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Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work
by Matthew B. Crawford
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One of the most engaging, thought-provoking books I've read in a long time. Matthew Crawford has delivered an accessible, carefully reasoned examination of work and America's evolving ideas about it, addressing a host of important subjects — for... ( read more)
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The Glass Castle: a Memoir
by Jeannette Walls
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Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in... ( read more)
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Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists Are Changing American Cities
by Jeff Mapes
Staff Pick
Mapes's fantastic and inspiring Pedaling Revolution deserves to be read by everyone, from the cycle-curious to the cycle-phobic. Love it or hate it, the pedaling revolution is upon us — read all about it!... ( read more)
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UnSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation
by Brooks Jackson and Kathleen Hall Jamieson
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Americans are bombarded daily with mixed messages, half-truths, misleading statements, and out-and-out fabrications masquerading as facts. The news media–once the vaunted watchdogs of our republic–are often too timid or distracted to identify... ( read more)
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Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life
by Neil Strauss
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Terrorist attacks. Natural disasters. Domestic crackdowns. Economic collapse. Riots. Wars. Disease. Starvation.
What can you do when it all hits the fan?
You can learn to be self-sufficient and survive without the system.
"I've started to... ( read more)
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Childhood in America
by Paula Fass
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Free Teacher's Guide available for Childhood in America Childhood in America is a unique compendium of sources on American childhood that has many options for classroom adoptions and can be tailored to individual course needs. Because the subject of... ( read more)
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The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran
by Hooman Majd
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A revealing look at Iran by an American journalist with an insider’s access behind Persian walls The grandson of an eminent ayatollah and the son of an Iranian diplomat, now an American citizen, Hooman Majd is, in a way, both 100 percent Iranian... ( read more)
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Evaluation a Systematic Approach 7TH Edition
by Peter Henry Rossi
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Relied on by over 90,000 readers as the text on how to design, implement, and appraise the utility of social programs through the use of evaluation methods, Evaluation, 7th Edition has been completely revised to include the latest techniques and... ( read more)
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Liberals & Cannibals: The Implications of Diversity
by Steven Lukes
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Asheirs of the Enlightenment, we in the West tend to view ourselves as humane, rational and reasonable. Genocides are atrocities that "others" commit, so revealing their backwardness and essential "otherness." Colin Tatz's study of genocide exposes this... ( read more)
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The Daddy Shift: How Stay-At-Home Dads, Breadwinning Moms, and Shared Parenting Are Transforming the American Family
by Jeremy Adam Smith
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A revealing look at stay-at-home fatherhood--for men, their families, and for American societyI t's a growing phenomenon among American families: fathers who cut back on paid work to focus on raising children. But what happens when dads stay home? What... ( read more)
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Review-a-Day | June 18, 2009
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Rosenfeld's Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing by Steven J. Zipperstein Reviewed by Adam Kirsch The New Republic Online "Zetland: By a...
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Original Essays | June 16, 2009
By Robert Wright
On September 11, 2001, I was scheduled to start teaching a graduate seminar at Penn called "Religion and Human Nature." But religion and human...
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Review-a-Day | June 15, 2009
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Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (Massey Lectures) by Margaret Eleanor Atwood Reviewed by John Gray New York Review of Books A...
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