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Hippie by Barry Miles Publisher Comments New York Times bestseller! Sales phenomenon! Now in an entirely new compact-sized paperback...at a mind-blowing price. Experience the ultimate flashback with this celebration of an era. Rich in illustratiosn and filled with the history, politics, sayings,... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Poplorica: A Popular History of the Fads, Mavericks, Inventions, and Lore That Shaped Modern America by Martin J Smith Publisher Comments Pop culture meets pop reference in this irreverent tour of twenty unlikely events, innovations, and individuals that forever changed the way we live. Veteran journalists Smith and Kiger make the offbeat their beat, offering fascinating explanations for... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Touch and Go: A Memoir by Studs Terkel Publisher Comments The extraordinary life and times of an American icon—the Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian's long-awaited memoir—a major publishing event. At nearly ninety-five, Studs Terkel has written about everyone's life, it seems, but his own. In... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Best of Ask Edition Your Marijuana Question by Ed Rosenthal Publisher Comments Your Marijuana Questions Answered.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The American Dream Vs. the Gospel of Wealth: The Fight for a Productive Middle-Class Economy (Future of American Democracy) by Norton Garfinkle Publisher Comments Norton Garfinkle paints a disquieting picture of America today: a nation increasingly divided between economic winners and losers, a nation in which the middle-class American Dream seems more and more elusive. Recent government policies reflect... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Bowling Alone: Civic Disengagement in America by Robert D Putnam Publisher Comments Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work; but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam has identified and describes in this brilliant volume, Bowling Alone. Drawing on vast new data from... (read more) List Price $26.50 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market by Eric Schlosser Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-292) and index.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Hip: The History by John Leland Powells.com Staff Pick "When all is said and done, Hip: The History is not concerned with passing fads. The transient notions of hip that have passed through history still leave their cultural fingerprints on society today....While it's impossible to say what will be hip in... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity. Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Copycat Effect: How the Media and Popular Culture Trigger the Mayhem in Tomorrow's Headlines by Loren Coleman Publisher Comments VIOLENCE BEGETS VIOLENCE BEGETS VIOLENCE... A disturbed student shoots up his classroom -- and suddenly a wave of mass murder is sweeping through our nation's schools. A young child is taken from her home -- and for months afterward child abductions are... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.00 (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   You Have No Rights: Stories of America in an Age of Repression by Matthew Rothschild Publisher Comments Chilling true stories of ordinary Americans whose everyday liberties have been violated since September 11. "I'm very liberal and sometimes my friends say I'm giving them some kind of paranoid, nutty stuff, and I agree, but then the FBI show up."—... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman Synopsis Postman takes an enlightening look at the long-term effects of mass media--how it transforms the world, and the ways in which the media onslaught can be challenged.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list One Nation Under Guns: An Essay on an American Epidemic (Speaker's Corner) by Arnold Grossman Publisher Comments The United States holds the dubious distinction of experiencing more civilian gun deaths than any industrialized nation on earth?nearly 30,000 per year. While a majority of Americans favor far more restrictive gun laws than currently exist, efforts to... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun by Erik Larson Publisher Comments This devastating book begins with an account of a crime that is by now almost commonplace: on December 16, 1988, sixteen-year-old Nicholas Elliot walked into his Virginia high school with a Cobray M-11/9 and several hundred rounds of ammunition tucked in... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Pretensions to Empire: Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administration by Lewis Lapham Publisher Comments The preeminent political essayist writes about the perversion of America's democratic legacy under George W. Bush—and makes a compelling case for impeachment. Lewis Lapham stands virtually alone among mainstream American journalists in having... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Surfing the Conscious Nets by Timothy Leary Synopsis A graphic novel designed as a Q&A chatroom session with Dr. Leary. Travel the electronic maze of cyborgastic addiction and the search for the absolute aphrodisiac. Topics include "My Lonely Quest for the Male Afrodisiac," "Mengele Lives! Medical Evil... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $2.49 (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 $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Leisureville: Adventures in America's Retirement Utopias by Andrew D Blechman Publisher Comments When his next-door neighbors in a quaint New England town suddenly pick up and move to a gated retirement community in Florida, Andrew D. Blechman is astonished by their stories. Larger than Manhattan, with a golf course for every day of the month, two... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Eating in the Dark: America's Experiment with Genetically Engineered Food by Kathleen Hart Publisher Comments Most Americans eat genetically modified food on a daily basis. Yet many of us are barely aware that we’re eating something that has been altered; food labels do not include information on ingredients that have been genetically modified, and the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Childhood in America by Paula Fass Synopsis The family lies at the center of raging public debates over work, parenthood, welfare, and values-debates that cut across lines of race, politics, and class. In the media, in discussions of public policy, and in the courts, this debate is critically... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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