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Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives by John Palfrey Publisher Comments The first generation of “Digital Natives”—children who were born into and raised in the digital world—are coming of age, and soon our world will be reshaped in their image. Our economy, our politics, our culture, and even the shape... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century by Studs Terkel Publisher Comments "A summing up of the best of Terkel."—Herbert Mitgang, Doubletake The Studs Terkel Reader, originally published under the title My American Century, collects the best interviews from eight of Terkel's classic oral histories together with his... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell Publisher Comments In this New York Times bestseller, the author of Assassination Vacation brings the [Puritan] era wickedly to life (Washington Post). To this day, America views itself as a Puritan nation, but Sarah Vowell investigates what that means — and what it... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--And More Miserable Than Ever Before by Jean M. Twenge Publisher Comments A revealing examination of the generation born between the 1970s and the 1990s, called “The Entitlement Generation,” gives Boomers new insight into their offspring and help those in their teens, 20s, and 30s finally make sense of themselves... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends: A Very Trippy Miscellany by Adriano Sack Staff Pick You're sitting at a bar with friends, and the conversation hits a lull. Someone excuses herself to get the next round and buy some time. But you don't need it, because you've read The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends and you're loaded with an... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers Into Collaborators by Clay Shirky Publisher Comments The author of the breakout hit Here Comes Everybody reveals how new technology is changing us for the better. In his bestselling Here Comes Everybody, Internet guru Clay Shirky provided readers with a much-needed primer for the digital age. Now, with... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A History of Old Age by Pat Thane Publisher Comments Seven contributors examine how the best thinkers and artists of each historical epoch in the West have treated old age. Full of surprising and fascinating facts, this is an uplifting companion for those who, like it or not, are beginning to understand... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Welcome to the Urban Revolution: How Cities Are Changing the World by Jeb Brugmann Publisher Comments As of this decade, more than half the earth's population lives in cities; our world is not just globalized, but urbanized. This powerful reappraisal draws on two decades of fieldwork and research to show how the metropolis has become a medium for... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Learning from Strangers: The Art and Method of Qualitative Interview Studies by Robert S Weiss Publisher Comments Learning From Strangers is the definitive work on qualitative research interviewing. It draws on Robert Weiss's thirty years of experience in interviewing and teaching others how to do it. The most effective interviews, says Weiss, rely on creating... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World by Tina Rosenberg Publisher Comments The fearless Tina Rosenberg has spent her career tackling some of the world's hardest problems. The Haunted Land, her searing work on how Eastern Europe faced the crimes of Communism, garnered both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In Join... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity by Robert W. Fuller Publisher Comments Robert Fuller's bestseller "Somebodies and Nobodies diagnosed and named the malady of rankism -- "what somebodies may do to nobodies." In this sequel, he further explores the social and psychological costs of this problem and counters it with the vision... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30) by Mark Bauerlein Publisher Comments This shocking, surprisingly entertaining romp into the intellectual nether regions of today's underthirty set reveals the disturbing and, ultimately, incontrovertible truth: cyberculture is turning us into a society of know-nothings.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Advanced Genius Theory: Are They Out of Their Minds or Ahead of Their Time? by Jason Hartley Publisher Comments Let the debate begin... The Advanced Genius Theory, hatched by Jason Hartley and Britt Bergman over pizza, began as a means to explain why icons such as Lou Reed, David Bowie, and Sting seem to go from artistic brilliance in their early careers to... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America by Paul Tough Publisher Comments What would it take? That was the question that Geoffrey Canada found himself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poor children—not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 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 $18.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Corner a Year in the Life of an Inner Citer Neighborhood by David Simon Publisher Comments The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known--and cautiously avoided--by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood. David Simon, an... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage by Stephanie Coontz Publisher Comments Just when the clamor over "traditional" marriage couldn’t get any louder, along comes this groundbreaking book to ask, "What tradition?" In Marriage, a History, historian and marriage expert Stephanie Coontz takes readers from the marital... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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In the Neighborhood: The Search for Community on an American Street, One Sleepover at a Time by Peter Lovenheim Publisher Comments Read Peter Lovenheim's posts on the Penguin Blog. Based on a popular New York Times Op-Ed piece, this is the quirky, heartfelt account of one man's quest to meet his neighbors-and find a sense of community. Journalist and author Peter Lovenheim has lived... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Acts of Compassion: Caring for Others and Helping Ourselves by Robert Wuthnow Publisher Comments "Vigorously argued, beautifully written, drawing intelligently on evidence from surveys and from some extraordinary interviews, Acts of Compassion sheds a great deal of light on a central area of American life, namely volunteerism and charity. . . . A... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $22.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Inside Social Life: Readings in Sociological Psychology and Microsociology by Spencer E Cahill Publisher Comments The Fifth Edition of Spencer Cahill's best-selling anthology provides an introduction to the sociological study of social psychology, interpersonal interaction, social construction, and the social shaping of human experience in our everyday lives. The... (read more) List Price $57.95 Your price: $19.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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