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Technological Utopianism in American Culture by Howard P Segal Book News Annotation In his new preface and epilogue to the book's 20th anniversary edition, Segal (history, U. of Maine) remarks that the topic of technological utopianism is even more timely today than it was in 1985. He discusses 25 US utopians of the late 19th and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $12.71 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Second Thoughts: Former Radicals Look Back at the Sixties by Peter Collier Synopsis More than 20 former radicals of the sixties come out of the political closet and look back at the dream that died.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Busted!: Drug War Survival Skills: From the Buy to the Bust to Begging for Mercy by Max Fabricant Publisher Comments Busted! is a funny, smart, subversive worst-case scenario guide for casual drug users and their tolerant friends.It's the Bible on how not to get busted and what to do if you are. Using celebrity busts, outrageous everyman busts, and the author's... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list An Ounce of Prevention, a Pound of Uncertainty by Jonathan Caulkins Synopsis In the war on drugs, children are on the front lines. Is just saying no protection enough? The authors examine the results of popular school drug prevention programs to determine how effective they are at reducing cocaine use and whether these programs... (read more) List Price $18.25 Your price $3.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank by Robert W Fuller Publisher Comments A historical survey of abuse based on power differences, with a discussion of how we may overcome this outmoded and destructive social mechanism.... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Waiting to Inhale: The Politics of Medical Marijuana by Alan W Bock Synopsis This cutting-edge handbook is essential for the ever-growing number of Americans who are faced with defective construction of their homes. Filled with interesting diagrams, photographs, and checklists, the book includes the most common defects and what... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Affluenza the All Consuming Epidemic by John De Graaf Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-259) and index.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Black Like You: Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation in American Popular Culture by John Strausbaugh Publisher Comments A refreshingly clearheaded and taboo-breaking look at race in America reveals our culture as neither Black nor White nor Other, but a mix-a mongrel. Black Like You is an erudite and entertaining exploration of race relations in American popular culture... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list American Meth: A History of the Methamphetamine Epidemic in America by Sterling R Braswell Publisher Comments Methamphetamine: the quintessential American drug. American housewives, heads of state, businessmen and poets alike have acquired a taste for the yellow, crystalline powder. Everyone from Hitler to President Kennedy to Elvis to Jack Kerouac indulged in... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Split: A Counterculture Childhood by Lisa Michaels Synopsis In this "disarmingly amiable reminiscence" ("The Atlantic Monthly") that "may be the best argument for the left since Marx" ("The New Yorker"), poet and writer Lisa Michaels blends memoir with social commentary to tell a remarkable tale of growing up as... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.50 (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   Auto Mania: Cars, Consumers, and the Environment by Tom Mccarthy Publisher Comments The twentieth-century American experience with the automobile has much to tell us about the relationship between consumer capitalism and the environment, Tom McCarthy contends. In Auto Mania he presents the first environmental history of the automobile... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price $24.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list My Generation: Fifty Years of Sex, Drugs, Rock, Revolution, Glamour, Greed, Valor, Faith, and Silicon Chips by Michael Gross Synopsis The story of the Baby Boom generation, the driving force of modern American culture--how it grew up, shaped the history of the 20th century, and set the course toward the 21st.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $6.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family by Charles Bowden Publisher Comments An investigative tour de force from award-winning author Charles Bowden plumbs as never before the desperation of drug culture in a work hailed by critics as one of the best books of 2002. An extraordinary new book of investigative reporting seven... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from the Baffler by Tom Frank Publisher Comments From the pages of The Baffler, the most vital and perceptive new magazine of the nineties, sharp, satirical broadsides against the Culture Trust. In the "old" Gilded Age, the barons of business accumulated vast wealth and influence from their railroads... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780-1910 by Caroline Winterer Synopsis "A conscientious and important history of the study of classicism in America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries... Ms. Winterer sheds light on the virtual disappearance of the ancients from the modern imagination." -- Wall Street Journal "It... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Buzz: The Science and Lore of Alcohol and Caffeine by Stephen Braun Publisher Comments Alcohol and caffeine are deeply woven into the fabric of life for most of the world's population, as close and as comfortable as a cup of coffee or a can of beer. Yet for most people they remain as mysterious and unpredictable as the spirits they were... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Gun Control and Gun Rights (Historical Guides to Controversial Issues in America) by Constance E Crooker Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-170) and index.... (read more) List Price $71.75 Your price $12.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Violence in America: Coping with Drugs, Distressed Families, Inadequate Schooling, and Acts of Hate by Raymond B Flannery Synopsis Today's culture of violence, especially youth violence, instills fear and stress in everyone. Dr. Flannery, a clinical psychologist and authority on violence prevention and posttraumatic stress disorder, first examines the causes of violent behavior. He... (read more) List Price $23.75 Your price $3.85 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Losing Our Souls by Edward Pessen Synopsis "The cold war", Edward Pessen writes, "was the most unusual war the United States ever fought". It was by far the longest of all American wars, he explains, but it was not a shooting war, and it had neither a precise beginning or ending. It produced... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $6.71 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Hate Crimes Revisited: America's War on Those Who Are Different by Jack Levin Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-253) and index.... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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