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Hip: The History
by John Leland  
Powells.com Staff Pick "When all is said and done, Hip: The History is not concerned with passing fads. The transient notions of hip that have passed through history still leave their cultural fingerprints on society today....While it's impossible to say what will be hip in...
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The Beats: From Kerouac to Kesey, an Illustrated Journey Through the Beat Generation
by Mike Evans Publisher Comments This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of On the Road, the defining book of the Beat Generation. Jack Kerouac wrote his masterpiece in one frenzied three-week period in 1951 on the infamous 119-foot scroll, which has been “on the...
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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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All Things Being Equal: Instigating Opportunity in an Inequitable Time
by Brian D Smedley Publisher Comments Eight sparkling essays by leading thinkers on how to give all americans a fair shake, published with a hot new social change group. "If we are to go forward today, we've got to go back and rediscover some mighty precious values that we've left behind...
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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. In The Long Baby Boom, Jeff Goldsmith counters the predictions of such...
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Society at the Crossroads: Choosing the Right Road
by Steven Cord Publisher Comments This in-depth analysis of ethical relativism and its role in contemporary social problems examines the inner attitudes of society and how ethical relativism has created individuals who have no respect for the rights and safety of others. Presented is a...
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Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers
by Alissa Quart
Powells.com Staff Pick The perfect antidote for the post-holiday shopping hangover. In Branded, Alissa Quart dissects the insidious ways that corporations market directly to teens, targeting their basest desires (fitting in, making friends, celebrating freedom) and driving...
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Anti-Catholicism in America: The Last Acceptable Prejudice
by Mark Stephen Massa Publisher Comments One of the most important books in religion this year is a tour-de-force of new investigation, scholarly rigor, storytelling, and humor. In this authoritative work, Mark Massa, program director of Fordham University's Center for American Catholic Studies,...
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The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need
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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The Ethics of Welfare
by Book News Annotation Drawing heavily on European research into popular and welfare provider discourses related to ideological constructed questions of dependency, responsibility, and rights, this work examines the "tensions and synergies between the development of human...
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From the Palmer Raids to the PATRIOT Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America
by Christopher M. Finan Publisher Comments After Upton Sinclair, famed author of The Jungle, was arrested for reading the First Amendment on Liberty Hill in 1923, The Nation commented: "When we contemplate the antics of the chief of police of Los Angeles, we are deterred from characterizing...
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Class in America [Three Volumes]: An Encyclopedia
by Robert E. Weir Publisher Comments In the United States, social class ranks with gender, race, and ethnicity in determining the values, activities, political behavior, and life chances of individuals. Most scholars agree on the importance of class, although they often disagree on what it...
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Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town
by Nate Blakeslee Publisher Comments In the summer of 1999, in the tiny west Texas town of Tulia, thirty-nine people, almost all of them black, were arrested and charged with dealing powdered cocaine. The operation, a federally-funded investigation performed in cooperation with the local...
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For Love of Country?: A New Democracy Forum on the Limits of Patriotism (New Democracy Forum)
by Martha C Nussbaum Publisher Comments 'For Love of Country is a rare forum: a real conversation among some of our most prominent intellectuals about an issue of urgent public importance. At the center of this lively and utterly readable debate book is Martha Nussbaumi\'s passionate argument...
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Hippie
by Barry Miles Publisher Comments New York Times bestseller! Sales phenomenon! Now in an entirely new compact-sized paperback...at a mind-blowing price. Experience the ultimate flashback with this celebration of an era. Rich in illustratiosn and filled with the history, politics, sayings,...
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The Beer Can by the Highway: Essays on What's American about America
by John At Kouwenhoven Publisher Comments First published in 1961, The Beer Can by the Highway takes a provocative, wide-ranging look at America's ever-changing physical and intellectual landscapes, from advertising and jazz to Manhattan's skyline and the prairies of the Midwest. The Johns...
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The Pursuit of Loneliness: American Culture at the Breaking Point
by Philip Ellio Slater Publisher Comments In a classic indictment of American individualism and isolationism, Philip Slater analyzes the great ills of modern society--violence, competitiveness, inequality, and the national "addiction" to technology....
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The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30)
by Mark Bauerlein Publisher Comments This shocking, lively exposure of the intellectual vacuity of today's under thirty set reveals the disturbing and, ultimately, incontrovertible truth: cyberculture is turning us into a nation of know-nothings. Can a nation continue to enjoy political and...
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Guns, Crime and Freedom
by Wayne R Lapierre Publisher Comments A definitive manual for taking part in the political debate, and preserving your right to keep and bear arms. --Tom Clancy A New York Times Best Seller....
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