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American Studies



American Studies

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Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
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A sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism. Americans are a positive people — cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: this is our reputation as well as our self-image... (read more)

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General
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The Wordy Shipmates
The Wordy Shipmates
by Sarah Vowell
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In this New York Times bestseller, the author of Assassination Vacation brings the [Puritan] era wickedly to life (Washington Post). To this day, America views itself as a Puritan nation, but Sarah Vowell investigates what that means — and what it... (read more)

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80s to Present
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
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The New York Times bestseller, and one of the most talked about books of the year, Nickel and Dimed has already become a classic of undercover reportage. Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join... (read more)

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50s, 60s, and 70s
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Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps
Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps
by Emmett Grogan
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Ringolevio is a classic American story of self-invention by one of the more mysterious and alluring figures to emerge in the 1960s. Emmett Grogan grew up on New York City's mean streets, getting hooked on heroin before he was in his teens, kicking the... (read more)

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Marijuana Home Grower's Manual
Marijuana Home Grower's Manual
by Bill Mccann
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With Billy McCanns unique cultivation method, marijuana plants mature in just six weeks. This innovative technique allows indoor gardeners to grow as many as 50 plants in a small cupboard, yielding over a pound of prime bud. Here McCann details his... (read more)

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Drugs and Culture
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LSD: Doorway to the Numinous: The Groundbreaking Psychedelic Research Into Realms of the Human Unconscious
LSD: Doorway to the Numinous: The Groundbreaking Psychedelic Research Into Realms of the Human Unconscious
by Stanislav Grof
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A pioneering book that explores the unknown landscape of human consciousness induced by LSD and other psychedelics - Shows the relationship between shamanism, near death experiences, and other mystical and altered states with those induced by... (read more)

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Pre World War I
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The Metaphysical Club: A Study of Ideas in America
The Metaphysical Club: A Study of Ideas in America
by Louis Menand
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Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History A riveting, original book about the creation of modern American thought. The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included... (read more)

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Getting Ghost Signed
Getting Ghost Signed
by Luke Bergmann
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This is an eloquent, moving narrative account of the lives of Dude, Rodney, and other young men who trade drugs, love their family and friends, dream of ordinary lives, and navigate a maze of violence, detention, jail time, and early death in turn of... (read more)

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Boom!: Talking about the Sixties: What Happened, How It Shaped Today, Lessons for Tomorrow with DVD
Boom!: Talking about the Sixties: What Happened, How It Shaped Today, Lessons for Tomorrow with DVD
by Tom Brokaw
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In Boom!, Tom Brokaw, one of America’s premier journalists and the acclaimed author of The Greatest Generation, gives us an epic portrait of another defining era in America: the tumultuous Sixties. The voices and stories of both famous people and... (read more)

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Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
by Martin A Lee and Bruce Shlain
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Few events have had a more profound impact on the social and cultural upheavals of the Sixties than the psychedelic revolution spawned by the spread of LSD. This book for the first time tells the full and astounding story — part of it hidden till... (read more)

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