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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 An Ounce of Prevention, a Pound of Uncertainty by Jonathan Caulkins Publisher Comments 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 $15.00 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 Publisher Comments 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 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 Violence in America: Coping with Drugs, Distressed Families, Inadequate Schooling, and Acts of Hate by Raymond B Flannery Publisher Comments Today's culture of violence affects everyone. Dr. Flannery, a clinical psychologist and author of Preventing Youth Violence--to date the only reliable and substantive book of its kind--as well as four other books for the general reader on stress and its... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $3.85 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Losing Our Souls by Edward Pessen Publisher Comments The first book to sum up the consequences of the cold war for Americans. A searching account of the costs of the cold war Ovictory' that we are celebrating--not only the material price but the blight on our ideas, ideals, and institutions. --James... (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 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 $14.00 Your price $9.00 (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   The Complete Illustrated Guide to Cannabis by Nick Brownlee Publisher Comments Wonder drug or social menace? The perennial question may never be answered, as factions on both sides hold fast to their beliefs. Doctors and scientists hail its medicinal merits while politicians and others insist that cannabis, in any form, is the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker by Mike Rose Publisher Comments As did the national bestseller Nickel and Dimed, Mike Rose's revelatory book demolishes the long-held notion that people who work with their hands make up a less intelligent class. He shows us waitresses making lightning-fast calculations, carpenters... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Mass Market) 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 Publisher Comments "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 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 $55.00 Your price $12.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith by Studs Terkel Publisher Comments In Terkel's powerful new book a wide range of people address that final experience and its impact on the present in which they live. In talking about the ultimate and unknowable culmination of life, these people give voice to their deepest beliefs and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) 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 Publisher Comments 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 The Speculation Economy: How Finance Triumphed Over Industry (BK Currents) by Lawrence E Mitchell Publisher Comments American businesses today are obsessed with the price of their stock, and no wonder. The consequences of even a modest decrease can be so dire that some executives would rather damage their corporation's long-term health than allow quarterly returns to... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 100 Years on the Road: The Traveling Salesman in American Culture by Timothy B Spears Publisher Comments 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 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 $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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