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"From pop culture podcaster and a voice of a generation, Kate Kennedy, a celebration of the millennial zeitgeist One In a Millennial is an exploration of pop culture, nostalgia, the millennial zeitgeist, and the life lessons learned (for better and for worse) from coming of age as a member of a much-maligned generation. Kate is a pop culture commentator and host of the popular millennial-focused podcast Be There in Five. Part-funny, part-serious,...
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Andrews McMeel Publishing
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English
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Do you love networking to advance your career? Is adulthood an exciting new challenge for which you feel fully prepared? Ugh. Please go away. These casually drawn, perfectly on-point comics by the hugely popular young Brooklyn-based artist Sarah Andersen are for the rest of us. They document the wasting of entire beautiful weekends on the internet, the unbearable agony of holding hands on the street with a gorgeous guy, and dreaming all day of getting...
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Film Ideas
Pub. Date
[2005
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English
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"Life skills for financial fitness, like skills for physical fitness, requires a sharp focus on the final goal and knowing what we would like to accomplish financially. It requires us to crunch the numbers, focus the energy, and keep the course if we are to stay healthy in a financial sense. As part of that regimen, we'll help young adults learn to appreciate the value of their money by presenting the pleasures and pitfalls of financial responsibility....
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BiggerPockets Publishing
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[2017]
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English
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Are you tied to a nine-to-five workweek? Do you work hard making someone else rich? Are you financially freethe sort of free that ensures you spend the best part of your day and week, and the best years of your life doing what you want? Would you like to "retire" from wage paying work within ten years? Why not build and follow a plan that allows you to live the life of your dreams? This isn't about saving up a nest egg. It's not about setting aside...
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TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
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[2017]
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English
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The Only Guide You Need to Stop Wasting Your Potential and Create a Kickass Career You Care About Daniel DiPiazza, the young founder of the massively popular Rich20Something.com, was once a typical twentysomething, logging mind-numbing hours at low-paying jobs in hopes of moving up. Then it hit him: This doesnt have to be my life. Now twenty-eight, DiPiazza has launched multiple successful businesses with zero startup capitalsimply by identifying...
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New York University Press
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[2017]
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English
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"Latino millennials constitute the second largest segment of the millennial population. By sheer numbers they will inevitably have a significant social, economic, and political impact on U.S. society. Beyond basic demographics, however, not much is known about how they make sense of themselves as Americans. In Citizens but Not Americans, Nilda Flores-González examines how Latino millennials understand race, experience race, and develop notions of...
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Atria Books
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2017.
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English
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"A highly readable and entertaining first look at how today's members of iGen—the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later—are vastly different from their Millennial predecessors, and from any other generation, from the renowned psychologist and author of Generation Me." --
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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[2020]
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English
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We tend to think of our twenties as a playground for life: A time for low-consequence experimentation and delaying big decisions. But the truth is that while you’re muddling through those years—exploring new cities, dating the wrong people, hopping between jobs—a small shift in your flight path can mean the difference between landing on Mars or Saturn. As the data shows, the choices we make (or put off) during this critical decade about our...
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St. Martin's Press
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2017.
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English
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In The Vanishing American Adult, Sasse diagnoses the causes of a generation that can't grow up and offers a path for raising children to become active and engaged citizens. He identifies core formative experiences that all young people should pursue: hard work to appreciate the benefits of labor, travel to understand deprivation and want, the power of reading, the importance of nurturing your body--and explains how parents can encourage them. Our...
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Flatiron Books
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2017.
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English
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"The thirty-eight essays in [this book] tell the truth about life beyond college graduation from the voices of people a few years out. Some of their stories are funny, some heartwarming; some are about their successes, and others reflect their failures. There are stories about going from a committed college to casual dating in an unfamiliar city, navigating a toxic work environment, learning how to stay patient in a part of your life that isn't...
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1990. Please write and tell me why you should live here. Toby Dobbs received a big Victorian house with too many bedrooms to count as a wedding present from his father, but his marriage is over within a month. Very alone, and very lonely, Toby posts an advertisement seeking the Unexpectedly Alone to become his roommates. Fifteen years later, the wayward souls he takes in are still living with him, with no intention of leaving. 2004. Please tell me...
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Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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"How to raise kids who can handle the real worldToday's Generation iY (teens brought up with the Internet) and Homelanders (children born after 9/11) are overexposed to information at an earlier age than ever and paradoxically are underexposed to meaningful relationships and real-life experiences. Artificial Maturity addresses the problem of what to do when parents and teachers mistake children's superficial knowledge for real maturity. The book is...
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