by Elizabeth Gilbert  Review "Gilbert examines America's ongoing infatuation with the frontier and leaves no stone unturned in her exploration of the cultural landscape of masculinity. Why, she asks, do American men continue to find themselves attracted to the wilderness? And what, precisely, does it mean to be a man in today's world?..." Heather Hewett, The Christian Science Monitor (read more) Your price $24.95 (New - Hardcover) check for other copies 
by Malcolm Gladwell  
Powells.com Staff Pick Somewhere along the way to guru-dom, Malcolm Gladwell got tagged as a business writer. Fair enough — The Tipping Point speaks more powerfully to the principles of succesful marketing than any pedestrian semester in the classroom. But while raves... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey Special Offer Buy the set! Order State by State now and receive the acclaimed 38-minute film featuring 19 of the book's contributors. Starring: Daphne Beal, Alison Bechdel, Will Blythe, Charles Bock, Anthony Bourdain, Susan Choi, Joshua Ferris, Dagoberto Gilb... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your Price $20.96 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
by Adriano Sack
Powells.com Staff Pick You're sitting at a bar with friends, and the conversation hits a lull. Someone excuses herself to get the next round and buy some time. But you don't need it, because you've read The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends and you're loaded with an... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your Price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher Comments 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) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Louis Menand
Publisher Comments 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) Your Price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Lynn Dumenil Publisher Comments When most of us take a backward glance at the 1920s, we may think of prohibition and the jazz age, of movies stars and flappers, of Harold Lloyd and Mary Pickford, of Lindbergh and Hoover--and of Black Friday, October 29, 1929, when the plunging stock... (read more) Your Price $3.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Todd Gitlin Publisher Comments Say "the Sixties" and the images start coming, images of a time when all authority was defied and millions of young Americans thought they could change the world--either through music, drugs, and universal love or by "putting their bodies on the line... (read more) Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Paul Stamets Publisher Comments From the author of Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms comes the only identification guide exclusively devoted to the world's psilocybin-containing mushrooms. Detailed descriptions and color photos for over 100 species are provided, as well as an... (read more) Your Price $32.50 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
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by Eric Schlosser
Powells.com Staff Pick "What we eat has changed more in the last forty years than in the last forty thousand," Schlosser observes, yet most Americans know very little about how that food is made, where, by whom, and at what cost. Fast Food Nation traces the industry's... (read more) Your Price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Nena Baker Publisher Comments We are running a collective chemical fever that we cannot break. Everyone everywhere now carries a dizzying array of chemical contaminants, the by-products of modern industry and innovation that contribute to a host of developmental deficits and health... (read more) Your Price $24.00 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by Eric Schlosser
Powells.com Staff Pick "What we eat has changed more in the last forty years than in the last forty thousand," Schlosser observes, yet most Americans know very little about how that food is made, where, by whom, and at what cost. Fast Food Nation traces the industry's... (read more) Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Neil Postman Publisher Comments In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it--with... (read more) Your Price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Stephanie Coontz Publisher Comments The Way We Never Were examines two centuries of American family life and shatters a series of myths and half-truths that burden modern families. Placing current family dilemmas in the context of far-reaching economic, political, and demographic changes... (read more) Your Price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Daniel Harris Publisher Comments Call it an encyclopedia of low-brow aesthetics. In Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic, the writer whom Steven Millhauser called "the most original essayist since George Orwell" examines with devastating wit and in a style distinctly his own the contagious... (read more) Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
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