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2020.
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While burnout may seem like the default setting for the modern era, Petersen argues that burnout is a definitional condition for the millennial generation. It is born out of distrust in the institutions that have failed us, the unrealistic expectations of the modern workplace, and a sharp uptick in anxiety and hopelessness exacerbated by the constant pressure to 'perform' our lives online. She examines the phenomenon through a variety of lenses, and...
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[2022]
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241 pages ; 22 cm
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Nicole Victoria is a CEO, money coach, financial literacy advocate, mom, and millennial. In balancing all these roles, she has learned the secrets to modern financial freedom. As Nicole has shared with her audiences, "the advice that worked for our parents doesn't work for us." Unlike a lot of "common wisdom", Nicole offers solutions. Maybe for you, money has always seemed complicated. But to be good with money and build wealth, you don't need to...
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A writer at The New Yorker examines the fractures at the center of contemporary culture. In each essay, Tolentino writes about a cultural prism: the rise of the nightmare social internet; the advent of scamming as the definitive millennial ethos; the literary heroine's journey from brave to blank to bitter; and the punitive dream of optimization, which insists that everything, including our bodies, should become more efficient and beautiful until...
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[2021]
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xii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"Child welfare and adoption specialist Lindsay Garrett, LCSW, teaches Millennials considering having kids how to emotionally prepare for parenthood, determine their parenting style and values, and establish sustainable support."--Amazon.com
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"Based on more than a decade of research, Not Everyone Gets a Trophy reframes Millennials at a time when many employers are struggling to engage, develop, and retain them. Not Everyone Gets a Trophy, Revised and Updated provides proven, step-by-step best practices for getting Millennials onboard and up-to-speed--giving them the context they lack, teaching them how to manage themselves and how to be managed, and turning the very best into new leaders....
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2023.
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280 pages ; 24 cm
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"Millennials and Gen Z-ers are considered two of the most anxious generations in history, and with the many intense generation-specific stressors they've had to face in recent years--including climate change, political polarization, systemic racism, gun violence, and financial instability--it's easy to see why people are being diagnosed with anxiety at alarming rates. Dr. Lauren Cook, a psychologist and career coach who specializes in treating Millennials...
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[2014]
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viii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"The America of the near future will look nothing like the America of the recent past. America is in the throes of a demographic overhaul. Huge generation gaps have opened up in our political and social values, our economic well-being, our family structure, our racial and ethnic identity, our gender norms, our religious affiliation, and our technology use. Today's Millennials--well-educated, tech savvy, underemployed twenty-somethings--are at risk...
9) The AOC generation: how millennials are seizing power and rewriting the rules of American politics
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[2021]
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222 pages ; 23 cm
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"A look at the rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and how a new generation of progressive activists are reshaping America"--
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2018.
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334 pages ; 22 cm.
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"A generation on the move, a country on the brink, and a young author's search to find out how we got here. Millennials and the Moments That Made Us is a cultural history of the United States, as seen through the eyes of the largest, most diverse, and most disprivileged generation in American history. The book is a relatable pop culture history that critiques the capitalist status quo our generation inherited - a critical tour of the music, movies,...
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American Millennials--the generation born in the 1980s and 1990s--have been leaving organized religion in unprecedented numbers. For a long time, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was an exception: nearly three-quarters of people who grew up Mormon stayed that way into adulthood. In The Next Mormons, Jana Riess demonstrates that things are starting to change. The Next Mormons offers a portrait of a generation navigating between traditional...
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[2020]
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xx, 344 pages ; 24 cm
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"A new generation is stepping up. There are now twenty-six millennials in Congress--a fivefold increase gained in the 2018 midterms alone. They are governing Midwestern cities and college towns, running for city councils, and serving in state legislatures. They are acting urgently on climate change (because they are going to live it); they care deeply about student debt (because they have it); they are utilizing big tech but still want to regulate...
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[2016]
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xxviii, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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"With each passing election cycle, Republicans face stiffer and stiffer odds for winning elections at all levels. They have long relied on a combination of Baby Boomers and rural voters to propel them to victory in races for office. However, both of these populations will decline in the future. At the same time, the ranks of millennials and urban voters have exploded. Millennials (now the largest generation in the United States) and urban residents...
14) Soy albalez
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2021.
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159 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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"Única, entrañable, divertida y antirromántica: ALBALEZ. Albalez es millennial, pero no puede con la vida moderna. De hecho, está convencida de que la Tierra es su planeta de adopción y que en su planeta de origen, el biológico, no se madruga, ni se trabaja, y desde luego no existen los lunes. Para sobrevivir aquí, ¿qué mejor que Netflix, la pizza y las amigas, aunque estas a menudo le provoquen daños degenerativos con esos líos...
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"A Millennial's groundbreaking investigation into why his generation is economically worse off than their parents, creating a radical and devastating portrait of what it means to be young in America. Millennials have been called lazy, entitled, narcissistic, and immature, but when you push aside the stereotypes, what actually unites this generation? The short answer: They've been had. Millennials are the hardest working and most educated generation...
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[2021]
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xv, 238 pages ; 22 cm.
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"For the first time in American history, a generation is worse off than their parents. With their overthrow of tradition and authority, the Baby Boomers claim to have been humanity's greatest liberators, but their children would happily trade that so-called liberation for a little less debt, the chance to own a home before fifty, and a shot at extracting some commitment from the bosses and romantic partners who view their relationships as temporary....
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"In an era of safe spaces, trigger warnings, and an unprecedented election, the country's youth are in crisis. Senator Ben Sasse warns the nation about the existential threat to America's future... Raised by well-meaning but overprotective parents and coddled by well-meaning but misbegotten government programs, America's youth are ill-equipped to survive in our highly-competitive global economy... In The Vanishing American Adult, Sasse diagnoses the...
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[2021]
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1 videodisc (79 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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It is an exploration of the world-changing activism and potential of the largest youth generation in history. The film shows examples of young leaders working to revolutionize systems that have failed their generation. It paints a powerful and hopeful picture of how today's youth can solve global political and environmental crises
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