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Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father
by Richard Rodriguez  Synopsis Rodriguez's acclaimed first book, Hunger of Memory raised a fierce controversy with its views on bilingualism and alternative action. Now, in a series of intelligent and candid essays, Rodriguez ranges over five centuries to consider the moral and...
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Hell's Angels (UK Edition)
by Hunter S. Thompson Synopsis Shoulder-length hair streaming from cro-magnon face, swastikas jangling, emblazoned denims cracking in the wind - the hell's angels are out on a run, and America's west coast cowers in loathing....
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Everything You Know about God Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Religion
by Russ Kick Publisher Comments In the new mega-anthology from best-selling editor Russ Kick, more than fifty writers, reporters, and researchers invade the inner sanctum for an unrestrained look at the wild and wooly world of organized belief. Richard Dawkinsshows us the strange...
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Sugar Street (Cairo Trilogy #3)
by Naguib Mahfouz 
Publisher Comments Master storyteller Naguib Mahfouz crowns his best-selling Cairo Trilogy with this final chronicle of the Abdal-Jawad clan, climaxing the story begun in Palace Walk and continued in Palace Of Desire....
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The Idea of Wilderness: From Prehistory to the Age of Ecology
by Max Oelschlaeger Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-459) and index....
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Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings
by Katherine S Newman Publisher Comments In the last decade, school shootings have decimated communities and terrified parents, teachers, and children in even the most “family friendly” American towns and suburbs. These tragedies appear to be the spontaneous acts of disconnected...
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Bradshaw on the Family 2ND Edition
by John Bradshaw Publisher Comments Based on the public television series of the same name, Bradshaw On: The Family is John Bradshaw's seminal work on the dynamics of families that has sold more than a million copies since its original publication in 1988. Within its pages, you will...
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Red Horizons
by Ion Mihai Pacepa Synopsis A former chief of Romania's foreign intelligence service reveals the extraordinary corruption of the Nicolae Ceausescu government of Romania, its brutal machinery of oppression, and its Machiavellian relationship with the West. An in side story of how...
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Corrosion of Character : the Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism (98 Edition)
by Richard Sennett Synopsis This work describes, explains and warns Europe against following the road alreadly taken by the US and, perhaps not quite irreversibly, Britain by providing an account of life in high-risk, low-loyalty workplaces....
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Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption (07 Edition)
by Laura J. Miller Publisher Comments Over the past half-century, bookselling, like many retail industries, has evolved from an arena dominated by independent bookstores to one in which chain stores have significant market share. Yet unlike other retail industries, bookselling, many people...
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Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
by Suketu Mehta Publisher Comments A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider’s view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs; following the life of a bar dancer...
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Fire Next Time (63 Edition)
by James Baldwin Publisher Comments A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing...
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How Are We to Live?
by Peter Singer Synopsis Singer suggests that people who take an ethical approach to life often find a deeper satisfaction in what they are doing....
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Propaganda (05 Edition)
by Edward Bernays Publisher Comments "Bernays'honest and practical manual provides much insight into some of the most powerful and influential institutions of contemporary industrial state capitalist democracies."-Noam Chomsky "The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized...
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The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker (Vintage)
by Eric Liu
Publisher Comments Beyond black and white, native and alien, lies a vast and fertile field of human experience. It is here that Eric Liu, former speechwriter for President Clinton and noted political commentator, invites us to explore. In these compellingly candid essays...
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Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Culture
by Russell Ferguson Publisher Comments Images by Felix Gonzales-TorresOut There addresses the question of cultural marginalization - the process through which various groups are excluded from access to and participation in the dominant culture. It is a wide-ranging anthology that juxtaposes...
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Shopping Our Way to Safety: How We Changed from Protecting the Environment to Protecting Ourselves
by Andrew Szasz
Publisher Comments "Not long ago, people did not worry about the food they ate. They did not worry about the water they drank or the air they breathed. It never occurred to them that eating, drinking water, satisfying basic, mundane bodily needs might be a dangerous thing...
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Earth Charter Action: Toward a Sustainable World
by Peter Blaz Corcoran Publisher Comments This will be a book to be proud of -Ruud Lubbers-First book on the Earth Charter-World famous authors-Available in English and Spanish-Large, full-color bookThe Earth Charter is an inspiring declaration of shared ethical principles. It arises from...
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Signs of the Inka Khipu: Binary Coding in the Andean Knotted-String Records (Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies)
by Gary Urton Publisher Comments In an age when computers process immense amounts of information by the manipulation of sequences of 1s and 0s, it remains a frustrating mystery how prehistoric Inka recordkeepers encoded a tremendous variety and quantity of data using only knotted and...
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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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