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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
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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The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America
by Katherine Newman
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This urgent examination of the lives of millions of hardworking Americans--neither poor nor middle class, but who live without a safety net--gives voice to the 57 million Americans who are sandwiched between the poor and middle classes.... ( read more)
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A Shadow in the City: Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior
by Charles Bowden
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Joey O'Shay is not the real name of the narcotics agent in an unnamed city in the center of the country. But Joey O'Shay exists. The nearly three hundred drug busts he has orchestrated over more than two decades are real, too; if the drug war were a... ( read more)
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Diagnosis: Mercury: Money, Politics, and Poison
by Jane Hightower
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One morning in 2000, Dr. Jane Hightower walked into her exam room to find a patient with disturbing symptoms she couldn’t explain. The woman was nauseated, tired, and had difficulty concentrating, but a litany of tests revealed no apparent cause... ( read more)
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Just Say No to Drug Tests: How to Beat the Whiz Quiz
by Ed Carson
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Urinalysis is a blatant violation of human freedom and dignity, and now you can fight back! Ed Carson, who handled drug testing for a large U.S. military base, reveals how the tests are done and how to beat them. He did it successfully for eight years... ( read more)
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The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America
by Susan Faludi
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash — an unflinching dissection of the mind of America after 9/11 In this most original examination of America's post-9/11 culture, Susan Faludi shines a light on the country... ( read more)
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Kidnapped: Child Abduction in America
by Paula Fass
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-308) and index.... ( read more)
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Flash Effect: Science and the Rhetorical Origins of Cold War America
by David J Tietge
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Declaring the American Cold War rhetoric of scientific advancement as
"the new opiate of the masses," Tietge (writing, Monmouth U.)
suggests that American political and cultural institutions used
science as an ordering symbolism of hierarchy that... ( read more)
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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
by Stephanie Coontz
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The Way We Never Were examines two centuries of American family life and shatters a series of myths and half-truths that burden modern families. Placing current family dilemmas in the context of far-reaching economic, political, and demographic changes... ( read more)
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Restless Nation: Starting Over in America
by James M Jasper
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What is it that makes Americans so American? It can't be money: although the United States is the most productive economy in the world, it also has the highest poverty rates. It can't really be faith, either: Americans are the most religious people in... ( read more)
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How Class Works: Power and Social Movement
by Stanley Aronowitz
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-252) and index.... ( read more)
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The Devil in Babylon: Fear of Progress and the Birth of Modern Life
by Allan Levine
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What should the modern world look like? Who should be its leaders? And what values should it embrace? We have never wrestled over these questions more than in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Allan Levine’s newest book chronicles... ( read more)
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Branded for Life: How Americans Are Brainwashed by the Brands We Love
by Howard J Blumenthal
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Written by a senior marketing and media executive, "Branded for Life" makes sense of a world where Wal-Mart is richer than 85% of the nations on earth; where well-informed, obese consumers continue to drink Coke and eat at McDonalds; where rabbis discuss... ( read more)
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Gore Vidal's America
by Dennis Altman
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Gore Vidal is one of the most significant American writers of the second half of the twentieth century, having produced a large number of best selling novels, essays, plays and pamphlets which have impacted on major political and social debates for fifty... ( read more)
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The cocktail :the influence of spirits on the American psyche
by Joseph Lanza
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Combines history, subjective rumination, a dash of the occult, and a
full measure of sardonic humor to expose the cocktail as an American
religious ceremony that has impacted politics, movies, popular songs,
architecture, circadian rhythms, social... ( read more)
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White Weddings 2ND Edition
by Chrys Ingraham
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This is a groundbreaking study of our culture's obsession with weddings. By examining popular films, commercials, magazines, advertising, television sitcoms and even children's toys, this book shows the pervasive influence of weddings in our culture and... ( read more)
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Unprotected: A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in Her Profession Endangers Every Student
by Md Anonymous
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How the PC agenda on college campuses is endangering millions of students Radical social agendas have taken over campus health and counseling, and it's making students sick. Dr Anonymous should know: she's treated over 2000 students at a prestigious... ( read more)
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The Western Pursuit of the American Dream: Selections from the Collection of Kenneth W. Rendell
by Kenneth W Rendell
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The migration of the American people to the West has often been associated with the quest for the American Dream. In The Western Pursuit of the American Dream, Kenneth W. Rendell, renowned dealer in Americana, draws on his extensive collection to tell... ( read more)
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The Last Opium Den
by Nick Tosches
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Nick Tosches trades civilization and its discontents for the possibility of one moment of pure bliss. Driven by romantic, spiritual, and medicinal imperatives, Nick Tosches goes in search of something everyone tells him no longer exists: an opium den... ( read more)
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