Demography category: 971 books
iGen
Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
As seen in Time, USA TODAY, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and on CBS This Morning, BBC, PBS, CNN, and NPR, iGen is crucial reading to understand how the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later are vastly different from their Millennial predecessors, and from any...
Generation Me - Revised and Updated
Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable Than Ever Before
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
The Associated Press calls them "The Entitlement Generation," and they are storming into schools, colleges, and businesses all over the country. They are today's young people, a new generation with sky-high expectations and a need for constant praise and fulfillment. In this provocative new book,...
Trains, Culture, and Mobility
Riding the Rails
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
Trains, Culture and Mobility: Riding the Rails goes beyond textual representations of rail travel to engage an impressive range of political, sociological and urban theory. Taken together, these essays highlight the complexity of the modern experience of train mobility, and its salient relation to...
Searching for Whitopia
An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
As America becomes more and more racially diverse, Rich Benjamin noticed a phenomenon: Some communities were actually getting less multicultural. So he got out a map, found the whitest towns in the USA--and moved in.
A journalist-adventurer, Benjamin packed his bags and embarked on a 26,909-mile...
Baby Boomer Bust?: How the Generation of Promise Became the Generation of Panic
How the Generation of Promise Became the Generation of Panic
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Baby Boomer Bust? examines and analyzes the meltdown of 2008/2009 from economic, political and social perspectives and illuminates how the meltdown has directly impacted Baby Boomers -- once known as the generation of promise, but now the generation of panic. It examines the downturn’s impact on...
Fast Future
How the Millennial Generation Is Shaping Our World
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
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...
Rural Change in Australia
Population, Economy, Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
New twenty-first century economic, social and environmental changes have challenged and reshaped rural Australia. They range from ageing populations, youth out-migration, immigration policies (that seek to place skilled migrants in rural Australia), tree changers, agricultural restructuring and new...
Could It Happen Here?
Canada in the Age of Trump and Brexit
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
From award-winning author Michael Adams, Could It Happen Here? draws on groundbreaking new social research to show whether Canadian society is at risk of the populist forces afflicting other parts of the world.
Americans elected Donald Trump. Britons opted to leave the European Union. Far-right,...
by Robert Collins
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
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...
From Communists to Foreign Capitalists
The Social Foundations of Foreign Direct Investment in Postsocialist Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
From Communists to Foreign Capitalists explores the intersections of two momentous changes in the late twentieth century: the fall of Communism and the rise of globalization. Delving into the economic change that accompanied these shifts in central and Eastern Europe, Nina Bandelj presents a pioneering...
Generation Less
How Australia is Cheating the Young
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
A country that makes no room for the young is a country that will forfeit a fair future. This must not become Australia.
Today’s young Australians are the first generation since the Great Depression to be worse off than their parents. And so, just as we have seen the gap between rich and...
Shaping Our Nation
How Surges of Migration Transformed America and Its Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
It is often said that America has become culturally diverse only in the past quarter century. But from the country’s beginning, cultural variety and conflict have been a centrifugal force in American politics and a crucial reason for our rise to power.
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The peopling of the United States is...
Amortality
The Pleasures and Perils of Living Agelessly
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
Does your real age match the age you feel?
When do we reach middle age?
When, if ever, are we old?
The way we age and the way we perceive age has changed radically. As we embrace new experiences, relationships and gadgets, we barely stop to look at our watches let alone consider whether our...
by Trevor Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
With sharp wit, accompanied by shameless confessions and self-degradation, Morrison takes us on a ride through the crazy world of a Gen Y mind. For Morrison, the upcoming pathway to midlife happiness for Gen Y starts with overcoming the soft, nurturing parental styles of baby boomers popular throughout...