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Culture & Customs of the United Sta Volume 1
by Benjamin F Shearer  Publisher Comments American life and culture is truly unique in that it was born from many other cultures around the world. When immigrants migrated to the Land of Opportunity, they brought with them pieces of their own heritage: foods, religions, holidays, festivals...
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Beneath the Diamond Sky: Haight-Ashbury, 1965-1970
by Barney Hoskyns Publisher Comments An electrifying portrayal -- in text and 150 extraordinary pictures -- of the psychedelic culture that galvanized the Bay Area during that mythic time when "The Haight" emerged as the mecca of the counterculture. There is a magical aura even some three...
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Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American Democracy
by David Quigley Publisher Comments A striking new assessment of New York's place in our nation's political history At the close of the Civil War, Americans found themselves drawn into a new conflict, one in which the basic shape of the nation's government had to be rethought and new rules...
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From Lowbrow to Nobrow
by Peter Swirski Publisher Comments A groundbreaking book arguing that pop culture is the driving force in the development of culture....
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Uniforms: Why We Are What We Wear
by Paul Fussell Publisher Comments From Boy Scouts to soldiers, nurses to UPS workers, chefs to nuns, Paul Fussell describes, in sharp and telling anecdotes, the history and meanings of various uniforms. He reveals their secret language and unfolds their cultural significance. Focusing on...
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Hack: How I Stopped Worrying about What to Do with My Life and Started Driving a Yellow Cab
by Melissa Plaut Publisher Comments In her late 20s, Plaut decided to honor a long-held secret ambition by becoming a New York City taxi driver. With wit and insight, she recreates the crazy parade of humanity that passes through her cab and shows how this grueling work provides her with a...
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House Lust: America's Obsession with Our Homes
by Daniel McGinn Publisher Comments A rich narrative that blends social commentary with incisive reporting, House Lust offers an astute, funny, and sometimes disturbing portrait of the behaviors that drove the greatest real estate boom in history—and its eventual bust. Owning a home...
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Passing: When People Can't Be Who They Are
by Brooke Kroeger Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-271) and index....
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Pursuing the Dream
by Stephen Shames Publisher Comments How and why do some disadvantaged American families manage to stay together and become self-reliant despite the grip of overwhelming poverty? "I have wandered the nether world of poverty for the past thirty years," writes Stephen Shames in his...
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Moral Freedom: The Search for Virtue in a World of Choice
by Alan Wolfe Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-246) and index....
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Terror on the Highway: Rage on America's Roads
by Paul Eberle Publisher Comments Eberle documents cases of extreme road rage in this shocking look at the havoc caused by angry people in their cars....
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Marriage and Caste in America: Seperate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age
by Kay S. Hymowitz Synopsis A generation ago Americans undertook a revolutionary experiment to redefine marriage. Where historically men and women had sought a loving bond, largely centered on the rearing of children, the new arrangement called for an intimate--and provisional...
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The March of Unreason: Science, Democracy, and the New Fundamentalism
by Dick Taverne Publisher Comments In The March of Unreason, Dick Taverne expresses his concern that irrationality is on the rise in Western society, and argues that public opinion is increasingly dominated by unreflecting prejudice and an unwillingness to engage with factual evidence...
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Slackonomics: Generation X in the Age of Creative Destruction
by Lisa Chamberlain Publisher Comments Generation X grew up in the 1980s, when Alex P. Keaton was going to be a millionaire by the time he was thirty, greed was good, and social activism was deader than disco. Then globalization and the technological revolution came along, changing everything...
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Dumbth: And Eighty-One Ways to Make Americans Smarter
by Steve Allen Publisher Comments Critics have raved about this delightful book! Allen addresses the muddleheadedness (or "dumbth") that pervades all segments of American life and work, and offers 81 "rules" for good thinking....
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Horsemen of the Esophagus: Competitive Eating and the Big Fat American Dream
by Jason Fagone Publisher Comments A young journalist follows a year in the life of competitive eating, the quintessential sport of 21st century America, and explores the big American appetite--for food, for fame, for competition, for money, for love--through the prism of this luridly...
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Beauty and Business: Commerce, Gender, and Culture in Modern America (Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture)
by Philip Scranton Publisher Comments Historians explore how our ideas of "attractiveness" are influenced by a broad range of social and economic factors. They illuminate the ways in which beauty has been made, bought and sold in modern America through studying examples such as the sexual...
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Social Stratification in the United States - With Poster (3RD 07 Edition)
by Stephen J. Rose Publisher Comments A much-anticipated update of the classic book-and-poster set depicting who owns what, who makes how much, who works where, and who lives with whom. Generations of teachers, union organizers, and activists have relied on this book-and-poster set...
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Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened
by Rosalyn Baxandall Publisher Comments Picture Windows chronicles how suburbia sprawled, proving to be a hothouse for scores of disaffected artistic types and mopey teens.-Vanity Fair...
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American Families: A Multicultural Reader
by Stephanie Coontz Publisher Comments This collection testifies to the extraordinary variety of families in the United States, revealing that family arrangements have always been diverse and have often been in flux. Case studies describe the wide array of family forms and values, gender...
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