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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They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey by Studs Terkel Publisher Comments A half-century of previously unpublished interviews with legendary musicians, in a brand-new book from America's foremost oral historian I'm one of these people that thinks that everybody has certain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 Hail Babylon!: In Search of the American City at the End of the Millennium by Andrei Codrescu Publisher Comments Andrei Codrescu, longtime observer and commentator on things odd and American, takes us on a personal tour through our withered yet increasingly alluring urban landscapes. Our trusted, if sometimes irreverent, guide visits New York, Baltimore, New... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $2.99 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cocaine: Its History and Lore by Julian Durlacher Publisher Comments Drugs are both vilified -- in newspaper headlines and public health broadcasts -- and glorified -- in film, music and fashion. They continue to fascinate and horrify, in equal measure, and remain perhaps the issue of the twentieth century. This series... (read more) Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920's by Paula S Fass Synopsis Explores the changes that occurred as young people of the 1920s broke with nineteenth-century traditions, and assesses the impact of those changes on American life, then and now.... (read more) List Price $42.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Fluoride Deception by Christopher Bryson Powells.com Staff Pick One of Ashley's Top Five picks for 2004. To read more staff Top Five lists click here.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Your Call Is Important to Us: The Truth about Bullshit by Laura Penny Publisher Comments Every once in a while a truth-telling book appears out of nowhere, a book that crystallizes our darkest suspicions and makes us mad as hell — while we're laughing like fiends. A book like this one. Your Call Is Important to Us is a manifesto for... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list It's in the Bag: What Purses Reveal---And Conceal by Winifred Gallagher Publisher Comments The time is perfect for a short, smart purse book. The "good bag" has nudged out shoes, jeans, and jewelry as the must–have fashion possession. Despite price hikes –– $1,445 for a Prada bowler bag that once cost $940 –– the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Destructive Generation by Peter Collier Synopsis The compelling story of an intellectual journey into and out of the radical trenches.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $7.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Century of Sex: Playboy's History of the Sexual Revolution, 1900-1999 by James R Petersen Publisher Comments In The Century of Sex James R. Petersen presents a sweeping history that argues that the "sexual revolution" of the sixties and seventies was part of a larger social evolution. This evolution began generations before the advent of penicillin, Playboy, or... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Hardcover) 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   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 Modern American Liberalism: The New Deal and Its Legacies, 1932-2000 by William Henry Chafe Publisher Comments < P> The New Deal established the contours and character of modern American democracy. It created an anchor and a reference point for American liberal politics through the struggles for racial, gender, and economic equality in the five decades that... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Working Together Against Drinking and Driving (Library of Social Activism) by Janet Grosshandler Synopsis Accelerated Reader is a program based on the fact that students become more motivated to read if they are tested on the content of the books they have read and are rewarded for correct answers. Students read each book, individually take the test on the... (read more) List Price $26.50 Your price $4.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Bringing Up the Phat by Ana Baum Synopsis Finally, someone got it right. Easy guess-free growing in hydroponics or soil, full-size plants, or Bonsai. Ana Baum has documented the stealth farmer that knows how. Now you can enjoy great highyield low-risk simple organic techniques of easy cannabis... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Hello, I'm Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformity by Hal Niedzviecki Publisher Comments When being a rebel is sanctioned by society, what is left to rebel against? Hal Niedzviecki has a blunt message for the army of tattoo and piercing enthusiasts, bloggers, skateboard warriors, and anyone else walking around with the smug certainty... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser Publisher Comments What in American sociery has changed so dramatically to make nearly 60 percent of us overweight? Can we fix what the surgeon general calls a national "epidemic of obesity"? Greg Critser engages every aspect of American life to determine how we have made... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $8.96 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Devil Knows Latin: Why America Needs the Classical Tradition by E Christian Kopff Synopsis In an examination of contemporary American culture--from literature to popular music--concerned with the restoration of Classical traditions, this work is comprised of a series of essays concerned with the still healthy vitality of America's Classical... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Chicken: Love for Sale on the Streets of Hollywood by David Henry Sterry Synopsis Arriving in Hollywood to attend college, but desperate for money, Sterry was introduced to a pimp who established him as a male prostitute. The story is juxtaposed against bitter anecdotes from Sterry's disintegrating family life.... (read more) Your price $4.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ads, Fads, and Consumer Culture: Advertising's Impact on American Character and Society: Advertising's Impact on American Character and Society by Arthur Asa Berger Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-192) and index.... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America by Steve Almond Powells.com Staff Pick Here's a great recipe: Take one often-obsessed-upon food item, one aptly named author, and an enormous amount of writing talent. Mix them all together and you have Candyfreak. A great book that melts in your mind, not in your hand. Danielle, Powells... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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