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Coming Into the Country by John McPhee Publisher Comments Coming into the Country is an unforgettable account of Alaska and Alaskans. It is a rich tapestry of vivid characters, observed landscapes, and descriptive narrative, in three principal segments that deal, respectively, with a total wilderness, with... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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You Are Being Lied to: The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myths by Russell Kick Publisher Comments You Are Being Lied Tois a massive collection of articles that ruthlessly destroy the distortions, myths, and outright lies that are fed to us by the government, the media, corporations, history books, organized religion, science and medicine, and society... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Encounters with the Archdruid by John Mcphee Publisher Comments The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment, and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Pine Barrens by John Mcphee Publisher Comments Most people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near wilderness, larger than most national parks, which has been known since the seventeenth century as... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Writer's Life by Gay Talese Publisher Comments The inner workings of a writer's life, the interplay between experience and writing, are brilliantly recounted by a master of the art. Gay Talese now focuses on his own life —the zeal for the truth, the narrative edge, the sometimes startling... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (and How to Do Them) by Peter Sagal Publisher Comments Somewhere, somebody is having more fun than you are. Orso everyone believes. Peter Sagal, a mild-mannered, Harvard-educated radio host—the man who puts the second "l" in "vanilla"—decided to find out if it's true. From strip clubs to... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S Thompson Publisher Comments Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women by Jay Allison Publisher Comments A welcome change from the sloganeering, political mudslinging and products of spin doctors.--The Philadelphia Inquirer Based on the NPR series of the same name, This I Believe features eighty Americans--from the famous to the unknown--completing the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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About Alice by Calvin Trillin Publisher Comments In Calvin Trillin's antic tales of family life, she was portrayed as the wife who had a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day and the mother who thought that if you didn't go to every performance of your child's school play, the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Media Control : the Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda (2ND 02 Edition) by Noam Chomsky Publisher Comments Noam Chomskys backpocket classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control begins by asserting two models of democracy—one in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled. According to... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics by P J O'rourke Publisher Comments America's favorite political humorist leads readers on a hysterical whirlwind tour, from the "good capitalism" of Wall Street to the "bad socialism" of Cuba, in search of an answer to the age-old question: "Why do some places prosper and thrive, while... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Alleluia America!: an Irish Journalist in Bush Country by Carole Coleman Publisher Comments From 2000 to 2004 Carole Coleman was the Washington correspondent for Ireland's national broadcaster. RTE. In June 2004. on the eve of Bush's visit to Ireland, she was given the opportunity to conduct a ten-minute interview with him. If the president's... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Broadcasts from the Blitz: How Edward R. Murrow Helped Lead America Into War by Philip M Seib Publisher Comments With the words This is London, Edward R. Murrow's groundbreaking radio broadcasts from 1939 to 1941 brought the blitz into America's living rooms. Countering the tide of U.S. isolationism, Murrow told his huge audience that the United States could not... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $5.48 Used - Hardcover
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The Grace of Silence: A Memoir by Michele Norris Publisher Comments In the wake of talk of a “postracial” America upon Barack Obama’s ascension as president of the United States, Michele Norris, cohost of National Public Radio’s flagship program All Things Considered, set out to write, through... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the by Mike Edison Publisher Comments “If your books subtitle is Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World, you have a lot to live up to—and somehow Mike Edison does .... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Personal History by Katharine Graham Publisher Comments In this critically acclaimed memoir, the woman who piloted the Washington Post through the crises of the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, and a pressmen's strike and turned it into a great newspaper now tells her story with courage, candor, and dignity... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival by Anderson Cooper Publisher Comments Few people have witnessed more scenes of chaos and conflict around the world than Anderson Cooper, whose groundbreaking coverage on CNN has changed the way we watch the news. In this gripping, candid, and remarkably powerful memoir, he offers an... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Remembering Denny by Calvin Trillin Publisher Comments A reissue of Calvin Trillin's memoir of his relationship with a brilliant but tragic Yale classmate that is also a rumination on social change in the 1950s and 1960s Remembering Denny is perhaps Calvin Trillin's most inspired and powerful book: a memoir... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Family Man by Calvin Trillin Publisher Comments Calvin Trillin begins his wise and charming ruminations on family by stating the sum total of his child-rearing advice: "Try to get one that doesn't spit up. Otherwise, you're on your own." Suspicious of any child-rearing theories beyond "Your children... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Looking for Trouble: The Life and Times of a Foreign Correspondent by Richard Beeston Publisher Comments Looking for Trouble is a vivid account of 35 years in journalism by a former foreign correspondent and bureau chief of The Daily Telegraph. It recounts an extraordinary and eventful period in the years before instant communication and mass TV coverage... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $2.48 Used - Trade Paper
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