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Rereading Sex Rereading Sex
by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

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A lively, scholarly, and often startling exploration of nineteenth-century American attitudes toward sexuality—what we felt, thought, wrote, and said about the human body; about love, lust, intercourse, masturbation, contraception, and abortion... (read more)

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Not Like Us: How Europeans Have Loved, Hated, and Transformed American Culture Since World War II Not Like Us: How Europeans Have Loved, Hated, and Transformed American Culture Since World War II
by Richard Pells

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Debunking the myth of the "Americanization" of Europe, a noted historian presents an authoritative and engrossing cultural history of how America tried to remake Europe in its own image, and how the Europeans successfully retained their identity in the... (read more)

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Chiva: A Village Takes on the Global Heroin Trade Chiva: A Village Takes on the Global Heroin Trade
by Chellis Glendinning

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Compelling, disturbing, yet hopeful, "Chiva" is both personal and political, revealing the relationship between colonization and drug abuse, and the importance of reclaiming sustainable culture as a key to recovery.... (read more)

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American Rhapsody American Rhapsody
by Joe Eszterhas

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The setting . . . Washington, Hollywood, and the landscape of the American Republic. The writer . . . Joe Eszterhas, ex-Rolling Stone reporter, National Book Award nominee for Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse, and screenwriter of such blockbusters as Basic... (read more)

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What It Felt Like Living in the American What It Felt Like Living in the American
by Henry Allen

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This treasure of a book gives us a vivid and captivating evocation of the social, cultural, and spiritual tenor of the 20th century, decade by remarkable decade. Each of the ten chapters is a virtual time capsule which reminds, as we plunge headlong into... (read more)

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The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy
by Nicholas Lemann

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What do we know about the history, origin, design, and purpose of the SAT? Who invented it, and why? How did it acquire such a prominent and lasting position in American education? The Big Test reveals the ideas, people, and politics behind a fifty-year... (read more)

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The Greatest Generation Speaks: Letters and Reflections The Greatest Generation Speaks: Letters and Reflections
by Tom Brokaw

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Brokaw wrote the bestselling "The Greatest Generation" and now the subjects have written back. This book of letters and reflections allows members of the World War II generation and their families to speak for themselves.... (read more)

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How to Stop Time: Herion from A to Z How to Stop Time: Herion from A to Z
by Ann Marlowe

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How to Stop Time is an important contemporary contribution to the classic accounts of the seductive attractions and dangerous distractions of drug use. In this hypnotic and piercingly intelligent chronicle, Ann Marlowe dissects her former heroin habit... (read more)

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Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank and Lewis Mumford (Cultural Studies of the United States) Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank and Lewis Mumford (Cultural Studies of the United States)
by Casey N Blake

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The "Young American" critics--Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford--are well known as central figures in the Greenwich Village "Little Renaissance" of the 1910s and in the postwar debates about American culture and politics... (read more)

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American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century (Politics and Culture in Modern America) American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century (Politics and Culture in Modern America)
by Nelson Lichtenstein

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""American Capitalism" is an important contribution to our understanding of postwar American thought and culture. It will force historians to revise their pantheon of important thinkers for the period."--George Cotkin, author of "Existential America"... (read more)

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Poisoned Nation: Pollution, Greed, and the Rise of Deadly Epidemics Poisoned Nation: Pollution, Greed, and the Rise of Deadly Epidemics
by Lore Schwartz Nobel

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Poisoned Nation Reveals: - Americans are being denied urgent health information about the poisoning of our water, food, air, everyday products, and vaccines for the short-term profit of a reckless few. - The blood of every baby born today is already... (read more)

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Heartless Immensity: Literature, Culture, and Geography in Antebellum America Heartless Immensity: Literature, Culture, and Geography in Antebellum America
by Anne Baker

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As the size of the United States more than doubled during the first half of the nineteenth century, a powerful current of anxiety ran alongside the well-documented optimism about national expansion. Heartless Immensity tells the story of how Americans... (read more)

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Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas
by Hal Rothman

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This collection brings intellectual analysis, political and socioeconomic awareness, and top-quality photographs to bear on the ever-fascinating Las Vegas, one of the most talked about and visited cities in the United States.... (read more)

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Change Your Brain Change Your Brain
by Timothy Leary

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This book tells the inside story of Leary's early LSD research at Harvard. Known throughout the world as the guru who encouraged an entire generation to "turn on, tune in, and drop out," he draws on wit, humor, and skepticism to debunk the power of... (read more)

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From the Palmer Raids to the PATRIOT Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America From the Palmer Raids to the PATRIOT Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America
by Christopher M. Finan

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After Upton Sinclair, famed author of The Jungle, was arrested for reading the First Amendment on Liberty Hill in 1923, The Nation commented: "When we contemplate the antics of the chief of police of Los Angeles, we are deterred from characterizing... (read more)

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Intimate Strangers: The Culture of Celebrity in America Intimate Strangers: The Culture of Celebrity in America
by Richard Schickel

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In explaining the power of celebrity in modern life, Richard Schickel ranges through every realm of our culture--film, theatre, television, literature, art, the media, pop music, politics--for examples of how celebrity shapes our world and bends our... (read more)

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Death of Innocents : Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions (05 Edition) Death of Innocents : Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions (05 Edition)
by Helen Prejean

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Sister Helen Prejean was a little-known Roman Catholic nun from Louisiana when in 1993, her first book Dead Man Walking, challenged the way we look at the death penalty in America. It became a #1 New York Times bestseller and was nominated for the... (read more)

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Drug Use Policy & Management 2ND Edition Drug Use Policy & Management 2ND Edition
by Richard Isralowitz

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This new edition provides an up-to-date examination of the key issues of the drug problem, including cigarettes, heroin, alcohol, cocaine, and marijuana. It offers a current review of definitions of drug use and dependence, the latest developments... (read more)

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Ashes To Ashes Ashes To Ashes
by Richard Kluger

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A monumental history of the controversial American tobacco industry, centering on one of its principal components--Phillip Morris--this book tells the story of the cigarette--modern society's most widespread instrument of self-destruction and most... (read more)

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Violence in America Violence in America
by Arnold Goldstein

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Addresses America's most pressing social problem.... (read more)

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