Coming of Age: Growing Up in the Twentieth Century
A New York Times bestseller when it was first published in 1995, Coming of Age presents an astonishing portrait of American life and the experience of aging in the twentieth century, drawn from the stories of seventy-four very different people, the youngest of whom is seventy and the oldest ninety-nine.
Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century
This book describes important set of key skills that increase deeper learning, college and career readiness, student-centered learning, and higher order thinking. These labels include both cognitive and non-cognitive skills- such as critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, effective communication, motivation, persistence, and learning to learn.
In this 21st century of opportunity and turbulence, business firms need to equip themselves with new competencies that were never thought of before. For this reason, this book is timely as it introduces new insights into new problems in the aspects of performance and quality improvement, networking and logistics in the interconnected world, as well as developments in monetary and financial environment surrounding private enterprises today.
LeniLeni by Steven Bach. An exceptional work of historical investigation, "Leni" is the definitive biography of one of the most fascinating and controversial personalities of the 20th century: Leni Riefenstahl, the woman best known as Hitler's filmmaker.
The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century - Eric HobsbawmFailure of prediction
Failure of prediction, failure of communism, end of imperialism, failure of free-market capitalism, fascism. Hobsbawm uses statistics to paint a broad picture of a society in a given time, alongside its arts and popular culture.
