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The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls Publisher Comments Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Smart Growth Manual (10 Edition) by Andres Duany Publisher Comments Everyone is calling for smart growth...but what exactly is it? In The Smart Growth Manual, two leading city planners provide a thorough answer. From the expanse of the metropolis to the detail of the window box, they address the pressing challenges of... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Better, Not Bigger: How to Take Control of Urban Growth and Improve Your Community by Eben V Fodor About the Author Eben Fodor has a background in renewable energy, specializing in high efficiency passive solar heating systems and solar-heated saunas. His professional work is as a community planning consultant based in Eugene... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (08 Edition) by Tom Vanderbilt Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year The Washington Post • The Cleveland Plain-Dealer • Rocky Mountain News In this brilliant, lively, and eye-opening investigation, Tom Vanderbilt examines the perceptual limits and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together by Ron Hall and Denver Moore and Lynn Wincent Publisher Comments A dangerous, homeless drifter who grew up picking cotton in virtual slavery.An upscale art dealer accustomed to the worldof Armani and Chanel.A gutsy woman with a stubborn dream.A story so incredible no novelist would dare dream it. It begins outside a... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs Staff Pick Ever wonder why we have suburbs? Or why we wanted them in the first place? What about the lovely ideal of the Parisian street lined with cafes and shops? Why don't we have more of those? Or would we want them at all? Then read this! If you live in, near,... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The End of Sex: How Hookup Culture Is Leaving a Generation Unhappy, Sexually Unfulfilled, and Confused about Intimacy by Donna Freitas Publisher Comments Hookup culture dominates the lives of college students today. Most students spend hours agonizing over their hopes for Friday night and, later, dissecting the evenings successes or failures, often wishing that the social contract of the hookup would... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State, from Christian Militias to Al Qaeda (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society) by Mark Juergensmeyer Publisher Comments "This is an indispensable book in helping us understand the new world disorder that seems to be overtaking us. Juergensmeyer points out that much of the world neither understands nor finds attractive the idea of a 'secular state.' He helps us see that... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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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 $14.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Growgirl: The Blossoming of an Unlikely Outlaw by Heather Donahue Publisher Comments The star of the international cult sensation The Blair Witch Project shares the high points of living on a marijuana farm post- Hollywood. At age thirty-four, Heather Donahue's life went to pot. Literally. After starring in The Blair Witch Project-the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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All There Is: Love Stories from Storycorps by Dave Isay Publisher Comments A celebration of love from StoryCorps. In All There Is, founder Dave Isay shares stories of love and marriage from the revolutionary oral history project, revealing the many and remarkable paths that relationships can take. From the excitement and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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No Logo by Naomi Klein Publisher Comments The hotly debated report from the frontlines of mounting backlash against multinational corporations. A national bestseller, No Logo took Canadians by storm when it was published last year in hardcover. Equal parts cultural analysis, political manifesto,... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier by Robert Fishman Synopsis As Robert Fishman writes of three of urban planning's greatest visionaries, Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, they 'hated the cities of their time with an overwhelming passion. The metropolis was the counter-image of their ideal... (read more) List Price $39.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Community Economic Development Handbook by Mihailo Temali Publisher Comments The step-by-step guide to turning any neighborhood around A weak local economy can be strengthened. A run-down neighborhood of boarded-up storefronts, litter-strewn sidewalks, high unemployment, and poorly-maintained housing can be transformed. An entire... (read more) List Price $41.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Trade Paper
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At the Edge of History and Passages about Earth by William Thompson Synopsis Seminal works of cultural history that changed the way we think about ourselves.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, the Torments of Low Thread Count, the Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and by David Rakoff Publisher Comments On the heels of his Emmy-winning It Gets Better campaign, columnist and provocateur Dan Savage weighs in on such diverse issues as healthcare, gun control, and marriage equality with characteristic straight talk and humor. Dan Savage has always had a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago (Illinois) by Eric Klinenberg Publisher Comments On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Party of One: The Loner's Manifesto by Anneli Rufus Publisher Comments The Buddha. Rene Descartes. Emily Dickinson. Greta Garbo. Bobby Fischer. J. D. Salinger: Loners, allalong with as many as 25 percent of the world's population. Loners keep to themselves, and like it that way. Yet in the press, in films, in folklore,... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife by Marc Freedman Publisher Comments Marc Freedman, hailed by the New York Times as the voice of aging baby boomers [seeking] meaningful and sustaining work later in life,” offers a recipe for how we can transform Americas coming midlife crisis into a midlife opportunity... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman Staff Pick Klosterman understands your life. Intimately. Through this seemingly meandering and always hilarious critique of modern pop culture, he exposes how unlikely cultural minutiae make our society tick and dictate how we live our lives.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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