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by David K Shipler  
Powells.com Staff Pick The Working Poor is a deeply impressive book, a thorough and balanced study of the millions of Americans living at or around the poverty line. Shipler's varied portraits and interviews are insightful and moving, and his analysis of causes and... (read more)  List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Greil Marcus Publisher Comments A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year A London Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year In this exhilarating and kaleidoscopic investigation of American identity, Greil... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John De Graaf
Publisher Comments Based on two highly acclaimed PBS documentaries watched by 10 million viewers, Affluenza uses the whimsical metaphor of a disease to tackle a very serious subject: the damage done ? to our health, our families, our communities, and our environment ? by... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David A Hollinger Publisher Comments Sympathetic with the new ethnic consciousness, Hollinger argues that the conventional liberal toleration of all established ethnic groups no longer works because it leaves unchallenged the prevailing imbalance of power. Yet the multiculturalist... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Douglas Rushkoff Synopsis Why do we always listen to what "they" say? A noted media pundit gives a devastating critique of the influences behind the culture of rampant consumerism, showing how the media attempts to interfere with rational decision-making. "An essential book for... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jason King Publisher Comments With camera equipment always at hand, renowned pot connoisseur and photographer Jason King set out on a five-year mission to research and document marijuana around the globe. In The Cannabible, King takes us on a visual and educational odyssey... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Naton Leslie Publisher Comments Several years ago, author Naton Leslie decided to opt out of America's dizzying array of retail goods and buy used necessities whenever possible. What he discovered in his meanderings was a characteristically American secondhand culture, replete with a... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by David Halberstam Publisher Comments The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers portraits of not only the titans of the age: Eisenhower Dulles... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas Hine Publisher Comments “ Hine offers fresh insight into why we shop and how we are--in some ways--born to do so. A jaunty writer who breaks down an unwieldy topic in to a thoughtful cultural riff... Hine delivers a balanced and entertaining analysis of how we arrived at... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Timothy Leary Synopsis This anthology examines the mind-expanding potential of both natural and synthesized psychedelics. The writers include Timothy Leary, Alan Watts, and Sir Julian Huxley.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) 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 $24.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Studs Terkel Publisher Comments Hope Dies Last is Studs Terkel's inspiring new oral history of social action in America. An alternative, more personal history of the "American century," Hope Dies Last forms a legacy of the indefatigable spirit that Studs has always embodied, and an... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nate Blakeslee Publisher Comments In the summer of 1999, in the tiny west Texas town of Tulia, thirty-nine people, almost all of them black, were arrested and charged with dealing powdered cocaine. The operation, a federally-funded investigation performed in cooperation with the local... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Edward Humes Publisher Comments In 1944, the U.S. government feared the flood of returning World War II soldiers as much as it looked forward to peace. To avoid economic catastrophe, FDR, the American Legion, William Randolph Hearst, and others began crafting the Servicemen’s... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $13.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Steven Mintz and Susan Kellogg Publisher Comments The American family has undergone a series of transformations from its socially sanctified role as the center of society to today's private, independent unit. The authors explain just how the family has adapted and endured these changes.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joseph Epstein
Publisher Comments 'A national bestseller, Snobbery examines the discriminating qualities in all of us. With dishy detail, Joseph Epstein skewers all manner of elitism in contemporary America. He offers his arch observations of the new footholds of snobbery: food, fashion,... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dan Savage Publisher Comments Dan Savage is irreverent, irrepressible, and opinionated. He's held his own on Politically Incorrect, told tales on This American Life, continues to write a beloved nationally syndicated column-and he's had it up to here (my hand is higher than my head... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $5.21 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Stephanie Coontz Publisher Comments The Way We Never Were examines two centuries of American family life and shatters a series of myths and half-truths that burden modern families. Placing current family dilemmas in the context of far-reaching economic, political, and demographic changes... (read more) List Price $19.50 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Greenfield Publisher Comments To a generation in full revolt against any form of authority, "Tune in, turn on, drop out" became a mantra, and its popularizer, Dr. Timothy Leary, a guru. A charismatic and brilliant psychologist, Leary became first intrigued and then obsessed by the... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $9.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Juliet B Schor Publisher Comments The Overspent American explores why so many of us feel materially dissatisfied, why we work staggeringly long hours and yet walk around with ever-present mental "wish lists" of things to buy or get, and why Americans save less than virtually anyone in... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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