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Childhood in America
by Paula Fass
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Free Teacher's Guide available for Childhood in America Childhood in America is a unique compendium of sources on American childhood that has many options for classroom adoptions and can be tailored to individual course needs. Because the subject of... ( read more)
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Amusing Ourselves To Death : Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business ((Rev)05 Edition)
by Neil Postman
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Postman takes an enlightening look at the long-term effects of mass media--how it transforms the world, and the ways in which the media onslaught can be challenged.... ( read more)
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Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture
by Juliet B. Schor
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Ads aimed at kids are virtually everywhere — in classrooms and textbooks, on the Internet, even at slumber parties and the playground. Product placement and other innovations have introduced more subtle advertising to movies and television... ( read more)
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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
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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... ( read more)
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
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Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity. Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join... ( read more)
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From Chocolate to Morphine: Everything You Need to Know about Mind-Altering Drugs
by And Weil Houghton Mifflin Company
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Drugs are as pervasive as ever, and parents and children alike need complete, unbiased information about how drugs affect the mind and the body. Weil and Rosen cover a wide range of available substances, from coffee to marijuana, from antihistamines to... ( read more)
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The Archaic Revival: Speculations on Psychedelic Mushrooms, the Amazon, Virtual Reality, UFOs, Evolut
by Terence Mckenna
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Cited by the L.A. Weekly as "the culture's foremost spokesman for the psychedelic experience," Terrence McKenna is an underground legend as a brilliant raconteur, adventurer, and expert on the experiential use of mind-altering plants.In these essays... ( read more)
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Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class
by Barbara Ehrenreich
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A brilliant and insightful work that examines the insecurities of the middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the past two decades, Fear of Falling traces the myths about the middle class to their roots in the ambitions and... ( read more)
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Cemetery Stories: Haunted Graveyards, Embalming Secrets, and the Life of a Corpse After Death
by Katherine Ramsland
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Never look at a grave the same way again Admit it: You're fascinated by cemeteries. We all die, and for most of us, a cemetery is our final resting place. But how many people really know what goes on inside, around, and beyond them? Enter the world of... ( read more)
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The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
by Andrew J Bacevich
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From an acclaimed conservative historian and former military officer, a bracing call for a pragmatic confrontation with the nation's problems. The Limits of Power identifies a profound triple crisis facing America: the economy, in remarkable disarray... ( read more)
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Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times
by Studs Terkel
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Now in paperback--"Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times" is the tenth oral history by the Pulitzer Prize winner and his account of an "American century" of hope, activism, and determination.... ( read more)
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
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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)
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The Wordy Shipmates
by Sarah Vowell
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The Wordy Shipmates is New York Timesabestselling author Sarah Vowellas exploration of the Puritans and their journey to America to become the people of John Winthropas acity upon a hillaaa shining example, a acity that cannot be hid.a To this day... ( read more)
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Land of Desire : Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture (93 Edition)
by William R. Leach
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This monumental work of cultural history was nominated for a National Book Award. It chronicles America's transformation, beginning in 1880, into a nation of consumers, devoted to a cult of comfort, bodily well-being, and endless acquisition. 24 pages of... ( read more)
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What Would Jesus Buy?: Reverend Billy's Fabulous Prayers in the Face of the Shopocalypse (07 Edition)
by Billy
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The Church of Stop Shopping was founded by Talen to protest the modern culture of commercialization and consumption. This short and powerful book is designed to entertain, to convince the skeptical, and inspire the converted.... ( read more)
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Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
by Barbara Ehrenreich
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The bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed goes back undercover to do for America's ailing middle class what she did for the working poor.
Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed explored the lives of low-wage workers. Now, in Bait and Switch, she... ( read more)
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Assassination Vacation
by Sarah Vowell
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Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity, and an irreverent sense of humor. With Assassination Vacation, she takes us on a road trip like no other — a journey to the pit stops of American... ( read more)
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Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Pop Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter
by Steven Johnson
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The $10 billion video gaming industry is now the second-largest segment of the entertainment industry in the United States, outstripping film and far surpassing books. Reality television shows featuring silicone-stuffed CEO wannabes and bug-eating... ( read more)
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Writing on Drugs
by Sadie Plant
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Through a series of close, fascinating examinations of writing on drugs via, among others, Coleridge on opium, Freud on cocaine, Michaux on mescaline, and Burroughs on all of them, Writing on Drugs combines literary criticism with both socio-cultural... ( read more)
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War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race
by Edwin Black
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Genetics is in the news. What's not in the news are its origins in a racist 20th-century pseudoscience called eugenics. In 1904, the U.S. began a large-scale eugenics movement that was championed by the nation's medical, political, and religious elite... ( read more)
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