no-future jobs, tell one another modern tales of love and death.
Author: Jeff Gordinier
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780670018581
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Examines the generation that came of age between the Baby Boomers and the Millennials, providing a tribute to its cultural, technological, and political contributions, from Yahoo! and Lollapalooza to Nirvana and Woodstock '94.
Author: Scott Lobdell
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 9781572972230
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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The Generation X teenagers must stop ghostly manifestations from wreaking havoc before it is too late.
Author: Bruce Tulgan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393320756
Category : Employee motivation
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Revised and updated, this book explodes the slacker myth and introduces the world to the real GenX: flexible, technoliterate, information-savvy, entrepreneurial, and perfectly adaptable to the new just-in-time workplace. Employers learn how to make the best use of this valuable, quirky labor pool.
Author: Andrew Cuomo
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1588363449
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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An array of leading Democrats, Republicans, and independent thinkers provide a road map for America’s political future. America is at a turning point. For the first time in history, the United States is the world’s lone superpower—in Andrew Cuomo’s words, “both the tamer and target of an unstable world.” New technology and the omnipresent media have transformed the way we do everything, from amassing wealth to practicing politics. Simultaneously, the U.S. economy is in a shambles, with the largest federal budget deficit in our history. The coming octogenarian boom promises to put the greatest strain on federal government resources the United States has ever known, and America is faced with new security threats and diplomatic crises daily. The success of our nation in the coming decades will depend on how our elected leaders respond to these challenges. Can the Democrats, divided and ineffectual since well before the crushing defeats of 2002, revitalize their agenda, forge a meaningful message, and end the Republican stranglehold on the federal government? Can Republicans, fresh from new victories, build on their successes? And how will a younger generation, largely alienated from both parties but often intensely political, articulate its desires in the years ahead? The writers invited by Andrew Cuomo to contribute to this landmark book, a who’s who of American leadership, address these and other pressing questions of our political life. At once a diagnosis and a call to arms, Crossroads will set the terms of political debate as America moves forward.
Author: Tamara J. Erickson
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
ISBN: 142215615X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 255
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You're a member of Generation X-the 30-to-44 age cohort. And you've drawn the short stick when it comes to work. The economy has been stacked against you from the beginning. Worse, you're sandwiched between Boomers (with their constant back-patting blather and refusal to retire) and Gen Y's (with their relentless confidence and demands for attention). You're stuck in the middle-of your life and between two huge generations that dote on each other. But you can move forward in your career. In What's Next, Gen X? Tamara Erickson shows how. She explains the forces affecting attitudes and behaviors in each generation-Boomer, X, and Y-so you can start relating more productively with bosses, peers, and employees. Erickson then assesses Gen X's progress in life so far and analyzes the implications of organizational and technological changes for your professional future. She lays out a powerful framework for shaping a satisfying, meaningful career, revealing how to: -Identify work that matches what you care most about -Succeed in a corporate career or an entrepreneurial venture -Spot and seize newly emerging professional opportunities -Use your unique capabilities to become an effective leader Provocative and engaging, What's Next, Gen X? helps you break free from the middle and chart a fulfilling course for the years ahead.
Author: Matthew Hennessey
Publisher: Encounter Books
ISBN: 1641770651
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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In Zero Hour for Gen X, Matthew Hennessey calls on his generation, Generation X, to take a stand against tech-obsessed millennials, apathetic baby boomers, utopian Silicon Valley “visionaries,” and the menace to top them all: the soft totalitarian conspiracy known as the Internet of Things. Soon Gen Xers will be the only cohort of Americans who remember life as it was lived before the arrival of the Internet. They are, as Hennessey dubs them, “the last adult generation,” the sole remaining link to a time when childhood was still a bit dangerous but produced adults who were naturally resilient. More than a decade into the social media revolution, the American public is waking up to the idea that the tech sector’s intentions might not be as pure as advertised. The mountains of money being made off our browsing habits and purchase histories are used to fund ever-more extravagant and utopian projects that, by their very natures, will corrode the foundations of free society, leaving us all helpless and digitally enslaved to an elite crew of ultra-sophisticated tech geniuses. But it’s not too late to turn the tide. There’s still time for Gen X to write its own future. A spirited defense of free speech, eye contact, and the virtues of patience, Zero Hour for Gen X is a cultural history of the last 35 years, an analysis of the current social and historical moment, and a generational call to arms.
Author: Pamela W. Hollander
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793617341
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 173
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Born roughly between 1964 and 1980, Generation X has received much less critical attention than the two generations that precede and follow it: the Baby Boomers and Millennials. This essay collection examines representations of Generation X in contemporary popular culture, including in television, movies, music, and internet sources. Drawing on generational theory, cultural studies theory, race theory, and feminist theory, the essays in this volume consider the past identities of Generation X, relationships with members of younger generations, modern appropriation of Generation X aesthetics, interactions of Generation X members with family, and the existential values of Generation X.
Author: Karen Ritchie
Publisher: Free Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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A study of advertisers' and marketers' intentions to aim at a new consumer group - those born between 1961 and 1981 - and dubbed Generation X. The author introduces this new generation, describing how they respond to minorities, business, education, career, family and the media.
Author: Neil Howe
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780679743651
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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In commentary and quotations, computer dumps and cartoons, 13TH GEN is a multimedia anthem to the American post-boomer generation, our country's thirteenth generation since the founding fathers.
