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The Fluoride Deception
by Christopher Bryson  
Powells.com Staff Pick One of Ashley's Top Five picks for 2004. To read more staff Top Five lists click here....
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United States
by Gore Vidal
Powells.com Staff Pick This massive National Book Award-winning tome offers Vidal's selection of over one hundred essays written over a period of forty years. Including wonderfully wide-ranging pieces on intellectual, cultural and political life, United States shows that...
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Generation Ecstasy : Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture (98 Edition)
by Simon Reynolds
Powells.com Staff Pick For those of you who think that the related electronic music scenes of house, techno, disco, rave, etc. are a "white" thing, this book will set you straight. Disco and house music emerged from the underground Black and Latin gay dance...
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American Vertigo : Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville (06 Edition)
by Bernard-henri Levy
Powells.com Staff Pick Hoping to gauge the success of America's experiment in democracy, France's leading journalist follows Tocqueville's journey across our once nascent nation to rediscover what it means to be an American. Here in opposing and quick succession, we meet...
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Taz the Temporary Autonomous Zone 2ND Edition
by Hakim Bey
Powells.com Staff Pick "Since the WTO, anarchism is once again a household word. This book introduced a whole new generation to the enticements of the anarchist lifestyle when it was released in the early 90's. Still a password for acceptance in many circles, it is an...
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Trust Us We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future
by Sheldon Rampton
Powells.com Staff Pick Trust Us, We're Experts! blows the lid off so-called "third party" experts, hirelings of the corporate elite's who do transnationals' bidding under the guise of independence. Every time you hear "W" say "I want to make policy based on 'sound...
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Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future
by Sheldon Rampton
Powells.com Staff Pick Trust Us, We're Experts! blows the lid off so-called "third party" experts, hirelings of the corporate elite's who do transnationals' bidding under the guise of independence. Every time you hear "W" say "I want to make policy based on 'sound...
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American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville
by Bernard-Henri Levy
Powells.com Staff Pick Hoping to gauge the success of America's experiment in democracy, France's leading journalist follows Tocqueville's journey across our once nascent nation to rediscover what it means to be an American. Here in opposing and quick succession, we meet...
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Working Poor : Invisible in America (04 Edition)
by David K. Shipler
Powells.com Staff Pick The Working Poor is a deeply impressive book, a thorough and balanced study of the millions of Americans living at or around the poverty line. Shipler's varied portraits and interviews are insightful and moving, and his analysis of causes and...
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Hope Dies Last: Keeping Faith in Difficult Times
by Studs Terkel
Powells.com Staff Pick "One of this country's finest journalistic rabble-rousers has a new volume of oral history, around the theme of activism. A typical Chicago-centric cross-section is represented: secular and religious, young and old, spanning the ideological...
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The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse
by Gregg Easterbrook
Powells.com Staff Pick Here's a pick sure to shake up your next book club. Despite his sometimes sanctimonious tone, Easterbrook poses some very interesting questions about modern society and its inhabitants. Why does the middle class feel so discontented? Long on theories and...
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