Smokescreen: A True Adventure
by Robert Sabbag


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Do you think you have the balls it would take to risk your life for a million dollars?" Allen Long certainly did. Balls like a bull elephant's -- with charisma and cunning in the same large measure. But he needed to know that those around him could... (read more)

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Living Outside the Box
by Barbara Brock


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In Living Outside the Box, hundreds of TV-free families share their great discovery--that life without television is anything but boring.... (read more)

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Waiting for the Barbarians
by Lewis Lapham


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"Harper's Magazine" editor Lewis Lapham gives us an acerbic commentary on the future for democracy. An award-winning writer, Lapham sees America's citizenry as complacently taking for granted what has taken 200 years to build. He presents the portrait of... (read more)

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From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America
by Christopher Finan


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The first comprehensive history of free speech in America for a general readership, from a respected historian and free speech activist A 2007 Book Sense Selection In this lively history of our most fundamental and perhaps most vulnerable right... (read more)

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Guys and Guns Amok: Domestic Terrorism and School Shootings Fron the Oklahoma City Bombing to the Virginia Tech Massacre (Radical Imagination)
by Douglas Kellner


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From the recent shootings at Virginia Tech University to the tragedies at Columbine and Oklahoma City, certain common traits can be traced. In Guys and Guns Amok, media and cultural critic Douglas Kellner provides a fascinating diagnostic reading of... (read more)

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The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice
by Greil Marcus


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From the author of Mystery Train and Lipstick Traces, an exhilarating and provocative investigation of the tangle of American identity “America is a place and a story, made up of exuberance and suspicion, crime and liberation, lynch mobs and... (read more)

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White Collar American Middle Class 50TH Edition
by C Wright Mills


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Includes bibliographical references and index.... (read more)

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Cocaine
by Dominic Streatfeild


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The author sets out to discover not the history of organized drug crime, but the story of the drug itself. His research takes him from the arcane reaches of the British Library to the isolation cells of America's most secure prisons; from the crack... (read more)

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The March of Unreason: Science, Democracy, and the New Fundamentalism
by Dick Taverne


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In The March of Unreason, Dick Taverne expresses his concern that irrationality is on the rise in Western society, and argues that public opinion is increasingly dominated by unreflecting prejudice and an unwillingness to engage with factual evidence... (read more)

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Class Acts: Service and Inequality in Luxury Hotels
by Rachel Sherman


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In this lively study, Rachel Sherman goes behind the scenes in two urban luxury hotels to give a nuanced picture of the workers who care for and cater to wealthy guests by providing seemingly unlimited personal attention. Drawing on in-depth interviews... (read more)

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Troubling Minds: The Cultural Politics of Genius in the United States, 1840-1890
by Gustavus Stadler


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The nature of genius has long been a subject of fascination and critique. Over the course of the mid- to late-nineteenth century, the representative capacities of the idea of genius in the United States shifted toward an increasingly detailed... (read more)

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Not Keeping Up with Our Parents: The Decline of the Professional Middle Class
by Nan Mooney


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Drawing on more than a hundred interviews with diverse families across America, Nan Mooney explores the financial struggles of today's professional middle class, delving into their sense of economic security and their plans for and fears about the future.... (read more)

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Greenback: The Almighty Dollar and the Invention of America
by Jason Goodwin


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With the wry and admiring eye of a modern Tocqueville, Jason Goodwin gives us a biography of the dollar and the story of its astonishing career through the wilds of American history. Looking at the dollar over the years as a form of art, a kind of... (read more)

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Falling Room (American Lives)
by Eli Hastings


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Coming of age poor in spirit in the America of plenty is an old story that is yet endlessly new, beginning afresh every time a confused teenager tries to make sense of his privileged place in the world. Eli Hastings got a head start on this when his... (read more)

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Testosterone Dreams: Rejuvenation, Aphrodisia, Doping
by John Hoberman


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Testosterone has inspired dreams--of restored youth, recharged sexual appetites, faster running, quicker thinking, bigger muscles--since it was first synthesized in 1935. This provocative book investigates the complex, bizarre, and sometimes outrageous... (read more)

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Sham: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless
by Steve Salerno


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Self-help: To millions of Americans it seems like a godsend. To many others it seems like a joke. But as investigative reporter Steve Salerno reveals in this groundbreaking book, it’s neither—in fact it’s much worse than a joke. Going... (read more)

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