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Buying In: The Secret Dialogue between What We Buy and Who We Are
by Rob Walker  Publisher Comments Brands are dead. Advertising no longer works. Weaned on TiVo, the Internet, and other emerging technologies, the short-attention-span generation has become immune to marketing. Consumers are "in control." Or so we're told. In Buying In, New York...
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Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives
by Jim Sheeler Publisher Comments Based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning story, Jim Sheeler's unprecedented look at the way our country honors its dead; Final Salute Is a stunning tribute to the brave troops who have lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan and to the families who continue...
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Leisureville: Adventures in America's Retirement Utopias
by Andrew D Blechman Publisher Comments When his next-door neighbors in a quaint New England town suddenly pick up and move to a gated retirement community in Florida, Andrew D. Blechman is astonished by their stories. Larger than Manhattan, with a golf course for every day of the month, two...
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Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-Lot Gardeners Are Inventing the Future Today!
by Chris Carlsson Publisher Comments Outlaw bicycling, urban permaculture, biofuels, free software, and even the Burning Man festival are windows into a scarcely visible social transformation that is redefining politics as we know it. As capitalism continues to corral every square inch of...
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Graffiti Paris
by Fabienne Grevy Publisher Comments Graffiti artists in Paris, much like in New York and Los Angeles, have transformed urban spaces—sidewalks, metro stations, staircases, abandoned buildings—into showrooms that exhibit their work in all of its many mediums, from a proliferation...
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This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation
by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments America in the 'aughts — hilariously skewered, brilliantly dissected, and darkly diagnosed by the bestselling social critic hailed as "the soul mate"* of Jonathan Swift. Barbara Ehrenreich's first book of satirical commentary, The Worst Years of...
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The Girl I Left Behind: A Narrative History of the Sixties
by Judith Nies Publisher Comments At the height of the Vietnam War protests, twenty-eight-year-old Judith Nies and her husband lived a seemingly idyllic life. Both were building their respective careers in Washington--Nies as the speechwriter and chief staffer to a core group of antiwar...
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Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
by Rebecca Solnit Publisher Comments Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual. Storming the Gates of Paradise, an anthology of her essential essays from the past...
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The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism
by Stefan Kuhl Publisher Comments When Hitler published Mein Kampf in 1924, he held up a foreign law as a model for his program of racial purification: The U.S. Immigration Restriction Act of 1924, which prohibited the immigration of those with hereditary illnesses and entire ethnic...
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The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart
by Bill Bishop Publisher Comments The untold story of why America is so culturally and politically divided America may be more diverse than ever coast to coast, but the places where we live are becoming increasingly crowded with people who live, think, and vote as we do. This social...
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Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich
by Robert Frank Publisher Comments THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER RICH-I-STAN n. 1. a new country located in the heart of America, populated entirely by millionaires, most of whom acquired their wealth during the new Gilded Age of the past twenty years. 2. a country with a population...
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments The bestselling, landmark work of undercover reportage, now updated Acclaimed as an instant classic upon publication, Nickel and Dimed has sold more than 1.5 million copies and become a staple of classroom reading. Chosen for “one book”...
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Americans All: The Cultural Gifts Movement
by Diana Selig Publisher Comments From the 1920sandmdash;a decade marked by racism and nativismandmdash;through World War II, hundreds of thousands of Americans took part in a vibrant campaign to overcome racial, ethnic, and religious prejudices. They celebrated the andldquo;cultural...
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American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation
by Matthew Prat Guterl Publisher Comments How did slave-owning Southern planters make sense of the transformation of their world in the Civil War era? Matthew Pratt Guterl shows that they looked beyond their borders for answers. He traces the links that bound them to the wider fraternity of...
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Writings for a Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader
by Tom Hayden Publisher Comments "His journey is our journey through the tumultuous and disillusioning decades. He is our Everyman, he is us."-Seattle Post-Intelligencer Praise for Tom Hayden: "One comes away enthralled by Hayden's odyssey."-The Boston Sunday Globe From his earliest...
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Not Keeping Up with Our Parents: The Decline of the Professional Middle Class
by Nan Mooney Publisher Comments The first book to exclusively target the struggles of the professional middle class--educated individuals who purposely choose humanistic, intellectual, or creative pursuits--Nan Mooney's (Not) Keeping Up with Our Parents is a simultaneously sobering and...
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The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York (Historical Studies of Urban America)
by Patricia Clin Cohen Publisher Comments Obscene, libidinous, loathsome, lascivious. Those were just some of the ways critics described the nineteenth-century weeklies that covered and publicized New York City’s extensive sexual underworld. Publications like the Flash and the Whip—...
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Last Harvest: From Cornfield to New Town
by Witold Rybczynski Publisher Comments When Witold Rybczynski first heard about New Daleville, it was only a developer's idea, attached to ninety acres of cornfield an hour and a half west of Philadelphia. Over the course of five years, Rybczynski met and talked to everyone involved in the...
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Farm Friends: From the Late Sixties to the West Seventies and Beyond
by Tom Fels Publisher Comments Farm Friends is a memoir and a study of the generation of the 1960s. Beginning on a communal farm in 1969, it continues as a personal chronicle of the author and his extended family up to the present day. From the greenhouse in the spring to haying in...
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The Long Baby Boom: An Optimistic Vision for a Graying Generation
by Jeff Goldsmith Publisher Comments In 2006, the first baby boomers turned 60, unleashing a veritable tidal wave of gloomy punditry, advertising for financial services, and forecasts of impending national bankruptcy. Jeff Goldsmith rejects such catastrophic predictions. Drawing on evidence...
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