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Abandoned: The Betrayal of the American Middle Class Since World War II by William J Quirk Synopsis Do you consider yourself a member of the middle class? Eighty percent of Americans describe themselves in those terms; working-class citizens who are neither rich nor poor. Has the government addressed the needs of the middle class to your satisfaction... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $2.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Consumer Society (Consumer Society, 1996) by Neva R Goodwin Publisher Comments The developed countries, particularly the United States, consume a disproportionate share of the world's resources, yet high and rising levels of consumption do not necessarily lead to greater satisfaction, security, or well-being, even for affluent... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $32.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Not in Kansas Anymore: A Curious Tale of How Magic Is Transforming America by Christine Wicker Publisher Comments Magic has stepped out of the movies, morphed from the pages of fairy tales, and taken root in the modern mind. Soccer moms are getting voodoo head washings in their backyards, young U.S. soldiers send chants toward pagan gods of war, and a seem-ingly... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Playboys in Paradise: Masculinity, Youth and Leisure-Style in Modern America by Bill Osgerby Publisher Comments Post-war America was an exciting time. It was an age characterized by backyard barbecues and beach parties, mai-tai cocktails and Ford Mustangs, high school hops, Hawaiian shirts and Hugh Hefner's Playboy empire. This book charts middle-class America's... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Drug Wars by Margaret O Hyde Publisher Comments -- New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age, 1992 "A sane and well-focused overview of the major problem drugs". -- SLJ. "A worthy, much-needed volume on a subject of increasing relevance". -- KR. V. 1990.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $6.71 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Exodus to the Virtual World: How Online Fun Is Changing Reality by Edward Castronova Publisher Comments Virtual worlds have exploded out of online game culture and now capture the attention of millions of ordinary people: husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, workers, retirees. Devoting dozens of hours each week to massively multiplayer virtual reality... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture by Michael Bellesiles Publisher Comments Michael A. Bellesiles' Arming America is a stunning and seminal book that challenges everything we've previously been taught about America's history with guns. Painstakingly examining the historical record, Bellesiles shatters the myth of our gun... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America by Jeff Wiltse Publisher Comments From 19th-century public baths to today's private backyard havens, swimming pools have been a provocative symbol of American life. In this social and cultural history of swimming pools in the U.S., Wiltse relates how, over the years, pools have served as... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fatherless America: Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem by David Blankenhorn Publisher Comments A compelling and controversial exploration of absentee fathers and their impact on the nation.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Waiting for the Barbarians by Lewis Lapham Synopsis "Harper's Magazine" editor Lewis Lapham gives us an acerbic commentary on the future for democracy. An award-winning writer, Lapham sees America's citizenry as complacently taking for granted what has taken 200 years to build. He presents the portrait of... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in American Studies on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   Cynicism and the Evolution of the American Dream by Wilber W. Caldwell Publisher Comments Today we face America??'s most terrifying enemy ever: an indigenous insurgent army made up of millions of our own citizens. We snipe at each other from behind impregnable barricades of cynicism, mocking efforts to move ahead and scoffing at once... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list America Reborn: A Twentieth-Century Narrative in Twenty-Six Lives (Vintage) by Martin Walker Synopsis In America Reborn, journalist and historian Martin Walker defines twentieth-century America through the portraits of twenty-six American individuals whose accomplishments, innovations and ideals propelled the United States to a position of global... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Great Risk Shift: Why American Jobs, Families, Health Care and Retirement Aren't Secure -- and How We Can Fight Back by Jacob S. Hacker Publisher Comments America's leaders say the economy is strong and getting stronger. But ordinary Americans aren't buying it. They see what the rosy statistics hide: We are all struggling under the weight of terrifying economic instability. No matter how well educated and... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $13.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Common Culture Reading & Writing Abo 4TH Edition by Michael Petracca Publisher Comments From Barbie to the Internet, the Simpsons to the malls, this engaging book on pop culture can help readers develop writing skills while reading and thinking about subjects they find inherently interesting. It contains essays addressing pop culture topics... (read more) List Price $49.00 Your price $16.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness by Virginia Postrel Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-227) and index.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Heterodoxy Handbook by David Horowitz Synopsis A collection of the most worthy pieces from Heterodoxy, an irreverent monthly journal combating the folly of political correctness.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel by Marty Jezer Synopsis The author takes a look into the life of Abbie Hoffman. The focus is on Abbie's life as an activist: the social, cultural, and political milieu in which he worked; the ideas that inspired his work; and what happened to America when he put his ideas into... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 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. Hailed by Newsweek as a "cranky stylist with talent to burn," Vowell has an irresistible voice -- caustic and... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Religion Race & Justice in a Changing by Gary Orfield Publisher Comments In many respects, religion was a bedrock of the civil rights movement during the 1950s and 1960s. Theology infused the spirit and rhetoric of the movement, churches served as the gathering place for its followers, and men of the cloth--foremost among... (read more) Your price $10.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Off Ramp: Adventures and Heartache in the American Elsewhere by Hank Stuever Publisher Comments "I'm the one they send to the trailer park outside Chimayo, New Mexico, to see the place where the guy went crazy and shot somebody. I'm the one who gets sent to the monster truck show, Lollapalooza concerts, the world's biggest bridal fair. Readers warm... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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