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Summerfolk: A History of the Dacha, 1710-2000 by Stephen Lovell Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-254) and index.... (read more) Your price: $36.75 New - Hardcover 
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Boston's Back Bay: The Story of America's Greatest Nineteenth-Century Landfill Project by William A. Newman Publisher Comments A fascinating look at the people, politics, and technology behind the massive landfill project that filled Boston's Back Bay.... (read more) Your price: $45.75 New - Hardcover
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Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution by Derrick Jensen Publisher Comments This is a hard-hitting and sometimes scathing critique of the current educational system that not only gives a hands-on method for learning how to write, but also a lesson on how to connect to the core of our creative selves.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America by Bruce Babbitt Publisher Comments In this brilliant, gracefully written, and important new book, former Secretary of the Interior and Governor of Arizona Bruce Babbitt brings fresh thought--and fresh air--to questions of how we can build a future we want to live in.<BR>We've all... (read more) List Price $42.50 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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New Geographies of the American West: Land Use and the Changing Patterns of Place by William R. Travis Publisher Comments Reconciling explosive growth with often majestic landscape defines New Geographies of the American West. Geographer William Travis examines contemporary land use changes and development patterns from the Mississippi to the Pacific, and assesses the... (read more) List Price $44.50 Your price: $27.00 Used - Hardcover
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*liberty Street (06 Edition) by Josyph Publisher Comments Writer and feature filmmaker Josyph spent a year and a half combing the streets and the debris-blasted buildings of Ground Zero capturing its struggles and transformations. It is a vivid portrait of exceptional New Yorkers who made a place for themselves... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Managing Growth in America's Communities: Second Edition by Douglas R. Porter Publisher Comments In this thoroughly revised edition of Managing Growth in America's Communities, readers will learn the principles that guide intelligent planning for communities of any size, grasp the major issues in successfully managing growth, and discover what has... (read more) Your price: $50.25 New - Trade Paper
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Finding Time: How Corporations, Individuals, and Families Can Benefit from New Work Practices (Collection on Technology and Work) by Leslie A Perlow Publisher Comments Why do Americans work so hard? Is it because our jobs are peculiarly demanding or is it because of the way we define success? Leslie A. Perlow documents the worklife of employees who believe that in order to do their work and succeed within their company... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Difference a Day Makes: 365 Ways to Change Your World in Just 24 Hours by Karen M Jones Publisher Comments This timely compilation features 365 simple actions people can take to changethe world, one day--or even five minutes--at a time.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret by Michael Zweig Publisher Comments The United States is not a middle class society. Michael Zweig shows that the majority of Americans are actually working class and argues that recognizing this fact is essential if that majority is to achieve political influence and social strength... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Citizens Without Shelter: Homelessness, Democracy, and Political Exclusion by Leonard C Feldman Publisher Comments One of the most troubling aspects of the politics of homelessness, Leonard C. Feldman contends, is the reduction of the homeless to what Hannah Arendt calls "the abstract nakedness of being human and nothing but human" and what Giorgio Agamben terms... (read more) Your price: $41.95 Used - Hardcover
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From Madness to Mutiny: Why Mothers Are Running from the Family Courts -- And What Can Be Done about It by Amy Neustein Publisher Comments A powerful expose of the family court system's prejudice against mothers trying to protect their sexually abused children.... (read more) Your price: $23.75 New - Trade Paper
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The Virtuous Consumer: Your Essential Shopping Guide for a Better, Kinder, Healthier World by Leslie Garrett Synopsis Is laminate flooring good or bad? Should one buy beverages in plastic bottles or cans? And how can one crack the code of little numbers in triangles on the bottom of plastic containers? Virtuous Consumer is for busy people who want to buy responsibly but... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Welcome to the Machine: Science, Surveillance, and the Culture of Control (Politics of the Living) by Derrick Jensen Publisher Comments Jensen and Draffan look at the way machine readable devices that track our identities and purchases have infiltrated our lives and have come to define our culture.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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When the Hands Are Many: Community Organization and Social Change in Rural Haiti by Jennie Marcelle Smith Publisher Comments In an ethnography that challenges standard approaches to understanding the poor and disempowered, Jennie M. Smith's descriptions of peasant activity change what constitutes a democratic society. Through their civil institutions and artistic expression... (read more) Your price: $29.50 New - Trade Paper
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The Nation in the Village: The Genesis of Peasant National Identity in Austrian Poland, 18481914 by Keely Stauter-halsted Publisher Comments How do peasants come to think of themselves as members of a nation? The widely accepted argument is that national sentiment originates among intellectuals or urban middle classes, then "trickles down" to the working class and peasants. Keely Stauter... (read more) Your price: $28.25 New - Trade Paper
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When the Mines Closed : Stories of Struggles in Hard Times (98 Edition) by Thomas Dublin Publisher Comments The anthracite region of northeastern Pennsylvania, five hundred square miles of rugged hills stretching between Tower City and Carbondale, harbored coal deposits that once heated virtually all the homes and businesses in Eastern cities. At its peak... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $19.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Law and Life of Rome, 90 B.C. - A.D. 212 (77 Edition) by J. Crook Publisher Comments It is about Roman law in its social context, an attempt to strengthen the bridge between two spheres of discourse about ancient Rome by using the institutions of the law to enlarge understanding of the society and bringing the evidence of the social and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $19.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Intown Living: A Different American Dream by Ann Breen Publisher Comments After decades of abandonment, cities across North America are experiencing a renaissance. A new generation is seeking greater excitement and diversity than the typical suburban subdivision offers and many people are instead looking to make their homes... (read more) List Price $42.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved: Inside America's Underground Food Movements by Sandor Ellix Katz Publisher Comments An instant classic for a new generation of monkey-wrenching food activists. Food in America is cheap and abundant, yet the vast majority of it is diminished in terms of flavor and nutrition, anonymous and mysterious after being shipped thousands of miles... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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