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Left Behind in Rosedale PB by Scott Cummings Publisher Comments Left Behind in Rosedale is a stunning analysis of community and neighborhood decline. Through creative application of ethnographic analysis, participant observation, and in-depth interviews, Scott Cummings’ unique book breathes human life into one... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $2.83 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse by Gregg Easterbrook Powells.com Staff Pick Here's a pick sure to shake up your next book club. Despite his sometimes sanctimonious tone, Easterbrook poses some very interesting questions about modern society and its inhabitants. Why does the middle class feel so discontented? Long on theories and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895-1904 by Naomi R Lamoreaux Publisher Comments Between 1895 and 1904 a great wave of mergers swept through the manufacturing sector of the U.S. economy. More than 1,800 firms disappeared into horizontal combinations, at least a third of which controlled more than 70 percent of the markets in which... (read more) List Price $20.99 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Hiroshima in America: A Half Century of Denial by Robert Jay Lifton Synopsis A half century after the bombing of Hiroshima, two distinguished writers look at the impact of the use of the A-bomb, and the supression of debate, on American life. Lifton and Mitchell question why Hiroshima still touches such a raw nerve, and explore... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Good Medicine, Great Sex!: How Marijuana Brought Me Creativity, Passion, and Prosperity by David Ford Publisher Comments Description: Not only pursues the author's eloquent struggle against the politically motivated and totally unjust war on marijuana, but also delves deeply and honestly into his own life. Ford's life as a creative entrepreneur, intrepid broadcaster... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list American Way of Death Revisited by Jessica Mitford Publisher Comments Here is the classic anatomy of America's funeral practices, revised, expanded, and brought up-to-date for a new generation. Thirty-five years ago, Jessica Mitford's savage and hilarious The American Way of Death was a number one best-seller and... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ordinary Heroes and American Democracy by Gerald M. Pomper Synopsis An energizing and inspiring book about heroes, democracy, and their impact on each other. True American heroes need not have superhuman abilities nor do they need to act alone. Heroism in a democracy is different from the heroism of myths and legends... (read more) List Price $26.25 Your price $8.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Theater of War by Lewis Lapham Synopsis Finding sceptics in the US's "battle against evil" is a hard task: unpopular opinions seldom appear in the US press or on the TV news, and in the months since the destruction of the World Trade Center, the voices of dissent in America have been few and... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword by Seymour Mart Lipset Synopsis Is America unique? One of our major political analysts explores the deeply held but often unarticulated beliefs that shape the American creed. "(A) magisterial attempt to distill a lifetime of learning about America into a persuasive brief . . . (by) the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery: An Essay on Popular Culture by Eva Illouz Synopsis Oprah Winfrey is the protagonist of the story to be told here, but this book has broader intentions, begins Eva Illouz in this original examination of how and why this talk show host has become a pervasive symbol in American culture. Unlike studies of... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) 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   Migrations to Solitude by Sue Halpern Synopsis Why do we often long for solitude but dread loneliness? What happens when the walls we build around ourselves are suddenly removed--or made impenetrable? If privacy is something we count on as a basic right, why are our laws, technology and life-styles... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Prisoner of X: Twenty Years in the Hole at Hustler Magazine by Allan MacDonell Publisher Comments Prisoner of X: 20 Years in the Hole at Hustler Magazine is a savagely funny odyssey through the bizarro world of Larry Flynt's cracker-rich X-rated empire. During his tenure in the Hustler trenches, punk-rock dropout Allan MacDonell ascends from... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list American Foundations: An Investigative History by Mark Dowie Publisher Comments In American Foundations, Mark Dowie argues that organized philanthropy is on the verge of an evolutionary shift that will transform America's nearly 50,000 foundations from covert arbiters of knowledge and culture to overt mediators of public policy and... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Burden of Bad Ideas by Heather Macdonald Publisher Comments Critics have attacked the foolishness of some of today's elite thought from many angles, but few have examined the real-world consequences of those ideas. In this book, Heather Mac Donald reports on their disasterous effects throughout our society.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Life with Father: Parenthood and Masculinity in the Nineteenth-Century American North (Gender Relations in the American Experience) by Stephen Frank Synopsis Who was the Victorian patriarch, and what kind of father was he? In this richly documented study, Stephen M. Frank presents the first account of nineteenth-century family life to focus on the role of fathers. Drawing on letters, diaries, memoirs, and... (read more) List Price $50.25 Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Freedom of Expression (R): Overzealous Copyright Bozos and Other Enemies of Creativity by Kembrew Mcleod Publisher Comments Drop that quotation/sample/collage, sir! An enlightening, amusing, and frightening look at how the growth of intellectual property law is making us all less free to say and think what we want. In 1998 university professor and professional art prankster... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list More Unequal: Aspects of Class in the United States by Michael D Yates Publisher Comments The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina exposed to the world what many U.S. politicians and pundits have long been able to ignore. The media images that commanded our attention spoke loudly of the class and racial divisions that still exist in the United... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Messy Beginnings: Postcoloniality and Early American Studies by Malini Jo Schueller Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-253) and index.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Anthem :an American road story by Shainee Gabel Publisher Comments In the spirit of John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley, this is the enthralling chronicle of an epic road trip in search of a new definition of the American dream. In 1995, two young women who had been living and working in Hollywood quit their jobs to... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $6.20 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy by Alan D Sokal Publisher Comments In May 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in the fashionable academic journal Social Text. The essay quoted hip theorists like Jacques Lacan, Donna Haraway, and Gilles Deleuze. The prose was thick with the jargon of poststructuralism. And... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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