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by David Morgan  Publisher Comments Visual Piety is the first book to study the social function in American religious life of popular Christian images from eighteenth century America to the present.... (read more)  List Price $17.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Maxwell Bloomfield Publisher Comments Although Americans claim to revere the Constitution, relatively few understand its workings. Its real importance for the average citizen is as an enduring reminder of the moral vision that shaped the nation's founding. Yet scholars have paid little... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $21.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Alan Trachtenberg Publisher Comments Winner of the Charles C. Eldredge Prize In this book, Alan Trachtenberg reinterprets some of America's most significant photographs, presenting them not as static images but rather as rich cultural texts suffused with meaning and historical content."... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary Eberstadt Publisher Comments Why are there so many troubled kids these days, diagnosed with learning disabilities or behavioral problems? Why is child obesity out of control? Why are teenagers contracting herpes and other sexually transmitted diseases at unprecedented rates? In... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $8.96 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Rod L Evans Publisher Comments Should drugs be legalized? This collection gives both sides of the argument, with 24 selected articles by 23 well-known participants in the great debate. All the relevant issues are covered, including: comparisons with legal drugs like alcohol... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Leonard Publisher Comments In this remarkable collection of original essays, critically acclaimed writers meditate upon the state of their state in the union to create a unique portrait of contemporary America.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Matthew Collin Publisher Comments "Altered States" tracks the development of Ecstasy culture, from its roots in the psychedelic underground and gay disco movements in America in the '70s to the ultimate creation of a mass drug culture in '90s Britain.... (read more) List Price $11.99 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gordon Ball Publisher Comments "This book made me want to take acid and have sex with lots of people. It also made me want to stay up all night in the company of my genius friends in the mid-sixties in New York's Lower East Side." -- Andrei Codrescu<P>Part hip expose of the New... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $5.21 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lynn E Mccutcheon Publisher Comments Celebrities are treated like modern religious icons within our media - and entertainment-saturated society. Why? This unprecedented book examines the historical, psychological, and sociological roots of our culture's fascination with famous personalities.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bob Batchelor Publisher Comments The eighties are seen by many as a time of excess and extremes. From Boy George to Madonna, metal heads to valley girls, and workout clothes to shoulder pads, many pushed the boundaries of what was was conventional. After a decade of war, disillusionment... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $40.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul R Robbins Publisher Comments -- Offers needed information for teens on frequently abused drugs.<BR>-- In-depth looks at individual drugs as well as case studies.... (read more) List Price $26.60 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Greg Critser Publisher Comments Greg Critser's brilliantly incisive Generation Rx moves the conversation about prescription drugs to where it hits home: our own bodies. How, he asks, has "big pharma" created a nation of pharmaceutical tribes, each with its own unique beliefs, taboos... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Arnold Grossman Publisher Comments The United States holds the dubious distinction of experiencing more civilian gun deaths than any industrialized nation on earth?nearly 30,000 per year. While a majority of Americans favor far more restrictive gun laws than currently exist, efforts to... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by R Jay Magill Publisher Comments A brilliant and timely reflection on irony in contemporary American culture “This book is a powerful and persuasive defense of sophisticated irony and subtle humor that contributes to the possibility of a genuine civic trust and democratic... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John H Lienhard Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-283) and index.... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $5.99 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Matthew Mcallister Publisher Comments Advertising in the United States has infiltrated virtually every aspect of life from classroom television through supermarket check-out lanes to doctors' surgeries. The advertising industry is constantly seeking new consumer avenues, the most recent... (read more) List Price $35.95 Your price $24.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jani Lopiano-misdom Book News Annotation Sputnik is a marketing research firm that interviews and videotapes members of alternative youth cultures in order to identify trends before they reach mainstream youth. The authors describe several microcultures identified by Sputnik, making frequent... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ed Rosenthal Publisher Comments Your Marijuana Questions Answered.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Elaine Tyler May Publisher Comments In the 1950s, the term "containment" referred to the foreign policy-driven containment of Communism and atomic proliferation. Yet in Homeward Bound May demonstrates that there was also a domestic version of containment where the "sphere of influence" was... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alan Mintz Book News Annotation Protesting that he is a specialist neither in Holocaust studies nor American studies, Mintz (Hebrew literature, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York City) speaks as a cultural critic and an American Jew who is concerned for the future of Holocaust... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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