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The Broken Hearth: Reversing the Moral Collapse of the American Family
by William J Bennett  Publisher Comments Today the American family is under siege as never before. From the dramatic rise in illegitimacy, divorce, cohabitation, and single parenthood to the call for recognition of gay marriages, the traditional nuclear family is being radically challenged and...
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Stranger in a Strange Land: Encounters in the Disunited States
by Gary Younge Publisher Comments With a sharp pencil, and a sharper eye, our protagonist shades the contours of a fractured nation. Combining insight and panache, he has precisely captured the intricacies of a nation perplexed at its growing isolation from the rest of the world and...
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Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble about Language, Technology and Education
by Neil Postman Publisher Comments In a series of feisty and ultimately hopeful essays, one of America's sharpest social critics casts a shrewd eye over contemporary culture to reveal the worst -- and the best -- of our habits of discourse, tendencies in education, and obsessions with...
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Race Relations in the United States, 1960-1980 Volume Four
by Thomas Upchurch Publisher Comments Few decades in American history were as full of drama and historical significance as the 1960s and 1970s. In the 1960s, a revolution in race relations occurred, seeing the rise of the Civil Rights Movement, Black Power, the American Indian Movement, and...
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The Connection Gap: Why Americans Feel So Alone
by Laura Pappano Book News Annotation Pappano, a journalist who writes an education column for , draws on personal experience as well as academic studies and observations of media and consumer habits to ponder modern life, when people are hyperconnected through e-mail, voice mail, cell...
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In Our Backyard How 3 L a Neighborhoo
by Anne R Pebley Publisher Comments Focusing on the subtle interaction between children's well-being and the neighborhoods in which they grow up, the authors consider th age of the community's residents, their incomes, and residental turnover in the neighborhood to draw inferences from the...
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Nanny State: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists, and Other Boneheaded Bureaucrats Are Turning America In
by David Harsanyi Publisher Comments Harsanyi offers a convincing argument that government intervention in its citizens private lives not only denies them freedom of choice, but also erodes their national character by promoting a culture of victimhood and dependence....
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True and Only Heaven: Progress and Critics
by Christopher Lasch Publisher Comments 'An extraordinary book by one of our wisest social and political observers, Lasch's brilliant analysis of our secular dreams and hopes, our blind spots and foolishness, ought to help us all figure out what we believe and where we are headed as this...
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Standing on Holy Ground: A Triumph Over Hate Crime in the Deep South
by Sandra E Johnson Publisher Comments A sweeping epidemic of hate crime targeted over one hundred Southern Black Churches between 1995 and 1996, leaving them in charred ruins. St. John Baptist Church in Dixiana, South Carolina, was one of the first destroyed. This small, isolated church had...
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Families & Work New Directions in TH E T
by Fredriksen Goldsen Publisher Comments Families and Work: New Directions in the Twenty-First Century provides an innovative framework for understandingthe interface between family care and employment. It offers a detailed analysis of the needs and experiences of employed caregivers and...
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Don't Eat This Book
by Morgan Spurlock Publisher Comments The literary debut of the funniest and most incisive new voice to come along since Michael Moore — and the acclaimed director of the film phenomenon of the year. Can man live on fast food alone? Morgan Spurlock tried to do just that. For thirty...
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The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats
by Jim Goad Publisher Comments Culture maverick Jim Goad presents a thoroughly reasoned, darkly funny, and rampagingly angry defense of America's most maligned social group -- the cultural clan variously referred to as rednecks, hillbillies, white trash, crackers, and trailer trash...
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The Tobacco Wars
by Walter Adams Publisher Comments Designed as a supplement for either Principles or Intermediate Microeconomics, The Tobacco Wars is an interesting and unique way to illustrate the concepts of microeconomics as applied to real-life, current events. Not only does this lively discussion of...
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The Spirit of Disobedience: Resisting the Charms of Fake Politics, Mindless Consumption, and the Culture of Total Work
by Curtis White Synopsis With his trademark intelligence and humor, Curtis White argues that the American left needs a new and compelling spiritual basis for its politics, and that its seeds can be discovered in Thoreau's spiritual politics of refusal and a return to human...
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The Assimilation: Rock Machine Become Bandidos: Bikers United Against the Hells Angels
by Edward Winterhalder Publisher Comments In the early 1990s, Maurice Mom Boucher and his fellow Montreal Hells Angels, reputedly the most ruthless and vicious bikers in the world, subdued all comers except the tough-as-nails members of the Rock Machine. Founded by Salvatore Cazzetta, an ex...
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Fame Junkies: The Hidden Truths Behind America's Favorite Addiction
by Jake Halpern Publisher Comments A prismatic portrait of our national obsession with celebrity, in the tradition of Fast Food Nation and Blink. For several years, Jake Halpern has reported on Hollywood for NPR's "All Things Considered." In his new book, he explores the fascinating...
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Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
by J Anthony Lukas 
Publisher Comments Winner of 3 different awards, this is a story of the busing crisis in Boston....
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Something for Nothing: Luck in America
by Jackson Lears Publisher Comments Jackson Lears has won accolades for his skill in identifying the rich and unexpected layers of meaning beneath the familiar and mundane in our lives. Now, he challenges the conventional wisdom that the Protestant ethic of perseverance, industry, and...
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The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America
by Roger Kimball Book News Annotation Managing editor of the and art critic, Kimball continues his tirade against the cultural revolution of the 1950s and 1960s. He argues that the upheaval caused by the war in Vietnam allowed the ideology of the counterculture to escape from its...
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Social Origins of the Urban South: Race, Gender, and Migration in Nashville and Middle Tennessee, 1890-1930
by Louis M Kyriakoudes Publisher Comments The causes and effects of rural-to-urban migration In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, thousands of black and white southerners left farms and rural towns to try their fate in the region's cities. This transition brought about...
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