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Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster
by Dana Thomas  Publisher Comments Thomas, the style and cultural reporter for "Newsweek," takes a hard-hitting look at the world of new luxury, and argues that globalization and corporate greed have ensured that old-time manufacturing has bowed to sweatshops and wild profits to produce...
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Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West (Development of Western Resources)
by Hal K Rothman Publisher Comments Rothman's study traces the history of Western tourism from the late 19th century to the present, exploring in comprehensive and eminently readable detail the ways in which the tourist industry has shaped communities. Photos....
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Sleeping Where I Fall: A Chronicle
by Peter Coyote 
Publisher Comments In this intelligent memoir, actor Peter Coyote relives his 15-year ride through a fascinating period in American history. illustrations....
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Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping
by Judith Levine
Publisher Comments Shocked by the commerce in everything from pet cloning to patriotism, frightened by the downward spiral of her finances and that of the trash-strewn earth, Judith Levine enlists her partner, Paul, in a radical experiment: to forgo all but the most...
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The Dead Travel Fast: Stalking Vampires from Nosferatu to Count Chocula
by Eric Nuzum
Publisher Comments The Dead Travel Fast is about vampires, death, chickens, fear, things that smell bad, the love of a good woman, and germs — but mostly it's about vampires. The undead are everywhere. They're not just in movies and books, but in commercials...
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The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
by Barry Glassner
Publisher Comments There has never been another era in modern history, even during wartime or the Great Depression, when so many people have feared so much. Three out of four Americans say they feel more fearful today then they did twenty years ago. The Culture of Fear...
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The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy
by Nicholas Lemann Publisher Comments What do we know about the history, origin, design, and purpose of the SAT? Who invented it, and why? How did it acquire such a prominent and lasting position in American education? The Big Test reveals the ideas, people, and politics behind a fifty-year...
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A Short History of Rudeness: Manners, Morals, and Misbehavior in Modern America
by Mark Caldwell Publisher Comments The perceived breakdown of civility has in recent years become a national obsession, and our modern climate of boorishness has cultivated a host of etiquette watchdogs, like Miss Manners and Martha Stewart, who defend us against an onslaught of nastiness....
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The Gospel of Food: Why We Should Stop Worrying and Enjoy What We Eat (P.S.)
by Barry Glassner Publisher Comments From the author of the national bestseller "The Culture of Fear" comes a rallying cry to abandon food fads and myths for calmer and more pleasurable eating....
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Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America
by Morgan Spurlock Publisher Comments The nauseating truth from the producer, director, and guinea pig of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Super Size Me. Just when you figured it was safe to scarf fries again comes the factpacked and funny new alarm bell from the man whose month-long...
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The Long Baby Boom: An Optimistic Vision for a Graying Generation
by Jeff Goldsmith Publisher Comments In 2006, the first baby boomers turned 60, unleashing a veritable tidal wave of gloomy punditry, advertising for financial services, and forecasts of impending national bankruptcy. Jeff Goldsmith rejects such catastrophic predictions. Drawing on evidence...
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Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas
by Hal Rothman Publisher Comments This collection brings intellectual analysis, political and socioeconomic awareness, and top-quality photographs to bear on the ever-fascinating Las Vegas, one of the most talked about and visited cities in the United States....
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Overspent American : Why We Want What We Don't Need (98 Edition)
by Juliet B. Schor Publisher Comments The Overspent American explores why so many of us feel materially dissatisfied, why we work staggeringly long hours and yet walk around with ever-present mental "wish lists" of things to buy or get, and why Americans save less than virtually anyone in...
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In Defense of Elitism
by William A Henry Publisher Comments From the Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic for "Time magazine comes the tremendously controversial, yet highly persuasive, argument that our devotion to the largely unexamined myth of egalitarianism lies at the heart of the ongoing "dumbing of...
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Myth and the Greatest Generation: A Social History of Americans in World War II
by Kenneth D. Rose Publisher Comments P EM Myth and the Greatest Generation /EM calls into question the glowing paradigm of the World War II generation set up by such books as EM The Greatest Generation /EM by Tom Brokaw. /P P Including analysis of news reports, memoirs, novels, films and...
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The Epidemic: The Rot of American Culture, Absentee and Permissive Parenting, and the Resultant Plague of Joyless, Selfish Children
by Robert Shaw Publisher Comments From an esteemed child psychiatrist: a bold, fresh, and controversial look at the faddish child-rearing practices that have created a nation of children who are depressed, alienated, often amoral, and all too often violent. The shock of the Columbine...
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Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
by David Brooks
Powells.com Staff Pick For the past two hundred years, bohemians and bourgeois have loved to hate one another. To the moneyed classes, concerned with stability and respectability, bohemians had dubious morals and unsightly hair. And for the artists and intellectuals...
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The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice
by Greil Marcus Publisher Comments A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year A London Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year In this exhilarating and kaleidoscopic investigation of American identity, Greil...
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No More Prisons: Urban Life, Homeschooling, Hip-Hop Leadership, the Cool Rich Kids Movement, a Hitchhiker's Guide to Community Organizi
by William Ups Wimsatt Publisher Comments Winner of the 2000 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for Best Book, Politics....
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Never Done: A History of American Housework
by Susan Strasser Publisher Comments Finally back in print, with a new Preface by the author, this lively, authoritative, and pathbreaking study considers the history of material advances and domestic service, the "women's separate sphere," and the respective influences of advertising, home...
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