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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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A Woman's Education
by Jill Ker Conway
Synopsis The beloved bestselling author of "The Road from Coorain and "True North continues her remarkable autobiography with an account of her decade as the first woman president of Smith College-a time when she was faced with the challenge of reinventing women...
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by Steven Pinker Publisher Comments Our conceptions of human nature affect everything aspect of our lives, from child-rearing to politics to morality to the arts. Yet many fear that scientific discoveries about innate patterns of thinking and feeling may be used to justify inequality, to...
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Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America
by Dan Savage Publisher Comments Dan Savage is irreverent, irrepressible, and opinionated. He's held his own on Politically Incorrect, told tales on This American Life, continues to write a beloved nationally syndicated column-and he's had it up to here (my hand is higher than my head...
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The Modern Gentleman: A Guide to Essential Manners, Savvy and Vice
by Phineas Mollod and Jason Tesauro Synopsis This is a sourcebook of manners and mischief for the 21st-century male. It offers a panoramic snapshot of the gentleman: witty and poignant, traditional but spontaneous, flirtatious yet courting. It has discussions ranging from the classic and serious to...
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Isaac's Storm : a Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (99 Edition)
by Erik Larson
Publisher Comments September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city...
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Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
by Ben Mezrich Publisher Comments It's Friday night and you're on a red-eye to the city of sin. Strapped to your chest is half a million dollars; in your overnight bag is another twenty-five thousand in blackjack chips; and your wallet holds ten fake IDs. As soon as you land in Las Vegas,...
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The Punch: One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed Basketball Forever
by John Feinstein Synopsis John Feinstein tells the story of the 1977 fight which changed the lives of basketball players Rudy Tomjanovitch and Kermit Washington forever. Feinstein chronicles the "untold story", the drastic response of the NBA, the conspiracy theories about the...
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The Clitourist: A Guide to the Hottest Spots on Earth
by Karen Salmansohn Publisher Comments A guide to one of the hottest spots on earth. A unique and revolutionary book that's also hilarious....
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Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy
by Andro Linklater
Publisher Comments Measuring America is the fascinating, provocative, and eye-opening story of why America has ended up with its unique system of weights and measures—the American Customary System, unlike any other in the world—and how this has profoundly...
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The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2003
by Ken Park Publisher Comments A perennial #1 New York Times Bestseller, with comprehensive, reliable, and up-to-date information on every subject imaginable, right at your fingertips For 135 years, The World Almanac has remained the source of choice for people who want quick access...
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Amy's Answering Machine: Messages from Mom
by Amy Borkowsky Publisher Comments Does your mother call you in a panic when she hears a storm warning for your area? Does she act as though it's her duty to alert you to every health story she hears on the news? Have you ever been briefly out of contact with your mother only to find she...
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Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
by Nancy Milford
Publisher Comments Thomas Hardy once said that America had two great attractions: the skyscraper and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. The most famous poet of the Jazz Age, Millay captivated the nation: She smoked in public, took many lovers (men and women, single and...
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Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players
by Stefan Fatsis
Publisher Comments Scrabble may be truly called America's game. But for every group of "living-room players" there is someone who is "at one with the board." In Word Freak, Stefan Fatsis introduces readers to those few, exploring the underground world of colorful...
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The Last Commissioner: A Baseball Valentine
by Fay Vincent Review Bob Costas author of Fair Ball Fay Vincent's insights on baseball issues are of course valuable, but as these pages reveal, what Vincent himself valued most about the game was the people he encountered within it. Vincent is an estimable man whose...
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The Partly Cloudy Patriot
by Sarah Vowell Publisher Comments In The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Sarah Vowell travels through the American past and, in doing so, investigates the dusty, bumpy roads of her own life. In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell -- widely hailed for her inimitable...
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Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million
by Martin Amis
Publisher Comments Koba the Dread is the successor to Martin Amis's celebrated memoir, Experience. It is largely political while remaining personal. It addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth-century thought: the indulgence of communism by intellectuals of the...
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Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
by Daniel Ellsberg
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