The Gift of Generations
The Gift of Generations

Author: Akiko Hashimoto

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996-06-13

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9780521555203

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Modern societies today contend with population dynamics that have never before existed. As the number of older people grows, these countries must determine how best to provide for the needs of this population. The constraints are real: fiscal and material resources are finite and must be shared in a way that is perceived as just. As such, societies confront the fundamental question of who gets what, how, and why, and ultimately must reappraise the principles determining why some people are considered more worthy of help than others. This study systematically explores the Japanese and American answers to this fundamental question. This is the only US-Japan comparative work of its kind, utilizing systematically comparable data from both countries. It also draws on interview material that presents the choices, disappointments, and satisfactions of old age in the individual's own words.

The Gift of Underpants
The Gift of Underpants

Author: Neal Milner

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9781491019061

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The book's stories are connected by connections--the ways families try to hold themselves together as generations move from one another in both time and place. The stories examine these issues just as families face them--through everyday life experiences like giving underwear as gifts; dealing with elderly parents from thousands of miles away; trying to understand what your grandchildren do for a living; obsessing over retirement planning; and the adventures of Hawaii's only teller of Jewish stories. Like everyday family life, the stories are both serious and funny.

The Gift of Marmidon
The Gift of Marmidon

Author: Tiffany Rhys

Publisher:

Published: 2021-08-10

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13:

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(This is the 2nd Edition, and has 2,000 more words) A powerful force awakens. One that can change the course of history. Hidden behind the Pincer Mountains, Aeryn pictures a peaceful and fulfilling future. However, his preconceived plans for life are upended. The spirit of the world places a heavy burden on the only one that can save it all. Without his efforts, the world as he knows it will fall into darkness, a darkness that will destroy the balance of nature itself. Tensions are rising in Criysous as the people grow uneasy and the land reels with ominous foreboding in the air. The King searches for that which he cannot find. Princess Kaley Zarra wishes nothing more than for her father to be the loving man he once was. Her world shatters. Beneath it all, hidden in the darkness, an evil is rising and it's nothing that Aeryn or Kaley could have prepared for. War was just the beginning

Generations
Generations

Author: Lucille Clifton

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2021-11-16

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 1681375885

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A moving family biography in which the poet traces her family history back through Jim Crow, the slave trade, and all the way to the women of the Dahomey people in West Africa. Buffalo, New York. A father’s funeral. Memory. In Generations, Lucille Clifton’s formidable poetic gift emerges in prose, giving us a memoir of stark and profound beauty. Her story focuses on the lives of the Sayles family: Caroline, “born among the Dahomey people in 1822,” who walked north from New Orleans to Virginia in 1830 when she was eight years old; Lucy, the first black woman to be hanged in Virginia; and Gene, born with a withered arm, the son of a carpetbagger and the author’s grandmother. Clifton tells us about the life of an African American family through slavery and hard times and beyond, the death of her father and grandmother, but also all the life and love and triumph that came before and remains even now. Generations is a powerful work of determination and affirmation. “I look at my husband,” Clifton writes, “and my children and I feel the Dahomey women gathering in my bones.”

Sticking Points
Sticking Points

Author: Haydn Shaw

Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Published: 2013-07-22

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1414386192

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This is the first time in American history that we have had four different generations working side-by-side in the workplace: the Traditionalists (born before 1945), the Baby Boomers (born 1945-1964), Gen X (born 1965-1980), and the Millennials (born 1981-2001). Haydn Shaw, popular business speaker and generational expert, has identified 12 places where the 4 generations typically come apart in the workplace (and in life as well). These sticking points revolve around differing attitudes toward managing one’s own time, texting, social media, organizational structure, and of course, clothing preferences. If we don’t learn to work together and stick together around these 12 sticking points, then we’ll be wasting a lot of time fighting each other instead of enjoying a friendly and productive team. Sticking Points is a must-read book that will help you understand the generational differences you encounter while teaching how we can learn to speak one another’s language and get better results together.

Gen X at Middle Age in Popular Culture
Gen X at Middle Age in Popular Culture

Author: Pamela W. Hollander

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-12-10

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1793617341

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Born roughly between 1964 and 1980, Generation X has received much less critical attention than the two generations that precede and follow it: the Baby Boomers and Millennials. This essay collection examines representations of Generation X in contemporary popular culture, including in television, movies, music, and internet sources. Drawing on generational theory, cultural studies theory, race theory, and feminist theory, the essays in this volume consider the past identities of Generation X, relationships with members of younger generations, modern appropriation of Generation X aesthetics, interactions of Generation X members with family, and the existential values of Generation X.

Generation to Generation
Generation to Generation

Author: Kelin E. Gersick

Publisher: Harvard Business Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 087584555X

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Generation to Generation will help managers understand the special dynamics & challenges that family businesses face as they move through their life cycles. It explains how to handle succession, & the role of non-family professionals.

Family
Family

Author: James E. Hughes, Jr.

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2010-05-13

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 0470884576

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Why do some families thrive for generations? What accounts for the sad deterioration that others experience? This book takes families and the professionals who serve them beyond the now widely accepted practices offered in Family Wealth and offers a view of Hughes's panoramic insights into what makes families flourish and fail. It lays out the basis for the vision of family governance the author has been developing through his work and research. His advice addresses not only what to do but how to think about the complex issues of family governance, growth, and stability and the ongoing challenge of nurturing the happiness of each family member.

Generations
Generations

Author: Neil Howe

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 1992-09-30

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 0688119123

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Hailed by national leaders as politically diverse as former Vice President Al Gore and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Generations has been heralded by reviewers as a brilliant, if somewhat unsettling, reassessment of where America is heading. William Strauss and Neil Howe posit the history of America as a succession of generational biographies, beginning in 1584 and encompassing every-one through the children of today. Their bold theory is that each generation belongs to one of four types, and that these types repeat sequentially in a fixed pattern. The vision of Generations allows us to plot a recurring cycle in American history -- a cycle of spiritual awakenings and secular crises -- from the founding colonists through the present day and well into this millenium. Generations is at once a refreshing historical narrative and a thrilling intuitive leap that reorders not only our history books but also our expectations for the twenty-first century.