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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman Staff Pick Klosterman understands your life. Intimately. Through this seemingly meandering and always hilarious critique of modern pop culture, he exposes how unlikely cultural minutiae make our society tick and dictate how we live our lives.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell Staff Pick Unfamiliar Fishes is a lively examination of America's influence in the Hawaiian Islands, from the early-19th-century conversion efforts of Christian missionaries to the coup led by their grandchildren. Vowell keeps the story moving with rich... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Americans are a "positive" people -- cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: This is our reputation as well as our self-image. But more than a temperament, being positive is the key to getting success and prosperity. Or so we are... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell Publisher Comments From Puritans to heathens-Sarah Vowell takes on Hawaii in this New York Times bestseller. Of all the countries the United States invaded or colonized in 1898, Sarah Vowell considers the story of the Americanization of Hawaii to be the most intriguing... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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All There Is: Love Stories from Storycorps by Dave Isay Publisher Comments A celebration of love from StoryCorps. In All There Is, founder Dave Isay shares stories of love and marriage from the revolutionary oral history project, revealing the many and remarkable paths that relationships can take. From the excitement and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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America the Philosophical by Carlin Romano Publisher Comments A bold, insightful book that rejects the myth of America the Unphilosophical, arguing that America today towers as the most philosophical culture in the history of the world, an unprecedented marketplace of truth and argument that far... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter by Steven Johnson Publisher Comments Combining the deft social analysis of Where Good Ideas Come From with the optimistic arguments of Everything Bad Is Good For You, New York Times bestselling author Steven Johnson’s Future Perfect makes the case that a new model of political change... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bunch of Amateurs: A Search for the American Character by Jack Hitt Publisher Comments WHAT IS IT THAT DRIVES THE SUCCESS OF AMERICA AND THE IDENTITY OF ITS PEOPLE? ACCLAIMED WRITER AND CONTRIBUTING EDITOR TO THIS AMERICAN LIFE JACK HITT THINKS IT’S BECAUSE WE’RE ALL A BUNCH OF AMATEURS. America’s self-invented tinkerers... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent Publisher Comments A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages. From its start... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There by David Brooks Publisher Comments It used to be pretty easy to distinguish between the bourgeois world of capitalism and the bohemian counterculture. The bourgeois worked for corporations, wore gray, and went to church. The bohemians were artists and intellectuals. Bohemians championed... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line by Ben Hamper Synopsis The man the Detroit Free Press calls "a blue collar Tom Wolfe" delivers a full-barreled blast of truth and gritty reality in Rivethead, a no-holds-barred journey through the belly of the American industrial beast.... (read more) List Price $21.25 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Secret Lives of Men and Women (A Postsecret Book) by Frank Warren Publisher Comments THE SECRET LIVES OF MEN AND WOMEN reveals through never-before-seen, anonymously submitted postcards the shocking, inspirational, and at times hilarious confessions of men and women everywhere. For this exciting new collection, Frank Warren has... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell Staff Pick Leave it to Sarah Vowell to roam across America in search of the motivations and culture of political murder. Obsessive, edifying, and, of course, witty, Assassination Vacation is unlike any other historical tourism or travel writing book you'll ever... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser Publisher Comments Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but here Eric Schlosser makes them stick... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies by Tyler Cowen Publisher Comments One of the most influential economists of the decade-and the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Stagnation-boldly argues that just about everything you've heard about food is wrong. Food snobbery is killing entrepreneurship and innovation... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 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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Columbine by Dave Cullen Publisher Comments On April 20, 1999, two boys left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. Their goal was simple: to blow up their school, Oklahoma-City style, and to leave a lasting impression on the world. Their bombs failed, but the ensuing shooting defined a new... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Fiddler in the Subway: The True Story of What Happened When a World-Class Violinist Played for Handouts... and Other Virtuoso Performances by by Gene Weingarten Publisher Comments GENE WEINGARTEN IS THE O. HENRY OF AMERICAN JOURNALISM Simply the best storyteller around, Weingarten describes the world as you think it is before revealing how it actually is—in narratives that are by turns hilarious, heartwarming, and... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments America in the aughts—hilariously skewered, brilliantly dissected, and darkly diagnosed by one of the countrys most prominent social critics Now in paperback, Barbara Ehrenreichs widely acclaimed This Land Is Their Land takes the measure of what we... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson Publisher Comments A wide variety of extremist groups -- Islamic fundamentalists, neo-Nazis -- share the oddly similar belief that a tiny shadowy elite rule the world from a secret room. In Them, journalist Jon Ronson has joined the extremists to track down the fabled... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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