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Best Sex Writing 2012: The State of Today's Sexual Culture (Best Sex Writing) by Rachel Kramer Bussel Publisher Comments Stimulate Your Largest Sex Organ: Your Brain Face it, you think about sex every day. We all do. In Best Sex Writing 2012, sex columnist Rachel Kramer Bussel and guest judge Susie Bright collect the most stimulating and intelligent work on this endlessly... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Occupying Wall Street: The Inside Story of an Action That Changed America by Writers For The 99% Publisher Comments "An essential and galvanizing on-the-ground account of how oxygen suddenly and miraculously flooded back into the American brain."—Jonathan Lethem For two months in fall 2011, Zuccotti Park, squeezed deep in a canyon between bankers' skyscrapers in... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Hardcover
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The New Kings of Nonfiction by Ira Glass Publisher Comments A collection of stories — some well known, some more obscure — capturing some of the best storytelling of this golden age of nonfiction. An anthology of the best new masters of nonfiction storytelling, personally chosen and introduced by... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Masscult and Midcult: Essays Against the American Grain (New York Review Books Classics) by Dwight Macdonald Publisher Comments A New York Review Books Original An uncompromising contrarian, a passionate polemicist, a man of quick wit and wide learning, an anarchist, a pacifist, and a virtuoso of the slashing phrase, Dwight Macdonald was an indefatigable and indomitable critic of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Red Alert! : Saving the Planet With Indigenous Knowledge (09 Edition) by Daniel R. Wildcat Publisher Comments “Red Alert! offers insight, hope, and a path forward.”—Billy Frank Jr., Chairman, Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission “What the world needs today is a good dose of indigenous realism,” says Native American scholar Daniel... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11 by Joan Didion Publisher Comments In Fixed Ideas Joan Didion describes how, since September 11, 2001, there has been a determined effort by the administration to promote an imperial America --a "New Unilateralism"-- and how, in many parts of America, there is now a "... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century's Sustainability Crises by Richard Heinberg and Daniel Lerch Publisher Comments In the 20th century, cheap and abundant energy brought previously unimaginable advances in health, wealth, and technology, and fed an explosion in population and consumption. But this growth came at an incredible cost. Climate change, peak oil... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Evocative Objects: Things We Think with by Sherry (edt) Turkle Publisher Comments For Sherry Turkle, "We think with the objects we love; we love the objects we think with." In Evocative Objects, Turkle collects writings by scientists, humanists, artists, and designers that trace the power of everyday things. These essays reveal... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire by Matt Taibbi Publisher Comments Matt Taibbi is notorious as a journalistic agitator, a stone thrower, a natural provocateur (Salon.com). His scathing, vibrant prose shines an unflinching spotlight on the corruption, dishonesty, and sheer laziness of our leaders. Smells Like Dead... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gambling: Mapping the American Moral Landscape by Erik C. Owens and Alan Wolfe Publisher Comments Additional Essayists: Dwayne Eugène Carpenter is Professor of Hispanic Studies, Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and Co-Director of the Jewish Studies Program at Boston College. Charles T. Clotfelter is Z. Smith Reynolds... (read more) Your price: $50.25 New - Trade Paper
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Social Problems : Readings-to Accompany Best (08 Edition) by Ira Silver Publisher Comments Each reading includes a brief headnote and a handful of study questions.... (read more) List Price $46.90 Your price: $33.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Hope Beneath Our Feet (10 Edition) by Martin Keogh Publisher Comments The environmental “tipping point” we approach is more palpable each day, and people are seeing it in ways they can no longer ignore—we need only turn on the news to hear the litany of what is wrong around us. Serious reflection... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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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The Time of Our Lives by Tom Brokaw Publisher Comments Tom Brokaw, known and beloved for his landmark work in American journalism and for the New York Times bestsellers The Greatest Generation and Boom!, now turns his attention to the challenges that face America in the new millennium, to offer reflections... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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Masscult and Midcult: the Partisan Review, V27, No. 4, Spring, 1960 by Dwight Macdonald Publisher Comments An Inquiry Into American Popular Culture And The Role Of The Middlebrows In The Distortion Of Cultural Values.... (read more) Your price: $24.25 New - Trade Paper
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The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences: Volume 4, Number 9 by Mary Kalantzis Publisher Comments ** Contents available at http://iji.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.88/prod.885 ** The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences aims to examine the nature of disciplinary practices, and the interdisciplinary practices that arise in the... (read more) Your price: $235.50 New - Hardcover
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European Contributions to American Studies #64: Morsels in the Melting Pot: The Persistence of Dutch Immigrant Communities in North America by G. Harinck Publisher Comments Exploring a population that is rarely, if ever, the subject of academic research, these 18 essays from Dutch, American, and Canadian contributors discuss the efforts of small groups of Dutch immigrants to maintain their identity in the United States and... (read more) Your price: $43.25 New - Trade Paper
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Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, the Torments of Low Thread Count, the Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and by David Rakoff Publisher Comments A dishy, incisive exploration of gossip from celebrity rumors to literaryromans à clef, personal sniping to political slander by one our “great essayists” (David Brooks) To his successful examinations of some of the most powerful forces... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Tribes of America (08 Edition) by Cowan Publisher Comments A reissue of a fascinating work of "superb" (Chicago Tribune) reportage on the fault lines that produced today's red/blue divide. First published in 1979 and long out of print, The Tribes of America is an overlooked classic—a prescient and deeply... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Notes from Canada's Young Activists: A Generation Stands Up for Change by Severn Cullis-Suzuki Publisher Comments In this compilation, young citizens describe the moments they were inspired to pursue their passions to improve their world. Their methods and causes are diverse, and their stories highlight their innovative ways of identifying and addressing problems in... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $15.93 Google eBooks - Electronic
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