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The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table by Tracie McMillan Publisher Comments Inspired by the growing interest in food and the conversation about what we should be eating and where it should come from award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan began to wonder how America's working class could afford, let alone have time, to eat as... (read more) Your price: $11.99 Google eBooks - Electronic 
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How to End Poverty in the World in Just 15 Years by Jean Pierre Twagirayezu Publisher Comments Today, with so much know how existing on this planet, there is still billions of people leaving in extreme poverty. Except for some countries often called Developed Countries, A large part of humanity live in poverty and governments of the majority of... (read more) List Price $3.99 Your price: $3.54 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market times by Arlie Russell Hochschild Publisher Comments From the famed author of the bestselling The Second Shift and The Time Bind, a pathbreaking look at the transformation of private life in our for-profit world The family has long been a haven in a heartless world, the one place immune to market forces... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo Publisher Comments From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century's great, unequal cities. In this... (read more) Your price: $13.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement by David Brooks Publisher Comments This is the happiest story you'll ever read. It's about two people who lead wonderfully fulfilling lives.... (read more) Your price: $11.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Why People Die by Suicide by Thomas Joiner Publisher Comments In the wake of a suicide, the most troubling questions are invariably the most difficult to answer; How could we have known? What could we have done? And always, unremittingly; Why? Written by a clinical psychologist whose own life has been touched by... (read more) List Price $18.50 Your price: $16.42 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Transformation of Rural China by Jonathan Unger Publisher Comments Drawing on a quarter century of interviews with farmers and rural officials from various parts of China, leading China specialist Jonathan Unger tracks the extraordinary changes that have swept the countryside from the Mao era through the Deng era to the... (read more) List Price $23.96 Your price: $21.26 Google eBooks - Electronic
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City: Rediscovering the Center by William H. Whyte Publisher Comments For sixteen years William Whyte walked the streets of New York and other major cities. With a group of young observers, camera and notebook in hand, he conducted pioneering studies of street life, pedestrian behavior, and city dynamics. City... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $14.20 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women by Elisabeth Badinter Publisher Comments In the pathbreaking tradition of Backlash and The Time Bind, The Conflict, a #1 European bestseller, identifies a surprising setback to women's freedom: progressive modern motherhood Elisabeth Badinter has for decades been in the vanguard of the European... (read more) Your price: $11.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster by Dana Thomas Publisher Comments Documents how luxury goods have been transformed by a shift from exclusive distribution practices by quality-minded family businesses to mass production by profit-minded big corporations, revealing the secrets of top designers while examining the ways in... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and Its Effect on Our Lives by Catherine Lutz Publisher Comments Carjacked is an in-depth look at our obsession with cars. While the automobile's contribution to global warming and the effects of volatile... (read more) Your price: $14.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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From Tenements to the Taylor Homes: In Search of an Urban Housing Policy in Twentieth-Century America by John F. Bauman Publisher Comments Presents a collection of essays that cover the topic of federal low-income housing policy in the United States.... (read more) Your price: $14.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Surrogate Motherhood by Martha A. Field Publisher Comments A practice known since biblical times, surrogate motherhood has only recently leaped to prominence as a way of providing babies for childless couples--and leaped to notoriety through the dramatic case of Baby M. Contract surrogacy is officially little... (read more) List Price $25.50 Your price: $24.54 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Superman Syndrome--The Magic of Myth in The Pursuit of Power by Gene N. Landrum Publisher Comments The Positive Mental Moxie of Myth for Personal Growth Joseph Campbell defined a myth as 'a life-shaping image, a metaphor that creates a hero out of those who heed it.' Author Dr. Gene Landrum takes Campbell's definition one step further by offering a... (read more) List Price $3.99 Your price: $3.54 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide by Henry Jenkins Publisher Comments Convergence Culture maps a new territory: where old and new media intersect, where grassroots and corporate media collide, where the power of the media producer and the power of the consumer interact in unpredictable ways.Henry Jenkins, one of America's... (read more) List Price $15.96 Your price: $15.36 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Public Intellectual: Between Philosophy and Politics by Arthur M. Melzer Publisher Comments Whether intellectuals are counter-cultural escapists corrupting the young or secular prophets leading us to prosperity, they are a fixture of modern political life. In The Public Intellectual: Between Philosophy and Politics, Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $33.64 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Exceptional America: A Message of Hope from a Modern-Day de Tocqueville by Nick Adams Publisher Comments The worsening debt crisis, the plague of political correctness, and the threat to personal freedoms would make a lesser nation and her people crumble. Yet Americans possess an unrelenting desire for a better life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness... (read more) List Price $3.99 Your price: $3.54 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The New Kings of Nonfiction by Ira Glass Publisher Comments An anthology of the finest nonfiction writings by leading contemporary writers features contributions by Malcolm Gladwell, Chuck Klosterman, Bill Buford, Susan Orlean, David Foster Wallace, James McManus, Mark Bowden, and others on topics ranging from... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Codex of the Soul by Verdarluz Publisher Comments In Codex of the Soul, VerDarLuz guides the reader through the multifaceted nature of astrology, focusing on its practical use and spiritual nature. Providing practical and effective techniques for experiencing your birthchart, VerDarLuz explores the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $12.38 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Social Class and Stratification by Peter Saunders Publisher Comments The questions raised by a study of class and inequality are important, but often complex. This book succeeds in making them understandable without oversimplifying, and its breadth, originality, and easy style will appeal to a wide readership. Peter... (read more) Your price: $43.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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