Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
by Robert D Putnam




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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, Bowling Alone, which The Economist hailed as "a prodigious... (read more)

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Bait and Switch
by Barbara Ehrenreich




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Bait and Switch, Barbara Ehrenreich's remarkable follow-up to Nickel and Dimed, examines life in the ever-increasing population of the white-collar unemployed. Veering from the absurd (Wizard of Oz dolls) to the unsettling (Christian prayer breakfasts... (read more)

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All God's Children: Inside the Dark and Violent World of Street Families
by Rene Denfeld




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James Daniel Nelson first hit the streets as a teenager in 1992. Rejoined a clutch of runaways and misfits who camped out together in a squat under a Portland bridge. Within a few months the group — they called themselves a family — was... (read more)

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Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-made Landscape
by James Howard Kunstler


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The Geography of Nowhere traces America's evolution from a nation of Main Streets and coherent communities to a land where every place is like no place in particular, where the cities are dead zones and the countryside is a wasteland of cartoon... (read more)

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Working Stiff: The Misadventures of an Accidental Sexpert (P.S.)
by Grant Stoddard


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A twenty-two-year-old perennial virgin, Englishman Grant Stoddard didn't know what to do with his life in America—until he won an X-rated online contest, the prize being intercourse with an infamous married sex columnist. He consequently wound up... (read more)

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Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World
by Sarah Vowell




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Take the Cannoli is a moving and wickedly funny collection of personal stories stretching across the immense landscape of the American scene. Vowell tackles subjects such as identity, politics, religion, art, and history with a biting humor. She... (read more)

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Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069
by William Strauss


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Hailed by national leaders as politically diverse as former Vice President Al Gore and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Generationshas been heralded by reviewers as a brilliant, if somewhat unsettling, reassessment of where America is heading. William... (read more)

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On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (and Always Have) in the Future Tense
by David Brooks


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Take a look at Americans in their natural habitat: guys shopping for barbecue grills, doing that special walk men do when in the presence of lumber; superefficient soccer Ubermoms who chair school auctions, organize PTAs, and weigh less than their kids... (read more)

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Branded Nation: The Marketing of Megachurch, College, Inc., and Museumworld
by James B Twitchell


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Branding has become so successful and so ubiquitous that even cultural institutions have embraced it. In this witty and trenchant social analysis, James Twitchell shows how churches, universities, and museums have learned to embrace Madison Avenue rather... (read more)

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Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities
by Alexandra Robbins


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Alexandra Robbins was puzzled when her eighteen-year-old sister announced that she planned to rush one of her college??'s many sororities. Wanting to find out if the clich?? stereotypes about sorority girls were actually true, Robbins went undercover in... (read more)

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Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America
by Morgan Spurlock


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The nauseating truth from the producer, director, and guinea pig of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Super Size Me, Just when you figured it was safe to scarf fries again comes the factpacked and funny new alarm bell from the man whose month-long... (read more)

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Grandmothers Counsel the World: Women Elders Offer Their Vision for Our Planet
by Carol Schaefer


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We are thirteen indigenous grandmothers. . . . We are deeply concerned with the unprecedented destruction of our Mother Earth, the atrocities of war, the global scourge of poverty, the prevailing culture of materialism, the epidemics that threaten the... (read more)

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X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft But Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking
by Jeff Gordinier




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I was very skeptical about this book when I first picked it up — and became even more so when Gordinier predicted my exact reaction. But X Saves the World is impossible to resist: a well-written, extremely funny, and, I have to say, unnervingly... (read more)

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Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
by Barbara Ehrenreich




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Bait and Switch, Barbara Ehrenreich's remarkable follow-up to Nickel and Dimed, examines life in the ever-increasing population of the white-collar unemployed. Veering from the absurd (Wizard of Oz dolls) to the unsettling (Christian prayer breakfasts... (read more)

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Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit, and the Era of Predatory Lenders
by James Scurlock




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How much money do you owe on your credit card bills? Paying off a mortgage, home equity loan, or college loan, too? Our culture has come to take debt for granted, but this hasn't always been the norm. Over the last generation in America, James Scurlock... (read more)

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Firing Back Against the Tyranny of the M
by Pierre Bourdieu


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Pierre Bourdieu is best known as one of the world's leading sociologists. Containing his famous addresses to the assembled media masses, this work addresses both social movement activists and the establishment itself.... (read more)

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Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
by David Brooks




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For the past two hundred years, bohemians and bourgeois have loved to hate one another. To the moneyed classes, concerned with stability and respectability, bohemians had dubious morals and unsightly hair. And for the artists and intellectuals... (read more)

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Our America Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago
by LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman


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Through two award-winning National Public Radio documentaries, and now thispowerful book, LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman have made it their mission to be loud voices from one of this country's darkest places, Chicago's Ida B. Wells housing project. Set... (read more)

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