The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition
by James Howard Kunstler
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If civilization began, as it's often said, with the appearance of the first city,
it stands to reason that the character of our cities can tell us a great deal
about the state of our civilization. With this as his central premise, James
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Trailer Travel: A Visual History of Mobile America
by Phil Noyes and Bryan Burkhart and Allison Arieff
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With linen postcards of trailer camps and auto courts, campy family photos, and ads dating back to the 1920s, "Trailer Travel" is the perfect complement to a new TV documentary on the colorful history of America's fascination with life on the road. 150...
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The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
by Emile Durkheim
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"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...
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The Extreme Future: The Top Trends That Will Reshape the World in the Next 20 Years
by James Canton
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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...
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Happiness: A History
by Darrin Mcmahon
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Today, human beings tend to think of happiness as a natural right. But they haven’t always felt this way. For the ancient Greeks, happiness meant virtue. For the Romans, it implied prosperity and divine favor. For Christians, happiness was...
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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...
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Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life
by Steven Mintz and Susan Kellogg
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The American family has undergone a series of transformations from its socially sanctified role as the center of society to today's private, independent unit. The authors explain just how the family has adapted and endured these changes....
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House Thinking: A Room-By-Room Look at How We Live
by Winifred Gallagher
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This lyrical, room-by-room exploration of the American home past, present, and future reveals how houses reflect identity and affect daily lives....
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The Meaning of the 21st Century: A Vital Blueprint for Ensuring Our Future
by James Martin
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According to James Martin-known as "the guru of the Information Age"-humanity is at a crucial turning point. If we succeed in finding ways to support massive gains in population combined with dizzying technological progress, we have a magnificent future...
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The Gospel of Food: Everything You Think You Know about Food Is Wrong
by Barry Glassner
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From the author of the national bestseller "The Culture of Fear" comes a rallying cry to abandon food fads and myths for calmer and more pleasurable eating....
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Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture
by Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter
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In this wide-ranging and perceptive work of cultural criticism, Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter shatter the most important myth that dominates much of radical political, economic, and cultural thinking. The idea of a counterculture — a world outside...
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This Is Burning Man: The Rise of a New American Underground
by Brian Doherty
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A provocative first look inside the coolest event in America, the electric celebration of freedom and expression called Burning Man.
It's been compared to Brigadoon and Woodstock, called Xanadu and Utopia. But none of these terms captures the essence...
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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...
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Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage
by Stephanie Coontz
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In this surprising landmark book, family historian Stephanie Coontz explodes every cherished assumption about marriage, starting with the notion of the traditional marriage. Forget Ozzie and Harriet. Coontz reveals that through most of history, marriage...
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American Nerd: The Story of My People
by Benjamin Nugent
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Most people know a nerd when they see one but can't define just what a nerd is. American Nerd: The Story of My People gives us the history of the concept of nerdiness and of the subcultures we consider nerdy. What makes Dr. Frankenstein the archetypal...
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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....
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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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The award-winning creators of National Public Radio's "Ghetto Life 101" and "Remorse: The 14 Stories of Eric Morse" combine talents with a young photographer to show what life is like in one of the country's darkest places: Chicago's Ida B. Wells housing...
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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...
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Digital Destiny: New Media and the Future of Democracy
by Jeff Chester
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The celebrated media advocate's clarion call for new media to serve the public instead of corporate interests--and what's involved in this high-stakes struggle. <BR>With the explosive growth of the Internet and broadband communications, we now have...
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The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent
by Richard Florida
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The most valued workers today are what the economist Richard Florida calls the Creative Class, skilled individuals ranging from money managers to make–up artists, software programmers to steady–cam operators who are in constant demand around...
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