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Mongo: Adventures in Trash
by Ted Botha  Publisher Comments Journalist Ted Botha became obsessed with mongo (defined as any discarded object that is retrieved) when he moved to New York. Decorating his apartment with the furniture and objects he found on Manhattan's streets, he soon realized he wasn't the only...
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The American Dream: Stories from the Heart of Our Nation
by Dan Rather Publisher Comments At a time when we are once again talking and thinking about the meaning of America, bestselling author and award-winning journalist Dan Rather provides a powerful look at Americans who struggle to achieve their desires and ambitions. With the stories of...
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The Great Boom, 1950-2000: How a Generation of Americans Created the World's Most Prosperous Society
by Robert Sobel Publisher Comments In The Great Boom, historian Robert Sobel tells the fascinating story of the last 50 years when American entrepreneurs, visionaries, and ordinary citizens transformed our depression and war-exhausted society into today's economic powerhouse. As...
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Working Together Against Drinking and Driving (Library of Social Activism)
by Janet Grosshandler Synopsis Accelerated Reader is a program based on the fact that students become more motivated to read if they are tested on the content of the books they have read and are rewarded for correct answers. Students read each book, individually take the test on the...
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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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Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Substances
by Richard Rudgley Synopsis An encyclopaedia encompassing the entire range of naturally-occurring psychoactive substances, and many man-made synthetic drugs and compounds. Its coverage extends from the use of intoxicating plants by Neanderthal man to the role of hallucinogens and...
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Lost and Found: My Life in a Group Marriage Commune (Counterculture Series)
by Margaret Hollenbach Publisher Comments In 1970 Margaret Hollenbach, an idealistic twenty-five-year-old graduate school dropout, changed her name and gave up her possessions to join a commune known as The Family, located in Taos, New Mexico. The Family believed in group marriage and practiced...
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Cemetery Stories: Haunted Graveyards, Embalming Secrets, and the Life of a Corpse After Death
by Katherine Ramsland Publisher Comments Never look at a grave the same way again Admit it: You're fascinated by cemeteries. We all die, and for most of us, a cemetery is our final resting place. But how many people really know what goes on inside, around, and beyond them? Enter the world of...
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Chicken: Love for Sale on the Streets of Hollywood
by David Henry Sterry Synopsis Arriving in Hollywood to attend college, but desperate for money, Sterry was introduced to a pimp who established him as a male prostitute. The story is juxtaposed against bitter anecdotes from Sterry's disintegrating family life....
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A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Reexamined as a Grotesque, Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations
by Cintra Wilson Synopsis In "A Massive Swelling", Wilson takes on every pop-art sacred cow imaginable, toppling icons as diverse as Barbara Streisand, Michael Jackson, and Bruce Willis. Cherished for her "laser-light" prose, she gets to the heart of the humiliating fascination...
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The Century of Sex: Playboy's History of the Sexual Revolution, 1900-1999
by James R Petersen Publisher Comments In The Century of Sex James R. Petersen presents a sweeping history that argues that the "sexual revolution" of the sixties and seventies was part of a larger social evolution. This evolution began generations before the advent of penicillin, Playboy, or...
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After: The Rebuilding and Defending of America in the September 12th Era
by Steven Brill Publisher Comments The critics unanimously agree that brilliant, award-winning reporter and bestselling author Steven Brill has written a powerful and sweeping narrative of the country in the first year of the September 12 era. As "the pages flutter" -- marvels one critic -...
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Post Modernist Turn (Twayne's American Thought & Culture)
by J David Hoeveler Synopsis This series examines major figures and movements that have influenced the development of American culture from the 16th century to the present. Each volume provides: -- A chronology of influential ideas and cultural trends, and associated historic events...
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Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their Lives
by Martha H Swain Synopsis Celebrating the achievements of Mississippi women. This collection of seventeen fascinating biographies, produced by the Mississippi Women's History Project, is an important step toward gaining the state's women their due place in its written record. The...
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Waiting for My Cats to Die
by Stacy Horn Publisher Comments When Stacy Horn--single, deeply addicted to television, and hopelessly attached to two diabetic cats--turned forty, she free-falled into a mid-life crisis. Waiting for My Cats to Die is a passionately and profoundly honest look at what happens the moment...
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Blue Sky Dream: A Memoir of America's Fall from Grace (Harvest Book)
by David Beers Publisher Comments Beer’s “important...fascinating” book(Los Angeles Times) shows how suburban California came to epitomize the american Dream-until its affluent complacency was shattered by downsizing, anxiety, and distrust....
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Heretic's Heart: A Journey Through Spirit and Revolution
by Margot Adler Book News Annotation This memoir unfolds along two unique coming-of-age paths: the correspondence between a Berkeley antiwar activist, now the New York bureau chief for National Public Radio and authority on feminist spirituality, and an American soldier in Vietnam in the...
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America Reborn: A Twentieth-Century Narrative in Twenty-Six Lives
by Martin Walker Synopsis In a superb work of narrative history, the story of America in the 20th century is told through the lives of 26 of its most remarkable men and women, from presidents and industrialists to entertainers, artists, activitists, spies, criminals, and...
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In the Past Lane: Historical Perspectives on American Culture
by Michael Kammen Publisher Comments Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his People of Paradox (1973), and the Francis Parkman Prize for A Machine That Would Go of Itself (1987), Michael Kammen is widely regarded as one of our most important, and most diversely talented, cultural historians...
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Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865
by Mary P Ryan Publisher Comments Examines the emergence of the privatized middle-class family with its sharp division of male and female roles....
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