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The Terror Dream: Myth and Misogyny in an Insecure America
by Susan Faludi  Publisher Comments It has become clear over the years that the reaction of America's politicians and media to the attacks of 9/11 was bizarrely misdirected and dangerous to our national security. But no one has fully probed its cultural roots. Until now. Pulitzer Prize...
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Raiding the Icebox: Reflections on Twentieth-Century Culture
by Peter Wollen Publisher Comments Raiding the Icebox is a kaleidoscopic review of the avant-garde and radical subcultures of the twentieth century, and explains how the most powerful artistic statements of the era redrew the line between high and low art....
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Chasing Lolita: How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov's Little Girl All Over Again
by Graham Vickers Publisher Comments In the summer of 1958, a 12-year-old girl took the world by storm—Lolita was published in the United States—and since then, her name has been taken in vain to serve a wide range of dubious ventures, both artistic and commercial. Offering a...
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The New Elite: Inside the Minds of the Truly Wealthy
by Jim Taylor Synopsis In this fascinating book, the authors reveal what motivates America's most powerful and influential class--those with liquid assets in excess of $5 million--and explore what the wealthy want, where they shop, and how they really spend their money....
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American Transcendentalism: A History
by Philip Gura Publisher Comments American Transcendentalism is a sweeping narrative history of America’s first group of public intellectuals, the men and women who defined American literature and indelibly marked American reform in the decades before and following the American...
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Written on the City: Graffiti Messages Worldwide
by Axel Albin Publisher Comments Written on the City is a glimpse into a vast conversation happening illegally and in public. All over the world, people are writing messages on the walls and sidewalks of the cities in which we live. They are staying up late, breaking the law, and taking...
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The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream
by John Zogby Publisher Comments According to super pollster John Zogby, whom the Washington Post calls "the maverick predictor," the conventional wisdom about the United States — that we're isolated from the world, politically fragmented, and inclined toward material pleasure...
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The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends: A Very Trippy Miscellany
by Adriano Sack 
Powells.com Staff Pick You're sitting at a bar with friends, and the conversation hits a lull. Someone excuses herself to get the next round and buy some time. But you don't need it, because you've read The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends and you're loaded with an...
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Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art Out of Desperate Times
by Susan Quinn Publisher Comments A vivid portrait of the turbulent 1930s and the Roosevelt administration as seen through the WPA’s Federal Theater Project.Under the direction of a five-foot redheaded firecracker, Hallie Flanagan, the Federal Theater Project managed to turn a WPA...
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No Speed Limit: The Highs and Lows of Meth
by Frank Owen Publisher Comments Hell’s Angels and fallen televangelists. Cross-country truckers and suburban mothers. Trailer parks, urban clubs, college campuses, and military battle?elds. Methamphetamine is the stimulant wiring every corner of American culture. Like...
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Spliffigami: Roll the 35 Greatest Joints of All Time
by Chris Stone Synopsis Next time 4: 20 rolls around, put a new twist on a spliff using this step-by-step guide: start by perfecting the basic joint, move on to ornate blunts, then get freaky with multi-pronged doobies, with this irreverent take on toking....
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The Body Toxic: How the Hazardous Chemistry of Everyday Things Threatens Our Health and Well-Being
by Nena Baker Publisher Comments We are running a collective chemical fever that we cannot break. Everyone everywhere now carries a dizzying array of chemical contaminants, the by-products of modern industry and innovation that contribute to a host of developmental deficits and health...
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Weimar on the Pacific: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism
by Ehrhard Bahr Publisher Comments In the 1930s and 40s, Los Angeles became an unlikely cultural sanctuary for a distinguished group of German artists and intellectuals--including Thomas Mann, Theodore W. Adorno, Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Lang, and Arnold Schoenberg--who had fled Nazi Germany....
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Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children
by Philip Shabecoff Publisher Comments In this shocking and sobering book, two fearless journalists directly and definitively link industrial toxins to the current rise in childhood disease and death. In the tradition of Silent Spring, Poisoned Profits is a landmark investigation, an eye...
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Voices of the Chicago Eight: A Generation on Trial
by Tom Hayden Synopsis The explosive protests and police riots outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention and the ensuing conspiracy trial gave voice to the tumultuous politics of the time. Frank Condon and Ron Sossi have crafted a dramatically gripping playscript from a...
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Slackonomics: Generation X in the Age of Creative Destruction
by Lisa Chamberlain Publisher Comments Generation X grew up in the 1980s, when Alex P. Keaton was going to be a millionaire by the time he was thirty, greed was good, and social activism was deader than disco. Then globalization and the technological revolution came along, changing everything...
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The Art of Rebellion: The World of Street Art
by C100 Publisher Comments The Art of Rebellion widmet sich einem Thema, welchem bisher nur wenig Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt wurde - STREETART. Anders als beim gesprühten Graffiti geht es nicht darum, seinen Namen in Form von Buchstaben zu verbreiten, sondern viel mehr eine...
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One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding
by Rebecca Mead Publisher Comments Astutely observed and deftly witty, One Perfect Day masterfully mixes investigative journalism and social commentary to explore the workings of the wedding industryan industry that claims to be worth $160 billion to the U.S. economy and which has every...
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
by Tom Wolfe Publisher Comments "An American classic" (Newsweek) that defined a generation. “An astonishing book” (The New York Times Book Review) and an unflinching portrait of Ken Kesey, his Merry Pranksters, and the 1960s....
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Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen
by Christoph Capozzola Publisher Comments In April 1917, the United States embarked on its first overseas war - with no history of conscription, an army smaller than Bulgaria's, just two hundred agents in its federal Bureau of Investigation, and a political culture that saw little role for the...
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