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Radio on: A Listener's Diary by Sarah Vowell Publisher Comments There are approximately 502 million radios in America. For this savvy, far-reaching diary, celebrated journalist and author Vowell turned hers on and listened—closely, critically, creatively—for an entire year. As a series of impressions and... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit, and the Era of Predatory Lenders by James Scurlock Powells.com Staff Pick How much money do you owe on your credit card bills? Paying off a mortgage, home equity loan, or college loan, too? Our culture has come to take debt for granted, but this hasn't always been the norm. Over the last generation in America, James Scurlock... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Unprotected: A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in Her Profession Endangers Every Student by Md Anonymous Publisher Comments How the PC agenda on college campuses is endangering millions of students Radical social agendas have taken over campus health and counseling, and it's making students sick. Dr Anonymous should know: she's treated over 2000 students at a prestigious... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Branded Nation: The Marketing of Megachurch, College, Inc., and Museumworld by James B Twitchell Publisher Comments Branding has become so successful and so ubiquitous that even cultural institutions have embraced it. In this witty and trenchant social analysis, James Twitchell shows how churches, universities, and museums have learned to embrace Madison Avenue rather... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Generation RX: How Prescription Drugs Are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies 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 $8.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw Publisher Comments "In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of Europe that marked the beginning of the end of Adolf Hitler's Third... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (P.S.) by Eric Schlosser Publisher Comments To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar America. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has triggered the homogenization of our society. Fast food has hastened the malling of our... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Real Toy Story: Inside the Ruthless Battle for America's Youngest Consumers by Eric Clark Publisher Comments A profile of the darker side of America's toy industry traces the way toys are developed, manufactured, and marketed, drawing on inside interviews to contend that the industry is compromising consumer and worker well-being for the sake of high profits... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America by Susan Faludi Publisher Comments From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash — an unflinching dissection of the mind of America after 9/11 In this most original examination of America's post-9/11 culture, Susan Faludi shines a light on the country... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Great Funk: Falling Apart and Coming Together (on a Shag Rug) in the Seventies by Thomas Hine Publisher Comments < div> < div> In the sixties, as the nation anticipated the conquest of space, the defeat of poverty, and an end to injustice at home and abroad, no goal seemed beyond America& #8217; s reach. < /div> < div> & nbsp; <... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $19.95 (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   Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash by Elizabeth Royte Synopsis - In the vein of "Stiff, Nickel and Dimed, and "Fast Food Nation, GARBAGE LAND takes us behind the scenes and into the corners of our own lives, revealing the fantastic truth behind what we've taken for granted or never even thought about.- Royte's last... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story by Chuck Klosterman Publisher Comments For 6,557 miles, Chuck Klosterman thought about dying. He drove a rental car from New York to Rhode Island to Georgia to Mississippi to Iowa to Minneapolis to Fargo to Seattle, and he chased death and rock 'n' roll all the way. Within the span of twenty... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker by Mike Rose Publisher Comments As did the national bestseller Nickel and Dimed, Mike Roses revelatory book demolishes the long-held notion that people who work with their hands make up a less intelligent class. He shows us waitresses making lightning-fast calculations, carpenters... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress by Debra Ginsberg Publisher Comments Chapter OneThe Luncheonette It's a very slow Friday night. I've had precious few tables and the evening promises to be a bit of a wash. I check my watch for the tenth time. Only eight-thirty. Although the night drags interminably, I know better than to... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Metaphysical Club: A Study of Ideas in America by Louis Menand Publisher Comments Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History A riveting, original book about the creation of modern American thought. The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Affluenza the All Consuming Epidemic 2ND Edition by John De Graaf Publisher Comments Based on two highly acclaimed PBS documentaries watched by 10 million viewers, Affluenza uses the whimsical metaphor of a disease to tackle a very serious subject: the damage done ? to our health, our families, our communities, and our environment ? by... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list California Studies in Food and Culture #3: Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition by Marion Nestle Publisher Comments We all witness, in advertising and on supermarket shelves, the fierce competition for our food dollars. In this engrossing expose, Marion Nestle goes behind the scenes to reveal how the competition really works and how it affects our health. The... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Shadow in the City: Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior by Charles Bowden Publisher Comments Joey O'Shay is not the real name of the narcotics agent in an unnamed city in the center of the country. But Joey O'Shay exists. The nearly three hundred drug busts he has orchestrated over more than two decades are real, too; if the drug war were a... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization by Diana West Publisher Comments Diana West sees a US filled with middle-age guys playing air guitar and thinks "No wonder we can't stop Islamic terrorism."  She sees Moms Who Mosh and wonders "Is there a single ... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell Publisher Comments Sarah Vowell travels through the American past and, in doing so, investigates the dusty, bumpy roads of her own life. In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell -- widely hailed for her inimitable stories on public radio's This... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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