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One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance by Christina H Sommers Publisher Comments Praise for The War Against Boys by Christina Hoff Sommers, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year "Provocative and controversial . . . Sommers's voice is impassioned and articulate." - Marilyn Gardner, The Christian Science Monitor "Ms. Sommers... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $13.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Tony Soprano's America by David Simon Publisher Comments Hit Man. Family Man. Drug Dealer. Devoted Dad. Meet Tony Soprano - the chilling mob boss and central character of the popular HBO series The Sopranos. To millions of viewers, Tony is the "good guy," the solid provider who commits nearly every crime... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman Powells.com Staff Pick "Part memoir, part meditation on crappy television, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs is a raucous ride through the cultural wasteland of Generation X. Don't think, though, that this book's obsession with meaningless trivia is worthless. Chuck Klosterman's... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder (95 Edition) by Lawrence Weschler Publisher Comments A nondescript storefront operation in Los Angeles, California, the Museum of Jurassic Technology actually exists — that may be the only thing about it that is for certain. The creation of David Wilson, a man of prodigiously unusual imagination, the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Everything Bad Is Good for You : How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter (05 Edition) by Steven Johnson Publisher Comments The $10 billion video gaming industry is now the second-largest segment of the entertainment industry in the United States, outstripping film and far surpassing books. Reality television shows featuring silicone-stuffed CEO wannabes and bug-eating... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cheating Culture : Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong To Get Ahead (04 Edition) by David Callahan Publisher Comments Free cable television. Imaginary tax deductions. Do you take your chance to cheat? David Callahan thinks many of us would; witness corporate scandals, doping athletes, plagiarizing journalists. Why all the cheating? Why now? Callahan blames the dog-eat... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser Powells.com Staff Pick "What we eat has changed more in the last forty years than in the last forty thousand," Schlosser observes, yet most Americans know very little about how that food is made, where, by whom, and at what cost. Fast Food Nation traces the industry's... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Visual Culture : the Reader (99 Edition) by Jessica Evans Publisher Comments Visual Culture provides an invaluable resource of over 30 key statements from a wide range of disciplines, including four editorial essays which place the readings in their historical and theoretical context. Although underpinned by a focus on... (read more) List Price $58.95 Your price $44.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Culture Industry ((Rev)01 Edition) by Theodor Adorno Synopsis The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most significant writings of the 20th century. It is out of this background that the critic Theodor Adorno emerged. This selection of his essays offers... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Practices of Looking : an Introduction To Visual Culture (01 Edition) by Martia Sturken Publisher Comments Ideal for students studying visual culture for the first time, Practices of Looking explores the ways we use and understand images. Truly interdisciplinary, this comprehensive and engaging introduction can be used in courses across a range of disciplines... (read more) List Price $42.00 Your price $32.00 (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   100 Years on the Road: The Traveling Salesman in American Culture by Timothy B Spears Synopsis Vividly illustrated, this lively book presents the first in-depth study of the traveling salesman, illuminating his role in American culture from 1830 to 1920. Drawing on letters, diaries, and autobiographies, as well as on literary works by Crane... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price $7.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell Powells.com Staff Pick Somewhere along the way to guru-dom, Malcolm Gladwell got tagged as a business writer. Fair enough — The Tipping Point speaks more powerfully to the principles of succesful marketing than any pedestrian semester in the classroom. But while raves... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge-And Why We Must by Kalle Lasn Publisher Comments America is no longer a country but a multimillion-dollar brand, says Kalle Lasn and his fellow "culture jammers". The founder of Adbusters magazine, Lasn aims to stop the branding of America by changing the way information flows; the way institutions... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Bobos in Paradise : the New Upper Class and How They Got There (00 Edition) by David Brooks Powells.com Staff Pick For the past two hundred years, bohemians and bourgeois have loved to hate one another. To the moneyed classes, concerned with stability and respectability, bohemians had dubious morals and unsightly hair. And for the artists and intellectuals... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $6.98 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list No Respect : Intellectuals and Popular Culture (89 Edition) by Andrew Ross Synopsis < P> The intellectual and the popular: Irving Howe and John Waters, Susan Sontag and Ethel Rosenberg, Dwight MacDonald and Bill Cosby, Amiri Baraka and Mick Jagger, Andrea Dworkin and Grace Jones, Andy Warhol and Lenny Bruce. All feature in Andrew... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Twilight of American Culture (00 Edition) by Morris Berman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-193) and index.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser Publisher Comments Are we what we eat? To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar Amerca. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has triggered the homogenization of our society. Fast food has hastened... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Hip Hop Generation : Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture (02 Edition) by Bakari Kitwana Publisher Comments For black youth, can hip hop can be this generation's salvation? Young blacks born between 1965 and 1984 belong to the first generation to have grown up in post-segregation America. Their historical significance is tremendous, but until now there has... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Tipping Point : How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (00 Edition) by Malcolm Gladwell Powells.com Staff Pick Somewhere along the way to guru-dom, Malcolm Gladwell got tagged as a business writer. Fair enough — The Tipping Point speaks more powerfully to the principles of succesful marketing than any pedestrian semester in the classroom. But while raves... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Making of Middlebrow Culture (92 Edition) by Joan Shelly Rubin Publisher Comments The proliferation of book clubs, reading groups, "outline" volumes, and new forms of book reviewing in the first half of the twentieth century influenced the tastes and pastimes of millions of Americans. Joan Rubin here provides the first comprehensive... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $18.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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