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People Celebrates the 70s with CD (Audio) by People Publisher Comments A lively, affectionate salute to an over-the-top decade.... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price $3.35 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Drugs by Leslie Iversen Publisher Comments The twentieth century saw a remarkable upsurge of research on drugs, with major advances in the treatment of bacterial and viral infections, heart disease, stomach ulcers, cancer, and mental illnesses. These, along with the introduction of the oral... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Hail Babylon by Andrei Codrescu Publisher Comments Andrei Codrescu takes us cross-country through the withered, yet alluring American urban landscape, visiting New York, Baltimore, New Orleans, Little Rock, San Antonio, Albuquerque, Las Vegas, and Portland, Oregon. He discovers that cities are at the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list American Radicalism (Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History) by Daniel Pope Synopsis This collection contains ten of the best scholarly essays on significant events and figures over the last two hundred years of the radical tradition in American history. Arranged chronologically, each chapter contains an introduction and one major... (read more) List Price $37.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Something Happened: A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies by Edward D Berkowitz Publisher Comments In both the literal and metaphorical senses, it seemed as if 1970s America was running out of gas. The decade not only witnessed long lines at gas stations but a citizenry that had grown weary and disillusioned. High unemployment, runaway inflation, and... (read more) List Price $31.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Up in Smoke From Legislation To by Martha A Derthick Publisher Comments Since the 1960s, the government's attempts at tobacco control have operated through standard channels, what Martha Derthick calls "ordinary politics." Legislation was debated in elected legislatures, and after three decades of limited... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Dirty a Search for Answers Inside Ameri by Meredith Maran Publisher Comments Why do teenagers use drugs, what happens to them when they do, and what can we do about it? Venturing into uncharted territory, mother and award-winning journalist Meredith Maran takes us inside teenagers' hearts, minds, and central nervous systems to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Beer Can by the Highway: Essays on What's American about America by John At Kouwenhoven Synopsis First published in 1961, The Beer Can by the Highway takes a provocative, wide-ranging look at America's ever-changing physical and intellectual landscapes, from advertising and jazz to Manhattan's skyline and the prairies of the Midwest. The Johns... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Visions of America: Personal Narratives from the Promised Land by Wesley Brown Publisher Comments Thirty-six noted contemporary writers respond to a hundred years of American life from perspectives of "semi-otherness." A classroom classic. The personal narratives in this rich and diverse collection—companion to the story collection Imagining... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Diverse Communities: The Problem with Social Capital by Barbara Arneil Publisher Comments Robert Putnam's social capital thesis re-examined from the perspective of women and cultural minorities.... (read more) List Price $33.99 Your price $17.00 (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   For America: Simple Things Each of Us Can Do to Make Our Country Better by Sacha Zimmerman Synopsis Organized into eight sections, this motivational book contains more than 120 simple actions every American can take to make the country a better place.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Psychedelic Reader: Selected from the Psychedelic Review 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 add to wish list Apocalypse Pretty Soon: Travels in End-Time America by Alex Heard Synopsis Over a ten-year period, intrepid cultural traveler Alex Heard has been sojourning among America's most intensely religious and political believers. Now he offers a funny and frightening look at millennial, utopian, and futuristic subcultures.... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need 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 add to wish list Magic Mushrooms and Other Highs: From Toad Slime to Ecstasy by Paul Krassner Publisher Comments Whether you're an occasional user or a fully-fledged abuser, this compilation of far-out stories will keep you entertained for hours.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture by Andrew Keen Publisher Comments Amateur hour has arrived, and the audience is running the show. In a hard-hitting and provocative polemic, Silicon Valley insider and pundit Andrew Keen exposes the grave consequences of today’s new participatory Web 2.0 and reveals how it... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Repeal of Reticence by Rochelle Gurstein Publisher Comments Arthur Herman explains how the conviction of civilization's inevitable end has become part of the modern Western imagination. He shows how the non-Romantic thinkers who became obsessed by the image of their civilization's demise paved the way for more... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968 by Paul Berman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-343) and index.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey by Studs Terkel Publisher Comments A half-century of previously unpublished interviews with legendary musicians, in a brand-new book from America's foremost oral historian I'm one of these people that thinks that everybody has certain gifts, you know, when they're born...I used to play... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Great Boom, 1950-2000: How a Generation of Americans Created the World's Most Prosperous Society by Robert Sobel Publisher Comments In The Great Boom, historian Robert Sobel tells the fascinating story of the last 50 years when American entrepreneurs, visionaries, and ordinary citizens transformed our depression and war-exhausted society into today's economic powerhouse. As... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $2.38 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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