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by Tom Brokaw  Publisher Comments In The Greatest Generation, his landmark bestseller, Tom Brokaw eloquently evoked for America what it meant to come of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Now, in Boom!, one of America's premier journalists gives us an epic portrait... (read more)  List Price $28.95 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Barry Glassner Publisher Comments Enjoy what you eat. From the author of the national bestseller The Culture of Fear comes a rallying cry to abandon food fads and myths for calmer and more pleasurable eating. For many Americans, eating is a religion. We worship at the temples of... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Lewis Lapham Publisher Comments Award-winning columnist Lewis Lapham issues an urgent new polemic about the strangling of meaningful dissent — the lifeblood of democracy — at the hands of a government and media increasingly beholden to the wealthy few. Never before, Lapham... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Leerom Medovoi Publisher Comments Holden Caulfield, the beat writers, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, and James Dean--these and other avatars of youthful rebellion were much more than entertainment. As Leerom Medovoi shows, they were often embraced and hotly debated at the dawn of the Cold... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Nelson and Barry Lopez and Terry Tempest Williams Publisher Comments Terrorism. Homeland Security. Patriotism. Since September 11, 2001, these terms have emerged as a fundamental part of our cultural lexicon, with their unsaid assumptions and attendant emotions being used to inspire and buttress a varied set of... (read more) List Price $8.00 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Margaret M Gullette Publisher Comments Americans enjoy longer lives and better health, yet we are becoming increasingly obsessed with trying to stay young. What drives the fear of turning 30, the boom in anti-aging products, the wars between generations? What men and women of all ages have in... (read more) List Price $24.25 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michelle Stacey Synopsis Something has happened to food in America. It is no longer simply food-- filling, good-tasting, life-sustaining. Rather, it is "fat free" or "high in fiber" or "loaded with calories"-- it is an enemy that will steal life away, or a savior that will... (read more) List Price $15.75 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Klein Publisher Comments Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good. With its origins in the author's urgent desire to stop smoking, Cigarettes Are Sublime offers a provocative look at the literary, philosophical, and cultural history of smoking. Richard Klein... (read more) List Price $82.75 Your price $12.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Bruce Porter Publisher Comments BLOW is the unlikely story of George Jung's roller coaster ride from middle-class high school football hero to the heart of Pable Escobar's Medellin cartel-- the largest importer of the United States cocaine supply in the 1980s. Jung's early business of... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dana Thomas Publisher Comments A hard-hitting behind-the-scenes look at the luxury fashion industry today There was a time when luxury was available only to the rarefied and aristocratic world of old money and royalty. Luxury wasn't simply a product, it was a lifestyle, one that... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $19.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Randall Fitzgerald Publisher Comments Combining the impact of the classic bestseller Silent Spring with Fast Food Nation, The Hundred-Year Lie presents a devastating expose of how chemicals in everyday products are ruining our health. Over the past one hundred years, we have been guinea pigs... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Basse Mccleary Publisher Comments Whether you lived through the sixties and seventies or just wish you had, this revised and expanded edition of the HIPPIE DICTIONARY entertains as much as it educates. Cultural and political listings such as "Age of Aquarius, " "Cesar Chavez, " and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $ (Used - ) check for new and sale copies
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by William Irwin Publisher Comments If the world as we know it is nothing more than our dream of it, does this make the dream real? If we had the choice to step out of our world into a more-real but less-pleasant one—to take the red pill—would it be a moral failure not to do so?... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joan Burbick Publisher Comments From the floor of American gun shows, a fascinating historical exposé of how guns have burrowed into the heart of American democracy. "To understand gun talk, I had to understand what America means to millions of ordinary people and how these... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Kayo Synopsis Information about high potency marijuana strains. Improving quality, cutting and propagation techniques, microclimate gardening and more.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Juliet B Schor Publisher Comments This pathbreaking book explains why, contrary to all expectations, Americans are working harder than ever. Juliet Schor presents the astonishing news that over the past twenty years our working hours have increased by the equivalent of one month per year&... (read more) List Price $16.50 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Hal Rothman Synopsis Long-time residents and professionals reflect on the transformation of one of the fastest-growing and most famous cities on Earth, Las Vegas. They offer a portrait of the other side of the city - the people and institutions that support the glitter of... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Musto Publisher Comments For over 20 years, Michael Musto ("the Hunter S. Thompson of snark") has written the popular entertainment column La Dolce Musto. The outrageous weekly column has pioneered gay issues in celebrity news and politics and has long been a mainstay of pop... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jeffrey Rosen 
Publisher Comments The Unwanted Gaze is an important book about one of the most pressing issues of our day: how changes in technology and the law have combined to demolish our rights of privacy, and what we can and must do to re-secure them. In a world in which Ken... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Martin Torgoff Publisher Comments From the narcotic allure of the bebop and Beat generations to the psychedelic 1960s, Vietnam, the cocaine-fueled disco era, the crack epidemic, and the ecstasy-induced rave culture, illegal drugs have profoundly shaped America's cultural landscape. In... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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