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High School Confidential: Secrets of an Undercover Student
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High School Confidential: Secrets of an Undercover Student
by Jeremy Iversen

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It's spring semester at Mirador High in Southern California, and twenty-four-year-old Jeremy Iversen is going deep undercover to deliver the real deal about the dull classes and fast times of American teens today. Trading in his suit and tie for jeans...
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Clubland: The Fabulous Rise and Murderous Fall of Club Culture
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Clubland: The Fabulous Rise and Murderous Fall of Club Culture
by Frank Owen

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For the past five years, journalist Frank Owen’s edgy explorations of the underbelly of American club culture and the personalities who inhabit it have become staple cover stories of The Village Voice. In 1995 he set out to write an article about &#...
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The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30)
by Mark Bauerlein

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This shocking, lively exposure of the intellectual vacuity of todayas under thirty set reveals the disturbing and, ultimately, incontrovertible truth: cyberculture is turning us into a nation of know-nothings. Can a nation continue to enjoy political and...
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13th Gen Abort Retry Ignore Fail
by Neil Howe

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In commentary and quotations, computer dumps and cartoons, 13TH GEN is a multimedia anthem to the American post-boomer generation,our country's thirteenth generation since the founding fathers....
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Flatlining on the Field of Dreams: Cultural Narratives in the Films of President Reagan's America
by Alan Nadel

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Flatlining on the Field of Dreams demonstrates, with witty prose and careful analysis, how the overindulgent, image-conscious years of the Reagan administration are reflected in sundry aspects of American films produced during that era. Discussing dozens...
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How We Got Here: The 70's: The Decade That Brought You Modern Life (for Better or Worse)
by David Frum

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For many, the 1970s evoke the Brady Bunch and the birth of disco. In this first, thematic popular history of the decade, David Frum argues that it was the 1970s, not the 1960s, that created modern America and altered the American personality forever. A...
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Demographic Change & the American Future
by R Scott Fosler

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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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Crisis in American Institutions 10TH Edition
by Jerome H Skolnick

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Presents articles on such social problems as corporate power, economic crisis, sexism, racism, and inequality....
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Rolling Stone: The Seventies
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Rolling Stone: The Seventies
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The Snarling Citizen: Essays
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The Snarling Citizen: Essays
by Barbara Ehrenreich



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Downsizing of America: The Reporters of the New York Times
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Downsizing of America: The Reporters of the New York Times
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The good life and its discontents :the American dream in the age of entitlement, 1945-1995
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The good life and its discontents :the American dream in the age of entitlement, 1945-1995
by Robert Samuelson

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The Scapegoat Generation: America's War on Adolescents
by Mike Males

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Appearance of Impropriety How the Ethics
by Peter W Morgan

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Generation Alone: Xers Making a Place in the World
by William Mahedy

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Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics
by Michael Novak



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Dreams of Millennium
by Mark Kingwell



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The United States in the 1980s
by Peter Duignan



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Squeeze
by James Dale Davidson



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American Journal the Events of 1976
by Elizabeth Drew



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