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Author
Publisher
Brown Books Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
An honest, humorous, and refreshing look back on the experiences of a unique generation and the challenges of growing older in the digital age. Musings of a Baby Boomer: Life Before X, Y, and Z is a collection of selected shorts from Hoflander's weekly newspaper column "Full Circle," featuring sometimes funny and sometimes philosophical stories with a continuous theme: the reluctant, but generally happy, aging of the Baby Boomer generation. In this...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Language
English
Description
I hope you get drafted, I hope you go to Vietnam, I hope you get shot, and I hope you die there. Those words, spoken in the anger of youth, marked the end of the torrid 1960s college romance of Annette DuBose and Gabe Pender. She would marry a fellow antiwar activist and end up immigrating to Canada. He would fight in Vietnam and come home to build an American dream kind of life--a great career, a trophy wife, and a life of wealth and privilege. Forty...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The open road: America looks at aging, which premiered on PBS in July 2005, examines the personal and social impact of the impending retirement of America's 77 million Baby Boomers. Through insightful stories of individuals confronting the obstacles and pursuing opportunities presented by the "third stage" of life, The open road probes the important social, economic, and cultural issues at stake. It is a film that will make people think, talk, and...
7) Walking on eggshells: navigating the delicate relationship between adult children and their parents
Author
Publisher
Doubleday/Flying Dolphin Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Offers practical advice to parents and their adult children on how to maintain a positive relationship even in the toughest situations.
Author
Publisher
Warner Wellness
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
"A book about how yesterday's baby boomers are becoming today's adventurous midlife pioneers, discovering exciting new opportunities for growth in work, play, family, and happiness, by the founding editor of MORE magazine."--Provided by the publisher.
12) BOOM
Author
Publisher
AMACOM
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"Foreword by Paco Underhill Women make the vast majority of purchasing decisions in the United States, spending trillions of dollars every year on everything from food and clothing to appliances, cars, vacations, real estate, and much more. One huge, affluent segment of that demographic wields more spending clout than any other: Baby-Boomer women. Born between 1946 and 1964, these women represent a portion of the buying public no marketer can afford...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author of the bestselling Red Lobster, White Trash, and the Blue Lagoon takes aim at the boomer generation in a hilarious work of social commentary.
It's become fashionable to vilify baby boomers. Professional iconoclast and baby boomer Joe Queenan, however, takes a somewhat more benign position: Yes, the baby boomers are venal, self-obsessed egomaniacs blighted by an insalubrious interest in things like the provenance of their neighbors' balsamic...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
As the daughters of the baby-boom reached adolescence, American schools struggled to educate them on matters of sexual and social development. This fascinating collection contains films on wide-ranging topics as such as the reproductive system, cooking skills, self-defense, and how to appear more pleasing to others.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Every day, hundreds of adult children become middle-aged orphans when their elderly parents pass away...but what should you do with what they've left behind? Professional estate liquidator Julie Hall provides essential guidance for any executor, heir, or beneficiary. You've heard the horror stories: arguments over stuff , an inheritance lost forever when easily deceived parents are scammed, siblings estranged, an adult heir taken from daily responsibilities...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Were you born in the 1940s and raised in the '50s? Were you a teenager in the '60s and did you leave home in the '70s? How has life changed through the '80s and '90s? And how did we end up here, in the second decade of the 21st century, when it all just seems like yesterday? In this fascinating new trip down memory lane, Paul Feeney remembers what it has been like to live through the eventful second half of the 20th century. With memories that will...
Author
Publisher
Tim Duggan Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Vanity Fair columnist Michael Kinsley escorts his fellow Boomers through the door marked "Exit." The largest age cohort in history--the notorious baby boomers--is approaching the end and starting to plan their final moves in the game of life. Now they are asking: What was that all about? Was it about acquiring things or changing the world? Was it about keeping all your marbles? Or is the only thing that counts after you've gone the reputation you...
Author
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
When it was first published, What If Boomers Can't Retire? predicted what would happen when boomers switched from buying stocks to selling them for retirement income. Since then-and as predicted by author Thornton Parker-stocks have become less important, prices have declined, corporations have shifted their emphasis from inflating stocks to just surviving, and there is currently a recession in full swing. This book shows that there is a bright side,...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A nostolgic journey through the last 60 years for the baby boomer generation-from a British perspective Do you remember washing in a tin bath by the fire, using outside lavatories, and not having a television? Did you grow up in the 1950s and were you a teenager in the swinging 60s? If the Festival of Britain, food rationing, and the Queen's Coronation are among your earliest memories then you belong to the post-war baby boomer generation. How did...
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