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Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman Staff Pick Klosterman quotes the late Kurt Cobain as saying, "Give the kids what they want," and this book does just that. Eating the Dinosaur includes entertaining pieces about pop-culture subjects from Ralph Sampson to Weezer. Also, Klosterman gets bonus points... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover 
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Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell Staff Pick Leave it to Sarah Vowell to roam across America in search of the motivations and culture of political murder. Obsessive, edifying, and, of course, witty, Assassination Vacation is unlike any other historical tourism or travel writing book you'll ever... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World by Sarah Vowell Publisher Comments Take the Cannoli is a moving and wickedly funny collection of personal stories stretching across the immense landscape of the American scene. Vowell tackles subjects such as identity, politics, religion, art, and history with a biting humor. She... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby Publisher Comments Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon--one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science. With mordant wit, she... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War by Joe Bageant Staff Pick Deer Hunting with Jesus is a hilarious, depressing, and painfully honest chronicle of an America often cited but rarely listened to: rural lower-class whites. With brilliant, spot-on detail, Joe Bageant reports on the historical, economic, and... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell Publisher Comments Sarah Vowell travels through the American past and, in doing so, investigates the dusty, bumpy roads of her own life. In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell -- widely hailed for her inimitable stories on public radio's This... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fist Stick Knife Gun by Geoffrey Canada Publisher Comments A classic coming-of-age memoir that examines urban youth violence and its causes Long before U.S. News and World Report named him one of America’s Best Leaders and Oprah Winfrey called him “an angel from God,” Geoffrey Canada was a... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby Publisher Comments In impassioned, elegant prose, celebrated author Jacoby traces more than 200 years of secularist activism, beginning with the fierce debate over the omission of God from the Constitution.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K Shipler Staff Pick The Working Poor is a deeply impressive book, a thorough and balanced study of the millions of Americans living at or around the poverty line. Shipler's varied portraits and interviews are insightful and moving, and his analysis of causes and suggestions... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Radio on : a Listeners Diary (98 Edition) by Sarah Vowell Publisher Comments There are approximately 502 million radios in America. For this savvy, far-reaching diary, celebrated journalist and author Vowell turned hers on and listened—closely, critically, creatively—for an entire year. As a series of impressions and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments The New York Times bestseller, and one of the most talked about books of the year, Nickel and Dimed has already become a classic of undercover reportage. Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps by Emmett Grogan Publisher Comments Ringolevio is a classic American story of self-invention by one of the more mysterious and alluring figures to emerge in the 1960s. Emmett Grogan grew up on New York City's mean streets, getting hooked on heroin before he was in his teens, kicking the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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It's in the Bag: What Purses Reveal---And Conceal by Winifred Gallagher Publisher Comments The time is perfect for a short, smart purse book. The "good bag" has nudged out shoes, jeans, and jewelry as the must–have fashion possession. Despite price hikes –– $1,445 for a Prada bowler bag that once cost $940 –– the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Suburban Nation : the Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (00 Edition) by Andres Duany Publisher Comments A manifesto by America's most controversial and celebrated town planners, proposing an alternative model for community design. There is a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and to replace the automobile-based settlement... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Consumers' Republic : the Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (03 Edition) by Lizabeth Cohen Publisher Comments In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life. Trumpeted as a means to promote... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement by Michael Lienesch Publisher Comments The current controversy over teaching evolution in the public schools has grabbed front-page headlines and topped news broadcasts all across the United States. In the Beginning investigates the movement that has ignited debate in state... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $22.50 Used - Hardcover
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NO LOGO: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs by Naomi Klein Publisher Comments With a new Afterword to the 2002 edition. No Logo employs journalistic savvy and personal testament to detail the insidious practices and far-reaching effects of corporate marketingand the powerful potential of a growing activist sect that will surely... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era by Elaine Tyler May Publisher Comments In the 1950s, the term "containment" referred to the foreign policy-driven containment of Communism and atomic proliferation. Yet in Homeward Bound May demonstrates that there was also a domestic version of containment where the "sphere of influence" was... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Who Are You People?: A Personal Journey Into the Heart of Fanatical Passion in America by Shari Caudron Publisher Comments You know those people who get passionately, fanatically, obsessively into things? People like doll collectors or Star Wars fans or that lady down the street with creepy red and white gnomes all over her yard? I noticed them too and I was, well, jealous.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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