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Guns in America: A Reader by Jan E Dizard Publisher Comments "A lively and interesting overview of guns in American life; past, present, and future...Guns in America: A Reader will serve most promisingly as a long-awaited introduction to a complex and controversial issue." —Left HistoryFirearms have long... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Mongo: Adventures in Trash by Ted Botha Publisher Comments Journalist Ted Botha became obsessed with mongo (defined as any discarded object that is retrieved) when he moved to New York. Decorating his apartment with the furniture and objects he found on Manhattan's streets, he soon realized he wasn't the only... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Drug Use Policy & Management 2ND Edition by Richard Isralowitz Publisher Comments Examines how the complex problem of drug use and dependence may be addressed in the context of its many facets, ranging from drug containment policies to the provision of prevention and treatment services.... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price $10.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The American Dream: Stories from the Heart of Our Nation by Dan Rather Publisher Comments At a time when we are once again talking and thinking about the meaning of America, bestselling author and award-winning journalist Dan Rather provides a powerful look at Americans who struggle to achieve their desires and ambitions. With the stories of... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Substances by Richard Rudgley Synopsis An encyclopaedia encompassing the entire range of naturally-occurring psychoactive substances, and many man-made synthetic drugs and compounds. Its coverage extends from the use of intoxicating plants by Neanderthal man to the role of hallucinogens and... (read more) Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Americanism: New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal by Michael Kazin Publisher Comments What is Americanism? The contributors to this volume recognize Americanism in all its complexity--as an ideology, an articulation of the nation's rightful place in the world, a set of traditions, a political language, and a cultural style imbued with... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cemetery Stories: Haunted Graveyards, Embalming Secrets, and the Life of a Corpse After Death by Katherine Ramsland Publisher Comments Never look at a grave the same way again Admit it: You're fascinated by cemeteries. We all die, and for most of us, a cemetery is our final resting place. But how many people really know what goes on inside, around, and beyond them? Enter the world of... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Reexamined as a Grotesque, Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations by Cintra Wilson Synopsis In "A Massive Swelling", Wilson takes on every pop-art sacred cow imaginable, toppling icons as diverse as Barbara Streisand, Michael Jackson, and Bruce Willis. Cherished for her "laser-light" prose, she gets to the heart of the humiliating fascination... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list After: The Rebuilding and Defending of America in the September 12th Era by Steven Brill Publisher Comments The critics unanimously agree that brilliant, award-winning reporter and bestselling author Steven Brill has written a powerful and sweeping narrative of the country in the first year of the September 12 era. As "the pages flutter" -- marvels one critic -... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy by Nicholas Lemann Publisher Comments A major work of social history that asks profound moral and political questions about what is right for American society. This brilliant book shows us for the first time the ideas, the people, and the politics behind a fifty-year-old utopian social... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $5.75 (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   Age of Great Dreams America in the 1960S by David R Farber Publisher Comments In this book, David Farber grounds our understanding of the extraordinary history of the 1960s by linking the events of that era to our country's grand projects of previous decades. Farber's important study, based on years of research in archives and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions by Helen Prejean Publisher Comments Sister Helen Prejean was a little-known Roman Catholic nun from Louisiana when in 1993, her first book Dead Man Walking, challenged the way we look at the death penalty in America. It became a #1 New York Times bestseller and was nominated for the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville by Bernard Henri Levy Powells.com Staff Pick Hoping to gauge the success of America's experiment in democracy, France's leading journalist follows Tocqueville's journey across our once nascent nation to rediscover what it means to be an American. Here in opposing and quick succession, we meet... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Never Done: A History of American Housework by Susan Strasser Publisher Comments Finally back in print, with a new Preface by the author, this lively, authoritative, and pathbreaking study considers the history of material advances and domestic service, the "women's separate sphere," and the respective influences of advertising, home... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler Powells.com Staff Pick The Working Poor is a deeply impressive book, a thorough and balanced study of the millions of Americans living at or around the poverty line. Shipler's varied portraits and interviews are insightful and moving, and his analysis of causes and... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The X Factory: Inside the American Hardcore Film Industry by Anthony Petkovich Publisher Comments At last! Back in print! Inside the American hardcore film industry.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Lost and Found: My Life in a Group Marriage Commune (Counterculture Series) by Margaret Hollenbach Publisher Comments In 1970 Margaret Hollenbach, an idealistic twenty-five-year-old graduate school dropout, changed her name and gave up her possessions to join a commune known as The Family, located in Taos, New Mexico. The Family believed in group marriage and practiced... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Privilege Revealed: How Invisible Preference Undermines America (Critical America) by Stephanie M Wildman Publisher Comments Affirmative action remains a hotly contested issue on our political landscape, yet the institutionalized systems of privilege which uphold the status quo remain unchallenged. Many Americans who advocate a merit-based, race-free worldview do not... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Popular Culture and Philosophy #2: The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'Oh! of Homer by William Irwin Publisher Comments This unconventional and lighthearted introduction to the ideas of the major Western philosophers examines The Simpsons — TV’s favorite animated family. The authors look beyond the jokes, the crudeness, the attacks on society — and see a... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fix by Michael Massing Publisher Comments In America's twenty-five-year war against drugs, only one national policy achieved some success. That was the Nixon Administration's program for treating heroin addicts, which was dismantled by the Reagan Administration. In The Fix, Michael Massing... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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