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by Leonard Steinhorn  Publisher Comments The Greatest Generation gets credit for winning World War II and braving the Depression. But the Baby Boomers? All they get credit for is knowing how to order a tall skim double latte. What really is the true legacy of the Boomers? Summoning the amazing... (read more)  List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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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 $26.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Cantwell Publisher Comments Wide-ranging and provocative, this book will fascinate all those intrigued by how we create and perpetuate our representations of folklife and culture. Ethnomimesis is Robert Cantwell's word for the process by which we take cultural influences... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alan Wolfe Book News Annotation Focusing on the traditional virtues of loyalty, honesty, self- restraint, and forgiveness, Wolfe (religion and American public life, Boston College) describes the state of contemporary moral thinking in the United States. He describes the struggle for... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $4.70 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Timothy Leary Publisher Comments As the fringe guru himself put it, Mademoiselle Cancer moved in to share [his] body. But in the days before he died, Leary -- never one to miss an opportunity for a party -- used his approaching death to create an exuberant new vision of what dying can... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary Knapp Synopsis Children's folklore--those customs, rhymes, games, jeers, songs, superstitions, stories, and pranks that children play among themselves--serves an important purpose: it helps them deal with feelings and taboo subjects which they are unable to express... (read more) List Price $17.05 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jon Margolis Publisher Comments The year was 1964, John Kennedy was dead and the country was reeling from the aftermath of his assasination.The Warren Commission was sifting evidence.Lyndon Johnson was beginning to tear down Camelot to build the Great Society.Young men started burning... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $1.93 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark L Rosenberg Publisher Comments Injury is the leading cause of years of potential life lost in the United States, and one third of all fatal injuries are a result of intentional injuries or violence. Today, public health officials have identified violence as comparable in importance... (read more) List Price $43.00 Your price $7.45 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Philip Moss Book News Annotation Not the ones about workers having to take pay cuts to keep the company from moving to Laos. Rather Moss and Tilly (both regional economic and social development, U. of Massachusetts-Lowell) have surveyed employers in Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, and Los... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $20.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ronald Hoffman Publisher Comments These thirteen original essays are provocative explorations in the construction and representation of self in America's colonial and early republican eras. Highlighting the increasing importance of interdisciplinary research for the field of early... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sheldon Rampton 
Powells.com Staff Pick Trust Us, We're Experts! blows the lid off so-called "third party" experts, hirelings of the corporate elite's who do transnationals' bidding under the guise of independence. Every time you hear "W" say "I want to make policy based on 'sound... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Studs Terkel Synopsis This book collects the best of Pulitzer Prize-winner Studs Terkel's interviews and the Introductions from each of this eight classic books. "A summing up of the best of Terkel".--"Doubletake".... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Marc L Miringoff Publisher Comments For the past twelve years, the annual release of the Index of Social Health has been a major event, cited in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other national media our most reliable barometer of progress in addressing America's social ills... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Christopher Lasch Publisher Comments When The Culture of Narcissism was first published, it was clear that Christopher Lasch had identified something important: waht was happening to American society in the wake of the decline of the family over the last century. The book quickly became a... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stuart Walton Publisher Comments “Like any good cocktail, this book brings together tasty ingredients in a delicious mix.” —Boston Herald “Walton is hilariously well-versed in wine terminology, and his wit is deliciously dry.” —Seattle Weekly Out of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tom Brokaw Publisher Comments “I cannot go anywhere in America without people wanting to share their wartime experiences....The stories and the lessons have emerged from long-forgotten letters home, from reunions of old buddies and outfits, from unpublished diaries and home... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Ellis Publisher Comments For over one hundred years, it has been deeply ingrained in American culture. Saluting the flag in public schools began as part of a national effort to Americanize immigrants, its final six words imbuing it with universal hope and breathtaking power. Now... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $13.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Neil Postman Publisher Comments At a time when we are reexamining our values, reeling from the pace of change, witnessing the clash between good instincts and "pragmatism," dealing with the angst of a new millennium, Neil Postman, one of our most distinguished observers of contemporary... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Roger C Aden Synopsis Popular Stories and Promised Lands enters a conversation about who we are, where we've been, and where we might be going by suggesting that possible answers to those questions can be found in the popular stories we encounter at the movies, on television,... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price $8.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Virginia Postrel Publisher Comments Whether it's sleek leather pants, a shiny new Apple computer, or a designer toaster, we make important decisions as consumers every day based on our sensory experience. Sensory appeals are everywhere, and they are intensifying, radically changing how... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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