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Generation RX: How Prescription Drugs Are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies Generation RX: How Prescription Drugs Are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies
by Greg Critser

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Greg Critser's brilliantly incisive Generation Rx moves the conversation about prescription drugs to where it hits home: our own bodies. How, he asks, has "big pharma" created a nation of pharmaceutical tribes, each with its own unique beliefs, taboos... (read more)

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One Nation Under Guns: An Essay on an American Epidemic (Speaker's Corner) One Nation Under Guns: An Essay on an American Epidemic (Speaker's Corner)
by Arnold Grossman

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The United States holds the dubious distinction of experiencing more civilian gun deaths than any industrialized nation on earth?nearly 30,000 per year. While a majority of Americans favor far more restrictive gun laws than currently exist, efforts to... (read more)

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Chic Ironic Bitterness Chic Ironic Bitterness
by R Jay Magill

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A brilliant and timely reflection on irony in contemporary American culture “This book is a powerful and persuasive defense of sophisticated irony and subtle humor that contributes to the possibility of a genuine civic trust and democratic... (read more)

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For & Against Series #0001: Drug Legalization For & Against Series #0001: Drug Legalization
by Rod L Evans

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Should drugs be legalized? This collection gives both sides of the argument, with 24 selected articles by 23 well-known participants in the great debate. All the relevant issues are covered, including: comparisons with legal drugs like alcohol, caffeine,... (read more)

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Paths to Success: Beating the Odds in American Society Paths to Success: Beating the Odds in American Society
by Charles Harrington

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Who would have thought that Joycelyn Elders, born into a family that chopped cotton and trapped raccoons to survive, would grow up to be Surgeon General of the United States? Or that Clarence Thomas, brought up by his barely literate grandfather, would... (read more)

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Inventing Modern: Growing Up with X-Rays, Skycrapers, and Tailfins Inventing Modern: Growing Up with X-Rays, Skycrapers, and Tailfins
by John H Lienhard

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-283) and index.... (read more)

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Peace: The Biography of a Symbol Peace: The Biography of a Symbol
by Ken Kolsbun and Michael S. Sweeney

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As the boomer generation moves onward through the milestones of life, 1960s nostalgia holds tremendous meaning today. And nothing more eloquently symbolizes the counterculture era than the peace sign. How did this simple sketch become so powerful an... (read more)

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The Commercialization of American Culture: New Advertising, Control, and Democracy The Commercialization of American Culture: New Advertising, Control, and Democracy
by Matthew Mcallister

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Advertising in the United States has infiltrated virtually every aspect of life from classroom television through supermarket check-out lanes to doctors' surgeries. The advertising industry is constantly seeking new consumer avenues, the most recent... (read more)

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Popular Modernity in America: Experience, Technology, Mythohistory (Suny Series, Postmodern Culture) Popular Modernity in America: Experience, Technology, Mythohistory (Suny Series, Postmodern Culture)
by Michael T Carroll

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Does technology alter our ways of being in and perceiving the world, or does it merely serve as a conduit for predetermined patterns of culture? In addressing this question, Popular Modernity in America examines a broad range of related cultural and... (read more)

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Postethnic America Beyond Multiculturali Postethnic America Beyond Multiculturali
by David A Hollinger

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Sympathetic with the new ethnic consciousness, Hollinger argues that the conventional liberal toleration of all established ethnic groups no longer works because it leaves unchallenged the prevailing imbalance of power. Yet the multiculturalist... (read more)

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Altered State, Updated Edition: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House Altered State, Updated Edition: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House
by Matthew Collin

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"Altered States" tracks the development of Ecstasy culture, from its roots in the psychedelic underground and gay disco movements in America in the '70s to the ultimate creation of a mass drug culture in '90s Britain.... (read more)

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Stork Club: America's Most Famous Nightspot and the Lost World of Cafe Society Stork Club: America's Most Famous Nightspot and the Lost World of Cafe Society
by Ralph Blumenthal

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The definitive account — with guns, diamonds, and champagne that never stops — of the extraordinary world of the Stork Club and of the ex-bootlegger who ruled it with a velvet fist. From the Roaring Twenties to the chaotic sixties, Sherman... (read more)

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Street Trends: How Today's Alternative Youth Cultures Are Creating Tomorrow's Mainstream Street Trends: How Today's Alternative Youth Cultures Are Creating Tomorrow's Mainstream
by Janine Lopiano Misdom

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Sputnik is a marketing research firm that interviews and videotapes members of alternative youth cultures in order to identify trends before they reach mainstream youth. The authors describe several microcultures identified by Sputnik, making frequent... (read more)

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66 Frames 66 Frames
by Gordon Ball

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"This book made me want to take acid and have sex with lots of people. It also made me want to stay up all night in the company of my genius friends in the mid-sixties in New York's Lower East Side." -- Andrei Codrescu<P>Part hip expose of the New... (read more)

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Celebrity Worshippers: Inside the Minds of Stargazers Celebrity Worshippers: Inside the Minds of Stargazers
by Lynn E Mccutcheon

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Celebrities are treated like modern religious icons within our media - and entertainment-saturated society. Why? This unprecedented book examines the historical, psychological, and sociological roots of our culture's fascination with famous personalities.... (read more)

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Sham: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless Sham: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless
by Steve Salerno

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Self-help: To millions of Americans it seems like a godsend. To many others it seems like a joke. But as investigative reporter Steve Salerno reveals in this groundbreaking book, it’s neither—in fact it’s much worse than a joke. Going... (read more)

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Long Time Gone: Sixties America Then and Now (Viewpoints on American Culture) Long Time Gone: Sixties America Then and Now (Viewpoints on American Culture)
by Alexander Bloom

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With remarkable speed, the Sixties have gone from lived history to mythology. They remain alive in our culture in a manner different from any previous era. At the dawn of a new century, we are still debating the issues that emerged during that decade... (read more)

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Hip: The History (P.S.) Hip: The History (P.S.)
by John Leland

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Hip: The History is the story of how American pop culture has evolved throughout the twentieth century to its current position as world cultural touchstone. How did hip become such an obsession? From sex and music to fashion and commerce, John Leland... (read more)

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Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games
by Edward Castronova

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From EverQuest to World of Warcraft, online games have evolved from the exclusive domain of computer geeks into an extraordinarily lucrative staple of the entertainment industry. People of all ages and from all walks of life now spend thousands of hours&#... (read more)

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Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
by Elaine Tyler May

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In the 1950s, the term "containment" referred to the foreign policy-driven containment of Communism and atomic proliferation. Yet in Homeward Bound May demonstrates that there was also a domestic version of containment where the "sphere of influence" was... (read more)

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