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Bowling Alone: Civic Disengagement in America by Robert D Putnam Publisher Comments 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 and describes in this brilliant volume, Bowling Alone. Drawing on vast new data from... (read more) List Price $26.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D Putnam Publisher Comments 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, which The Economist hailed as “a prodigious... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World by Sarah Vowell Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity. Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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United States of Americana: Backyard Chickens, Burlesque Beauties, and Handmade Bitters: A Field Guide to the New American Roots Movement by Kurt B. Reighley Staff Pick If you make your own bitters, dream of owning some chickens, and know what it means to "put up" food, odds are you'll fall in love with Kurt B. Reighley's field guide to the new American roots movement. Covering music, fashion, grooming (welcome back... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Who Are We? : Challenges To America's National Identity (04 Edition) by Samuel P. Huntington Publisher Comments In his seminal work The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Samuel Huntington argued provocatively and presciently that with the end of the cold war, "civilizations" were replacing ideologies as the new fault lines in international... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America by Susan Faludi Publisher Comments It has become clear over the years that the reaction of America's politicians and media to the attacks of 9/11 was bizarrely misdirected and dangerous to our national security. But no one has fully probed its cultural roots. Until now. Pulitzer Prize... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments The New York Times bestselling investigation into white-collar unemployment from “our premier reporter of the underside of capitalism”The New York Times Book Review Americans working lives are growing more precarious every day. Corporations... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Elsewhere, U.S.A.: How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, Blackberry Moms, and Eco by Dalton Conley Publisher Comments Preface A TALE OF THREE GENERATIONS My maternal grandparents were married for more than fifty years. He was the town dentist of Carbondale, Pennsylvania, and she was his homemaker partner. As a professional couple in a mostly working-class, coal-mining... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (and Always Have) in the Future Tense by David Brooks Publisher Comments Americans are the inheritors of a sense of limitless possibilities raised to think in the future tense. The author takes a serious and comic look at this future-mindedness that shapes personalities and underlies beliefs.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hella Nation: Looking for Happy Meals in Kandahar, Rocking the Side Pipe, Wingnut's Waragainst the Gap, and Other Adventures with th by Evan Wright Publisher Comments From the award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author of Generation Kill, a reporter's immersion in outsider cultures-"His style owes more to Hunter S. Thompson than to any sort of political correctness" (Newsday). From his work as a reporter at... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Low-Wage America: How Employers Are Reshaping Opportunity in the Workplace by Eileen Appelbaum Publisher Comments The most extensive study to date of how the world of work is changing for workers without a college degree.... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $20.81 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Low-Wage America: How Employers Are Reshaping Opportunity in the Workplace by Eileen Appelbaum Publisher Comments The most extensive study to date of how the choices employers make affect the lives of tens of millions of workers at the bottom of the wage distribution.... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $41.62 Google eBooks - Electronic
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American Backlash by Michael Henry Adams Publisher Comments In his insightful, award-winning work Fire and Ice, Environics president Michael Adams explored the growing divergence between American and Canadian values. Using the same mixture of polling and analysis in American Backlash, Adams fixes his penetrating... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Standing by: The Making of an American Military Family in a Time of War by Alison Buckholtz Publisher Comments Alison Buckholtz never dreamed she would marry a military man, but when she met her husband, an active-duty U.S. Navy pilot, nothing could stop her from building a life with him — not even his repeated attempts to talk her out of marriage. He didn't... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.98 Used - Hardcover
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You Have No Rights: Stories of America in an Age of Repression by Matthew Rothschild Publisher Comments Chilling true stories of ordinary Americans whose everyday liberties have been violated since September 11. "I'm very liberal and sometimes my friends say I'm giving them some kind of paranoid, nutty stuff, and I agree, but then the FBI show up."—... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Are You Serious?: How to Be True and Get Real in the Age of Silly by Lee Siegel Publisher Comments A provocative critique of modern frivolity and a guide to being serious in an unserious age We used to live in a world run by serious people: politicians and religious leaders, writers and artists, journalists and academics, lawyers and business... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Who Are We: The Challenges to America's National Identity by Samuel P Huntington Publisher Comments In his seminal work The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Samuel Huntington argued provocatively and presciently that with the end of the cold war, "civilizations" were replacing ideologies as the new fault lines in international... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Waiting for the Barbarians by Lewis Lapham Publisher Comments "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) List Price $22.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments The New York Times bestselling investigation into white-collar unemployment from “our premier reporter of the underside of capitalism”—The New York Times Book Review Americans working lives are growing more precarious every day... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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