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Better Together: Restoring the American Community
by Robert D. Putnam  
Publisher Comments In his acclaimed "Bowling Alone," Robert Putnam describes the United States as a nation in which we have become increasingly disconnected from one another and in which our social structures have disintegrated. But in the final chapter of that book he...
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Good News: Social Ethics and the Press
by Clifford Christians Publisher Comments Mass media ethics and the classical liberal ideal of the autonomous individual are historically linked and professionally dominant--yet the authors of this work feel this is intrinsically flawed. They show how recent research in philosophy and social...
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The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy
by Leonard Steinhorn Publisher Comments The Greatest Generation gets credit for winning World War II and braving the Depression. But the Baby Boomers? All they get credit for is knowing how to order a tall skim double latte. What really is the true legacy of the Boomers? Summoning the amazing...
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The Sanctity of Marriage Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Marriage--Between a Man and a Woman--Featuring Those Whocast the First Stone
by Bryan Harris Publisher Comments An edgy, tongue-in-cheek look at the lives of some of the most vocal "defenders" of marriage, and how they have (not) lived up to the sacred standards of the institution they claim to protect. In November 2004, the right wing won elections across the...
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Once Upon a Quinceanera: Coming of Age in the USA
by Julia Alvarez Publisher Comments The bestselling author of "How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents" explores the phenomenon of the Latina sweet 15 celebration. An enlightening and entertaining portrait of contemporary Latino culture, this title also takes a critical look at the social...
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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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As Seen on TV: Provocations
by Lucy Grealy Publisher Comments From the author of the unforgettable "Autobiography of A Face" comes a collection of wonderfully unexpected essays on life, love, sex, God and politics. Whether she is contemplating promiscuity or" The New Testament," lamenting about what she should...
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Restless Virgins: Love, Sex, and Survival at a New England Prep School
by Abigail Jones and Marissa Miley Publisher Comments An honest, intimate look at the lives of today's teens — told through the true experiences of friends at a New England prep school Established in 1798, Milton Academy has a proud history of achievement. It has educated artists and CEOs; it has...
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American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville
by Bernard Henri Levy
Powells.com Staff Pick Hoping to gauge the success of America's experiment in democracy, France's leading journalist follows Tocqueville's journey across our once nascent nation to rediscover what it means to be an American. Here in opposing and quick succession, we meet...
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Heath Street Stories: A Look Back at 1950's Innocence in Suburban America
by Gehla S Knight Publisher Comments 1950, and the cookie-cutter houses in the slipstream of a paper mill promise new beginnings for the families moving to Heath Street. From the tragicomedy of Atom Bomb drills to the wonder of glitzy gadgetry, Dyanflow transmissions and automatic canasta...
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Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America
by Tom Lutz Publisher Comments Couch potatoes, goof-offs, freeloaders, good-for-nothings, loafers, and loungers: ever since the Industrial Revolution, when the work ethic as we know it was formed, there has been a chorus of slackers ridiculing and lampooning the pretensions of...
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Time Bind When Work Becomes Home & Home
by Arlie Hochschild Publisher Comments The Time Bind is one of this decade's most influential studies of our work/family time-dilemma. For three years at a Fortune 500 company, Arlie Russell Hochschild, the best-selling author of The Second Shift, interviewed everyone from top executives to...
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Detoxifying the Culture
by John A Howard Publisher Comments Blessed with a mind that foresees the long-range consequences of changes in what Americans believe, respect, and want, John Howard has provided a steady voice of caution about the popular supposition that whatever is new is better, and whatever is...
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What Should I Do If Reverend Billy Is in My Store?
by Bill Talen
Publisher Comments The spiritual leader of the Church of Stop Shopping takes his anti-consumerist sermon from the stage to the page....
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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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Maxed Out: Hard Times in the Age of Easy Credit
by James D Scurlock Publisher Comments In this shocking and illuminating road trip through an America ravaged by debt, award-winning film director James Scurlock examines our multitrillion-dollar addiction to easy credit in all of its absurdities and contradictions. Maxed Out ventures beyond...
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What's Going On?: California and the Vietnam Era
by Marcia A Eymann Publisher Comments A turning point in twentieth-century American history, the war in Vietnam raised profound questions that affected every aspect of life in the United States. A dramatic case study of the political passions, spiritual pain, and cultural divisions produced...
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The Good Life and Its Discontents: The American Dream in the Age of Entitlement
by Robert J Samuelson Publisher Comments A New York Times Business Book Bestseller <P>"Shrewd and optimistic. . . . [The Good Life and Its Discontents] combines first-rate analysis with persuasive historical, political and sociological insights."<BR>--The New Republic <BR>...
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Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Publisher Comments In her extraordinary bestseller, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses readers in the intricacies of the ghetto, revealing the true sagas lurking behind the headlines of gangsta glamour, gold-drenched drug dealers, and street-corner society. Focusing on two...
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Letters at Three a.m.: Reports on Endarkenment
by Michael Ventura Publisher Comments "I'd rather have one or two of his whiplashing essays in my hands than almost any tome of philosophy". -- Thomas...
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