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The Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret by Michael Zweig Publisher Comments In this memoir of the Hudson River and of her family, Susan Fox Rogers writes from a fresh perspective: the seat of her kayak. Low in the water, she explores the bays and the larger estuary, riding the tides, marveling over sturgeons and eels, eagles and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $17.71 Google eBooks - Electronic 
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Shopping Our Way to Safety: How We Changed from Protecting the Environment to Protecting Ourselves by Andrew Szasz Publisher Comments “Not long ago, people did not worry about the food they ate. They did not worry about the water they drank or the air they breathed. It never occurred to them that eating, drinking water, satisfying basic, mundane bodily needs might be a dangerous... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $16.82 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There by David Brooks Publisher Comments Do you believe that spending $15,000 on a media center is vulgar, but that spending $15,000 on a slate shower stall is a sign that you are at one with the Zenlike rhythms of nature? Do you work for one of those visionary software companies where people... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser Publisher Comments Analyzing the influence of the fast food industry on American society, an award-winning journalist explores the homogenization of American culture and the impact of the fast food industry on modern-day health, economy, politics, popular culture... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $13.87 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture by Michael Kammen Publisher Comments Mystic Chords of Memory "Illustrated with hundreds of well-chosen anecdotes and minute observations . . . Kammen is a demon researcher who seems to have mined his nuggets from the entire corpus of American cultural history . . . insightful and sardonic."... (read more) Your price: $19.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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A Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture by Michael G. Kammen Publisher Comments Puliter Prie-winning historian Michael Kammen examines the cultural impact of the Constitution on the United States, explores the Constitutions place in the public consciousness and its role as a symbol in American life from ratification in 1788 to our... (read more) List Price $27.96 Your price: $24.81 Google eBooks - Electronic
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50+: Igniting a Revolution to Reinvent America by William D. Novelli Publisher Comments 50+ is a call to arms. It's a groundbreaking look at the revolution that's going on right now among seventy-eight million American baby boomers. From age 50+ on up, Americans are refusing to rock away their retirement. They're starting new careers... (read more) Your price: $6.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture by William Leach Publisher Comments This monumental work of cultural history was nominated for a National Book Award. It chronicles America's transformation, beginning in 1880, into a nation of consumers, devoted to a cult of comfort, bodily well-being, and endless acquisition. 24 pages of... (read more) Your price: $14.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Tripping: An Anthology of True-Life Psychedelic Adventures by Charles Hayes Publisher Comments Collects narratives from fifty people regarding their psychedelic experiences while taking hallucinogenic drugs, including out-of-body occurences, religious awakenings, miracles, psychosis, and flashbacks.... (read more) Your price: $17.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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A Is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States by Jill Lepore Publisher Comments What ties Americans to one another? What unifies a nation of citizens with different racial, religious and ethnic backgrounds? These were the dilemmas faced by Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as they sought ways to bind the newly... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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American Nerd: The Story of My People by Benjamin Nugent Publisher Comments A social exploration of the concept of the intellectual misfit presents a tour of nerd subcultures while tracing the personality's evolution in the media, literature, and society, in a report that reveals lesser-known common traits and interests among... (read more) Your price: $10.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Crusade by Nina J. Easton Publisher Comments In "Gang of Five, " bestselling author Nina J. Easton adds an important element to the history of American politics in the last thirty years. This is the story of the other, less well known segment of the baby-boom generation. These are young... (read more) Your price: $13.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Real America: Messages from the Heart and Heartland by Glenn Beck Publisher Comments The nationally syndicated radio talk-show host offers his views on such topics as family, politics, community, religion, celebrities, drugs, race relations, terrorism, and America. 150,000 first printing.... (read more) Your price: $11.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Popular Culture and the Future of Politics: Cultural Studies and the Tao of South Park by Ted Gournelos Publisher Comments Popular Culture and the Future of Politics: Cultural Studies and the Tao of South Park argues that progressives should perceive the connections among media, policy, and culture beyond the limits of "politics" and "news". With sustained analyses of... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $31.71 Google eBooks - Electronic
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For the Hell of It: The Life and times of Abbie Hoffman by Jonah Raskin Publisher Comments Drawing on his own twenty-year relationship with Hoffman, hundreds of interviews with friends, family members, and former comrades, and careful scrutiny of FBI files, court records, and public documents, Raskin provides the best account we have of this... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $23.92 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Competition Paradigm: America's Romance with Conflict, Contest, and Commerce by Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau Publisher Comments This insightful book explores the question of competition and effects it has on individuals, organizations, and society as a whole.... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $27.86 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Cemetery Stories: Haunted Graveyards, Embalming Secrets, and the Life of a Corpse after Death by Katherine M. Ramsland Publisher Comments An anecdotal look at funeral customs and cemeteries includes stories about embalmers who have sex with the corpses they work on, forensics testing practices performed at The Body Farm, the craft of the undertaker, a cemetery established by slaves freed... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The State of Disunion: Regional Sources of Modern American Partisanship by Nicole Mellow Publisher Comments Why are some eras of American politics characterized by broad, bipartisan harmony and others by rancorous partisanship? In The State of Disunion, Nicole Mellow argues that these oscillations are a product of how the two major parties respond, or fail to... (read more) Your price: $28.00 Google eBooks - Electronic
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American Studies by Louis Menand Publisher Comments At each step of this journey through American cultural history, Louis Menand has an original point to make: he explains the real significance of William James's nervous breakdown, and of the anti-Semitism in T. S. Eliot's writing. He reveals the reasons... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Revolutions Revisited: Two Faces of the Politics of Enlightenment by Ralph Lerner Publisher Comments Examines the practical matters of how enlightenment was brought about, detailing first how politicians, especially Franklin, sought to raise the public's aspirations, and then discussing the role of a national revolutionary heritage.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $31.02 Google eBooks - Electronic
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