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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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Growing Old in America: The Bland-Lee Lectures Delivered at Clark University (Bland-Lee Lectures Delivered at Clark University)
by David H Fischer Synopsis A history of aging in America surveys and compares actualities and attitudes in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries and suggests practical improvements on the current inadequate system of pensions, social security, medicare, and other...
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The Copycat Effect: How the Media and Popular Culture Trigger the Mayhem in Tomorrow's Headlines
by Loren Coleman Publisher Comments VIOLENCE BEGETS VIOLENCE BEGETS VIOLENCE... A disturbed student shoots up his classroom -- and suddenly a wave of mass murder is sweeping through our nation's schools. A young child is taken from her home -- and for months afterward child abductions are...
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Honky
by Dalton Conley Publisher Comments As recalled in Honky, Dalton Conley’s childhood has all of the classic elements of growing up in America. But the fact that he was one of the few white boys in a mostly black and Puerto Rican neighborhood on Manhattan’s Lower East Side makes...
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The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real
by William Irwin Publisher Comments If the world as we know it is nothing more than our dream of it, does this make the dream real? If we had the choice to step out of our world into a more-real but less-pleasant one—to take the red pill—would it be a moral failure not to do so?...
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Patriotism and the American Land
by Richard Nelson and Barry Lopez and Terry Tempest Williams Publisher Comments Terrorism. Homeland Security. Patriotism. Since September 11, 2001, these terms have emerged as a fundamental part of our cultural lexicon, with their unsaid assumptions and attendant emotions being used to inspire and buttress a varied set of...
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The New Mainstream: How the Multicultural Consumer Is Transforming American Business
by Guy Garcia Publisher Comments An economic revolution is transforming America: the New Mainstream. In this groundbreaking book, Guy Garcia explains how Americans will eat, work, play, learn, and spend money in the twenty-first century -- and why any organization that ignores the...
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My Misspent Youth
by Meghan Daum
Publisher Comments An essayist in the tradition of Joan Didion, Meghan Daum is one of the most celebrated nonfiction writers of her generation, widely recognized for her fresh, provocative approach with which she unearths the hidden fault lines in the American landscape...
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The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America's Dilemma
by Alex Kotlowitz Publisher Comments Alex Kotlowitz's There Are No Children Here was more than a bestseller; it was a national event. His beautifully narrated, heartbreaking nonfiction account of two black boys struggling to grow up in a Chicago public housing complex spent eight weeks on...
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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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The Greatest Generation Speaks: Letters and Reflections
by Tom Brokaw Synopsis Brokaw wrote the bestselling "The Greatest Generation" and now the subjects have written back. This book of letters and reflections allows members of the World War II generation and their families to speak for themselves....
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People Celebrates the 70s with CD (Audio)
by People Publisher Comments A lively, affectionate salute to an over-the-top decade....
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Heath Street Stories: A Look Back at 1950's Innocence in Suburban America
by Gehla S Knight Synopsis 1950, and the cookie-cutter houses in the slipstream of a paper mill promise new beginnings for the families moving to Heath Street. From the tragicomedy of Atom Bomb drills to the wonder of glitzy gadgetry, Dyanflow transmissions and automatic canasta...
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Hail Babylon
by Andrei Codrescu Publisher Comments Andrei Codrescu takes us cross-country through the withered, yet alluring American urban landscape, visiting New York, Baltimore, New Orleans, Little Rock, San Antonio, Albuquerque, Las Vegas, and Portland, Oregon. He discovers that cities are at the...
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American Radicalism (Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History)
by Daniel Pope Synopsis This collection contains ten of the best scholarly essays on significant events and figures over the last two hundred years of the radical tradition in American history. Arranged chronologically, each chapter contains an introduction and one major...
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Up in Smoke From Legislation To
by Martha A Derthick Publisher Comments Since the 1960s, the government's attempts at tobacco control have operated through standard channels, what Martha Derthick calls "ordinary politics." Legislation was debated in elected legislatures, and after three decades of limited...
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Dirty a Search for Answers Inside Ameri
by Meredith Maran Publisher Comments Why do teenagers use drugs, what happens to them when they do, and what can we do about it? Venturing into uncharted territory, mother and award-winning journalist Meredith Maran takes us inside teenagers' hearts, minds, and central nervous systems to...
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The Repeal of Reticence
by Rochelle Gurstein Publisher Comments Arthur Herman explains how the conviction of civilization's inevitable end has become part of the modern Western imagination. He shows how the non-Romantic thinkers who became obsessed by the image of their civilization's demise paved the way for more...
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The Beer Can by the Highway: Essays on What's American about America
by John At Kouwenhoven Synopsis First published in 1961, The Beer Can by the Highway takes a provocative, wide-ranging look at America's ever-changing physical and intellectual landscapes, from advertising and jazz to Manhattan's skyline and the prairies of the Midwest. The Johns...
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The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink
by Mark Dery
Publisher Comments From the far left to the far right, on talk radio and the op-ed page, more and more Americans believe that the social fabric is unraveling. Celebrity worship and media frenzy, suicidal cultists and heavily armed secessionists: modern life seems to have...
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