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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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Bait and Switch
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Powells.com Staff Pick Bait and Switch, Barbara Ehrenreich's remarkable follow-up to Nickel and Dimed, examines life in the ever-increasing population of the white-collar unemployed. Veering from the absurd (Wizard of Oz dolls) to the unsettling (Christian prayer breakfasts...
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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...
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Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America
by Morgan Spurlock Publisher Comments The nauseating truth from the producer, director, and guinea pig of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Super Size Me, Just when you figured it was safe to scarf fries again comes the factpacked and funny new alarm bell from the man whose month-long...
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser
Powells.com Staff Pick "What we eat has changed more in the last forty years than in the last forty thousand," Schlosser observes, yet most Americans know very little about how that food is made, where, by whom, and at what cost. Fast Food Nation traces the industry's...
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The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived: How Characters of Fiction, Myth, Legends, Television, and Movies Have Shaped Our Society, Changed Our
by Dan Karlan and Allan Lazar and Jeremy Salter Publisher Comments From Santa Claus to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, from Uncle Sam to Uncle Tom, here is a compelling, eye-opening, and endlessly entertaining compendium of fictional trendsetters and world-shakers who have helped shape our culture and our lives. The 101 Most...
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Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
by Eric Schlosser Publisher Comments America's black market is much larger than we realize, and it affects us all deeply, whether or not we smoke pot, rent a risqué video, or pay our kids' nannies in cash. In Reefer Madness the best-selling author of Fast Food Nation turns his...
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The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
by Barry Glassner
Publisher Comments There has never been another era in modern history, even during wartime or the Great Depression, when so many people have feared so much. Three out of four Americans say they feel more fearful today then they did twenty years ago. The Culture of Fear...
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Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World
by Sarah Vowell
Publisher Comments Take the Cannoli is a moving and wickedly funny collection of personal stories stretching across the immense landscape of the American scene. Vowell tackles subjects such as identity, politics, religion, art, and history with a biting humor. She...
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Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture
by Juliet B. Schor Publisher Comments Ads aimed at kids are virtually everywhere — in classrooms and textbooks, on the Internet, even at slumber parties and the playground. Product placement and other innovations have introduced more subtle advertising to movies and television...
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Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
by David Brooks
Powells.com Staff Pick For the past two hundred years, bohemians and bourgeois have loved to hate one another. To the moneyed classes, concerned with stability and respectability, bohemians had dubious morals and unsightly hair. And for the artists and intellectuals...
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Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping
by Judith Levine Publisher Comments Many of us have tried to call a halt to our spending at one time or another. But what if we decided not to buy anything for a whole year? Obviously, we would need necessities like food and soap, but how would be manage without new clothes, treats...
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Radio on: A Listener's Diary
by Sarah Vowell
Publisher Comments There are approximately 502 million radios in America. For this savvy, far-reaching diary, celebrated journalist and author Vowell turned hers on and listened—closely, critically, creatively—for an entire year. As a series of impressions and...
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The Metaphysical Club: A Story 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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Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge-And Why We Must
by Kalle Lasn Publisher Comments America is no longer a country but a multimillion-dollar brand, says Kalle Lasn and his fellow "culture jammers". The founder of Adbusters magazine, Lasn aims to stop the branding of America by changing the way information flows; the way institutions...
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Greatest Generation
by Tom Brokaw Publisher Comments "They came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to build modern America -- men and women whose everyday lives of duty, honor, achievement, and courage gave us the world we have today." In this magnificent...
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On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (and Always Have) in the Future Tense
by David Brooks Publisher Comments Take a look at Americans in their natural habitat: guys shopping for barbecue grills, doing that special walk men do when in the presence of lumber; superefficient soccer Ubermoms who chair school auctions, organize PTAs, and weigh less than their kids...
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The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker
by Mike Rose Publisher Comments As did the national bestseller Nickel and Dimed, Mike Roses revelatory book demolishes the long-held notion that people who work with their hands make up a less intelligent class. He shows us waitresses making lightning-fast calculations, carpenters...
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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 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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