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Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America
by Dan Savage  Publisher Comments In Skipping Towards Gomorrah, Dan Savage eviscerates the right-wing conservatives as he commits each of the Seven Deadly Sins himself (or tries to) and finds those everyday Americans who take particular delight in their sinful pursuits. Among them...
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The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (and How to Do Them)
by Peter Sagal Publisher Comments Somewhere, somebody is having more fun than you are. Or so everyone believes. Peter Sagal, a mild-mannered, Harvard-educated NPR host — the man who put the second "L" in "vanilla" — decided to find out if it's true. From strip clubs to...
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In the Past Lane: Historical Perspectives on American Culture
by Michael Kammen Publisher Comments Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his People of Paradox (1973), and the Francis Parkman Prize for A Machine That Would Go of Itself (1987), Michael Kammen is widely regarded as one of our most important, and most diversely talented, cultural historians...
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White Collar American Middle Class 50TH Edition
by C Wright Mills Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references and index....
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Mapping American Culture
by Wayne Franklin Synopsis What connections can be drawn between oral history and the shopping mall? Gospel music and the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant? William Carlos Williams's Paterson and the Manhattan Project's secret cities? The answers lie in this insightful collection...
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The Culture of Calamity: Disaster and the Making of Modern America
by Kevin Rozario Publisher Comments Turn on the news and it looks as if we live in a time and place unusually consumed by the specter of disaster. The events of 9/11 and the promise of future attacks, Hurricane Katrina and the destruction of New Orleans, and the inevitable consequences of...
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Who Are We: The Challenges to America's National Identity
by Samuel P Huntington Publisher Comments In his seminal work The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Samuel Huntington argued provocatively and presciently that with the end of the cold war, "civilizations" were replacing ideologies as the new fault lines in international...
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Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby
by Stephen L Carter Publisher Comments In a climate where whites who criticize affirmative action risk being termed racist and blacks who do the same risk charges of treason and self hatred, a frank and open discussion of racial preference is difficult to achieve. But, in the first book on...
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Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion
by Jeffrey John Kripal Publisher Comments Jeffrey Kripal here recounts the spectacular history of Esalen, the institute that has long been a world leader in alternative and experiential education and stands today at the center of the human potential movement. Forged in the literary and mythical...
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The Selling Sound: The Rise of the Country Music Industry (Refiguring American Music)
by Diane Pecknold Publisher Comments Few expressions of popular culture have been shaped as profoundly by the relationship between commercialism and authenticity as country music has. While its apparent realism, sincerity, and frank depictions of everyday life are country's most obvious...
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The American Dream Vs. the Gospel of Wealth: The Fight for a Productive Middle-Class Economy (Future of American Democracy)
by Norton Garfinkle Publisher Comments Norton Garfinkle paints a disquieting picture of America today: a nation increasingly divided between economic winners and losers, a nation in which the middle-class American Dream seems more and more elusive. Recent government policies reflect...
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Who Are You People?: A Personal Journey Into the Heart of Fanatical Passion in America
by Shari Caudron Publisher Comments You know those people who get passionately, fanatically, obsessively into things? People like doll collectors or Star Wars fans or that lady down the street with creepy red and white gnomes all over her yard? I noticed them too and I was, well, jealous....
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Stranger Next Door : the Story of a Small Community's Battle Over Sex, Faith, and Civil Rights (01 Edition)
by Arlene Stein Publisher Comments With strong on-the-ground research and lucid analysis, Arlene Stein sets out to discover why the people of a town with no apparent queer population were hell-bent on getting rid of those individuals' "special rights." The Stranger Next Door's...
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Not in Kansas Anymore: A Curious Tale of How Magic Is Transforming America
by Christine Wicker Publisher Comments Magic has stepped out of the movies, morphed from the pages of fairy tales, and taken root in the modern mind. Soccer moms are getting voodoo head washings in their backyards, young U.S. soldiers send chants toward pagan gods of war, and a seem-ingly...
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Bowling Alone: Civic Disengagement in America
by Robert D Putnam 
Publisher Comments Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work; but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam has identified and describes in this brilliant volume, Bowling Alone. Drawing on vast new data from...
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American Foundations: An Investigative History
by Mark Dowie Publisher Comments In American Foundations, Mark Dowie argues that organized philanthropy is on the verge of an evolutionary shift that will transform America's nearly 50,000 foundations from covert arbiters of knowledge and culture to overt mediators of public policy and...
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The Burden of Bad Ideas
by Heather Macdonald Publisher Comments Critics have attacked the foolishness of some of today's elite thought from many angles, but few have examined the real-world consequences of those ideas. In this book, Heather Mac Donald reports on their disasterous effects throughout our society....
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Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America
by Andrew Ferguson
Publisher Comments Before he grew up and became one of Washington's most respected reporters and editors, Andrew Ferguson was, of all things, a Lincoln buff — with the photos hung on his bedroom wall to prove it. Decades later, Ferguson's latent buffdom is reignited...
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Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World
by Sarah Vowell Publisher Comments Take the Cannoli is a moving and wickedly funny collection of personal stories stretching across the immense landscape of the American scene. Hailed by Newsweek as a "cranky stylist with talent to burn," Vowell has an irresistible voice -- caustic and...
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Chuck Klosterman, Volume 4: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
by Chuck Klosterman
Powells.com Staff Pick One of Klosterman's most "dangerous ideas" may be his assertion that Billy Joel is a fantastic songwriter, but, oddly enough, his profile on the singer is not only fascinating, it earned him the wrath of Mr. Joel himself. How ironic! And yet, perhaps...
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