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Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South by Gilbert King Publisher Comments On May 3, 1946, a seventeen-year-old boy was scheduled to die by the electric chair inside of a tiny red brick jail in picturesque St. Martinsville, Louisiana. Young Willie Francis had been charged with the murder of a local pharmacist. The electric... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Mcdonaldization of Society New Century E by George Ritzer Publisher Comments Most undergraduate students today have never lived in an un-McDonaldized world, and because this book speaks to them, it sparks lively class discussions. This new edition is finely updated, and even more interesting, as it demonstrates the globalization... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Psychedelics by Peter Stafford Publisher Comments In Psychedelics, Peter Stafford offers a framework for understanding the enormous amount of information available on psychoactive substances. In addition to the photographs, illustrations, charts, and tables, he writes about the origins, varieties... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century by James H Kunstler Publisher Comments In his landmark book The Geography of Nowhere James Howard Kunstler visited the "tragic sprawlscape of cartoon architecture, junked cities, and ravaged countryside" America had become and declared that the deteriorating environment was not merely a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $9.50 (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 Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-292) and index.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Buzzed 2ND Edition the Straight Facts About The by Cynthia Kuhn Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-290) and index.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The World the Sixties Made: Politics and Culture in Recent America (Critical Perspectives on the Past) by Van Gosse Publisher Comments How can we make sense of the fact that after decades of right wing political mobilizing the major social changes wrought by the Sixties are more than ever part of American life? "The World the Sixties Made, the first academic collection to treat the last... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Tribe Apart: A Journey Into the Heart of American Adolescence by Patricia Hersch Publisher Comments For three fascinating, disturbing years, writer Patricia Hersch journeyed inside a world that is as familiar as our own children and yet as alien as some exotic culture -- the world of adolescence. As a silent, attentive partner, she followed eight... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Middle Mind: Why Americans Don't Think for Themselves by Curtis White Publisher Comments Acclaimed social critic Curtis White describes an all-encompassing and little-noticed force taking over our culture and our lives that he calls the Middle Mind: the current failure of the American imagination in the media, politics, education, art... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.50 (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 In this astonishing expose, journalist Greg Critser looks beyond the sensational headlines to reveal why nearly 60 percent of Americans are now overweight. Critser's sharp-eyed reportage and sharp-tongued analysis make for a disarmingly funny and truly... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (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   Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another by Philip Ball Powells.com Staff Pick "Critical Mass provides a solid overview of the behavior of large systems in general, with particular emphasis on human affairs. Folks who were intrigued by The Tipping Point and want to delve further into the subject of critical points and the behavior... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Hardcover) 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 Party of One: The Loner's Manifesto by Anneli Rufus Publisher Comments The Buddha. Rene Descartes. Emily Dickinson. Greta Garbo. Bobby Fischer. J. D. Salinger: Loners, all—along with as many as 25 percent of the world's population. Loners keep to themselves, and like it that way. Yet in the press, in films, in... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture by Marita Sturken Publisher Comments Ideal for students studying visual culture for the first time, Practices of Looking explores the ways we use and understand images. Truly interdisciplinary, this comprehensive and engaging introduction can be used in courses across a range of disciplines... (read more) List Price $42.00 Your price $32.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Assimilation: Rock Machine Become Bandidos: Bikers United Against the Hells Angels by Edward Winterhalder Publisher Comments In the early 1990s, Maurice Mom Boucher and his fellow Montreal Hells Angels, reputedly the most ruthless and vicious bikers in the world, subdued all comers except the tough-as-nails members of the Rock Machine. Founded by Salvatore Cazzetta, an ex... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) 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 $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Yale Agrarian Studies) by James C Scott Publisher Comments Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier's urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural "modernization" in the Tropics -- the twentieth century has been racked by grand... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations by James Surowiecki Powells.com Staff Pick Using anecdotes and statistics from such diverse sources as pre-election polls, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, traffic patterns, and jelly bean jars, The Wisdom of Crowds persuasively demonstrates that groups of people are usually smarter than their... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Twilight of American Culture by Morris Berman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-193) and index.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.00 (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 $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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