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The Widening Gap: Why America's Working Families Are in Jeopardy and What Can Be Done about It by Jody Heymann Publisher Comments This hard-hitting book draws on the first systematic national research on how the need to meet family obligations is affecting working Americans of all social classes and ethnic groups. What happens when kids get sick? When an elderly parent is... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $6.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Making a Killing: The Business of Guns in America by Tom Diaz Publisher Comments A comprehensive expose of the gun industry.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $3.38 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Luxury Fever: Money and Happiness in an Era of Excess by Robert Frank Publisher Comments Noting that America is in the grip of a luxury-buying fever, the author offers the first comprehensive and accessible summary of scientific evidence suggesting America's spending choices are unhealthy, as people are working more and socializing less... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Abandoned: The Betrayal of the American Middle Class Since World War II by William J Quirk Publisher Comments Law professors Quirk and Bridwell give their take on how the interests of the American middle class have been ignored by a political, economical, and academic oligarchy currently running the country.... (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 $7.46 (Used - Hardcover) 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 Blending powerful human stories, big-picture analysis, and compelling ideas for reform, this remarkable volume will hit a nerve, serving as a rallying point in the vital struggle for economic security in an increasingly uncertain world.... (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 $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Trafficking Subjects: The Politics of Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America by Mark Simpson Publisher Comments In America, travel has regularly been associated with romantic notions of freedom, exploration, and possibility. Focusing on a broad range of movement in the nineteenth century, this groundbreaking book challenges this conventional view, demonstrating... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $9.95 (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 $9.95 (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   In the Know: The Classic Guide to Being Cultured and Cool by Nancy Macdonell Publisher Comments From the author of "The Classic Ten" comes the ultimate crash course in cool. Like a smart, hip girlfriend with a book of Susan Sontag essays in her Chloe bag, MacDonell has assembled in one entertaining, fact-filled volume everything readers need to... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fame Junkies: The Hidden Truths Behind America's Favorite Addiction by Jake Halpern Publisher Comments A prismatic portrait of our national obsession with celebrity, in the tradition of Fast Food Nation and Blink. For several years, Jake Halpern has reported on Hollywood for NPR's "All Things Considered." In his new book, he explores the fascinating... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History #1: Popular Culture in American History by Jim Cullen Publisher Comments "Popular Culture in American History" collects the most widely cited and important writings on three hundred years of American popular culture. Each of the ten essays serves as a case study of a particular moment, issue, or form of popular culture, from... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $24.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cynicism and the Evolution of the American Dream by Wilber W. Caldwell Publisher Comments Putting a recognizable face on contemporary American... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $8.96 (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 Publisher Comments 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 Bowling Alone: Civic Disengagement in America by Robert D Putnam Publisher Comments Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work; but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam has identified and describes in this brilliant volume, Bowling Alone. Drawing on vast new data from... (read more) List Price $26.50 Your price $8.95 (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 Over Here: How the G.I. Bill Transformed the American Dream by Edward Humes Publisher Comments In 1944, the U.S. government feared the flood of returning World War II soldiers as much as it looked forward to peace. To avoid economic catastrophe, FDR, the American Legion, William Randolph Hearst, and others began crafting the Servicemen’s... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Here, There and Everywhere by Reinhol Wagnleitner Publisher Comments Essays analyzing the stunning global success of American popular culture from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Shows to the Internet as the new American frontier.... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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