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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments The New York Times bestseller, and one of the most talked about books of the year, Nickel and Dimed has already become a classic of undercover reportage. Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Spirit Level (Reprint) (11 Edition) by Kate Pickett Publisher Comments It is a well-established fact that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem. The Spirit Level, based on thirty years of research, takes this truth a step further. One common factor links the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War by Joe Bageant Staff Pick Deer Hunting with Jesus is a hilarious, depressing, and painfully honest chronicle of an America often cited but rarely listened to: rural lower-class whites. With brilliant, spot-on detail, Joe Bageant reports on the historical, economic, and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Privilege, Power, and Difference by Allan G Johnson Publisher Comments This brief book is a groundbreaking tool for students and non-students alike to examine systems of privilege and difference in our society. Written in an accessible, conversational style, Johnson links theory with engaging examples in ways that enable... (read more) List Price $50.80 Your price: $25.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Don't Shoot the Dog! (Rev 99 Edition) by Karen Pryor Publisher Comments A Better Way to Better Behavior Karen Pryor's clear and entertaining explanation of behavioral training methods made Don't Shoot the Dog! a bestselling classic. Now this revised edition presents more of her insights into animal—and human&... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World by Paul Hawken Staff Pick Feeling crushed beneath the weight of ominous news, borderline-apocalyptic statistics, and global warming alerts that offer no recourse but panic? Paul Hawken's Blessed Unrest is the book you've been waiting for. Here is a call to arms with concrete... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell Staff Pick Twenty-two of Malcolm Gladwell's favorite "adventures," all previously published in the New Yorker, come together in this engaging book. Gladwell's contagious curiosity helps us understand how other people feel about the topics of homelessness, ketchup... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Anthology of Sacred Texts By and About Women (93 Edition) by Serinity (ed.) Young Publisher Comments This is a sourcebook of readings from the world's major and minor religions written by or in regard to women and dealing with their representation in religious thought and systems.... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $38.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life by Richard Florida Publisher Comments The Rise of the Creative Class gives a provocative new way to think about why people live as they do today — and where they might be headed. Weaving storytelling with masses of new and updated research, Florida traces the growing role of creativity... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Wisdom Sits in Places : Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache (96 Edition) by Keith H. Basso Publisher Comments Explores the connections of place, language, wisdom, and morality among the Western Apache.... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $19.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Art of War by Sun Tzu and Samuel B. Griffith Publisher Comments Like Machiavelli's The Prince and the Japanese Book of Five Rings, Sun Tzu's The Art of War is as timely for business people today as it was for military strategists in ancient China. Written in China more than 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu's classic The Art... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States by Kenneth Jackson Publisher Comments This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how "the good life" in America came to be equated with the a home of one's own surrounded by a grassy yard and located far from the urban workplace. Integrating social... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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9226 Kercheval: The Storefront That Did Not Burn, with a New Preface (Ann Arbor Paperbacks) by Nancy Milio Publisher Comments In honor of the thirtieth anniversary of its first publication, we are happy to reissue Nancy Milio's 9226 Kercheval, a groundbreaking book which analyzes the success of the Mom and Tots Center in urban Detroit in the late 1960s. At the time of its first... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Winona Laduke Reader : Collection of Essential Writings (02 Edition) by Winona Laduke Publisher Comments The first collection of LaDuke's speeches, articles, and more. "This collection will resonate with people interested in issues critical to Native Americans and indigenous peoples worldwide." Library Journal.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Class : a Guide Through the American Status System (83 Edition) by Paul Fussell Publisher Comments In Class Paul Fussell explodes the sacred American myth of social equality with eagle-eyed irreverence and iconoclastic wit. This bestselling, superbly researched, exquisitely observed guide to the signs, symbols, and customs of the American class... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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You May Ask Yourself: An Introduction to Thinking Like a Sociologist [With Password Card] by Dalton Conley Publisher Comments Dalton Conley's groundbreaking "non-textbook" teaches students how to think like sociologists. Students learn how to use their sociological imaginations to debunk conventional wisdom. With a strong emphasis on concepts, You May Ask Yourself challenges... (read more) List Price $56.25 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Healing the Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families by Charles L Whitfield Publisher Comments Have you ever heard of your inner child? Well, this is the classic book that started it all. In 1987, Charlie Whitfield's breakthrough concept of the child within—that part of us which is truly alive, energetic, creative and fulfilled&mdash... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Art of War by Sun Tzu and Ralph D. Sawyer Publisher Comments The Art of War is almost certainly the most famous study of strategy ever written and has had an extraordinary influence on the history of warfare. The principles Sun-tzu expounded were utilized brilliantly by such great Asian war leaders as Mao Tse-... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Society of Spectacle (83 Edition) by Guy Debord Publisher Comments The Das Kapital of the 20th century. An essential text, and the main theoretical work of the situationists. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960's up to... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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