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Reading American Photographs: Images as History: Mathew Brady to Walker Evans by Alan Trachtenberg Publisher Comments Winner of the Charles C. Eldredge Prize In this book, Alan Trachtenberg reinterprets some of America's most significant photographs, presenting them not as static images but rather as rich cultural texts suffused with meaning and historical content."... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D Putnam Publisher Comments Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work -- but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam has identified in this brilliant volume, Bowling Alone, which The Economist hailed as "a prodigious... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps by Emmett Grogan Publisher Comments 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) List Price $17.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Marijuana Home Grower's Manual by Bill Mccann Synopsis 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) Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Metaphysical Club: A Study of Ideas in America 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) List Price $27.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement by Michael Lienesch Publisher Comments The current controversy over teaching evolution in the public schools has grabbed front-page headlines and topped news broadcasts all across the United States. In the Beginning investigates the movement that has ignited debate in state... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $22.50 Used - Hardcover
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Blow by Bruce Porter Publisher Comments BLOW is the unlikely story of George Jung's roller coaster ride from middle-class high school football hero to the heart of Pable Escobar's Medellin cartel-- the largest importer of the United States cocaine supply in the 1980s. Jung's early business of... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology 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) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Elsewhere, U.S.A.: How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, Blackberry Moms, and Eco by Dalton Conley Publisher Comments Over the past three decades, our daily lives have changed slowly but dramatically. Boundaries between leisure and work, public space and private space, and home and office have blurred and become permeable. How many of us now work from home, our wireless... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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