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The Glass Castle: a Memoir by Jeannette Walls Publisher Comments Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto 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 $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping by Judith Levine Publisher Comments Shocked by the commerce in everything from pet cloning to patriotism, frightened by the downward spiral of her finances and that of the trash-strewn earth, Judith Levine enlists her partner, Paul, in a radical experiment: to forgo all but the most... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments The New York Times bestseller, and one of the most talked about books of the year, Nickel and Dimed has already become a classic of undercover reportage.Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft But Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking by Jeff Gordinier Powells.com Staff Pick I was very skeptical about this book when I first picked it up — and became even more so when Gordinier predicted my exact reaction. But X Saves the World is impossible to resist: a well-written, extremely funny, and, I have to say, unnervingly... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $14.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America by Morgan Spurlock Publisher Comments The nauseating truth from the producer, director, and guinea pig of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Super Size Me, Just when you figured it was safe to scarf fries again comes the factpacked and funny new alarm bell from the man whose month-long... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life by Richard Florida Publisher Comments It’s a mantra of the age of globalization that where we live doesn’t matter. We can innovate just as easily from a ski chalet in Aspen or a beachhouse in Provence as in the office of a Silicon Valley startup. According to Richard Florida... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Working Stiff: The Misadventures of an Accidental Sexpert (P.S.) by Grant Stoddard Publisher Comments A twenty-two-year-old perennial virgin, Englishman Grant Stoddard didn't know what to do with his life in America—until he won an X-rated online contest, the prize being intercourse with an infamous married sex columnist. He consequently wound up... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (with Kids) in America by Michelle Kennedy Publisher Comments The shocking story of a suburban mother's plunge into homelessness Michelle Kennedy had a typical middle class American childhood in Vermont. She attended college, interned in the U.S. Senate, married her high school sweetheart and settled in the suburbs... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World by Sarah Vowell Publisher Comments Take the Cannoli is a moving and wickedly funny collection of personal stories stretching across the immense landscape of the American scene. Vowell tackles subjects such as identity, politics, religion, art, and history with a biting humor. She... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $6.95 (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 Sociology on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell Powells.com Staff Pick Leave it to Sarah Vowell to roam across America in search of the motivations and culture of political murder. Obsessive, edifying, and, of course, witty, Assassination Vacation is unlike any other historical tourism or travel writing book you'll ever... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Bait and Switch by Barbara Ehrenreich Powells.com Staff Pick Bait and Switch, Barbara Ehrenreich's remarkable follow-up to Nickel and Dimed, examines life in the ever-increasing population of the white-collar unemployed. Veering from the absurd (Wizard of Oz dolls) to the unsettling (Christian prayer breakfasts... (read more) Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list All God's Children: Inside the Dark and Violent World of Street Families by Rene Denfeld Publisher Comments James Daniel Nelson first hit the streets as a teenager in 1992. Rejoined a clutch of runaways and misfits who camped out together in a squat under a Portland bridge. Within a few months the group — they called themselves a family — was... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities by Alexandra Robbins Publisher Comments Alexandra Robbins was puzzled when her eighteen-year-old sister announced that she planned to rush one of her college??'s many sororities. Wanting to find out if the clich?? stereotypes about sorority girls were actually true, Robbins went undercover in... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld by Misha Glenny Publisher Comments With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989, governments and entrepreneurs alike became intoxicated by forecasts of limitless expansion into newly open markets. No... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $ (Used - ) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 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 $13.95 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century by James Howard Kunstler Powells.com Staff Pick In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) 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 America's black market is much larger than we realize, and it affects us all deeply, whether or not we smoke pot, rent a risqué video, or pay our kids' nannies in cash. In Reefer Madness the best-selling author of Fast Food Nation turns his... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert Powells.com Staff Pick Elizabeth Gilbert first met Eustace Conway in New York City, on the sidewalk in front of her apartment. He'd traveled from North Carolina, dressed in handmade buckskin clothing and "carrying an impressive knife on his belt." Gilbert, a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge-And Why We Must by Kalle Lasn Publisher Comments America is no longer a country but a multimillion-dollar brand, says Kalle Lasn and his fellow "culture jammers". The founder of Adbusters magazine, Lasn aims to stop the branding of America by changing the way information flows; the way institutions... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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