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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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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell
Powells.com Staff Pick Somewhere along the way to guru-dom, Malcolm Gladwell got tagged as a business writer. Fair enough — The Tipping Point speaks more powerfully to the principles of succesful marketing than any pedestrian semester in the classroom. But while raves...
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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
by Chuck Klosterman
Powells.com Staff Pick "Part memoir, part meditation on crappy television, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs is a raucous ride through the cultural wasteland of Generation X. Don't think, though, that this book's obsession with meaningless trivia is worthless. Chuck Klosterman's...
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Hell's Angels (96 Edition)
by Hunter S. Thompson Publisher Comments "California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and...
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Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor/Outdoor Medical Grower's Bible
by Jorge Cervantes Synopsis Featuring information by more than 300 contributors--a veritable "whos who" of cannabis cultivation--this is the most complete book on the subject available. New greenhouse and outdoor growing chapters make the book one that both indoor and outdoor...
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Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity
by Anne Elizabeth Moore Publisher Comments A writer and activist investigates corporate America's inroads into — and alliances with — the cultural underground. "There's an industry around you that works, whether you agree with it or not." — Alec Bourgeois, Dischord Records...
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Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture
by Marita Sturken Publisher Comments Ideal for students studying visual culture for the first time, Practices of Looking explores the ways we use and understand images. Truly interdisciplinary, this comprehensive and engaging introduction can be used in courses across a range of disciplines...
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (P.S.)
by Eric Schlosser Publisher Comments To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar America. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has triggered the homogenization of our society. Fast food has hastened the malling of our...
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Bobos in Paradise (00 Edition)
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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Overspent American : Why We Want What We Don't Need (98 Edition)
by Juliet B. Schor Publisher Comments The Overspent American explores why so many of us feel materially dissatisfied, why we work staggeringly long hours and yet walk around with ever-present mental "wish lists" of things to buy or get, and why Americans save less than virtually anyone in...
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Subculture : the Meaning of Style (79 Edition)
by Dick Hebdige Synopsis Complex and remarkably lucid, it's the first book dealing with punk to offer intellectual content. Hebdige is concerned with the UK's postwar, music-centred, white working-class subcultures, from teddy boys to mods and rockers to skinheads and punks...
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NO LOGO: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs
by Naomi Klein
Publisher Comments With a new Afterword to the 2002 edition. No Logo employs journalistic savvy and personal testament to detail the insidious practices and far-reaching effects of corporate marketing—and the powerful potential of a growing activist sect that will...
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Growing Up with Dick and Jane: Learning and Living the American Dream
by Carole Kismaric Publisher Comments They're back! Growing Up with Dick and Jane reunites us with two old friends, Dick and Jane, who, for forty years, taught so many of us to read. Here's the all American brother and sister team. Look! It's Dick, in his striped polo shirts and shorts...
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Toxic Sludge Is Good for You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry
by John Stauber Publisher Comments Common Courage's number one seller blows the lid off of today's multi-billion-dollar propaganda-for-hire PR industry, revealing how public relations wizards concoct and spin the news, organize phony "grassroots" front groups, spy on citizens and conspire...
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Rapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture
by Daniel Radosh Publisher Comments What does it mean when a band is judged by how hard they pray rather than how hard they rock? Would Jesus buy "Jesus junk" or wear "witness wear"? What do Christian skate parks, raves, and romance novels say about evangelicalism -- and America? Daniel...
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Blubberland: The Dangers of Happiness
by Elizabeth Farrelly Publisher Comments I, like you, drive too much. I buy too much--of which I keep too much and also throw too much away. I overindulge my children, and myself. Directly as well as indirectly I use too much water, energy, air and space. My existence, in short, costs the...
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Affluenza the All Consuming Epidemic 2ND Edition
by John De Graaf
Publisher Comments Based on two highly acclaimed PBS documentaries watched by 10 million viewers, Affluenza uses the whimsical metaphor of a disease to tackle a very serious subject: the damage done ? to our health, our families, our communities, and our environment ? by...
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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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Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster
by Dana Thomas Publisher Comments A hard-hitting behind-the-scenes look at the luxury fashion industry today There was a time when luxury was available only to the rarefied and aristocratic world of old money and royalty. Luxury wasn't simply a product, it was a lifestyle, one that...
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Twilight of American Culture (00 Edition)
by Morris Berman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-193) and index....
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