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Branded Nation: The Marketing of Megachurch, College, Inc., and Museumworld
by James B Twitchell  Publisher Comments Branding has become so successful and so ubiquitous that even cultural institutions have embraced it. In this witty and trenchant social analysis, James Twitchell shows how churches, universities, and museums have learned to embrace Madison Avenue rather...
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Snobbery: The American Version
by Joseph Epstein 
Publisher Comments 'A national bestseller, Snobbery examines the discriminating qualities in all of us. With dishy detail, Joseph Epstein skewers all manner of elitism in contemporary America. He offers his arch observations of the new footholds of snobbery: food, fashion,...
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One Nation Under Guns: An Essay on an American Epidemic (Speaker's Corner)
by Arnold Grossman Publisher Comments The United States holds the dubious distinction of experiencing more civilian gun deaths than any industrialized nation on earth?nearly 30,000 per year. While a majority of Americans favor far more restrictive gun laws than currently exist, efforts to...
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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 The $10 billion video gaming industry is now the second-largest segment of the entertainment industry in the United States, outstripping film and far surpassing books. Reality television shows featuring silicone-stuffed CEO wannabes and bug-eating...
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The Metaphysical Club: A Study of Ideas in America
by Louis Menand
Publisher Comments Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History A riveting, original book about the creation of modern American thought. The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included...
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A Shadow in the City: Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior
by Charles Bowden Publisher Comments Joey O'Shay is not the real name of the narcotics agent in an unnamed city in the center of the country. But Joey O'Shay exists. The nearly three hundred drug busts he has orchestrated over more than two decades are real, too; if the drug war were a...
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Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times
by Studs Terkel Publisher Comments Hope Dies Last is Studs Terkel's inspiring new oral history of social action in America. An alternative, more personal history of the "American century," Hope Dies Last forms a legacy of the indefatigable spirit that Studs has always embodied, and an...
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In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences #10)
by Philippe Bourgois Publisher Comments Philippe Bourgois's ethnographic study of social marginalization in inner-city America, won critical acclaim when it was first published in 1995. For the first time, an anthropologist had managed to gain the trust and long-term friendship of street-level...
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The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead
by David Callahan Publisher Comments Free cable television. Imaginary tax deductions. Do you take your chance to cheat? David Callahan thinks many of us would; witness corporate scandals, doping athletes, plagiarizing journalists. Why all the cheating? Why now? Callahan blames the dog-eat...
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Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy
by Lewis Lapham Publisher Comments Award-winning columnist Lewis Lapham issues an urgent new polemic about the strangling of meaningful dissent — the lifeblood of democracy — at the hands of a government and media increasingly beholden to the wealthy few. Never before, Lapham...
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Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life
by Steven Mintz and Susan Kellogg Publisher Comments The American family has undergone a series of transformations from its socially sanctified role as the center of society to today's private, independent unit. The authors explain just how the family has adapted and endured these changes....
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Pretensions to Empire: Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administration
by Lewis Lapham Publisher Comments The preeminent political essayist writes about the perversion of America's democratic legacy under George W. Bush—and makes a compelling case for impeachment. Lewis Lapham stands virtually alone among mainstream American journalists in having...
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Better Together: Restoring the American Community
by Robert D. Putnam
Publisher Comments In his acclaimed Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam describes the United States as a nation in which we have become increasingly disconnected from one another and in which our social structures have disintegrated. But in the final chapter of that book he...
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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
by Stephanie Coontz Publisher Comments The Way We Never Were examines two centuries of American family life and shatters a series of myths and half-truths that burden modern families. Placing current family dilemmas in the context of far-reaching economic, political, and demographic changes...
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Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town
by Nate Blakeslee Publisher Comments In the summer of 1999, in the tiny west Texas town of Tulia, thirty-nine people, almost all of them black, were arrested and charged with dealing powdered cocaine. The operation, a federally-funded investigation performed in cooperation with the local...
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Partly Cloudy Patriot
by Sarah Vowell Synopsis In this collection of personal stories, Sarah Vowell confronts a wide range of subjects, themes, icons and historical moments: Vietnam and Watergate; Starbucks and Buffy the Vampire Slayer; and her own ambivalent relationship to American history and...
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Assassination Vacation
by Sarah Vowell
Powells.com 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...
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Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun
by Erik Larson Publisher Comments This devastating book begins with an account of a crime that is by now almost commonplace: on December 16, 1988, sixteen-year-old Nicholas Elliot walked into his Virginia high school with a Cobray M-11/9 and several hundred rounds of ammunition tucked in...
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Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
by Eric Schlosser
Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-292) and index....
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Class Matters
by Nyt Publisher Comments The acclaimed New York Times series on social class in America—and its implications for the way we live our lives We Americans have long thought of ourselves as unburdened by class distinctions. We have no hereditary...
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