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Pub. Date
c2007
Summary
Generation Ageless-an authoritative and eye-opening look at the past, present, and future of Baby Boomers
Think Baby Boomers are all alike? Think again. This dynamic generation is nearing the traditional age of retirement, but is in no mood to slow down. Learn how to market, sell to, do business with, or just understand this remarkable generation, from Yankelovich, Inc., the organization that knows them better than anyone else. Yankelovich actually...
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Until recently, most Americans equated the end of a successful career with the beginning of retirement. No more. Now they want to stay in the game (or better, change the game). They want to leave a mark. Make a difference—and continue to make money. From Encore.org, the leading organization in the field, comes a road map to every step of the encore career journey. Here's how to plan the transition. How much you need to make. The pros and cons
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Pub. Date
c2007
Summary
In one of the most significant social trends of the new century, and the biggest transformation of the American workforce since the women's movement, members of the baby boom generation are inventing a new phase of work. Encore tells the stories of encore career pioneers who are not content, or affluent enough, to spend their next 30 years on a golf course. These men and women are moving beyond midlife careers yet refusing to phase out or fade away....
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Pub. Date
2013
Summary
Thirty years retired makes for a VERY long vacation. So... what's a 55+ Boomer to do? Arguably this next could be your BEST life passage. But first you will need to "shift gears, " rediscover your SELF, then redesign a retirement life and work that will: Engage your energy and vitality, Stimulate your mind, Enhance your physical capabilities, and Keep you involved, relevant and productive for the next three or more decades... BUT without tying you...
5) July, July
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Pub. Date
2002
Summary
A 'perceptive, affectionate, and often very funny' novel about old college friends at a thirty-year reunion, by the author of The Things They Carried (Boston Herald). From a National Book Award winner who's been called 'the best American writer of his generation' (San Francisco Examiner), July, July tells the story of ten old friends who attended Darton Hall College together back in 1969, and now reunite for a summer weekend of dancing, drinking,...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Summary
Miranda Meadowe lives a relatively solitary life in her rustic country home, but her world dramatically changes when she invites a group of her oldest friends to move in with her. In the beginning, their reunion is joyous. They laugh, dance, drink, behave badly, and being to reclaim the things they thought would be theirs forever. But as the days pass, long-forgotten grudges resurface and new tensions emerge, and they discover that their bond may...
12) Generation Zero
Pub. Date
c2010
Summary
"The current economic crisis is not a failure of capitalism, but a failure of culture. Generation Zero explores the cultural roots of the global financial meltdown--beginning with the narcissism of the 1960's, spreading like a virus through the self-indulgent 1990's and exploding across the world in the present economic cataclysm."--Container.
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Pub. Date
2006
Summary
It's fashionable to mock Boomers as self-involved and materialistic, but what really is their true legacy? To understand how the Boomers have changed America, think back to the 1950s, but without the nostalgia: women were kept at home, minorities were denied their dignity, homosexuality was a crime, and anyone who marched to a different drummer was labeled un-American. Today we live in a far more open, inclusive, tolerant, and equal America. That's...
Pub. Date
[2007?]
Summary
"Hosted by gerontologist and psychologist Dr. Ken Dychtwald, the program focuses on the boomers' formative years to reveal the personality traits of a generation that has since rewritten the rules for work, marriage and parenthood, and is now redefining retirement and aging." PBS website.
