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The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream
by John Zogby  Publisher Comments According to super pollster John Zogby, whom the Washington Post calls "the maverick predictor," the conventional wisdom about the United States — that we're isolated from the world, politically fragmented, and inclined toward material pleasure...
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Why We Hate Us: American Discontent in the New Millennium
by Dick Meyer Publisher Comments Americans are as safe, well fed, securely sheltered, long-lived, free, and healthy as any human beings who have ever lived on the planet. But we are down on America. So why do we hate us? According to Dick Meyer, the following items on this (much...
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No Speed Limit: The Highs and Lows of Meth
by Frank Owen Publisher Comments Hell’s Angels and fallen televangelists. Cross-country truckers and suburban mothers. Trailer parks, urban clubs, college campuses, and military battle?elds. Methamphetamine is the stimulant wiring every corner of American culture. Like...
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Spliffigami: Roll the 35 Greatest Joints of All Time
by Chris Stone Synopsis Next time 4: 20 rolls around, put a new twist on a spliff using this step-by-step guide: start by perfecting the basic joint, move on to ornate blunts, then get freaky with multi-pronged doobies, with this irreverent take on toking....
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Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children
by Philip Shabecoff Publisher Comments In this shocking and sobering book, two fearless journalists directly and definitively link industrial toxins to the current rise in childhood disease and death. In the tradition of Silent Spring, Poisoned Profits is a landmark investigation, an eye...
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Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art Out of Desperate Times
by Susan Quinn Publisher Comments A vivid portrait of the turbulent 1930s and the Roosevelt administration as seen through the WPA’s Federal Theater Project.Under the direction of a five-foot redheaded firecracker, Hallie Flanagan, the Federal Theater Project managed to turn a WPA...
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The Body Toxic: How the Hazardous Chemistry of Everyday Things Threatens Our Health and Well-Being
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...
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Voices of the Chicago Eight: A Generation on Trial
by Tom Hayden Synopsis The explosive protests and police riots outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention and the ensuing conspiracy trial gave voice to the tumultuous politics of the time. Frank Condon and Ron Sossi have crafted a dramatically gripping playscript from a...
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Weimar on the Pacific: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism
by Ehrhard Bahr Publisher Comments In the 1930s and 40s, Los Angeles became an unlikely cultural sanctuary for a distinguished group of German artists and intellectuals--including Thomas Mann, Theodore W. Adorno, Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Lang, and Arnold Schoenberg--who had fled Nazi Germany....
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
by Tom Wolfe Publisher Comments "An American classic" (Newsweek) that defined a generation. “An astonishing book” (The New York Times Book Review) and an unflinching portrait of Ken Kesey, his Merry Pranksters, and the 1960s....
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Slackonomics: Generation X in the Age of Creative Destruction
by Lisa Chamberlain Publisher Comments Generation X grew up in the 1980s, when Alex P. Keaton was going to be a millionaire by the time he was thirty, greed was good, and social activism was deader than disco. Then globalization and the technological revolution came along, changing everything...
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One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding
by Rebecca Mead Publisher Comments Astutely observed and deftly witty, One Perfect Day masterfully mixes investigative journalism and social commentary to explore the workings of the wedding industryan industry that claims to be worth $160 billion to the U.S. economy and which has every...
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Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen
by Christoph Capozzola Publisher Comments In April 1917, the United States embarked on its first overseas war - with no history of conscription, an army smaller than Bulgaria's, just two hundred agents in its federal Bureau of Investigation, and a political culture that saw little role for the...
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Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster
by Dana Thomas Publisher Comments Once luxury was available only to the rarefied and aristocratic world of old money and royalty. It offered a history of tradition, superior quality, and a pampered buying experience. Today, however, luxury is simply a product packaged and sold by...
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The Art of Rebellion: The World of Street Art
by C100 Publisher Comments The Art of Rebellion widmet sich einem Thema, welchem bisher nur wenig Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt wurde - STREETART. Anders als beim gesprühten Graffiti geht es nicht darum, seinen Namen in Form von Buchstaben zu verbreiten, sondern viel mehr eine...
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