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The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America
by Susan Faludi  Publisher Comments From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash — an unflinching dissection of the mind of America after 9/11 In this most original examination of America's post-9/11 culture, Susan Faludi shines a light on the country...
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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
by Stephanie Coontz Publisher Comments The Way We Never Were examines two centuries of American family life and shatters a series of myths and half-truths that burden modern families. Placing current family dilemmas in the context of far-reaching economic, political, and demographic changes...
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Call for Heresy (07 Edition)
by Majid Publisher Comments A Call for Heresy discovers unexpected common ground in one of the most inflammatory issues of the twenty-first century: the deepening conflict between the Islamic world and the United States. Moving beyond simplistic answers, Anouar Majid argues that...
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Gun Show Nation: Gun Culture and American Democracy
by Joan Burbick Publisher Comments From the floor of American gun shows, this fascinating historical expos shows how guns have burrowed into the heart of American democracy....
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The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization
by Diana West Publisher Comments Diana West sees a US filled with middle-age guys playing air guitar and thinks "No wonder we can't stop Islamic terrorism." She sees Moms Who Mosh and wonders "Is there a single ...
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Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities
by Alexandra Robbins Publisher Comments A fast-paced, behind-the-scenes book that blows the lid off the intriguing world of mainstream sorority life, by a New York Times bestselling author. Alexandra Robbins wanted to find out if the stereotypes about sorority girls were actually true, so she...
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All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated
by Nell Bernstein Publisher Comments An award-winning journalist's "heart wrenching" (The San Antonio Observer) look at children with parents in prison—a Newsweek "book of the week" and an East Bay Express bestseller. In this "moving condemnation of the U.S. penal system and its effect...
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American Dreams: Lost and Found
by Studs Terkel Publisher Comments Back in print comes the book the "New York Times Book Review" called the Pulitzer Prize winner's best--a collection of personal dreams from such personalities as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ted Turner, Jesse Helms, Joan Crawford, Vine Deloria, and Helen and...
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Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster (07 Edition)
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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Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich
by Robert Frank Publisher Comments THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER RICH-I-STAN n. 1. a new country located in the heart of America, populated entirely by millionaires, most of whom acquired their wealth during the new Gilded Age of the past twenty years. 2. a country with a population...
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Aaron Wildavsky Forum for Public Policy #4: Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class
by Robert H Frank Publisher Comments Although middle-income families don't earn much more than they did several decades ago, they are buying bigger cars, houses, and appliances. To pay for them, they spend more than they earn and carry record levels of debt. In a book that explores the very...
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Freefall of the American University: How Our Colleges Are Corrupting the Minds and Morals of the Next Generation
by Jim Nelson Black Publisher Comments Exposing the liberal bias in today's universities, this book provides hard evidence that shows how today's colleges are covertly and overtly proselytizing with leftist slants on sexuality, politics, and lifestyles....
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Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy
by Grace Chang Publisher Comments Contents <P>Introduction<BR>Breeding Ignorance, Breeding Hatred<BR>Chapter 1: Undocumented Latinas: The New Employable Mother<BR>Chapter 2: The Nanny Visa: The Bracero Program Revisited<BR>Chapter 3: Immigrants and Workfare...
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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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Chuck Klosterman, Volume 4: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
by Chuck Klosterman 
Powells.com Staff Pick One of Klosterman's most "dangerous ideas" may be his assertion that Billy Joel is a fantastic songwriter, but, oddly enough, his profile on the singer is not only fascinating, it earned him the wrath of Mr. Joel himself. How ironic! And yet, perhaps...
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Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life
by Steven Mintz and Susan Kellogg Publisher Comments The American family has undergone a series of transformations from its socially sanctified role as the center of society to today's private, independent unit. The authors explain just how the family has adapted and endured these changes....
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Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
by Eric Schlosser
Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-292) and index....
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The World the Sixties Made: Politics and Culture in Recent America (Critical Perspectives on the Past)
by Van Gosse Publisher Comments How can we make sense of the fact that after decades of right wing political mobilizing the major social changes wrought by the Sixties are more than ever part of American life? "The World the Sixties Made, the first academic collection to treat the last...
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The Average American: The Extraordinary Search for the Nation's Most Ordinary Citizen
by Kevin O'keefe Publisher Comments Send an e-card for The Average American! Click here. John Q Public. Plain Jane. The Average Joe. We think we know the type, but have we ever actually met the person? To be the perfectly average American is harder than it might seem: You must live within...
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Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress
by Douglas Brinkley Publisher Comments In this monumental work, one of our finest historians reveals the riveting details of Ford Motor Company's epic achievements, from the outlandish success of the Model T and V-8 to the glory days of the Thunderbird, Mustang, and Taurus. Brilliant...
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