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Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
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A sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism.
Americans are a positive people — cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: this is our reputation as well as our self-image... ( read more)
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The Working Poor: Invisible in America
by David K Shipler
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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)
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Assassination Vacation
by Sarah Vowell
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From Buffalo to Alaska, Washington to Key West, cultural critic and radio commentator Vowell visits locations immortalized and influenced by assassination, reporting as she goes with her trademark blend of wisecracking humor, remarkable honesty, and... ( 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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The Partly Cloudy Patriot
by Sarah Vowell
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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)
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Fist Stick Knife Gun
by Geoffrey Canada
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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)
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Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
by Susan Jacoby
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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)
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Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World
by Sarah Vowell
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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)
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Bait and Switch
by Barbara Ehrenreich
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Intrigued by reports of increasing poverty and despair within America's white-collar corporate workforce, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to infiltrate their world as an undercover reporter and learn about the problems facing middle-class executives at first... ( read more)
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In Cheap We Trust: The Story of a Misunderstood American Virtue
by Lauren Weber
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Cheap. Cheap suit. Cheap date. Cheap shot. It's a dirty word, an epithet laden with negative meanings. It is also the story of Lauren Weber's life.
As a child, she resented her father for keeping the heat at 50 degrees through the frigid New England... ( read more)
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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
by Stephanie Coontz
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The Way We Never Were examines two centuries of American family life and shatters a series of myths and half-truths that burden modern families. Placing current family dilemmas in the context of far-reaching economic, political, and demographic changes... ( read more)
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The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture
by Andrew Keen
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Our most valued cultural institutions, Keen warns in THE CULT OF THE AMATEUR–our newspaper, magazine, music, and movie industries–are being supplanted by an avalanche of amateur, user-generated free content. Our newspapers’ advertising... ( read more)
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Hippie
by Barry Miles
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New York Times bestseller! Sales phenomenon! Now in an entirely new compact-sized paperback...at a mind-blowing price. Experience the ultimate flashback with this celebration of an era. Rich in illustratiosn and filled with the history, politics, sayings,... ( read more)
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Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World
by Greg Critser
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What in American sociery has changed so dramatically to make nearly 60 percent of us overweight? Can we fix what the surgeon general calls a national "epidemic of obesity"? Greg Critser engages every aspect of American life to determine how we have made... ( read more)
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Snark: It's Mean, It's Personal, and It's Ruining Our Conversation
by David Denby
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What is snark? You recognize it when you see it — a tone of teasing, snide, undermining abuse, nasty and knowing, that is spreading like pinkeye through the media and threatening to take over how Americans converse with each other and what they can... ( read more)
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It's in the Bag: What Purses Reveal---And Conceal
by Winifred Gallagher
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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)
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Suburban Nation : the Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (00 Edition)
by Andres Duany
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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)
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Consumers' Republic : the Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (03 Edition)
by Lizabeth Cohen
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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)
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The Seventeen Traditions
by Ralph Nader
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Ralph Nader is known for his lifetime of progressive activism and fearless critique of corruption in American politics and society. Yet in this fresh and inspiring new book, Nader takes a look backwardandndash;at a serene and enriching childhood spent in... ( 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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