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Snapshots of the U.S.'s last nine generations--from the creators of the Mindset List media sensationJust as high school graduates in 1957 couldn't imagine life without zippers, those of 2009 can't imagine having to enter phone booths and deposit coins in order to call someone from the street corner. Every August, the Mindset List highlights the cultural touchstones that have shaped the lives of that year's incoming college class. Now this fascinating book extends the Mindset List approach to dramatize what it was like to grow up for every American generation since 1880, showcasing the remarkable changes in what Americans have considered ""normal"" about the world around them.Expands Tom McBride and Ron Nief's popular annual Mindset Lists to explore the mindset of nine generations of Americans, from 1880 to the future high school graduates of 2030 Offers a novel and absorbing way to understand the frame of reference of Americans through history, whether it's the high school grads of 1918, who viewed riding an elevator as a thrill second only to roller coasters, or those of 2009, who have always thought of ""friend"" as an active verb Puts a human face on the evolution of historical changes related to technology, the struggle for rights and equality, the calamities of war and depression, and other areas The annual Mindset List garners extensive media attention, including on Today, The Early Show, the NBC Nightly News, CNN, and Fox as well as in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, Time magazine, and hundreds of international publicationsWhatever your own generational mindset, this book will give you an entertaining and important new tool for understanding the unique perspective and experience of Americans over more than a hundred and fifty years.

Tom McBride, who served on the USS Bennington as a Corsair fighter pilot in World War 2, shares his remembrances of wartime adventures, post-war flying experiences, and much, much more, including the origins of the universe, first life on earth, and his thoughts on religion and the "enemy within". This old warrior may no longer be involved in gunfire wars, but he is hell bent in verbally attacking those he calls the "enemies within" who are attacking his beloved 1776 founders' goals and dreams for America as well as their attacks on the judicial branch of our government. He is now as dedicated to the goals of the Americans United for Separation of Church and State as he once was as a warrior fighting America's enemies overseas.

Dr. Samuel Johnson famously said, "Life is a condition in which there is much to be endured and little to be enjoyed." We all know that life includes grief, betrayal, disappointment, and defeat. It is painful. But is there any way to escape needless pain? There is-and this book of wisdom contains ten rules for lowering life's suffering. Tom McBride has derived this advice from a blend of his personal experience and his lifetime of liberal arts study. Among the other benefits of the liberal arts and sciences is good counsel for living a more analgesic life. In this little book are suggestions, derived from the likes of Darwin and Wittgenstein, for diminishing the agony of grief and resisting unwelcome social pressure. Here you will learn how to sidestep the deceptions of language and to find the serenity of accepting the role of luck. Here are ten rules for lowering the misery index in your life. They range from "Thank your mother's boyfriend for dying young" to "Never take driver's ed. from Aristotle" and well beyond. Here is a lively, witty liberal arts guide for reducing the unnecessary pain of the human endeavor.

Sergeant Jeremy Dropsky and his orange tabby Dez are back to sleuthing in Beloit, Wisconsin. This time they investigate the murder of a shady Chicago businessman found dead in front of Beloit's famed Angel Museum. The neurotic but brilliant Jeremy, his feline alter-ego Dez, and Jeremy's sharp new partner Abe Woodruff are sure that the location of the corpse, in front of a museum devoted to angels, is the key to entire mystery. It is only after a wild and wooly chase--which includes a zany trip to Janesville, a tough interrogation in Barrington, and a perilous visit to Roscoe-that they find the truth about "the deadest angel in Beloit." And when they do find it, they discover it to be far more astonishing-and dangerous-than they had ever imagined.

Timothy McTowell and Lester Dimbert are two legendary professors whose comedy classroom act has seen better days. Caught between the old and new at Belial College in Maine, they find themselves, in their late 70s, forced to retire. Yet they return to Belial as elderly students. Soon they get mixed up in all sorts of mayhem: a campaign to bring an obscene heavy metal band to campus, a twenty year-old student with disturbing ideas about love; and even the murder of the college president-a baffling crime with multiple suspects. It's unclear whether these curious old men-Tim and Les-are amazingly creative or just insanely demented. But whatever they are, they play key roles in a zany campus drama of revolutionary students, feckless college administrators, lively debates about love, and two uncanny deaths. Tim and Les, however ancient, bring seismic change to a college that once slept soundly near the stormy shores of the North Atlantic.

Is America headed to collapse and decline? Thousands of years of history tell the story of empires that have risen and fallen. Is America next? What can patriotic Americans do about it? Do the 1776 Founders of America have the answer? We must continue to learn from our history to assure a strong and viable nation.Author LCDR Tom McBride USN/Ret lays out his compelling ideas for reversing America's decline.

Beloit is an old Wisconsin river town with a colorful history, industrial ingenuity, and famed college. Jeremy Dropsky and Roger Webb are partners in the Beloit police force, but they could hardly be more different. Jeremy is a hyper-logical loner, a failed college student, and a devotee of his little cat Dez. Roger is instinctual, married, good-looking, and in great need of becoming a hero. But they like each other a lot. Together they do the good work of Beloit cops, which includes cooling domestic fights, eradicating meth houses, and dealing with the obsessive resentments of Rose, the department's administrative head. Then one day they are called to investigate what may actually be a non-event: an alleged Peeping Tom in a fashionable section of east Beloit. As they investigate what Jeremy thinks is nothing at all, and what Roger thinks is a sinister plot, they encounter a strange mixture of expensive candy, fractured marriage-and uncanny murder. BENT DEAD IN BELOIT explores the fateful relationship between Jeremy and Roger as they encounter a world that seems to make no sense-until it does, and then it's far too late. Here is a fascinating story of mystery and despair, heroism and love.

In this book Toledo's notorious "animal-rights" serial killer speaks up for the first time. Fred Didion tells us how he became someone who killed in defense of animals, whom he calls "angels." In Fred's account butterflies and dogs, ticks and worms, are not only angels. They are also under constant threat from "the beasts"-otherwise known as human beings. Here Fred explains how an obese aunt, a treacherous friend, a Scottish minister, and a horrific injury helped him become, in time, an expert practitioner of the homicidal arts. He narrates the tales of his various victims, such as Noah, the traumatized ex-teacher; Bobby, the overweight, despised sousaphone player; Mary, the decadent refugee from Los Angeles; Phil, the sensitive but mediocre poet; and Alvin, his hot shot businessman cousin. None of them are bad people-but they are doomed beasts nonetheless. Fred makes sure of that. In this harrowing page-turner readers will meet one of the most inexplicable personalities in fiction: a nice guy who's decided that not murdering would be more shameful than murdering. Here is a protagonist whose philosophy of life seems absurd, dangerous, and yet, sometimes, uncannily persuasive.

Janesville, Wisconsin is a southern Wisconsin city with a distinguished industrial and political history. Now it's the scene of a strange new mystery novel. Anna Marie Loy comes to Janesville in the late 1930s to flee from a scandal in Liverpool, England. Janesville is a thriving town of over 22,000 people, and the proud home of both new Chevrolet sedans and Parker Duo-Fold pens. Anna Marie settles there and soon enough gets married to a city worker, is interviewed by the local Gazette, gets blamed for the sudden illness of a prominent dentist, and meets an elderly professor, also British, in Madison. Anna Marie may leave Liverpool for Janesville, but her demons drive her wherever she is. These phantoms include her fetish for jade, her obsession with her late father, and her vexed feelings about the human male. In a perfect storm, as her native England is being devastated by the Nazi Blitz, Anna Marie's ghosts assemble in one cold December room, with murderous results.

Millions of adults worldwide find themselves freaked out in the Age of Trump. Now there's relief: MAMA GOOSE, the renowed nursery rhymer, has emerged from retirement to raecycle the cherished verses that have given comfort to billions. Here are such old favorites as Jack Be Nimble, Old Mother Hubbard, Little Jack Horner, The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, and Little Miss Muffet, all finding new identities in the cast of America's horrific new soap opera. These include Sean Spicer, Vlad Putin, Jared & Ivanka, Reine Preibus, Kellyanne Conway, Don, Jr., and of course the the great orange ogre Donald himself. In these many parodies you will find a humorous respite from the depredations now being visited upon democratic values--and find the break that refreshes lawful opposition. But there's even more: MAMA GOOSE is also an illustrious therapist. Here she offers, at little extra charge, her methods for surviving this time of Trump. These include such psychologically robust suggestions as making Charles Manson your pen pal, and consoling yourself with the curious case of Kim Kardashian. In dark times comedy remains a powerful analgesic.

A common idea within modern education is that digital technologies and traditional learning cannot coexist successfully, that essentially technologies can be distracting and disrupting for students. It is believed that current implementations of technology in educational settings create an environment that is at odds with itself. However, this dichotomy between traditional learning and educational technologies does not need to be the default. Digital technology can be used in positive ways to enhance learning, whether it is providing easier access to information or in a creative light such as the implementation of video games as learning tools. Ultimately, it is possible to incorporate technologies into classical education strategies so that they complement each other. Acquiring Learning Skills With Digital Technology is a critical scholarly publication that examines cutting-edge research on how digital technologies disrupt the traditional learning structure, and proposes ways in which traditional learning and digital technology can complement each other. This will improve learning while communicating a program of skill-acquisitions that can become the basis for stand-alone general education courses and as teaching techniques. It examines three skills that the authors define as trim (abilities in the economy and concentration of language), track (progressive comprehension of documents), and test (pragmatic testing of data and precepts located on search engines). The authors demonstrate these skills' links to already-established digital skills, platforms, and protocols while also giving examples of each in both practice and format. The book examines a variety of technologies including video games, the internet, and social media, in particular Skype, Google, and Twitter. Featuring a wide range of topics such as social media, pedagogy, and psychology, this book is ideal for education professionals, academicians, IT professionals, researchers, computer scientists, psychologists, and students.

A common idea within modern education is that digital technologies and traditional learning cannot coexist successfully, that essentially technologies can be distracting and disrupting for students. It is believed that current implementations of technology in educational settings create an environment that is at odds with itself. However, this dichotomy between traditional learning and educational technologies does not need to be the default. Digital technology can be used in positive ways to enhance learning, whether it is providing easier access to information or in a creative light such as the implementation of video games as learning tools. Ultimately, it is possible to incorporate technologies into classical education strategies so that they complement each other. Acquiring Learning Skills With Digital Technology is a critical scholarly publication that examines cutting-edge research on how digital technologies disrupt the traditional learning structure, and proposes ways in which traditional learning and digital technology can complement each other. This will improve learning while communicating a program of skill-acquisitions that can become the basis for stand-alone general education courses and as teaching techniques. It examines three skills that the authors define as trim (abilities in the economy and concentration of language), track (progressive comprehension of documents), and test (pragmatic testing of data and precepts located on search engines). The authors demonstrate these skills' links to already-established digital skills, platforms, and protocols while also giving examples of each in both practice and format. The book examines a variety of technologies including video games, the internet, and social media, in particular Skype, Google, and Twitter. Featuring a wide range of topics such as social media, pedagogy, and psychology, this book is ideal for education professionals, academicians, IT professionals, researchers, computer scientists, psychologists, and students.

In The Millennial Promise the authors of the famed Mindset List offer 40 practical tips for better Millennial education. They give educators, counselors, and administrators a solid understanding of Millennial attitudes--from politics to economics to gender--and show how specific Millennial emotions and tech savvy are the real keys to Millennial learning. Included here are creative ideas for promoting intellectual joy--and even using such Millennials habits as tweets and texting to help them acquire analytical skills that will last a lifetime. The Millennial Promise shows educators how to give the new generation academic gifts that will keep on giving.