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The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness (P.S.) 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 add to wish list Your Call Is Important to Us: The Truth about Bullshit by Laura Penny Publisher Comments “There is so much bullshit that one hardly knows where to begin...” Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects—no, disembowels—the culture of globalized, supersized, consumerized bullshit, from Bush’s White House, with... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list What's So Great about America by Dinesh D'Souza Publisher Comments Dinesh D'Souza explains what is so great about America--and why that greatness inspires critics and even terrorism.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list What Were Your Parents Doing Back Then by Jeremiah Lowney Book News Annotation Lowney presents the results of numerous nonparticipant observation research studies he conducted among youth in Southern California from 1970 to the late 1990s. Tracking the use of drugs and its effects on family relationships (and vice versa), he... (read more) Your price $20.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager by Thomas Hine Publisher Comments Teenagers occupy a special place in American life. They are envied and sold to, studied and deplored. They seem to be growing up too fast, and always immature. They are barbarians at the gate-and our only hope for a better world. What, then, is this... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Holy Day, Holiday: The American Sunday by Alexis Mccrossen Synopsis Whether observed as a day for rest or for time-and-a-half, Sunday has always been a day apart in the American week. Supplementing wide-ranging historical research with the reflections and experiences of ordinary individuals, Alexis McCrossen traces... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list American: Beyond Our Grandest Notions by Chris Matthews Publisher Comments From Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC's Hardball and NBC's The Chris Matthews Show, and New York Times bestselling author of Now, Let Me Tell You What I Really Think, comes a definitive work on the lifeblood of America -- its enduring spirit. People have... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 50 American Revolutions You're Not Supposed to Know: Reclaiming American Patriotism by Mickey Z Publisher Comments Since when was it unpatriotic to dissent? Why is it "un-American"to question our government's policies? And how did the Far Right manage to claim the flag exclusively for itself? A book that the country desperately needs, 50 American Revolutionsis a... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Big Vote: Gender, Citizenship, and the Politics of Exclusion, 1890s-1920s (Reconfiguring American Political History) by Liette Patri Gidlow Publisher Comments Low voter turnout is a serious problem in American politics today, but it is not a new one. Its roots lay in the 1920s when, for the first time in nearly a century, a majority of eligible Americans did not bother to cast ballots in a presidential... (read more) List Price $58.95 Your price $22.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Prodigal Sons: The New York Intellectuals and Their World by Alexander Bloom Publisher Comments "A herd of independent minds," Harold Rosenberg once labelled his fellow intellectuals. They were, and are, as this book shows, a special and fascinating group, including literary critics Lionel Trilling, Alfred Kazin, Irving Howe, Leslie Fiedler, Philip... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $4.95 (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   In Black and White: Race and Sports in America by Kenneth Shropshire Publisher Comments "A prominent sports-law specialist sends down an indictment of racism in sports that is impossible to ignore. Anyone desiring to be informed about race issues and sports should read it."—Kirkus Review "A new standard of excellence in writing about... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $7.46 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Among the Mansions of Eden: Tales of Love, Lust, and Land in Beverly Hills by David Weddle Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-330) and index.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $5.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Discovering America: Essays on the Search for an Identity by David Thelen Publisher Comments The idea of discovery has frequently shaped the way Americans think about         themselves and their history. The process neither began nor ended with         Columbus. As the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $4.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Purchasing Power: Black Kids and American Consumer Culture by Elizabeth Chin Synopsis What does it mean to be young, poor, and black in our consumer culture? Are black children "brand-crazed consumer addicts" willing to kill each other over a pair of the latest Nike Air Jordans or Barbie backpack? In this first in-depth account of the... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Make Love, Not War: The Sexual Revolution: An Unfettered History by David Allyn Book News Annotation Drawing on first-hand accounts, diaries, interviews, and period research, historian Allyn traces the course of the events, ideas, and personalities that drove the sexual revolution of the 1960s. Among the figures are sexual freedom fighters, feminists,... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Step Right Up (Performance Studies) by Brooks Mcnamara Synopsis Here is the fascinating though ofttimes shady history of the medicine show, an American show-business institution that dispensed hoopla and nostrums to a credulous clientele. When medicine shows died out, the nation lost one of its most rollicking... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Revolt of the Elites by Christopher Lasch Synopsis In this spirited work, Lasch calls out for a return to community, schools that teach history not self-esteem, and a return to morality and even the teachings of religion. Writing in a nonpartisan manner, he looks to lessons of American history... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Home: The Blueprints of Our Lives by John Edwards Publisher Comments A popular former senator and 2004 vice presidential candidate presents an inspiring mosaic of how childhood homes and communities shape a person's adult life, in a collection of narratives by such figures as Stephen Spielberg, John Glenn, and Sugar Ray... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century by Christine Stansell Publisher Comments A brilliant account of the American bohemians whose experiments in living, writing, and loving created the modern world and made New York its capital. In the early years of the twentieth century, an exuberant band of talented individualists living in a... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $7.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Kidnapped: Child Abduction in America by Paula Fass Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-308) and index.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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