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The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement by David Brooks Publisher Comments With unequaled insight and brio, New York Times columnist David Brooks has long explored and explained the way we live. Now Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $11.20 Sale - Trade Paper 
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All There Is: Love Stories from Storycorps by Dave Isay Publisher Comments A celebration of love from StoryCorps. In All There Is, founder Dave Isay shares stories of love and marriage from the revolutionary oral history project, revealing the many and remarkable paths that relationships can take. From the excitement and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.47 Sale - Hardcover
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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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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: $6.98 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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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 Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs Staff Pick Ever wonder why we have suburbs? Or why we wanted them in the first place? What about the lovely ideal of the Parisian street lined with cafes and shops? Why don't we have more of those? Or would we want them at all? Then read this! If you live in, near,... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History by David Aaronovitch Publisher Comments A history so funny, so true, so scary, it's bound to be called a conspiracy. "Meticulous in its research, forensic in its reasoning, robust in its argument, and often hilarious in its debunking, Voodoo Histories is a highly entertaining rumble with the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-made Landscape by James Howard Kunstler Publisher Comments In this "eminently relevant and important book" (Library Journal), the author traces the evolution of America's landscape, where every place looks like no place in particular, and where accommodating the automobile jeopardizes the individual and the... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 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 $24.75 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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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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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 $23.25 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The State of America's Children Yearbook, 1999: A Report from the Children's Defense Fund by Childrens Defense Fu Publisher Comments Introduction by Marian Wright Edelman The flagship publication of the most powerful political force for children in this country --Parenting The State of America 's Children is the must-have handbook for child workers, activist parents, teachers... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Leisureville: Adventures in America's Retirement Utopias by Andrew D Blechman Publisher Comments When his next-door neighbors in a quaint New England town suddenly pick up and move to a gated retirement community in Florida, Andrew D. Blechman is astonished by their stories. Larger than Manhattan, with a golf course for every day of the month, two... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell Publisher Comments Sarah Vowell travels through the American past and, in doing so, investigates the dusty, bumpy roads of her own life. In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell -- widely hailed for her inimitable stories on public radio's This... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage by Kathryn Edin Publisher Comments Millie Acevedo bore her first child before the age of 16 and dropped out of high school to care for her newborn. Now 27, she is the unmarried mother of three and is raising her kids in one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods. Would she and her... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.98 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, which The Economist hailed as “a prodigious... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 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 Division of Labor in Society by Emile Durkheim Synopsis Emile Durkheim founded the French school of sociology.... (read more) List Price $19.25 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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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