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Cigarettes: Anatomy of an Industry from Seed to Smoke Cigarettes: Anatomy of an Industry from Seed to Smoke
by Tara Parker Pope

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-172) and index.... (read more)

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The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession
by Virginia Jenkins

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Lawns now blanket thirty million acres of the United States, but until the late nineteenth century few Americans had any desire for a front lawn, much less access to seeds for growing one. In her comprehensive history of this uniquely American obsession,... (read more)

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Primitive America: The Ideology of Capitalist Democracy Primitive America: The Ideology of Capitalist Democracy
by Paul Smith

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One of the most confounding aspects of American society—the one that perhaps most frequently perplexes observers both domestic and foreign—is the vast contradiction between what anthropologists might term the “hot” and “cold&... (read more)

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The Jobless Future: Sci-Tech and the Dogma of Work The Jobless Future: Sci-Tech and the Dogma of Work
by Stanley Aronowitz

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This widely reviewed and highly successful book examines the job market of tomorrow. Aronowitz and DiFazio take you behind the headlines to challenge the idea that a high-tech economy will provide high-paying jobs for all who want them.... (read more)

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Sixties Going on Seventies (Perspectives on the Sixties) Sixties Going on Seventies (Perspectives on the Sixties)
by Nora Sayre

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Now back in print, this revised edition contains the best of the original volume and brings the commentary up to date, allowing us to view the period with hindsight from the nineties. Nora Sayre guides us through our nation's transformation during an... (read more)

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Marijuana and the Workplace: Interpreting Research on Complex Social Issues Marijuana and the Workplace: Interpreting Research on Complex Social Issues
by Charles R Schwenk

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The effect of marijuana on job performance has been widely accepted as harmful--but is it? Congress thought so, and in 1988, used productivity losses which it attributed to marijuana and other drugs to justify passage of legislation initiating a mandate... (read more)

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A is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States A is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States
by Jill Lepore

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Community and Social Change in America Community and Social Change in America
by Thomas Bender

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Did urbanization kill communities in the 19th century, or even earlier? Many historians proclaim that it did, but author Bender says otherwise. Here he argues that community survived the trials of industrialization and urbanization and remains a... (read more)

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Rejuvenile: Kickball, Cartoons, Cupcakes, and the Reinvention of the American Grown-Up Rejuvenile: Kickball, Cartoons, Cupcakes, and the Reinvention of the American Grown-Up
by Christopher Noxon

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Once upon a time, boys and girls grew up and set aside childish things. Nowadays, moms and dads skateboard alongside their kids and download the latest pop-song ringtones. Captains of industry pose for the cover of BusinessWeek holding Super Soakers. The... (read more)

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The Mauve Decade: American Life at the End of the Nineteenth Century The Mauve Decade: American Life at the End of the Nineteenth Century
by Thomas Beer

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Laced with witty anecdotes and sparkling epigrams, Beer's remarkable cultural history encompasses the wild panoply of the Gilded Age's last decade--from high society to the closing of the West--bracketed by Emerson's death and Teddy Roosevelt's... (read more)

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Sinsemilla Technique Sinsemilla Technique
by Kayo

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Information about high potency marijuana strains. Improving quality, cutting and propagation techniques, microclimate gardening and more.... (read more)

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Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life
by Steven Mintz and Susan Kellogg

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The American family has undergone a series of transformations from its socially sanctified role as the center of society to today's private, independent unit. The authors explain just how the family has adapted and endured these changes.... (read more)

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Colossus: How the Corporation Changed America Colossus: How the Corporation Changed America
by Jack Beatty

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Big business has been the lever of big change over time in American life, change in economy, society, politics, and the envelope of existence--in work, mores, language, consciousness, and the pace and bite of time. Such is the pattern revealed by this... (read more)

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Artificial Happiness: The Dark Side of the New Happy Class Artificial Happiness: The Dark Side of the New Happy Class
by Ronald W Dworkin

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Ronald Dworkin, Fellow at the Hudson Institute, has written a book of social commentary that combines the politics of healthcare and medical ethics with several momentous changes that have dramatically altered the relationship among doctors and patients,... (read more)

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Trust Us We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future Trust Us We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future
by Sheldon Rampton

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Trust Us, We're Experts! blows the lid off so-called "third party" experts, hirelings of the corporate elite's who do transnationals' bidding under the guise of independence. Every time you hear "W" say "I want to make policy based on 'sound... (read more)

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Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy
by Lewis H Lapham

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Dissent is democracy. Democracy is in trouble. Never before, argues Lewis Lapham, have voices of protest been so locked out of the mainstream political conversation: they are criminalized, marginalized, and muted by a government that recklessly... (read more)

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Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class
by Barbara Ehrenreich

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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)

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American Silence American Silence
by Zeese Papanikolas

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In American Silence, a complement to his previous study Trickster in the Land of Dreams, Zeese Papanikolas investigates a number of significant American cultural artifacts and the lives of their makers. For Papanikolas, both the private failures and... (read more)

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Abolition of White Democracy Abolition of White Democracy
by Joel Olson

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Racial discrimination embodies inequality, exclusion, and injustice and as such has no place in a democratic society. And yet racial matters pervade nearly every aspect of American life, influencing where we live, what schools we attend, the friends we... (read more)

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Beleaguered Rulers Beleaguered Rulers
by William F Jay

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Social critic May asks professionals--who he calls the leaders of culture in contemporary Western society--to abandon their self-interest pursuits and contribute to the common good. Addressing professionals in eight areas, he asks readers to contribute... (read more)

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