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All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community
by Carol B Stack  Publisher Comments All Our Kin is the chronicle of a young white woman's sojourn into The Flats, an African-American ghetto community, to study the support system family and friends form when coping with poverty. Eschewing the traditional method of entry into the...
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The Encyclopedia of Guilty Pleasures: 1,001 Things You Hate to Love
by Sam Stall 
Publisher Comments Sam Stall, Lou Harry, and Julia Spalding contains 1,001 things we hate to love, from Barry Manilow, The Real World, and Land of the Lost to Members Only jackets and Benny Hill....
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Our Media, Not Theirs: The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media (Seven Stories' Open Media Book)
by Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols Publisher Comments A revised, updated, and expanded edition of McChesney and Nichols's bestselling "It's the Media, Stupid! "The authors critique the U.S. media system, examine alternatives at work in other countries, and conclude with a proposal for meaningful reform....
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Do You Remember TV?: The Book That Takes You Back
by Michael Gitter Synopsis You will never forget the "Brady Bunch" double episode in Hawaii. But do you remember "Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway"? Can you recite the Oscar Mayer Wiener jingle or win at "Name That Tune"? Have you seen every "Love Boat "episode with Charo in it?...
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The Best of Times: The Boom and Bust Years of America Before and After Everything Changed
by Haynes Johnson Publisher Comments We were awash in money and spellbound by celebrity and scandal. It was a time of breathtaking strides in science and unprecedented possibility. A time of squandered opportunities and grave distraction. A time of tragic complacency and belief in our...
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Caring and Gender
by Francesca M. Cancian and Stacey J. Oliker Publisher Comments Using engaging case studies and research findings, this lively new book from the Gender Lens Series challenges the notion that care-giving is a natural pattern and demonstrates how it is thoroughly social. Written in an inviting and readable style, the...
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A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance
by Jane Juska Publisher Comments Juska's brave, honest memoir about late-life sexual exploits will probably raise eyebrows and blood pressure, but it will undoubtedly appeal to the very large audience of grown-up readers who will be fascinated and inspired by her daring adventure....
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Enriqueta Vasquez and the Chicano Movement: El Grito del Norte Writings (Hispanic Civil Rights)
by Enriqueta Vasquez Publisher Comments As a teenager, long before Enriqueta Vasquez became a writer and activist, she wrote her first letter to complain against the injustice she saw around her while growing up in the Southwest. Why was she, a Mexican American, not allowed to eat in local...
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Geisha
by Liza Dalby Publisher Comments "Liza Dalby knows more about the subject than I'll ever know, and she writes about it with grace and eloquence."--Arthur Golden, author of "Memoirs of a...
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Poststructuralism : Very Short Intro (02 Edition)
by Catherine Belsey Publisher Comments Poststructuralism changes the way we understand the relations between human beings, their culture, and the world. Following a brief account of the historical relationship between structuralism and poststructuralism, this Very Short Introduction traces...
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Changing Places: A Kid's View of Shelter Living
by Margie Chalofsky Publisher Comments Captures the voices of eight homeless children, ages 6 to 13. ". . . a wonderful little book, gentle and moving, and I hope it will be read by children".--Jonathan Kozol, author of Savage Inequalities in America's Schools. ". . . draws a touching picture...
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Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences
by Edward Tenner Publisher Comments If computers really eliminate paperwork, why is the office recycling bin always overflowing? Why are the lines before the bank's ATMs often longer than the ones at the tellers' windows? Anyone who has ever pondered those questions will delight in Why...
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On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (and Always Have) in the Future Tense
by David Brooks Publisher Comments Americans are the inheritors of a sense of limitless possibilities raised to think in the future tense. The author takes a serious and comic look at this future-mindedness that shapes personalities and underlies beliefs....
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The Middle Mind: Why Americans Don't Think for Themselves
by Curtis White Publisher Comments Acclaimed social critic Curtis White describes an all-encompassing and little-noticed force taking over our culture and our lives that he calls the Middle Mind: the current failure of the American imagination in the media, politics, education, art...
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The Call of Service
by Robert Coles Publisher Comments In this book, Coles explores the concept of idealism and why it necessary to the individual and society....
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Souls of Black Folk (05 Edition)
by W.e.b. Du Bois Publisher Comments Enduring Liturature Illuminated by Practical Scholarship <P>A revolutionary collection of essays about the African-American experience at the turn of the twentieth century.<P>This Enriched Classic Edition includes: <P>• A...
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Being Digital
by Nicholas Negroponte Publisher Comments In lively, mordantly witty prose, Negroponte decodes the mysteries — and debunks the hype — surrounding bandwidth, multimedia, virtual reality, and the Internet, and explains why such touted innovations as the fax and the CD-ROM are likely to...
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Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
by Ted Conover
Publisher Comments Acclaimed journalist Ted Conover sets a new standard for bold, in-depth reporting in this first-hand account of life inside the penal system. <BR>When Conover's request to shadow a recruit at the New York State Corrections Officer Academy was...
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The Oxford Book of Work
by Keith Thomas Publisher Comments Primal curse or sacred duty? Painful drudgery or the only sure route to human happiness? Work has always evoked conflicting reactions. Yet whether we view it as a tedious necessity or embrace it as a compulsive addiction, it remains an inescapable and...
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City Life
by Witold Rybczynski Publisher Comments In this sweeping cultural history, the author of Home and The Most Beautiful House in the World traces the development of American cities and city life from the early colonial settlements to the new downtowns of skyscrapers and high-rise apartment...
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