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Religion Race & Justice in a Changing
by Gary Orfield  Publisher Comments In many respects, religion was a bedrock of the civil rights movement during the 1950s and 1960s. Theology infused the spirit and rhetoric of the movement, churches served as the gathering place for its followers, and men of the cloth--foremost among...
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Used: $14.95 Trade Paper List Price $39.95
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Buyways: Billboards and the American Landscape
by Catherine Gudis Publisher Comments Shows how the placeless markets that billboards created presage the pop-ups in the ultimate placeless space, the InternetRichly illustrated with more than 60 illustrations--including an 8-page color insert--of billboards and ads from across the...
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Ordinary Heroes and American Democracy
by Gerald M. Pomper Publisher Comments An energizing and inspiring book about heroes, democracy, and their impact on each other. True American heroes need not have superhuman abilities nor do they need to act alone. Heroism in a democracy is different from the heroism of myths and legends...
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Used: $8.50 Hardcover List Price $22.00
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Waiting for the Barbarians
by Lewis Lapham Publisher Comments "Harper's Magazine" editor Lewis Lapham gives us an acerbic commentary on the future for democracy. An award-winning writer, Lapham sees America's citizenry as complacently taking for granted what has taken 200 years to build. He presents the portrait of...
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Off Ramp: Adventures and Heartache in the American Elsewhere
by Hank Stuever Publisher Comments "I'm the one they send to the trailer park outside Chimayo, New Mexico, to see the place where the guy went crazy and shot somebody. I'm the one who gets sent to the monster truck show, Lollapalooza concerts, the world's biggest bridal fair. Readers warm...
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More Unequal: Aspects of Class in the United States
by Michael D Yates Publisher Comments The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina exposed to the world what many U.S. politicians and pundits have long been able to ignore. The media images that commanded our attention spoke loudly of the class and racial divisions that still exist in the United...
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Theater of War
by Lewis Lapham Synopsis Finding sceptics in the US's "battle against evil" is a hard task: unpopular opinions seldom appear in the US press or on the TV news, and in the months since the destruction of the World Trade Center, the voices of dissent in America have been few and...
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The Spectator: Talk about Movies and Plays with the People Who Make Them
by Studs Terkel 
Publisher Comments This major new work includes more than 40 never-before-published interviews in which the Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian elicits frank, funny, and surprising conversations about the past half century of dramatic arts....
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Good Society
by Robert N Bellah Publisher Comments THE GOOD SOCIETY examines how many of our institutions- from the family to the government itself- fell from grace, and offers concrete proposals for revitalizing them....
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Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir
by Janice Erlbaum Publisher Comments Just two hours ago, I had been heating up some lentil soup at my mom's in Brooklyn, thinking I'd eat it and maybe read some Edith Wharton before bed. Now here I was at a runaway shelter, staring at a nun's mustache and wondering where I was going to...
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We've Got It Made in America: A Common Man's Salute to an Uncommon Country
by John Ratzenberger Publisher Comments A thought-provoking collection of essays and reflections on what makes America great journeys across the country to reveal the heart and soul of the nation, arguing that we are losing touch with the founding principles of America and explains how we can...
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Ain't My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism
by Bill Kauffman Publisher Comments From “the finest literary stylist of the American right,” a surprising and spirited account of how true conservatives have always been antiwar and anti-empire (Allan Carlson, author of The American Way) Conservatives love war, empire...
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Sale: $7.98 Trade Paper List Price $14.95
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The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy
by Leonard Steinhorn Publisher Comments The Greatest Generation gets credit for winning World War II and braving the Depression. But the Baby Boomers? All they get credit for is knowing how to order a tall skim double latte. What really is the true legacy of the Boomers? Summoning the...
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Home-alone America
by Mary Eberstadt Publisher Comments Eberstadt demonstrates the hard truth that children without a stay-at-home mother are far more likely to grow up with higher rates of obesity, learning disabilities, teen pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases, and criminal behavior....
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Class Dismissed
by Meredith Maran Publisher Comments This gripping story -a year in the lives of three high school seniors and their school-takes us deep into the hearts and minds of American teenagers, and American society, today. The seniors of Berkeley High are the white, black, Latino, Asian, and...
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The Redneck Manifesto: America's Favorite Scapegoats Find Their Voice-They're Mad as Hell and They're Not Going to Take It Anymore!
by Jim Goad Publisher Comments In a book that is destined to be praised, reviled, cited, denounced, loved, and hated -- perhaps by the same reader -- culture maverick Jim Goad presents a thoroughly reasoned, darkly funny, and rampagingly angry defense of America's most maligned social...
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Inspired Madness: The Gifts of Burning Man
by Dale Pendell Publisher Comments In part a nonfiction discussion of the Burning Man festival, in part a poetic romp through Nevada’s Black Rock desert, Inspired Madness is both an irreverent introduction for those curious about the notorious event and an exhilarating reminiscence for...
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America's Back Porch
by Daniel Jeffreys Publisher Comments On America's back porch, the most diverse and exotic cultures flourish in wild abandon; but it often takes the scrutiny of an outside observer, with an eye for the bizarre, to bring into relief the hilarious, often unsettling, bounty of strange...
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Driving With the Devil (06 Edition)
by Thompson Publisher Comments Offering an fascinating look at the well-hidden historical connection between whiskey running and stock-car racing, Thompson reveals the dramatic, untold story of Southern moonshiners, their Ford V-8s, and the creation of NASCAR....
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Gross National Happiness
by Arthur C. Brooks Publisher Comments Who are the happiest Americans? Surveys show that religious people think they are happier than secularists, and secularists think they are happier than religious people. Liberals believe they are happier than conservatives, and conservatives disagree. In...
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