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Crack in America: Demon Drugs and Social Justice Crack in America: Demon Drugs and Social Justice
by Craig Reinarman

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Crack in America is the definitive book on crack cocaine. In reinterpreting the crack story, it offers new understandings of both drug addiction and drug prohibition. It shows how crack use arose in the face of growing unemployment, poverty, racism, and... (read more)

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What's Love Got to Do with It?: A Critical Look at American Charity What's Love Got to Do with It?: A Critical Look at American Charity
by David Wagner

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Now available in paperback, What's Love Got to Do with It? is an insightful debunking of the way charitable giving disguises American neglect of the public welfare. Award-winning Professor of Social Work and Sociology David Wagner points out that while... (read more)

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The Real Toy Story: Inside the Ruthless Battle for America's Youngest Consumers The Real Toy Story: Inside the Ruthless Battle for America's Youngest Consumers
by Eric Clark

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In the tradition of "Fast Food Nation" comes the inside story of toys and the industry that makes them. Tapping into the concerns millions of adults have about the toys they choose for the children in their lives, this riveting expos is essential reading... (read more)

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The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived: How Characters of Fiction, Myth, Legends, Television, and Movies Have Shaped Our Society, Changed Our The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived: How Characters of Fiction, Myth, Legends, Television, and Movies Have Shaped Our Society, Changed Our
by Dan Karlan and Allan Lazar and Jeremy Salter

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From Santa Claus to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, from Uncle Sam to Uncle Tom, here is a compelling, eye-opening, and endlessly entertaining compendium of fictional trendsetters and world-shakers who have helped shape our culture and our lives. The 101 Most... (read more)

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This Is Cannabis This Is Cannabis
by Nick Brownlee

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Without preaching about the benefits or drawbacks of marijuana, "This is Cannabis provides straightforward facts about its 4,700 years of cultivation for fiber, food, and medicine; the current debate as to its therapeutic potential; the vast underground... (read more)

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Your Call Is Important to Us: The Truth about Bullshit Your Call Is Important to Us: The Truth about Bullshit
by Laura Penny

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Taking no prisoners, the author disembowels the culture of globalized, super-sized, consumerized b.s. She skewers the "corporate bafflegab," scripted, question-proof political events, toxic faux foodstuffs, and miracle pills, sparing no one and nothing.... (read more)

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What's So Great about America What's So Great about America
by Dinesh D'Souza

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Dinesh D'Souza explains what is so great about America--and why that greatness inspires critics and even terrorism.... (read more)

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Discovering America: Essays on the Search for an Identity Discovering America: Essays on the Search for an Identity
by David Thelen

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The idea of discovery has frequently shaped the way Americans think about         themselves and their history. The process neither began nor ended with         Columbus. As the... (read more)

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What Were Your Parents Doing Back Then What Were Your Parents Doing Back Then
by Jeremiah Lowney

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Lowney presents the results of numerous nonparticipant observation research studies he conducted among youth in Southern California from 1970 to the late 1990s. Tracking the use of drugs and its effects on family relationships (and vice versa), he... (read more)

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The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager
by Thomas Hine

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Teenagers occupy a special place in American life. They are envied and sold to, studied and deplored. They seem to be growing up too fast, and always immature. They are barbarians at the gate-and our only hope for a better world. What, then, is this... (read more)

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Steppin' Out: New York Nightlife and the Transformation of American Culture Steppin' Out: New York Nightlife and the Transformation of American Culture
by Lewis A Erenberg

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The evolution of New York nightlife from the Gay Nineties through the Jazz Age was, as Lewis A. Erenberg shows, both symbol and catalyst of America's transition out of the Victorian period. Cabaret culture led the way to new styles of behavior and... (read more)

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1973 Nervous Breakdown: Watergate, Warhol, and the Birth of Post-Sixties America 1973 Nervous Breakdown: Watergate, Warhol, and the Birth of Post-Sixties America
by Andreas Killen

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An engaging and eye-opening dissection of a watershed year in American history. Tumultuous and exciting, 1973 marked the end of the 1960s and the birth of a new cultural sensibility. A year of shattering political crisis, 1973 was defined by defeat... (read more)

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The Middling Sorts: Explorations in the History of the American Middle Class The Middling Sorts: Explorations in the History of the American Middle Class
by Burton Bledstein

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According to our national myth, all Americans are "middle class," but rarely has such a widely-used term been so poorly defined. Do we identify the middle class by a house in the suburbs, a white collar job, or a political outlook that is right-of-center?... (read more)

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Holy Day, Holiday: The American Sunday Holy Day, Holiday: The American Sunday
by Alexis Mccrossen

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Whether observed as a day for rest or for time-and-a-half, Sunday has always been a day apart in the American week. Supplementing wide-ranging historical research with the reflections and experiences of ordinary individuals, Alexis McCrossen traces... (read more)

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Drugs in America: A Documentary History Drugs in America: A Documentary History
by David F Musto

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"Anyone with an interest in social history will find this book fascinating. . . . A valuable resource and an interesting read." — Drugs and Alcohol Review "The sermons, speeches, medical arguments, and policy papers gathered here adequately convey... (read more)

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American: Beyond Our Grandest Notions American: Beyond Our Grandest Notions
by Christopher Matthews

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From Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC's Hardball and NBC's The Chris Matthews Show, and New York Times bestselling author of Now, Let Me Tell You What I Really Think, comes a definitive work on the lifeblood of America -- its enduring spirit. People have... (read more)

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Home: The Blueprints of Our Lives Home: The Blueprints of Our Lives
by John Edwards

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A popular former senator and 2004 vice presidential candidate presents an inspiring mosaic of how childhood homes and communities shape a person's adult life, in a collection of narratives by such figures as Stephen Spielberg, John Glenn, and Sugar Ray... (read more)

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The Big Vote: Gender, Citizenship, and the Politics of Exclusion, 1890s-1920s (Reconfiguring American Political History) The Big Vote: Gender, Citizenship, and the Politics of Exclusion, 1890s-1920s (Reconfiguring American Political History)
by Liette Patri Gidlow

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Low voter turnout is a serious problem in American politics today, but it is not a new one. Its roots lay in the 1920s when, for the first time in nearly a century, a majority of eligible Americans did not bother to cast ballots in a presidential... (read more)

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American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century
by Christine Stansell

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A brilliant account of the American bohemians whose experiments in living, writing, and loving created the modern world and made New York its capital. In the early years of the twentieth century, an exuberant band of talented individualists living in a... (read more)

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God in the Details: American Religion in Popular Culture God in the Details: American Religion in Popular Culture
by Eric Michael Mazur

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Seeking to explore the blurred boundary between religion and pop culture, God in the Details offers a provocative look at the breadth, diversity, and persistence of religious themes in contemporary American consciousness. Representing a diverse range of... (read more)

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