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Fast Future
How the Millennial Generation Is Shaping Our World
Written by David D. Burstein
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $25.95
How the Millennial Generation Is Shaping Our World
Written by David D. Burstein
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $25.95
A millennial examines how his generation is profoundly impacting politics, business, media, and activism
They’ve been called trophy kids, entitled, narcissistic, the worst employees in history, and even the dumbest generation. But, argues David Burstein, the millennial generation’s unique blend of civic idealism and savvy pragmatism will enable us to overcome a...
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Fast Future
How the Millennial Generation Is Shaping Our World
Written by David D. Burstein
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $25.95
How the Millennial Generation Is Shaping Our World
Written by David D. Burstein
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $25.95
A millennial examines how his generation is profoundly impacting politics, business, media, and activism
They’ve been called trophy kids, entitled, narcissistic, the worst employees in history, and even the dumbest generation. But, argues David Burstein, the millennial generation’s unique blend of civic idealism and savvy pragmatism will enable us to overcome a...
Read more >
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You Had to Be There
Written by Robert Collins
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $11.99
They gained their maturity in an age of monumental and unprecedented change – from horse-and-buggy, Model TFord, and crank telephone, to moonwalks, space shuttles, and the Internet. They are better educated, more affluent, more vigorous, and longer-lived than any generation before them, yet obstinately cling to a forthright simplicity no generation... Read more >
Written by Robert Collins
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $11.99
They gained their maturity in an age of monumental and unprecedented change – from horse-and-buggy, Model TFord, and crank telephone, to moonwalks, space shuttles, and the Internet. They are better educated, more affluent, more vigorous, and longer-lived than any generation before them, yet obstinately cling to a forthright simplicity no generation... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Pinched
How the Great Recession Has Narrowed Our Futures and What We Can Do About It
Written by Don Peck
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $14.00
The Great Recession is not done with us yet. While the most acute part of the economic crisis is past, the recession's most significant impact on American life still lies in the future. The personal, social, and cultural changes that result from severe economic shocks build and manifest themselves only slowly... Read more >
How the Great Recession Has Narrowed Our Futures and What We Can Do About It
Written by Don Peck
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $14.00
The Great Recession is not done with us yet. While the most acute part of the economic crisis is past, the recession's most significant impact on American life still lies in the future. The personal, social, and cultural changes that result from severe economic shocks build and manifest themselves only slowly... Read more >
7 Billion
How Your World Will Change
Written by National Geographic
Format: eBook, 90 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $3.99
Sometime in late October 2011, the 7 billionth citizen of planet Earth will be born. To mark the event, National Geographic magazine commissioned seven articles that explore the fascinating issues—including demographics, food security, climate change, fertility trends, managing biodiversity—surrounding this topic, which are collected for the first time in this special... Read more >
How Your World Will Change
Written by National Geographic
Format: eBook, 90 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $3.99
Sometime in late October 2011, the 7 billionth citizen of planet Earth will be born. To mark the event, National Geographic magazine commissioned seven articles that explore the fascinating issues—including demographics, food security, climate change, fertility trends, managing biodiversity—surrounding this topic, which are collected for the first time in this special... Read more >
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How the Great Recession Has Narrowed Our Futures and What We Can Do About It
Written by Don Peck
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: August 9, 2011
Price: $22.00
The Great Recession is not done with us yet. While the most acute part of the economic crisis is past, the recession's most significant impact on American life still lies in the future. The personal, social, and cultural changes that result from severe economic shocks build and manifest themselves only slowly... Read more >
How the Great Recession Has Narrowed Our Futures and What We Can Do About It
Written by Don Peck
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: August 9, 2011
Price: $22.00
The Great Recession is not done with us yet. While the most acute part of the economic crisis is past, the recession's most significant impact on American life still lies in the future. The personal, social, and cultural changes that result from severe economic shocks build and manifest themselves only slowly... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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How the Great Recession Has Narrowed Our Futures and What We Can Do About It
Written by Don Peck
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: August 9, 2011
Price: $9.99
The Great Recession is not done with us yet. While the most acute part of the economic crisis is past, the recession's most significant impact on American life still lies in the future. The personal, social, and cultural changes that result from severe economic shocks build and manifest themselves only slowly... Read more >
How the Great Recession Has Narrowed Our Futures and What We Can Do About It
Written by Don Peck
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: August 9, 2011
Price: $9.99
The Great Recession is not done with us yet. While the most acute part of the economic crisis is past, the recession's most significant impact on American life still lies in the future. The personal, social, and cultural changes that result from severe economic shocks build and manifest themselves only slowly... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Coming Population Crash
and Our Planet's Surprising Future
Written by Fred Pearce
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: April 5, 2011
Price: $16.00
A leading environmental writer looks at the unexpected effects—and possible benefits—of a shrinking, graying population
Over the last century, the world’s population quadrupled and fears of overpopulation flared, with baby booms blamed for genocide and terrorism, and overpopulation singled out as the primary factor driving global warming. Yet, surprisingly, it appears... Read more >
and Our Planet's Surprising Future
Written by Fred Pearce
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: April 5, 2011
Price: $16.00
A leading environmental writer looks at the unexpected effects—and possible benefits—of a shrinking, graying population
Over the last century, the world’s population quadrupled and fears of overpopulation flared, with baby booms blamed for genocide and terrorism, and overpopulation singled out as the primary factor driving global warming. Yet, surprisingly, it appears... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Young and the Digital
What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media M eans for Our Future
Written by S. Craig Watkins
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $18.00
What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media M eans for Our Future
Written by S. Craig Watkins
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $18.00
In The Young and the Digital, S. Craig Watkins skillfully draws from more than 500 surveys and 350 in-depth interviews with young people, parents, and educators to understand how a digital lifestyle is affecting the ways youth learn, play, bond, and communicate. Timely and deeply relevant, the book covers the influence...
Read more >
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eBook.
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Hollowing Out the Middle
The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America
Written by Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: July 27, 2010
Price: $17.00
In 2001, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation, sociologists Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas moved to Iowa to understand the rural brain drain and the exodus of young people from America’s countryside. They met and followed working-class “stayers”; ambitious and college-bound “achievers”; “seekers,” who head off to war to... Read more >
The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America
Written by Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: July 27, 2010
Price: $17.00
In 2001, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation, sociologists Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas moved to Iowa to understand the rural brain drain and the exodus of young people from America’s countryside. They met and followed working-class “stayers”; ambitious and college-bound “achievers”; “seekers,” who head off to war to... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
The Coming Population Crash
and Our Planet's Surprising Future
Written by Fred Pearce
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 1, 2010
Price: $26.95
A leading environmental writer looks at the unexpected effects—and possible benefits—of a shrinking, graying population
Over the last century, the world’s population quadrupled and fears of overpopulation flared, with baby booms blamed for genocide and terrorism, and overpopulation singled out as the primary factor driving global warming. Yet, surprisingly, it appears... Read more >
and Our Planet's Surprising Future
Written by Fred Pearce
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 1, 2010
Price: $26.95
A leading environmental writer looks at the unexpected effects—and possible benefits—of a shrinking, graying population
Over the last century, the world’s population quadrupled and fears of overpopulation flared, with baby booms blamed for genocide and terrorism, and overpopulation singled out as the primary factor driving global warming. Yet, surprisingly, it appears... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Hollowing Out the Middle
The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America
Written by Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 1, 2009
Price: $26.95
In 2001, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation, sociologists Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas moved to Iowa to understand the rural brain drain and the exodus of young people from America’s countryside. They met and followed working-class “stayers”; ambitious and college-bound “achievers”; “seekers,” who head off to war to... Read more >
The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America
Written by Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 1, 2009
Price: $26.95
In 2001, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation, sociologists Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas moved to Iowa to understand the rural brain drain and the exodus of young people from America’s countryside. They met and followed working-class “stayers”; ambitious and college-bound “achievers”; “seekers,” who head off to war to... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Young and the Digital
What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future
Written by S. Craig Watkins
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 1, 2009
Price: $18.00
What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future
Written by S. Craig Watkins
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 1, 2009
Price: $18.00
In The Young and the Digital, S. Craig Watkins skillfully draws from more than 500 surveys and 350 in-depth interviews with young people, parents, and educators to understand how a digital lifestyle is affecting the ways youth learn, play, bond, and communicate. Timely and deeply relevant, the book covers the influence...
Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Millennials Rising
The Next Great Generation
Written by Neil Howe and William Strauss
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2009
Price: $15.99
By the authors of the bestselling 13th Gen, the first in-depth examination of the Millennials--the generation born after 1982.
"Over the next decade, the Millennial Generation will entirely recast the image of youth from downbeat and alientated to upbeat and engaged--with potentially seismic consequences for America." --from Millennials Rising
In this remarkable account... Read more >
The Next Great Generation
Written by Neil Howe and William Strauss
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2009
Price: $15.99
By the authors of the bestselling 13th Gen, the first in-depth examination of the Millennials--the generation born after 1982.
"Over the next decade, the Millennial Generation will entirely recast the image of youth from downbeat and alientated to upbeat and engaged--with potentially seismic consequences for America." --from Millennials Rising
In this remarkable account... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Bet You Didn't Know
Hundreds of Intriguing Facts About Living in the USA
Written by Cheryl Russell
Format: Trade Paperback, 316 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2008
Price: $18.99
Tired of droning pundits and politicians, or the almost daily tirades on the radio, TV, and in print? Ever wonder what the facts are behind so many diverse opinions on such a variety of topics?
Statistics maven Cheryl Russell — editorial director of New Strategist Publications and the former editor-in-chief of American... Read more >
Hundreds of Intriguing Facts About Living in the USA
Written by Cheryl Russell
Format: Trade Paperback, 316 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2008
Price: $18.99
Tired of droning pundits and politicians, or the almost daily tirades on the radio, TV, and in print? Ever wonder what the facts are behind so many diverse opinions on such a variety of topics?
Statistics maven Cheryl Russell — editorial director of New Strategist Publications and the former editor-in-chief of American... Read more >
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