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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell Publisher Comments Why did crime in New York drop so suddenly in the mid-90s? How does an unknown novelist end up a bestselling author? Why is teenage smoking out of control, when everyone knows smoking kills? What makes TV shows like Sesame Street so good at teaching kids... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell Publisher Comments From Buffalo to Alaska, Washington to Key West, cultural critic and radio commentator Vowell visits locations immortalized and influenced by assassination, reporting as she goes with her trademark blend of wisecracking humor, remarkable honesty, and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - 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 $40.25 Your price: $22.50 Used - Hardcover
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California Series in Public Anthropology #21: Righteous Dopefiend by Philippe Bourgois Publisher Comments This powerful study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. For over a decade Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg followed a social network of two dozen heroin injectors and crack smokers on... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman Publisher Comments A driving force behind the social revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, Hoffman inspired a generation to challenge the status quo. Meant as a practical guide for the aspiring hippie, Steal This Book captures Hoffman's puckish tone and became a cult classic... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman Publisher Comments In 1970, Abbie Hoffman conceived the idea for his most ambitious book project yet. He had begun criss-crossing the country, ferreting out alternative ways of getting along in America--some illegal, but most of them having to do with survival techniques... (read more) Your price: $24.95 Used - Mass Market
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American Nerd: The Story of My People by Benjamin Nugent Publisher Comments Most people know a nerd when they see one but can't define just what a nerd is. American Nerd: The Story of My People gives us the history of the concept of nerdiness and of the subcultures we consider nerdy. What makes Dr. Frankenstein the archetypal... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Suburban Nation : the Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (00 Edition) by Andres Duany Publisher Comments A manifesto by America's most controversial and celebrated town planners, proposing an alternative model for community design. There is a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and to replace the automobile-based settlement... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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