|
There are 780 books in this aisle.
Browse the aisle by Title | by Author | by Price
See recently arrived used books in this aisle.
Featured Titles in American Studies - Used Books
Page 15 of 39 next
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 $16.95
Your price: $10.95
Used - Trade Paper
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: $14.95
Used - Hardcover
Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture
by Juliet B. Schor
Publisher Comments
Ads aimed at kids are virtually everywhere — in classrooms and textbooks, on the Internet, even at slumber parties and the playground. Product placement and other innovations have introduced more subtle advertising to movies and television... ( read more)
List Price $25.00
Your price: $7.95
Used - Hardcover
Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank
by Robert W Fuller
Publisher Comments
A historical survey of abuse based on power differences, with a discussion of how we may overcome this outmoded and destructive social mechanism.... ( read more)
List Price $16.95
Your price: $5.95
Used - Trade Paper
In Praise of Decadence
by Jeff Riggenbach
Publisher Comments
With a delightfully refreshing libertarian sense of the political right and left, Riggenbach exposes the myths and misinterpretations surrounding anarchism, liberalism, populism, and conservatism, as well as the term "decadence", which so many have used... ( read more)
List Price $28.00
Your price: $4.40
Used - Hardcover
Hip: The History
by John Leland
Powells.com Staff Pick
"When all is said and done, Hip: The History is not concerned with passing fads. The transient notions of hip that have passed through history still leave their cultural fingerprints on society today....While it's impossible to say what will be hip in... ( read more)
List Price $27.50
Your price: $8.95
Used - Hardcover
US Guys: The True and Twisted Mind of the American Man
by Charlie Leduff
Publisher Comments
The New York Times's most intrepid itinerant takes the measure of American manhood on a road trip like no other Charlie LeDuff has made a career out of his extraordinary ability to capture the spirit of the people and places he profiles. US Guys is his... ( read more)
List Price $15.00
Your price: $10.50
Used - Trade Paper
Love to Hate: America's Obsession with Hatred and Violence
by Jody M Roy
Publisher Comments
Roy explains the culture of violence and hate in America.... ( read more)
List Price $35.95
Your price: $9.95
Used - Trade Paper
Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State
by Norman Solomon
Publisher Comments
Like the rest of the Baby-Boom Generation, author and activist Norman Solomon, grew up in a nation of dazzling progress and ominous shadows. In Made Love, Got War he traces five decades of American politics and culture to dramatize a set of disturbing... ( read more)
List Price $24.95
Your price: $16.95
Used - Hardcover
An Album of Memories: Personal Histories from World War II
by Tom Brokaw
Publisher Comments
A seventeen-year-old who enlisted in the army in 1941 writes to describe the Bataan Death March. Other members of the greatest generation describe their war — in such historic episodes as Guadalcanal, the D-Day invasion, the Battle of the Bulge... ( read more)
List Price $29.95
Your price: $2.49
Used - Hardcover
The Dream Life: Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the Sixties
by J Hoberman
Publisher Comments
In what the New York Times's A. O. Scott called a "suave, scholarly tour de force," J. Hoberman delivers a brilliant and witty look at the decade when politics and pop culture became one. This was the era of the Missile Gap and the Space Race, the Black... ( read more)
List Price $19.95
Your price: $11.25
Used - Trade Paper
A Visionary Nation: Four Centuries of American Dreams and What Lies Ahead
by Zachary Karabell
Publisher Comments
America is a nation based on an idea. For nearly four centuries, Americans have shared the conviction that a perfect world is within reach. Running through our history is the presumption that we can have it all. In A Visionary Nation, Zachary Karabell... ( read more)
List Price $26.00
Your price: $9.95
Used - Hardcover
A Matrix of Meanings
by Craig Detweiler
Publisher Comments
A candid, often humorous look at how to find truth in music, movies, television, and other aspects of pop culture. Includes photos, artwork, and sidebars.... ( read more)
List Price $22.99
Your price: $8.50
Used - Trade Paper
Ceremonial Chemistry Rev Edition Ritual Perse
by Thomas Szasz
Publisher Comments
Thomas Szasz suggests that governments have overstepped their bounds in labeling and prohibiting certain drugs as "dangerous" substances and incarcerating drug "addicts" in order to cure them. Szasz asserts that such policies scapegoat illegal drugs and... ( read more)
List Price $19.95
Your price: $6.95
Used - Trade Paper
Flatlining on the Field of Dreams: Cultural Narratives in the Films of President Reagan's America
by Alan Nadel
Publisher Comments
Flatlining on the Field of Dreams demonstrates, with witty prose and careful analysis, how the overindulgent, image-conscious years of the Reagan administration are reflected in sundry aspects of American films produced during that era. Discussing dozens... ( read more)
List Price $30.50
Your price: $5.13
Used - Trade Paper
The Art of Democracy: A Concise History of Popular Culture in the United States
by Jim Cullen
Publisher Comments
"An exceptionally well-written and engrossing introduction to the nonelitist art forms of American popular culture."<BR>"--Library Journal" (starred review)... ( read more)
List Price $32.50
Your price: $4.95
Used - Trade Paper
The Seventies Now
by Stephen Paul Miller
Publisher Comments
"Miller shows why and how we need to think comprehensively about the seventies--now. Interdisciplinary wit and a bold intelligence bring together poetry, painting, politics, and popular culture in a broad survey that is provocative, engaging, and timely... ( read more)
List Price $29.95
Your price: $7.95
Used - Trade Paper
My Love Affair with America: The Cautionary Tale of a Cheerful Conservative
by Norman Podhoretz
Publisher Comments
In a moving and witty memoir, Podhoretz shows his style as a natural-born storyteller with a sure sense of character and anecdote and the ability to construct a compelling narrative that opens a window onto an exemplary American life.... ( read more)
List Price $16.95
Your price: $5.95
Used - Trade Paper
Guns, Crime and Freedom
by Wayne Lapierre
Publisher Comments
A definitive manual for taking part in the political debate, and preserving your right to keep and bear arms. --Tom Clancy A New York Times Best Seller.... ( read more)
List Price $22.95
Your price: $9.95
Used - Hardcover
The War in American Culture: Society and Consciousness During World War II
by Lewis A Erenberg
Publisher Comments
The War in American Culture explores the role of World War II in the transformation of American social, cultural, and political life. World War II posed a crisis for American culture: to defeat the enemy, Americans had to unite across the class, racial... ( read more)
List Price $21.00
Your price: $14.95
Used - Trade Paper
 |
see more featured titles
|  |
|
Don't Miss