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 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 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 $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Sarah Vowell
Powells.com Staff Pick At once a meditation on the motives of the pilgrims and a history of religion in America, The Wordy Shipmates will be a welcome addition to your history shelves. Sarah Vowell brings her usual wry humor and sharp insight to a piece of American history... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your Price $18.16 (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 $9.95 (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 Gerald Henig Publisher Comments This comprehensive look at the changes the Civil War introduced and exacerbated in America illustrates just how deeply the war affected the nation--and how America would never be the same because of it.... (read more) Your Price $18.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Lewis A Erenberg Publisher Comments "The War in American Culture" explores the role of World War II in the transformation of American social, cultural, and political life. World War II posed a crisis for American culture: to defeat the enemy, Americans had to unite across the class... (read more) Your Price $14.95 (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 Sarah Vowell
Publisher Comments Take the Cannoli is a moving and wickedly funny collection of personal stories stretching across the immense landscape of the American scene. Vowell tackles subjects such as identity, politics, religion, art, and history with a biting humor. She... (read more) Your Price $6.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by William Strauss Publisher Comments First came the postwar High, then the Awakening of the '60s and '70s, and now the Unraveling. This audacious and provocative book tells us what to expect just beyond the start of the next century. Are you ready for the Fourth Turning? <BR>Strauss... (read more) Your Price $17.95 (New - Trade Paper) 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 $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Sarah Vowell
Powells.com Staff Pick Leave it to Sarah Vowell to roam across America in search of the motivations and culture of political murder. Obsessive, edifying, and, of course, witty, Assassination Vacation is unlike any other historical tourism or travel writing book you'll ever... (read more) Your Price $6.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used 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 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 $5.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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Read the original essay by Kathleen Norris and save 30% on Acedia and Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life.
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