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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D Putnam Publisher Comments In a groundbreaking bestseller based on vast new data, Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from family, friends, neighbors, and our democratic structures--and tells how we may reconnect.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.95 (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 $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) 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 $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 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... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things by Barry Glassner Publisher Comments There has never been another era in modern history, even during wartime or the Great Depression, when so many people have feared so much. Three out of four Americans say they feel more fearful today then they did twenty years ago. The Culture of Fear... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list NO LOGO: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs by Naomi Klein Publisher Comments With a new Afterword to the 2002 edition. No Logo employs journalistic savvy and personal testament to detail the insidious practices and far-reaching effects of corporate marketing—and the powerful potential of a growing activist sect that will... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Toxic Sludge Is Good for You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry by John Stauber Publisher Comments Common Courage's number one seller blows the lid off of today's multi-billion-dollar propaganda-for-hire PR industry, revealing how public relations wizards concoct and spin the news, organize phony "grassroots" front groups, spy on citizens and conspire... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats by Jim Goad Publisher Comments Culture maverick Jim Goad presents a thoroughly reasoned, darkly funny, and rampagingly angry defense of America's most maligned social group -- the cultural clan variously referred to as rednecks, hillbillies, white trash, crackers, and trailer trash... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Working Stiff's Manifesto: A Memoir of Thirty Jobs I Quit, Nine That Fired Me, and Three I Can't Remember by Iain Levison Publisher Comments Over the course of ten years Levison worked 42 odd jobs across six states. A vivid and striking tour of wage labor in America, this book is perfect reading for anyone who has raced against the tick of a time clock.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.00 (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

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in American Studies 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 $5.95 (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 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 $4.95 (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 How the States Got Their Shapes by Mark Stein Publisher Comments Why does Oklahoma have that panhandle? Did someone make a mistake? We are so familiar with the map of the United States that our state borders seem as much a part of nature as mountains and rivers. Even the oddities — the entire state of Maryland(!)... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fist Stick Knife Gun by Geoffrey Canada Publisher Comments A classic coming-of-age memoir that examines urban youth violence and its causes Long before U.S. News and World Report named him one of America's Best Leaders and Oprah Winfrey called him "an angel from God," Geoffrey Canada was a vulnerable, scared... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Way We Really Are: Ending the War Over America's Changing Families by Stephanie Coontz Publisher Comments Stephanie Coontz, the author of The Way We Never Were, now turns her attention to the mythology that surrounds today’s family—the demonizing of “untraditional” family forms and marriage and parenting issues. She argues that while... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $5.96 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Pretensions to Empire: Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administration by Lewis Lapham Publisher Comments A preeminent political essayist writes about the perversion of America's democratic legacy under George W. Bush and makes a compelling case for impeachment.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic: The Aesthetics of Consumerism by Daniel Harris Publisher Comments Call it an encyclopedia of low-brow aesthetics. In Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic, the writer whom Steven Millhauser called "the most original essayist since George Orwell" examines with devastating wit and in a style distinctly his own the contagious... (read more) List Price $16.50 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments A brilliant and insightful work that examines the insecurities of the middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the past two decades, Fear of Falling traces the myths about the middle class to their roots in the ambitions and... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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