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The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls Publisher Comments “Nothing short of spectacular” (Entertainment Weekly), The Glass Castle is the bestselling, critically acclaimed, highly publicized, and celebrated memoir by Jeannette Walls.Millions of readers have been transformed by Jeannette Walls’s... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 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: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Other America: Poverty in the United States by Michael Harrington Review The Other America is a “scream of rage, a call to conscience.” -The New York Times Book Review... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter by Steven Johnson Publisher Comments Combining the deft social analysis of Where Good Ideas Come From with the optimistic arguments of Everything Bad Is Good For You, New York Times bestselling author Steven Johnson’s Future Perfect makes the case that a new model of political change... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Americans are a "positive" people -- cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: This is our reputation as well as our self-image. But more than a temperament, being positive is the key to getting success and prosperity. Or so we are... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell Staff Pick Unfamiliar Fishes is a lively examination of America's influence in the Hawaiian Islands, from the early-19th-century conversion efforts of Christian missionaries to the coup led by their grandchildren. Vowell keeps the story moving with rich... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki Publisher Comments In this fascinating book, New Yorker business columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea: Large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant-better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City by Alan Ehrenhalt Publisher Comments In The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City we travel the nation with Alan Ehrenhalt, one of our leading urbanists, as he explains how America’s cities are changing, what makes them succeed or fail, and what this means for our future.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America by Morgan Spurlock Publisher Comments For thirty days, Morgan Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald’s as part of an investigation into the effects of fast food on American health. The resulting documentary earned him an Academy Award nomination and broke box-office records worldwide. But... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America by Paul Tough Publisher Comments What would it take? That was the question that Geoffrey Canada found himself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poor children—not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis Publisher Comments To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To its detractors, it is "The Big Nowhere." No one has better captured L.A.'s bizarre role as both utopia and dystopia than Davis, the author of this mordantly elegant and wide-ranging work... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone by Eric Klinenberg Publisher Comments A revelatory examination of the most significant demographic shift since the Baby Boom—the sharp increase in the number of people who live alone—that offers surprising insights on the benefits of this epochal changeIn 1950, only 22 percent of... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Celebrating the Third Place : Inspiring Stories About the ""Great Good Places"" At the Heart of Our Communities (01 Edition) by Ray Oldenburg Publisher Comments Nationwide, more and more entrepreneurs are committing themselves to creating and running "third places," also known as "great good places." In his landmark work, The Great Good Place, Ray Oldenburg identified, portrayed, and promoted those third places.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Mood Matters: From Rising Skirt Lengths to the Collapse of World Powers by John L Casti Publisher Comments Mood Matters makes the radical assertion that all social events ranging from fashions in music and art to the rise and fall of civilizations are biased by the attitudes a society holds toward the future. When the social mood is positive and people look... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle against World Poverty by Muhammad Yunus Publisher Comments Muhammad Yunus is that rare thing: a bona fide visionary. His dream is the total eradication of poverty from the world. In 1983, against the advice of banking and government officials, Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Power Broker : Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (74 Edition) by Robert A. Caro Publisher Comments One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and makes public what few... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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California Series in Public Anthropology #21: Righteous Dopefiend by Philippe Bourgois Publisher Comments This powerful study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. For over a decade Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg followed a social network of two dozen heroin injectors and crack smokers on... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies (Rev 08 Edition) by Scott E. Page Publisher Comments "Scott Page has brought to our attention a practically important proposition: diversity of viewpoints is of the greatest importance in solving the problems that face us individually and collectively. Diversity among a group of problem solvers is more... (read more) List Price $26.25 Your price: $13.00 Used - Hardcover
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Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says about Us) (Vintage) 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 $16.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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