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Racial Diversity and Social Capital (07 Edition)
by Hero  Publisher Comments This book connects and critically assesses two bodies of research - social capital and racial diversity....
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Used: $7.95 Hardcover List Price $24.00
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The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager
by Thomas Hine Publisher Comments Teenagers occupy a special place in American life. They are envied and sold to, studied and deplored. They seem to be growing up too fast, and always immature. They are barbarians at the gate-and our only hope for a better world. What, then, is this...
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Bobos in Paradise the New Upper Class
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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Garbage Land : on the Secret Trail of Trash (05 Edition)
by Elizabeth Royte Publisher Comments - In the vein of "Stiff, Nickel and Dimed, and "Fast Food Nation, GARBAGE LAND takes us behind the scenes and into the corners of our own lives, revealing the fantastic truth behind what we've taken for granted or never even thought about.- Royte's last...
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Workers and the Wild: Conservation, Consumerism, and Labor in Oregon, 1910-30 (Working Class in American History)
by Lawrence M. Lipin Publisher Comments In an innovative blend of environmental and labor history, Workers and the Wild examines the changing terms on which battles over the proper use of nature were fought in the early twentieth century. Focusing on Oregon in the 1910s and 1920s, Lawrence M...
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Holy Day, Holiday: The American Sunday
by Alexis Mccrossen Publisher Comments Whether observed as a day for rest or for time-and-a-half, Sunday has always been a day apart in the American week. Supplementing wide-ranging historical research with the reflections and experiences of ordinary individuals, Alexis McCrossen traces...
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The Americanist
by Daniel Aaron Publisher Comments “I have read all of Daniel Aaron’s books, and admired them, but in The Americanist I believe he has composed an intellectual and social memoir for which he will be remembered. His self-portrait is marked by personal tact and admirable...
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Step Right Up (Performance Studies)
by Brooks Mcnamara Synopsis Here is the fascinating though ofttimes shady history of the medicine show, an American show-business institution that dispensed hoopla and nostrums to a credulous clientele. When medicine shows died out, the nation lost one of its most rollicking...
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American: Beyond Our Grandest Notions
by Chris Matthews Publisher Comments From Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC's Hardball and NBC's The Chris Matthews Show, and New York Times bestselling author of Now, Let Me Tell You What I Really Think, comes a definitive work on the lifeblood of America -- its enduring spirit. People have...
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Home: The Blueprints of Our Lives
by John Edwards Publisher Comments A popular former senator and 2004 vice presidential candidate presents an inspiring mosaic of how childhood homes and communities shape a person's adult life, in a collection of narratives by such figures as Stephen Spielberg, John Glenn, and Sugar Ray...
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How to Be an Intellectual in the Age of TV: The Lessons of Gore Vidal (Public Planet Books)
by Marcie Frank Publisher Comments ""How to Be an Intellectual in the Age of TV" is an illuminating, wide-ranging, and provocative examination of Gore Vidal's mulitple public identities--novelist, screenwriter, political commentator, TV personality. Marcie Frank's insights into Vidal's...
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The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities
by Richard L Bushman Publisher Comments This lively and authoritative volume makes clear that the quest for taste and manners in America has been essential to the serious pursuit of a democratic culture. Spanning the material world from mansions and silverware to etiquette books, city planning,...
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Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
by Paul Fussell Publisher Comments In his highly entertaining observations of class in America, Fussell shows how our status is revealed by everything we do, say, and own. Funny, insightful, and at times outrageous, Class is guaranteed to amuse everyone, from high-class to low. Line...
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Prodigal Sons: The New York Intellectuals and Their World
by Alexander Bloom Publisher Comments "A herd of independent minds," Harold Rosenberg once labelled his fellow intellectuals. They were, and are, as this book shows, a special and fascinating group, including literary critics Lionel Trilling, Alfred Kazin, Irving Howe, Leslie Fiedler, Philip...
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The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead
by David Callahan Publisher Comments Free cable television. Imaginary tax deductions. Do you take your chance to cheat? David Callahan thinks many of us would; witness corporate scandals, doping athletes, plagiarizing journalists. Why all the cheating? Why now? Callahan blames the dog-eat...
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The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker
by Mike Rose Publisher Comments In the tradition of Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed and Studs Terkel's Working, The Mind at Work is an illuminating reassessment of American labor. Testimonials to physical work have always celebrated the dignity, the economic and moral value, even...
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The Gospel of Food: Everything You Think You Know about Food Is Wrong
by Barry Glassner Publisher Comments From the author of the national bestseller "The Culture of Fear" comes a rallying cry to abandon food fads and myths for calmer and more pleasurable eating....
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Home Fires Burning: Married to the Military-For Better or Worse
by Karen Houppert Publisher Comments As taps echoes across the cookie-cutter housing areas of upstate New York's Fort Drum, the wives turn on the evening news, both hoping for and dreading word of their husbands overseas. It's a ritual played out on military bases across the nation as the...
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The First Measured Century: An Illustrated Guide to Trends in America, 1900-2000
by Theodore Caplow Book News Annotation This text uses statistics about daily life to uncover trends of social change and continuity in the United States during the 20th century. Fifteen areas of American life are examined: population, work, education, family, living arrangements, religion,...
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Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy
by Lewis Lapham Publisher Comments Award-winning columnist Lewis Lapham issues an urgent new polemic about the strangling of meaningful dissent — the lifeblood of democracy — at the hands of a government and media increasingly beholden to the wealthy few. Never before, Lapham...
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