The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
by Richard Hernstein


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The seminal book about IQ and class that ignited one of the most explosive controversies in decades, now updated with a new Afterword by Charles Murray Breaking new ground and old taboos, Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray tell the story of a... (read more)

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I Want That!: How We All Became Shoppers
by Thomas Hine


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“ Hine offers fresh insight into why we shop and how we are--in some ways--born to do so. A jaunty writer who breaks down an unwieldy topic in to a thoughtful cultural riff... Hine delivers a balanced and entertaining analysis of how we arrived at... (read more)

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Who Are You People?: A Personal Journey Into the Heart of Fanatical Passion in America
by Shari Caudron


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You know those people who get passionately, fanatically, obsessively into things? People like doll collectors or Star Wars fans or that lady down the street with creepy red and white gnomes all over her yard? I noticed them too and I was, well, jealous.... (read more)

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Children of Crisis: Selections from the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Five-Volume Children of Crisis Series
by Robert Coles


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The groundbreaking, Pulitzer Prize-winning five-volume Children of Crisis series that established Robert Coles as America's foremost child psychiatrist is available for the first time in a single, abridged volume. of color illustrations.... (read more)

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A Crowd of One: The Future of Individual Identity
by John Clippinger


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Great leaps forward in scientific understanding have, throughout history, engendered similar leaps forward in how we understand ourselves. Now, the new hybrid disciplines of evolutionary biology and social physics are making the next leap possible—... (read more)

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City Life
by Witold Rybczynski


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In this sweeping cultural history, the author of Home and The Most Beautiful House in the World traces the development of American cities and city life from the early colonial settlements to the new downtowns of skyscrapers and high-rise apartment... (read more)

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The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink
by Mark Dery




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From the far left to the far right, on talk radio and the op-ed page, more and more Americans believe that the social fabric is unraveling. Celebrity worship and media frenzy, suicidal cultists and heavily armed secessionists: modern life seems to have... (read more)

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Futurecast: How Superpowers, Populations, and Globalization Will Change the Way You Live and Work
by Robert Shapiro


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What will life be like in America, Europe, Japan or China in the year 2020?  As everyone’s lives across the world are become increasingly interconnected by globalization and new technologies quicken the pace of everything, the answer to that... (read more)

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Fewer: How the New Demography of Depopulation Will Shape Our Future
by Ben J Wattenberg


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Never before have birth and fertility rates fallen so far, so fast, so low, for so long, in so many places, so surprisingly. In Fewer, Ben Wattenberg shows how and why this has occurred, and explains what it means for the future. These stark demographic... (read more)

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Boomburbs: The Rise of America's Accidental Cities
by Robert E Lang


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A glance at a list of America's fastest growing cities reveals quite a surprise: most are really overgrown suburbs. Places such as North Las Vegas, NV; Plano, TX; Gilbert, AZ; and Chula Vista, CA have swelled to big-city size with few people really... (read more)

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The Essential Myrdal (New Press Essential Series)
by Gunnar Myrdal


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Nobel Prize -- winner Gunnar Myrdal was one of the century's leading social scientists, best known in American for the classic An American Dilemma, his study of America's racial problems. That book was chosen as one of the Modern Library's top one... (read more)

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Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened
by Rosalyn Baxandall


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Picture Windows chronicles how suburbia sprawled, proving to be a hothouse for scores of disaffected artistic types and mopey teens.-Vanity Fair... (read more)

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Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
by Steve Almond




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Here's a great recipe: Take one often-obsessed-upon food item, one aptly named author, and an enormous amount of writing talent. Mix them all together and you have Candyfreak. A great book that melts in your mind, not in your hand. Danielle, Powells... (read more)

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A New Deal for New York
by Mike Wallace


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Hailed in the New York Observer as a "utopian gesture in a city that has been mired in grim realities, " A New Deal for New York is a stirring call-to-arms from the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Mike Wallace. Written with the same verve and gusto of... (read more)

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Second Lives: A Journey through Virtual Worlds
by Tim Guest




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We’ve always dreamed of perfect places: Eden, heaven, Utopia. Imagine gambling without loss, love without heartbreak, sex without exposure, experience without risk. Welcome to the fascinating world of online virtual reality, the land of invented... (read more)

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


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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice  A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year  A London Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year   In this exhilarating and kaleidoscopic investigation of American identity, Greil... (read more)

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Censored 2006: The Top 25 Censored Stories (Censored: The News That Didn't Make the News -- The Year's Top 25 Ceensored Stories)
by Peter Phillips


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"Buy it, read it, act on it. Our future depends on the knowledge this collection of suppressed stories allows us."-San Diego Review "Devastating evidence of the dumbing down of mainstream news in America . . . required reading for broadcasters... (read more)

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Revolutionary Wealth
by Alvin Toffler


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Bursting with practical ideas about when, where, and how America and the world are changing, "Revolutionary Wealth" provides a clear, coherent framework that gives readers powerful tools for thinking about--and preparing for--what the Tofflers call the... (read more)

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