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Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives
by Jim Sheeler  Publisher Comments They are the troops that nobody wants to see, carrying a message that no military family ever wants to hear. It begins with a knock at the door. aThe curtains pull away. They come to the door. And they know. They always know, a said Major Steve Beck...
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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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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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Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism
by Marion Nestle Publisher Comments In an informed, even-handed and accessible way, the author demonstrates how powerful food industries oppose regulations, deny accountability, and blame consumers when something goes wrong, and how century-old laws for ensuring food safety no longer...
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Obit.: Inspiring Stories of Ordinary People Who Led Extraordinary Lives
by Jim Sheeler Publisher Comments Like Everything I Really Needed to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten, or Tuesdays with Morrie, Obit is a wise and deeply moving book that illuminates the human condition. For ten years, Jim Sheeler has scoured Colorado looking for subjects whose stories he...
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Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times
by Studs Terkel Publisher Comments Hope Dies Last is Studs Terkel's inspiring new oral history of social action in America. An alternative, more personal history of the "American century," Hope Dies Last forms a legacy of the indefatigable spirit that Studs has always embodied, and an...
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The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public
by Sarah E Igo Publisher Comments Americans today andldquo;knowandrdquo; that a majority of the population supports the death penalty, that half of all marriages end in divorce, and that four out of five prefer a particular brand of toothpaste. Through statistics like these, we feel that...
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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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Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Box Car Bertha
by Bertha Thompson as told to Ben L. Reitman
Publisher Comments Another raging slab of real American history you're not likely to find in the textbooks. This is second title in the new (and best-selling!) Nabat series that debuted with Jack Black's You Can't Win. It's a window into a wildly under-appreciated dropout...
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Diet for a Dead Planet: How the Food Industry Is Killing Us
by Christopher Cook Synopsis This absorbing study looks at the dangers of American food production, including exposure of food to food-borne pathogens, pesticides, and much more....
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Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy
by Bruce Levine Publisher Comments The rate of depression in the U.S. has increased more than tenfold in the last fifty years. By not seriously confronting societal sources of despair, American mental health institutions have become part of the problem rather than the solution.The good...
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Richistan : a Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich (07 Edition)
by Robert L. Frank Publisher Comments The rich have always been different from you and me, but this revealing and funny journey through “Richistan” entertainingly shows that they are more different than ever. Richistanis have 400-foot-yachts, 30,000-square-foot homes, house...
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Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expections
by Christopher Lasch Publisher Comments When The Culture of Narcissism was first published, it was clear that Christopher Lasch had identified something important: waht was happening to American society in the wake of the decline of the family over the last century. The book quickly became a...
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher Comments Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity. Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join...
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Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
by Susan Jacoby
Publisher Comments An authoritative history of the vital role of secularist thinkers and activists in the United States, from a writer of “fierce intelligence and nimble, unfettered imagination” (The New York Times) At a time when the separation of church and...
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Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America
by Margot Adler Publisher Comments Now fully revisedthe classic study of Neo-Paganism Almost thirty years since its original publication, Drawing Down the Moon continues to be the only detailed history of the burgeoning but still widely misunderstood Neo-Pagan subculture. Margot Adler...
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Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties
by Robert Stone Publisher Comments Prime Green opens during Robert Stone's last year in the Navy, when he took part in operation Deep Freeze 3, an Anarctic trip that involved circumnavigating the globe. Once out of the Navy, Stone worked for the old New York Daily News and started school...
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What Should I Do If Reverend Billy Is in My Store?
by Bill Talen
Publisher Comments The Reverend Billy is a revivalist preacher who leads the Church of Stop Shopping, an anticonsumerist communion devoted to putting the odd into God. Created by the actor Bill Talen, the Reverend first appeared alongside the sidewalk preachers in New York'...
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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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The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America
by Katherine S. And Victor Tan Chen Newman Publisher Comments An urgent examination of the lives of millions of hardworking Americans--neither poor nor middle class--who live without a safety net The Missing Class gives voice to the 57 million Americans--including 21 percent of the nation's children-- who are...
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