General
There are 803 books in this aisle.
Browse the aisle by Title | by Author | by Price
See recently arrived used books in this aisle.
 Used: $16.95 Hardcover List Price $24.95 
add to wish list |
|
Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
by Rebecca Solnit  Publisher Comments This anthology of Solnits essential essays from the past ten years takes the reader from the Pyrenees to the U.S.-Mexican border, from open sky to the deepest mines and offers a panoramic world view enriched by the authors characteristically provocative,...
|
||||||
New: $22.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace (Russell Sage Foundation Books at Harvard University Press)
by Nancy Maclean Publisher Comments In the 1950s, the exclusion of women and of black and Latino men from higher-paying jobs was so universal as to seem normal to most Americans. Today, diversity in the workforce is a point of pride. How did such a transformation come about? In this bold...
|
||||||
Used: $6.00 Hardcover List Price $27.50
add to wish list |
|
The Repeal of Reticence
by Rochelle Gurstein Publisher Comments Arthur Herman explains how the conviction of civilization's inevitable end has become part of the modern Western imagination. He shows how the non-Romantic thinkers who became obsessed by the image of their civilization's demise paved the way for more...
|
||||||
Used: $2.63 Trade Paper List Price $19.95
add to wish list |
|
The Beer Can by the Highway: Essays on What's American about America
by John At Kouwenhoven Publisher Comments First published in 1961, The Beer Can by the Highway takes a provocative, wide-ranging look at America's ever-changing physical and intellectual landscapes, from advertising and jazz to Manhattan's skyline and the prairies of the Midwest. The Johns...
|
||||||
Used: $7.95 Trade Paper List Price $13.95
add to wish list |
|
Fame Junkies: The Hidden Truths Behind America's Favorite Addiction
by Jake Halpern Publisher Comments Author and NPR commentator Halpern takes a critical look at Americans' infatuation with fame and determines that fame is elusive, desirable--and also possibly addictive....
|
||||||
Used: $9.95 Hardcover List Price $25.95
add to wish list |
|
And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey
by Studs Terkel Publisher Comments A half-century of previously unpublished interviews with legendary musicians, in a brand-new book from America's foremost oral historian I'm one of these people that thinks that everybody has certain gifts, you know, when they're born...I used to play...
|
||||||
Used: $2.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Violence in America
by Arnold Goldstein Publisher Comments Addresses America's most pressing social problem....
|
||||||
Used: $7.95 Trade Paper List Price $14.00
add to wish list |
|
Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America
by Tom Lutz Publisher Comments Couch potatoes, goof-offs, freeloaders, good-for-nothings, loafers, and loungers: ever since the Industrial Revolution, when the work ethic as we know it was formed, there has been a chorus of slackers ridiculing and lampooning the pretensions of...
|
||||||
Used: $2.95 Trade Paper List Price $12.95
add to wish list |
|
The American Dream: Stories from the Heart of Our Nation
by Dan Rather Publisher Comments At a time when we are once again talking and thinking about the meaning of America, bestselling author and award-winning journalist Dan Rather provides a powerful look at Americans who struggle to achieve their desires and ambitions. With the stories of...
|
||||||
Used: $17.00 Trade Paper List Price $33.99
add to wish list |
|
Diverse Communities : Problem With Social Capital (06 Edition)
by Barbara Arneil Publisher Comments Robert Putnam's social capital thesis re-examined from the perspective of women and cultural minorities....
|
||||||
Sale: $10.00 Trade Paper List Price $26.00
add to wish list |
|
Modern American Liberalism: The New Deal and Its Legacies, 1932-2000
by William Henry Chafe Publisher Comments < P> The New Deal established the contours and character of modern American democracy. It created an anchor and a reference point for American liberal politics through the struggles for racial, gender, and economic equality in the five decades that...
|
||||||
Used: $2.99 Hardcover List Price $23.95
add to wish list |
|
Hail Babylon!: In Search of the American City at the End of the Millennium
by Andrei Codrescu Publisher Comments In his most important nonfiction work since "Road Scholar", Andrei Codrescu takes readers cross-country through the increasingly alluring American urban landscape. From New York and Baltimore to New Orleans and Little Rock--and several cities in between--...
|
||||||
Used: $10.95 Trade Paper List Price $16.95
add to wish list |
|
You Have No Rights: Stories of America in an Age of Repression
by Matthew Rothschild Publisher Comments Chilling true stories of ordinary Americans whose everyday liberties have been violated since September 11. "I'm very liberal and sometimes my friends say I'm giving them some kind of paranoid, nutty stuff, and I agree, but then the FBI show up."—...
|
||||||
New: $24.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Class Counts: Education, Inequality, and the Shrinking Middle Class
by Allan Ornstein Book News Annotation The question of economic class is as important to American society today as it has been since ancient Greek and Roman times, argues Ornstein (education, St. Johns U.). He describes the role of class in American history and connects it to contending...
|
||||||
Sale: $7.98 Trade Paper List Price $15.00
add to wish list |
|
Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States
by Hector Tobar Publisher Comments Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hector Tobar takes readers on the definitive tour of the Spanish-speaking United States--a parallel nation, 35 million strong, that is changing the very notion of what it means to be an American in unprecedented and...
|
||||||
Used: $9.95 Hardcover List Price $29.95
add to wish list |
|
Americanism: New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal
by Michael Kazin Publisher Comments What is Americanism? The contributors to this volume recognize Americanism in all its complexity--as an ideology, an articulation of the nation's rightful place in the world, a set of traditions, a political language, and a cultural style imbued with...
|
||||||
Used: $6.95 Trade Paper List Price $14.00
add to wish list |
|
The Good Life and Its Discontents: The American Dream in the Age of Entitlement
by Robert J Samuelson Publisher Comments A New York Times Business Book Bestseller <P>"Shrewd and optimistic. . . . [The Good Life and Its Discontents] combines first-rate analysis with persuasive historical, political and sociological insights."<BR>--The New Republic <BR>...
|
||||||
New: $39.95 Trade Paper List Price $45.00
add to wish list |
|
Race and the Making of American Liberalism
by Carol A Horton Publisher Comments Race and the Making of American Liberalism traces the roots of the contemporary crisis of progressive liberalism deep into the nation's racial past. Horton argues that the contemporary conservative claim that the American liberal tradition has been...
|
||||||
Used: $2.49 Hardcover List Price $24.00
add to wish list |
|
Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World
by Greg Critser 
Publisher Comments What in American sociery has changed so dramatically to make nearly 60 percent of us overweight? Can we fix what the surgeon general calls a national "epidemic of obesity"? Greg Critser engages every aspect of American life to determine how we have made...
|
||||||
Used: $6.50 Trade Paper List Price $16.95
add to wish list |
|
Lost and Found: My Life in a Group Marriage Commune (Counterculture Series)
by Margaret Hollenbach Publisher Comments In 1970 Margaret Hollenbach, an idealistic twenty-five-year-old graduate school dropout, changed her name and gave up her possessions to join a commune known as The Family, located in Taos, New Mexico. The Family believed in group marriage and practiced...
|
||||||
