Humanities & Social Sciences
October 2020
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Travel & TransportJune 2022Millennials, Generation Z and the Future of Tourism
by Fabio Corbisiero, Salvatore Monaco, Elisabetta Ruspini
This book examines the lifestyles, expectations and plans of Millennials and Generation Z and how they are redefining tourism. It demonstrates that if the tourism industry is to enjoy future growth, it must understand and meet the particular needs of these two generations. The volume explores the present and future challenges faced by the tourism industry as a result of the generational turnover, and seeks to answer the following questions: What contribution can the new generations make to the future of tourism? How are technological advancements and social networks shaping future travel trends? Can a generational perspective be useful to help the tourism industry recover from the COVID-19 crisis? The book will be of interest to researchers and students of sociology and tourism studies, as well as tourism professionals.
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FictionFebruary 2021Saponi
by Elena Ghiretti
The war between thirty-year-olds and those in their forties has just begun: a novel of irresistible irony, with a quick-witted, cynical style of writing that will invite you to look at the world with greater suspicion but, at the same time, far less fear. Lucia has made it to her forties convinced that she has reached some sort of lifetime achievement: she has a job she loves in a marketing agency, she has a stable relationship, and she has paid a deposit on her dream house. But, one rainy day, everything starts to unravel. A chain of unfortunate events brings her perfect life crashing down. She begins to question her career, her love life, and her own identity, with an insistent thought niggling at her mind: the thirty-year-olds have taken over. And she hadn’t even realised. Because of her age, she is out of the game. She is Soap, a losing concept: a naïve new line of men’s cosmetics which the client ditches in favour of a tantalising proposal from a millennial of indeterminate gender. Reinventing herself now is impossible: it’s too late. Those in their thirties work in different ways, and have begun to shape their own alien universe. From that moment, Lucia’s certainty disappears, her life derailing. From networking events with glossy influencers and surreal evenings spent in escape rooms, to obscure spiritual practices and erotic and geographical digressions, Lucia attempts to find a new direction for her life. Instead, she discovers that, deep down, millennials may not be quite as enigmatic as they seem.
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Health & Personal DevelopmentSeptember 2020Small, Broke, and Kind of Dirty
Affirmations for the Real World
by Hana Shafi
Let’s get one thing straight: Small, Broke, and Kind of Dirty: Affirmations for the Real World is not a book of advice. You’re not going to find a step-by-step guide to meditation here, or even reminders to drink lots of water and get enough sleep. Those things are all good for you, but that’s not what Hana Shafi wants to talk about. Instead, Small, Broke, and Kind of Dirty—built around art from Shafi’s popular online affirmation series—focuses on our common and never-ending journey of self-discovery. It explores the ways in which the world can all too often wear us down, and reminds us to remember our worth, even when it’s hard to do so. Drawing on her experience as a millennial woman of colour, and writing with humour and a healthy dose of irreverence, Shafi delves into body politics and pop culture, racism and feminism, friendship, and allyship. Through it all, she remains positive without being saccharine, and hopeful without being naive. So no, this is not an advice book: it’s a call to action, one that asks us to remember that we are valid as we are—flaws and all—and to not let the bastards grind us down.
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MusicMarch 2021MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE
This Band Will Save Your Life
by Reinhardt Haydn
My Chemical Romance emerged from New Jersey in the aftermath of the 9/11 atrocities to become the standard bearers for a new fusion of punk, glam and emo. After building a committed following with their first two albums, MCR achieved global prominence in 2006 with their platinum-selling album Welcome To The Black Parade. This book tells the definitive story of the groundbreaking band, charting their rise to the apex of the post-millennial rock pantheon.
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EducationFostering Human Development Through Engineering and Technology Education
by Barak, M.
Fostering Human Development Through Engineering and Technology Education (ETE) is a collaborative work offered to students, scholars, researchers, decision-makers, curriculum developers, and educators interested in the rich learning opportunities afforded by engineering and technology education. This book provides perspective about the roles ETE might uniquely play in applying contemporary pedagogical practices to enhance students' intellectual, cognitive, and social skills in the service of promoting equitable and sustainable human development. Education about engineering and technology has become an imperative for all people due to the exponential rate of technological change, the impact of globalization on culture and economy, and the essential contributions engineering and technology make in addressing global and environmental challenges. Many of today’s students wish to use their education to influence the future, and school-based engineering and technology education programs meet the needs of these “millennial students” who are civic-minded, team-oriented, and want to make a difference. Therefore, support has been rapidly increasing for the establishment of school-based engineering and technology education (ETE) programs in many countries across the globe. Chapters in this book provide discussion about dimensions of learning; capabilities, concepts and skills for third millennial learners; culturally relevant learning through ETE; and the promise of new pedagogies such as gaming and other project-based learning approaches in our digitally connected world. The author team includes renowned educational theorists, cognitive scientists, scientists and engineers, instructional designers, expert practitioners, and researchers who have coalesced best practice and contemporary thought from seven countries.
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May 2020La lumière de l'archange
by Adam, Gérard
Written between 1986 and 1990, while the Internet was in its infancy, published in 1992, finalist for the Rossel Prize (the main Belgian literary prize), La Lumière de l'Archange was at the time a novel by slight anticipation, since it took place at the end of 1999. Pierre Lhermitte, French specialist in viral diseases, Nobel Prize in medicine for the vaccine against AIDS, founder of a brotherhood of scientists, is the victim of the virus he is studying, a formidable mutant that has arisen in the Central African forests. Held in quarantine in his own department, supported by his friends around the world, he participates in the speed race between the epidemic and research, while becoming aware of a contemporary world from which he had until then abstracted himself and that is shaken by deep social or geopolitical upheavals, as well as the explosion of ultraviolent fanaticisms and the advent of millenarian movements in this last year of the twentieth century. But strange psychic changes appear in the survivors. Is the development of life at a crossroads? Pierre Lhermitte, sent to Africa to coordinate the fight against the epidemic in the hope of keeping him landlocked, will be involved simultaneously in an exceptional adventure and in an inner, psychological, metaphysical and spiritual quest. A visionary novel, whose only flaw is that it was published too early. Now that the epidemics of mutant viruses (Ebola, Covid19) are succeeding and amplifying one another, it is extremely topical, and warns us of the dangers that the contemporary world – and our behavior – poses to a humanity rushing headlong towards the wall.
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July 2020Happily Whatever After
by Stewart Lewis
A dark comedy about putting yourself in unexpected places, reaching for your dreams, and believing in second chances. Thirtysomething Page was content with her life in New York City—until it went to the dogs. Unceremoniously dumped by her boyfriend of four years and fired from her art gallery job in the same week, she flees to Washington, DC, and moves in with her big brother. She hopes the new setting and familial comfort will help her finally find her bearings. What Page finds instead is an unlikely refuge: a park for the neighborhood’s poshest pooches, and a quirky pack of companionable dog-run regulars who become fast friends. Both four-legged and two-, these new allies offer Page a world of possibilities. The woman who hit rock bottom now has dreams: of having her own business, getting her own place, and even wilder ones about the ruggedly handsome owner of a vineyard and two equally fetching Bernese mountain dogs. Unleashed from all that once held her back, Page finds everything might be falling into place. But just when she thinks her life is headed in the right direction, the road takes a sharp turn to show her just how unpredictable second chances can be. Will Page get her happily ever after? Is there even such a thing? Witty, smartly funny, and modernly romantic, Happily Whatever After shows us all that sometimes imperfect can still be good enough. Watch a video about HAPPILY WHATEVER AFTER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTu3pwV0q6I&list=PLmc_qWqAlZdRTe52onoZW9trkO1kXbqyx&index=5
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Literary FictionMarch 2014Jet Set Desolate
by Andrea Lambert
A dive into post-millennial San Francisco, where electroclash cuts lines with the burgeoning dot-com bubble, and Lena falls for Jesse, a street-walking cheetah with a heart full of need. Follow the sores beneath the sequins, food stamps and semen, the broken milieu of a youth smashed between utter excess and utter loss.
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HumourCATBOY
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by BENJI NATE
CATBOY is a collection of twenty-two short comedic vignettes of the everyday adventures of Olive – socially awkward, earnest, millennial art student – and her naïve, enthusiastic, newly “human” cat-companion, Henry. From mean girls to patriarchal double standards, the world is not always kind to Olive and Henry. But even in the face of these obstacles, their friendship sees them through. If you like cats and cute, you’ll love CATBOY. Previously featured as a wepaperbackomic on VICE.com.
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Travel & TransportDi qui passò Francesco
by Angela Maria Seracchioli
350 km between La Verna, Gubbio,Assisi... all the way to RietiSeventeen days on foot, by bicycle oron horseback across Tuscany, Umbriaand Lazio; through millennial forestsand valleys full of history. A newupdated version of the first guidebookon the “roads of Francis” on foot. Thefundamental events in the life ofFrancis are described for every stageof the trail. A whole chapter is entirelydedicated to bicycle preparation andmaintenance.
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July 2020Dirty Birds
by Morgan Murray
In late 2008, as the world’s economy crumbles and Barack Obama ascends to the White House, the remarkably unremarkable Milton Ontario leaves his parents’ basement in Middle-of-Nowhere, Saskatchewan, and sets forth to find fame, fortune, and love in the Euro-lite electric sexuality of Montreal; to bask in the endless twenty-something Millennial adolescence of the Plateau; and to find his messiah—Leonard Cohen. Hilariously ironic and irreverent, in Dirty Birds Morgan Murray generates a quest novel for the twenty-first century—a coming-of-age, rom-com, crime-farce thriller—where a hero’s greatest foe is his own crippling mediocrity as he seeks purpose in art, money, power, crime, and sleeping in all day.
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October 2021The Purpose Handbook
by Skinner
The goal of this book is simple: to help young people live with a sense of purpose. Part-manual, part-manifesto, this book is not a quick fix for happiness; it’s not a five-day plan promising a fast result. Instead, it’s a companion, a personal guide to navigating the reader’s own sense of purpose as it evolves throughout their life. Born on an East London council estate, having studied at Cambridge and Oxford, and now an author, teacher, and entrepreneur, Eloise Skinner - over-achieving, formerly purposeless millennial - is well-placed to write on this topic. Over seven years she undertook a personal purpose-finding project, and now, having crafted and tailored her own life to reflect her values, identity and sense of purpose, she shares the lessons she learned in this book.
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March 2022Flora y fauna
by Leticia Rivas
What does being a twin mean? What does being a twin mean to others and to yourself? Suburbian SMEs, old communist militants, cell-phone sales strategies, beer-flavored kisses, Tinder dates, phobias, millennial entrepreneurship, and the motherhood question: the characters in these stories inhabit these unstable and difficult territories where the challenge is not only to find their way in the world but to differentiate themselves with precision–in the chiaroscuro of contemporary times–where do one’s own story and desires begin and end?With flashes of humor that don’t shy away from irony or tenderness, a sharp and precise eye for emotion, and a disarming profoundness, these stories by Leticia Rivas impress with their extraordinary skill and move you from the first to the last page. Federico Falco
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FictionMarch 2018THE TIME OF THE GODS
by GIOVANNI MAGISTRELLI
End of World War II. Humanity is preparing for a new beginning, made of peace and hope. Ásgarðr, the Eternal Kingdom: the pantheon of the Norse gods is reunited by the ruler, Óðinn, to punish the four Æsir, who acted behind the conflict on Miðgarðr, the Earth. Loki, Baldr, Týr, and Thòrr are exiled among mortals. Rome. Under Saint Peter’s Basilica, the Reverend Giulio Viola leads a secret organization of psychics, who sense the arrival on Earth of the four exiled Æsir. The discovery brings into play, in addition to the Vatican, the religious leaders of the main monotheistic religions, each defending millennial dogmas. In a succession of twists and turns, from Dubai to Rome, from Tehran to Las Vegas, everyone will have to deal with their conscience, in search of the absolute truth. For the time of the gods has come, by now.
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FictionFrozen Blood
by F.G. Haghenbeck
In 1943 the Mexican government imprisoned mexican citizens who were descendants of Germans (considered to be possible traitors) in the Perote concentration camp, inside the old fortress of San Carlos. More than five hundred people were locked in those high mountains, surrounded by only cold and humidity. This is in one of the most secret passages in Mexican history. In the middle of a harsh and snowy winter, the prisoners will have to face something more than the Mexican government when a gigantic pre-Hispanic god awakens from his millennial hibernation ready to regain lost power: Xipe Tótec, a flayed lord. The stark deity will cause terror among Austrians and Germans, who will have to confront terrifying ancient magic, suspicion hanging over their heads, and their own uncontrollable demons.
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April 2017AKIKO
by MICHELA CAVALIERE
The cursed pact between a naive queen and a millennial demon will give birth to a child. The little one, helped by the Kami (spirit) of the Wind, will be adopted by a simple family, and will show a gift bearer of death and destruction whenever she is in danger. Assassins sent to kill her, won over by her diabolical charm, will make her the heir of Ryūjinja, a monastery of spies and thieves. Here the girl will be called Akiko and develop the ability to see the Ōra, souls of living beings, and learn to use the spiked chain Sashimasu. Akiko will be sent to a distant island to kill a prince, but nothing will go as planned. From that moment, the young woman will move through ancient myths, looking for an artifact to restore balance, in an epic fight that will decide the fate of the world.
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Generations
How When We’re Born Shapes Who We Are
by Bobby Duffy
A compelling exploration of generational divides informed by exclusive studies from around the world. Are millennials entitled and lazy? Are baby boomers the most sexually liberal generation? Was generation X the last group to show loyalty to political parties? In this original and deeply researched book, polling expert and professor of public policy Bobby Duffy explores how when we're born determines our attitudes to money, sex, religion, politics and much else. Informed by exclusive studies from IPSOS, as well as his own research, Duffy reveals that many of our preconceptions are just that: tired stereotypes. Revealing and informative, Generations provides a new framework for understanding the most divisive issues raging today: from gun control to climate change and Brexit to the surveillance state. Including data from over 40 countries and interviews across generational divides, this big thinking book will transform how you view the world.
