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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 
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by Gary V Lachman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [412]-422) and index.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Steve Geng Publisher Comments A memoir about two siblings who loved each other (sometimes), the thrill of the shoplift, the power of the written word, the agony of addiction, and the joy of someone who understands and still stays true through it all.... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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
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by Jay Stevens 
Publisher Comments For Aldous Huxley it was the next step in human evolution; for the CIA it was a potential tool for mind control; for Timothy Leary it was the liberator of humankind (a belief that led to his being branded "the most dangerous man in America"); for Ken... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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
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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
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by Richard Slotkin Book News Annotation In the third of a three-volume study in the development of the myth of the frontier in US literary, popular, and political culture from the colonial period to the present, Slotkin (English, Wesleyan U.) covers Theodore Roosevelt's and Frederick... (read more) List Price $42.95 Your price $17.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John De Graaf Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-259) and index.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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
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by Wesley G Skogan Publisher Comments Disorder and Decline documents the relationship between disorder and neighborhood decline, but provides a cogent analysis of the currently favored solutions to problems such as community policing and citizen self help.This book also discusses the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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
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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 $1.38 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Michael Publisher Comments From Thomas Jefferson to John Rawls, justice has been at the center of America’s self-image and national creed. At the same time, for many of its peoples-from African slaves and European immigrants to women and the poor-the American experience has... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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
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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 $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William H. Beezley Publisher Comments Latin American Popular Culture: An Introduction is a collection of articles that explores a wide range of compelling cultural subjects in the region, including carnival, romance, funerals, medicine, monuments and dance, among others. The introduction... (read more) List Price $35.50 Your price $22.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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
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