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Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Street by Lee Stringer Publisher Comments In the underground tunnels below Grand Central Terminal, Lee Stringer -- homeless and drug-addicted over the course of eleven years -- found a pencil to run through his crack pipe. One day, he used it to write. Soon, writing became a habit that won out... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Place You Love Is Gone: Progress Hits Home by Melissa Hol Pierson Publisher Comments "Smart and defiant…. Rich with characters and anecdote and heart…. A great success."—Anthony Swofford, New York Times Book Review Has the future—ever more people with their houses, stores, roads, and sprawl—been wrecking your... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list My Secret: A Postsecret Book by Frank Warren Publisher Comments Postsecret.com founder Frank Warren is back with a fresh and compelling companion to his wildly popular Los Angeles Times bestseller, PostSecret. For My Secret, a collectible, paper-over-board book that includes a page of vibrant, decorative stickers... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $12.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Offbeat Marijuana: The Life and Times of the World's Grooviest Plant by Saul Rubin Book News Annotation This decidedly lowbrow contribution to the literature on the marijuana debate is unimpressive in both textual and visual content; many photographs are printed in too-dark, low-contrast b&w (and, surprise, green), and many of their captions consist of... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $5.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (P.S.) by Eric Schlosser Publisher Comments To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar America. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has triggered the homogenization of our society. Fast food has hastened the malling of our... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list California Studies in Food and Culture #3: Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition by Marion Nestle Publisher Comments We all witness, in advertising and on supermarket shelves, the fierce competition for our food dollars. In this engrossing expose, Marion Nestle goes behind the scenes to reveal how the competition really works and how it affects our health. The... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list American Terrorist Timothy McVeigh & the Oklahoma City Bombing by Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck Synopsis Five years in the making, this volume is the definitive story of the worst act of terror in American history, including McVeigh's chilling exclusive account. Includes previously unpublished personal photos and artifacts from the McVeigh family collection.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 8 Ball Chicks: A Year in the Violent World of Girl Gangs by Gini Sikes Publisher Comments Dismissed by the police as mere adjuncts to or gofers for male gangs, girl gang-bangers are in fact often as emotionally closed off and dangerous as their male counterparts. In "8 Ball Chicks", veteran journalist Gini Sikes spends a year in the ghettos... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community by Carol B Stack Publisher Comments All Our Kin is the chronicle of a young white woman's sojourn into The Flats, an African-American ghetto community, to study the support system family and friends form when coping with poverty. Eschewing the traditional method of entry into the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Waste and want :a social history of trash by Susan Strasser Publisher Comments An unprecedented look at that most commonplace act of everyday life-throwing things out-and how it has transformed American society. Susan Strasser's pathbreaking histories of housework and the rise of the mass market have become classics in the... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $8.95 (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 Sociology on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   The War Against Parents: What We Can Do for America's Beleaguered Moms and Dads by Sylvia Hewlett Publisher Comments Sylvia Ann Hewlett, noted feminist scholar and child advocate, and Cornel West, Harvard philosopher and well-known human rights leader, join in a rare partnership to explore one of the most painful problem of our times. Why are hundreds of thousands of... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $1.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list What Liberal Media?: The Truth about Bias and the News by Eric Alterman From Powells.com In 2001, Bernard Goldberg published an exposé claiming to prove the overwhelming liberal bias of the mainstream news media. If there were any doubt his ideas were being taken seriously, the front-page photograph of George Bush with a copy of Bias... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Managed Heart by Arlie Ru Hochschild Publisher Comments In private life, we try to induce or suppress love, envy, and anger through deep acting or emotion work, just as we manage our outer expressions of feeling through surface acting. In trying to bridge a gap between what we feel and what we ought to feel... (read more) Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fences and Windows: An Activist Journal, from Seattle to September 11th by Naomi Klein Publisher Comments Naomi Klein’s No Logo is an international bestselling phenomenon. Winner of Le Prix Mediations (France), and of the National Business Book Award (Canada) it has been translated into 21 languages and published in 25 countries. Named one of Ms... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Pornocopia :porn, sex, technology and desire by Lawrence Otoole Publisher Comments In Pornocopia, Laurence O'Toole argues that the expansion of the new technologies -- video, cable, the internet -- is substantially changing the status of porn in society. As it becomes more and more current -- used by women, couples, gay men, fetishists... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Revolutionary Wealth: How It Will Be Created and How It Will Change Our Lives by Alvin Toffler Publisher Comments REVOLUTIONARY WEALTH is about how tomorrow's wealth will be created, and who will get it and how. But 21st-Century wealth, according to the Tofflers, is not just about money, and cannot be understood in terms of industrial-age economics. Thus they write... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Hate and Bias Crime: A Reader by Barbara Perry Publisher Comments This is the first reader to focus solely on hate and bias crimesContains articles by the biggest names in the field including, Kathleen Blee, Jack McDevitt, James Jacobs, Valerie Jenness, Randy Blazak and Abby FerberBarbara Perry's In the Name of Hate... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Eyes of the Heart: Seeking a Path for the Poor in the Age of Globalization by Jean Bertr Aristide Publisher Comments In this startling and passionate book, Aristide demonstrates why those on the bottom will never lie down. A graphic revelation of what happens when "free" trade overruns local markets, eradicates local economies, and creates dependence on foreign charity.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Very Short Introductions #73: Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction by Catherine Belsey Publisher Comments Poststructuralism changes the way we understand the relations between human beings, their culture, and the world. Following a brief account of the historical relationship between structuralism and poststructuralism, this Very Short Introduction traces... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress by Debra Ginsberg Publisher Comments Many people can tell horror stories about their teenage or college stints waiting tables. For Debra Ginsberg, struggling writer and single mother, waitressing has been a means of survival — and she has the scars to prove it. In Waiting: The True... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $5.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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