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Seeing Like a State : How Certain Schemes To Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (98 Edition)
by James C. Scott  Publisher Comments Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier's urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural "modernization" in the Tropics -- the twentieth century has been racked by grand...
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Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict
by Michael T Klare Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-274) and index....
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What Are People For?
by Wendell Berry Publisher Comments In the twenty-two essays collected here, Wendell Berry, whom The Christian Science Monitor called “the prophetic American voice of our day,” conveys a deep concern for the American economic system and the gluttonous American consumer. Berry...
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Fire From Within (85 Edition)
by Carlos Castaneda Publisher Comments Each of Carlos Castaneda's books is a brilliant and tantalizing burst of illumination into the depths of our deepest mysteries, like a sudden flash of light, like a burst of lightning over the desert at night, which shows us a world that is both alien...
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Bobos in Paradise (00 Edition)
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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Planet of Slums (06 Edition)
by Mike Davis Publisher Comments Celebrated urban historian's bestselling account of the global explosion of slums, with a major new introduction. According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and...
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Second Lives: A Journey through Virtual Worlds
by Tim Guest
Publisher Comments We’ve always dreamed of perfect places: Eden, heaven, Utopia. Imagine gambling without loss, love without heartbreak, sex without exposure, experience without risk. Welcome to the fascinating world of online virtual reality, the land of invented...
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Transgender History (Seal Studies)
by Susan Stryker Publisher Comments Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events. Chapters cover the...
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Beyond Fear : Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World (03 Edition)
by Bruce Schneier
Publisher Comments In Beyond Fear, Bruce Schneier invites us to take a critical look at not just the threats to our security, but the ways in which we're encouraged to think about security by law enforcement agencies, businesses of all shapes and sizes, and our national...
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The Denial of Death
by Ernest Becker Publisher Comments Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the "why" of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker...
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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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Sex and Bacon: Why I Love Things That Are Very, Very Bad for Me
by Sarah Lewis Publisher Comments It’s said that how we eat is reflective of our appetite in bed. Food and sex: two universal experiences that can easily become addictive and all consuming. You don’t need to look far—The Food Network, billboards, TV spots to name just a...
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How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas
by David Bornstein Publisher Comments Now published in more than twenty countries, David Bornstein's How to Change the World has become the bible for social entrepreneurship-in which men and women around the world are finding innovative solutions to a wide variety of social and economic...
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Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line
by Ben Hamper Synopsis The man the Detroit Free Press calls "a blue collar Tom Wolfe" delivers a full-barreled blast of truth and gritty reality in Rivethead, a no-holds-barred journey through the belly of the American industrial beast....
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The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived: How Characters of Fiction, Myth, Legends, Television, and Movies Have Shaped Our Society, Changed Our
by Dan Karlan and Allan Lazar and Jeremy Salter Publisher Comments From Santa Claus to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, from Uncle Sam to Uncle Tom, here is a compelling, eye-opening, and endlessly entertaining compendium of fictional trendsetters and world-shakers who have helped shape our culture and our lives. The 101 Most...
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The Political Economy of Health Care - a Clinical Perspective
by Publisher Comments Offers an analysis of the historical development, this book explores how the National Health Service (NHS) might be reconstituted as a humane service for all, and a civilising influence on society as a whole. It is useful for students, academics, health...
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The Practice of Everyday Life
by Michel De Certeau Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-229)....
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Dancing on Drugs
by Publisher Comments The last decade has seen the transformation of recreational drug use from a minority, almost subcultural activity into a widespread increasingly normalised leisure activity. Each weekend millions of the young and not-so-young fill the floors of night...
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Our Sexuality (Paperback) (10TH 08 Edition)
by Robert L. Crooks Publisher Comments A paperbound version of the text....
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Secret Societies...and How They Affect Our Lives Today
by Sylvia Browne Publisher Comments Fresh from the success of her book Secrets & Mysteries of the World, Sylvia Browne now writes about the clandestine world of secret societies. Sylvia’s research, combined with her amazing communication with her spirit guide Francine, has...
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