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Generation of Vipers
by Philip Wylie  Synopsis Perhaps the most vitriolic attack ever launched on the American way of living - from politicians to professors to businessmen to Mom to sexual mores to religion - Generation of Vipers ranks with the works of De Tocqueville and Emerson in defining the...
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Sacred Mushrooms & the Law
by Richard Glen Boire Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [115]-116)....
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The Long Road Home
by Danielle Steel Publisher Comments Bestselling novelist Danielle Steel takes us on a harrowing journey into the heart of America's hidden shame in a novel that explores the power of forgiveness, the dark side of childhood, and one woman's unbreakable spirit. From her secret perch at the...
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Offbeat Marijuana: The Life and Times of the World's Grooviest Plant
by Saul Rubin Book News Annotation This decidedly lowbrow contribution to the literature on the marijuana debate is unimpressive in both textual and visual content; many photographs are printed in too-dark, low-contrast b&w (and, surprise, green), and many of their captions consist of...
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Six Myths of Our Time: Little Angels, Little Monsters, Beautiful Beasts, and More
by Marina Warner Publisher Comments Is Jurassic Park a work of covert misogynist propaganda? Does romanticizing childhood lead to abusing children? What secret correspondence links Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to video games and Shakespeare's Caliban to Hannibal Lecter? in what ways do our...
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Talking to Myself: A Memoir of My Times
by Studs Terkel 
Synopsis Terkel offers the reader an autobiography of our times--the stirring story of a man whose life has been so vivid that its telling mirrors the events of our century. From Mahalia Jackson to Bertrand Russell, from Martin Luther King, Jr. to Federico...
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Politics of Psychopharmacology (Leary Library)
by Timothy Leary Publisher Comments In this brief, lively book of reminiscences, the man Allen Ginsberg called “a hero of American consciousness” describes his transformation from bohemian professor to avatar of the new age. In his typically wry, provocative style, Timothy...
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Hemp Culture: a Short History of a Most Misunderstood Plant and Its Uses and Abuses
by Mark Bourrie Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-155) and index....
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Essential Substances: A Cultural History of Intoxicants in Society
by Richard Rudgley Book News Annotation Rudgley (anthropology, Oxford U.) delves into the use of mind- altering substances, especially in tribal and prehistoric societies. Among them are magic mushrooms in Siberia, tobacco and peyote in the Americas, qat in Africa, betel in southeast Asia...
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Square Dancing in the Ice Age
by Abbie Hoffman Synopsis A book from the U.S. underground, covering Abbie -- in disguise -- interviewing people, touring the FBI building, and organizing a campaign to save the St. Lawrence River. The articles are creative, funny, nervy, and (gasp) political....
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Middle American Individualism
by Herbert J Gans Publisher Comments Written by one America's most eminent sociologists, this book examines the lives and ideals of today's "middle Americans"--whom the more affluent and elite have long put down as an uncultured and unthinking mass--and finds in them the individualistic...
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Queen Bess: The Unauthorized Biography of Bess Myerson
by Jennifer Preston Book News Annotation The title is ironic (though it's lifted from Myerson herself). The biography focuses on the queen dethroned--the insecurities, the failed marriages, the arrests for petty shoplifting, the loss of a US Senate race, the love affair that resulted in a...
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Younger Than That Now: A Shared Passage from the Sixties
by Jeff Durstewitz Synopsis He lived in New York and she in Mississippi. Neither irate parents nor the glint of a deputy's pistol would keep them from meeting. That visit was the beginning of a friendship that, despite time's passing and the gulf of distance, would sustain them...
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Demographic Change & the American Future
by R Scott Fosler Book News Annotation Following her guide to families, Mace now brings together a group of authorities from a broad range of fields in a book written specifically for health care professionals. It provides the practitioner with the clinical skills needed for the daily...
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The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure
by Juliet B. Schor Publisher Comments This pathbreaking book explains why, contrary to all expectations, Americans are working harder than ever. Juliet Schor presents the astonishing news that over the past twenty years our working hours have increased by the equivalent of one month per year&...
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Facing facts :realism in American thought and culture, 1850-1920
by David E Shi Publisher Comments "A true poem," Walt Whitman proclaimed in 1852, "is the daily newspaper"--and American culture was never the same again. Like a blast of cold air in a stuffy drawing room, Whitman's campaign to give artistic representation to gritty reality shocked the...
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A Day in the Night of America
by Kevin Coyne Publisher Comments An absorbing journey through the upside-down world of 7.3 million Americans who work the night shift. Traveling over 18,000 miles from Massachusetts to Alaska, interviewing and working alongside 429 "nightsiders," freelance journalist Coyne captures the...
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My American Century
by Studs Terkel Book News Annotation Terkel has selected some 50 of the most memorable interviews from his eight classic books published over the past 30 years. Among them are Kid Pharaoh, the con man of Division Street, Tom Patrick, the fireman of Working, and C. P. Ellin, the former Ku...
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His Son: A Memoir
by Bill Henderson Synopsis Bill Henderson did most of his growing up in the decade of the tail-finned car, Eisenhoer rock and roll the threat of atomic annihilation and pervasive silence. This anguished yet loving portrait of a child of the fifties and his father reveals the...
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The tragedy of abundance
by Jerome O Steffen Book News Annotation American society is founded on two fallacies, says Steffen (history, U. of Oklahoma), free agency of the individual, and unlimited wealth. He shows how they have manifested themselves repeatedly in the country's history, and concludes that our only...
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