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The Psychopath Test: A Journey through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson Publisher Comments They say one out of every hundred people is a psychopath. You probably passed one on the street today. These are people who have no empathy, who are manipulative, deceitful, charming, seductive, and delusional. The Psychopath Test is the New York Times... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $11.20 Sale - Trade Paper 
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls Publisher Comments “Nothing short of spectacular” (Entertainment Weekly), The Glass Castle is the bestselling, critically acclaimed, highly publicized, and celebrated memoir by Jeannette Walls.Millions of readers have been transformed by Jeannette Walls’s... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Tales from Globalizing World by Daniel Schwartz Publisher Comments A new world is emerging from the accelerating phenomenon that we call globalization. It's a world in which people, merchandise, finance, technology, knowledge, and illicit goods circulate freely, and the interdependence of cultures, economies, and... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $9.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit Publisher Comments "The freshest, deepest, most optimistic account of human nature I've come across in years." -Bill McKibben The most startling thing about disasters, according to award-winning author Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion,... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors by Niedzviecki Publisher Comments Nonfiction. Popular Culture. THE PEEP DIARIES introduces the arrival of the age of peep culture and explores its implications for entertainment, society, sex, politics, and everyday life. Mixing first-rate reporting with sociological observations culled... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent Publisher Comments A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages. From its start... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman Staff Pick Klosterman understands your life. Intimately. Through this seemingly meandering and always hilarious critique of modern pop culture, he exposes how unlikely cultural minutiae make our society tick and dictate how we live our lives.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Extreme Future: The Top Trends That Will Reshape the World in the Next 20 Years by James Canton Publisher Comments A renowned global futurist prepares businesses and individuals for the radical changes on the horizon An advisor to three presidents spanning over thirty years, Dr. James Canton identifies probable outcomes and future trends in business, technology... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.25 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Art of the Public Grovel: Sexual Sin and Public Confession in America by Susan Wise Bauer Publisher Comments "Interesting, well-written, and well-researched, this book should have wide appeal. Who doesn't want to read about sex and confession and how the mighty fall and, in some cases, get up again?"--Stephen Prothero, author of Religious Literacy: What Every... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell 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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag Publisher Comments Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual representations of war and violence in our culture today. How does the spectacle of the sufferings of others (via television or newsprint) affect us? Are... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Liberals & Cannibals: The Implications of Diversity by Steven Lukes Publisher Comments 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) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Hella Nation: Looking for Happy Meals in Kandahar, Rocking the Side Pipe, Wingnut's War Against the Gap, and Other Adventures with t by Evan Wright Publisher Comments Read Evan Wright's posts on the Penguin Blog. The New York Times bestselling author of Generation Kill immerses himself in even more cultures on the edge. Evan Wright's affinity for outsiders has inspired this deeply personal journey through what he... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Are Prisons Obsolete? (Seven Stories' Open Media Book) by Angela Y. Davis Publisher Comments With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Emile Durkheim Publisher Comments "Karen Fields has given us a splendid new translation of the greatest work of sociology ever written, one we will not be embarrassed to assign to our students. In addition she has written a brilliant and profound introduction. The publication of this... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Perennial Classics) by Eric Hoffer Publisher Comments A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in his spare time while living in the railroad yards. The True Believer -- the first and most famous of his books -- was made into a bestseller when President... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing by Luis Rodriguez Publisher Comments Hundreds of thousands of readers came to know Luis J. RodrÍguez through his fearless classic, Always Running, which chronicled his early life as a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East Los Angeles. The long awaited... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Don't Stop Believin': How Karaoke Conquered the World and Changed My Life by Brian Raftery Publisher Comments Armed with a keen eye and a terrible singing voice, writer Brian Raftery sets out across the globe, tracing karaoke's evolution from cult fad to multi-million dollar phenomenon. In Japan, he meets Daisuke Inoue, the godfather of karaoke; in Thailand, he... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture by Michae Bellesiles Publisher Comments How and when did Americans develop their obsession with guns? Is gun-related violence so deeply embedded in American historical experience as to be immutable? The accepted answers to these questions are "mythology," says Michael A. Bellesiles. Basing... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $5.25 Sale - Hardcover
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The Last Narco: Inside the Hunt for El Chapo, the World's Most Wanted Drug Lord by Malcolm Beith Synopsis The dense hills of Sinaloa, Mexico, are home to the most powerful drug lord since Pablo Escobar: Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. Guzman is among the worlds ten most wanted men and also appeared on Forbes magazines 2009 billionaire list. With his... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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