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Remember Me: A Lively Tour of the New American Way of Death
by Lisa Takeuch Cullen  Publisher Comments In Remember Me, Time writer Lisa Takeuchi Cullen has created a humorous and poignant chronicle of her travels around the country to discover how Americans are reinventing the rites of dying. What she learned is that people no longer want to take death...
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Used: $8.50 Hardcover List Price $23.95
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Unprotected: A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in Her Profession Endangers Every Student
by Md Anonymous Publisher Comments How the PC agenda on college campuses is endangering millions of students Radical social agendas have taken over campus health and counseling, and it's making students sick. Dr Anonymous should know: she's treated over 2000 students at a prestigious...
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Horsemen of the Esophagus: Competitive Eating and the Big Fat American Dream
by Jason Fagone Publisher Comments "To be up on stage, shoving food in your face, beats everyday existence for most people." — David "Coondog" O'Karma, competitive eater. "Hungry" Charles Hardy. Ed "Cookie" Jarvis. Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas. Joey "Jaws" Chestnut. Will such...
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Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration (07 Edition)
by Pager Publisher Comments Nearly every job application asks it: have you ever been convicted of a crime? For the hundreds of thousands of young men leaving American prisons each year—a number that has exploded in recent decades with the growth of the prison system—...
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The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life
by Robert Goolrick Publisher Comments It was the 1950s, a time of calm, a time when all things were new and everything seemd possible. A few years before, a noble war had been won, and now life had returned to normal. For one little boy, however, life had become anything but andquot;normal...
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The American Revelation: Ten Ideals That Shaped Our Country from the Puritans to the Cold War
by Neil Baldwin Publisher Comments In The American Revelation, Neil Baldwin, one of our most exciting and provocative intellectual historians, applies his formidable energies to the story of how the American Spirit developed over four centuries, through an inspiring—and unsparing...
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I Want That!: How We All Became Shoppers
by Thomas Hine Publisher Comments “ Hine offers fresh insight into why we shop and how we are--in some ways--born to do so. A jaunty writer who breaks down an unwieldy topic in to a thoughtful cultural riff... Hine delivers a balanced and entertaining analysis of how we arrived at...
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The Business of Holidays
by Maud Lavin Publisher Comments - Exciting and innovative graphic presentation draws in design elements from every holiday imaginable.<BR>- Writing style rich in history, opinion, and satire.<BR>- Addresses visual culture, design history and studies, cultural criticism and...
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Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress
by Debra Ginsberg Publisher Comments Chapter OneThe Luncheonette It's a very slow Friday night. I've had precious few tables and the evening promises to be a bit of a wash. I check my watch for the tenth time. Only eight-thirty. Although the night drags interminably, I know better than to...
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Good War
by Studs Terkel Publisher Comments PULITZER PRIZE WINNER OVER FIVE MONTHS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER...
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The Connection Gap: Why Americans Feel So Alone
by Laura Pappano Book News Annotation Pappano, a journalist who writes an education column for , draws on personal experience as well as academic studies and observations of media and consumer habits to ponder modern life, when people are hyperconnected through e-mail, voice mail, cell...
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True and Only Heaven: Progress and Critics
by Christopher Lasch Publisher Comments 'An extraordinary book by one of our wisest social and political observers, Lasch's brilliant analysis of our secular dreams and hopes, our blind spots and foolishness, ought to help us all figure out what we believe and where we are headed as this...
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Fire and Ice
by Michael Adams Publisher Comments Canadians have long defined themselves as "not Americans." They cherish their differences from the United States, but as their powerful neighbour grows ever more dominant on the world stage, can they hope to hold on to their national identity? In "Fire...
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Assembling My Father: A Daughter's Detective Story
by Anna Cypra Oliver Publisher Comments Oliver's father's suicide, committed when she was only five years old, has haunted her all her life. In "Assembling My Father," she offers the extraordinary chronicle of her journey of discovery to learn who he was and why he died....
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Carried to the Wall: American Memory/Vietnam Veterans Memor
by Kristin Ann Hass Publisher Comments On May 9, 1990, a bottle of Jack Daniels, a ring with letter, a Purple Heart and Bronze Star, a baseball, a photo album, an ace of spades, and a pie were some of the objects left at the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial. For Kristin Hass, this eclectic...
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Apocalypse Pretty Soon
by Alex Heard Publisher Comments Over a ten-year period, intrepid cultural traveler Alex Heard has been sojourning among America's most intensely religious and political believers -- sometimes dark, sometimes joyful, usually bizarre, and very occasionally deadly groups who bring their...
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A Bee in the Mouth: Anger in America Now
by Peter Wood Publisher Comments America has gotten into ugly moods before, but never as today. In taking us on a guided tour of American acrimony, Peter Wood traces the roots of anger's triumph in our social and political world. He examines the liberating bromides of psychotherapists...
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Law and Providence in Joseph Bellamy's New England: The Origins of the New Divinity in Revolutionary America (Religion in America Series)
by Mark Valeri Publisher Comments This study of religious thought and social life in early America focuses on the career of Joseph Bellamy (1719-1790), a Connecticut Calvinist minister noted chiefly for his role in originating the New Divinity--the influential theological movement that...
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Ruined Time
by Robert Briggs Book News Annotation The Beat vision was never "a way of life or a way anywhere in particular it remained a condition an atmosphere of attitudes that poets could feel, painters see, musicians hear, and writers scrutinize. It was a promising fifth dimension in which it was...
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Uniforms: Why We Are What We Wear
by Paul Fussell Publisher Comments From Boy Scouts to soldiers, nurses to UPS workers, chefs to nuns, Paul Fussell describes, in sharp and telling anecdotes, the history and meanings of various uniforms. He reveals their secret language and unfolds their cultural significance. Focusing on...
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