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by Alan Trachtenberg  Publisher Comments A new assemblage of masterly essays from a foremost scholar of American history and culture Alan Trachtenberg has always been interested in cultural artifacts that register meanings and feelings that Americans share even when they disagree about... (read more)  List Price $30.00 Your price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Peter Collier Synopsis Destructive Generation is the untold story of the 1960s-the tragic consequences of everything-goes hedonism and the destructiveness of revolutionary passion that typified the attitude of many young radicals. Destructive Generation, which critics have... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jason Fagone Publisher Comments "To be up on stage, shoving food in your face, beats everyday existence for most people." — David "Coondog" O'Karma, competitive eater. "Hungry" Charles Hardy. Ed "Cookie" Jarvis. Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas. Joey "Jaws" Chestnut. Will such... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $12.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Timothy Leary Publisher Comments Speaking to everyone who has ever wondered if there's more to death--if there's life beyond the frontier, if death really means the end, if dirges and hearses and funeral flowers are really how we want to be remembered--Leary's flamboyant final statement... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by John De Graaf Synopsis The authors define affluenza as "a painful, contagious, virally transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more". Behind the wordplay is a serious subject indeed: the increasing deterioration of the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Matthew Collin Publisher Comments The authors trail Ecstasy from California, through New York, covering its history, culture, and the politics that surround it. "First things first. Altered States sends all those imitation Irvine Welshs from the football-hooligan school of literary E... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Charles Darrah Publisher Comments “Overscheduled families with mission statements. Parents on the run. Kids too busy for childhood. Work invades family life, and vice versa. Blurred boundaries and compartmentalized behavior. How do families create and manage the myriad obligations... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Martin Booth Publisher Comments To some it's the classic "gateway drug", to others it is a harmless way to relax, or provide relief from crippling pain. Some fear it is a dangerous drug with addictive properties; to others still it is a legal anomaly and should be decriminalized... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Philip F Gura Publisher Comments The First Comprehensive History of Transcendentalism American Transcendentalism is a comprehensive narrative history of America’s first group of public intellectuals, the men and women who defined American literature and indelibly marked... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Alex Heard Publisher Comments Over a ten-year period, intrepid cultural traveler Alex Heard has been sojourning among America's most intensely religious and political believers -- sometimes dark, sometimes joyful, usually bizarre, and very occasionally deadly groups who bring their... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $4.46 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas Frank Synopsis In a book that has been raising hackles far and wide, the social critic Thomas Frank skewers one of the most sacred cows of the go-go '90s: the idea that the new free-market economy is good for everyone. Frank's target is "market populism"--the widely... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lisa Takeuch Cullen Publisher Comments In Remember Me, Time writer Lisa Takeuchi Cullen has created a humorous and poignant chronicle of her travels around the country to discover how Americans are reinventing the rites of dying. What she learned is that people no longer want to take death... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kate Levitt Publisher Comments -- If you could be a member of the opposite sex for a day, what would you do first? -- Name one thing you wish your parents knew about you, but you can't bring yourself to tell them. -- If you created your own religion, what would be the biggest sin... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $2.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nina Mjagkij Synopsis The YMCA and the YWCA have been an integral part of America's urban landscape since their emergence almost 150 years ago. Yet the significant influence these organizations had on American society has been largely overlooked. Men and Women Adrift explores... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jennifer Foote Sweeney Publisher Comments "...these essays are jewels of the unexpected, and in introducing them, I don't want to steal any of their surprise. Suffice it to say that family life...is alive and well, but it is not like anything you ever read about before in your life." -- Jane... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments The New York Times bestselling investigation into white-collar unemployment from “our premier reporter of the underside of capitalism”—The New York Times Book Review Americans’ working lives are growing more precarious every day... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Kluger Publisher Comments No book before this one has rendered the story of cigarettes -- mankind's most common self-destructive instrument and its most profitable consumer product -- with such sweep and enlivening detail. Here for the first time, in a story full of the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $5.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Eric Burns Synopsis Although tobacco use is controversial in the U.S. today, that this was not always the case. For centuries tobacco was generally thought to have medicinal and even spiritual value. Ranging from ancient times to the present day, this text is a history of... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price $18.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Wood Publisher Comments America has gotten into ugly moods before, but never as today. In taking us on a guided tour of American acrimony, Peter Wood traces the roots of anger's triumph in our social and political world. He examines the liberating bromides of psychotherapists... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Roger Kimball Book News Annotation Managing editor of the and art critic, Kimball continues his tirade against the cultural revolution of the 1950s and 1960s. He argues that the upheaval caused by the war in Vietnam allowed the ideology of the counterculture to escape from its... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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