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Disorder and Decline Disorder and Decline
by Wesley G Skogan

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Disorder and Decline documents the relationship between disorder and neighborhood decline, but provides a cogent analysis of the currently favored solutions to problems such as community policing and citizen self help.This book also discusses the... (read more)

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Violence in America: Coping with Drugs, Distressed Families, Inadequate Schooling, and Acts of Hate Violence in America: Coping with Drugs, Distressed Families, Inadequate Schooling, and Acts of Hate
by Raymond B Flannery

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Today's culture of violence affects everyone. Dr. Flannery, a clinical psychologist and author of Preventing Youth Violence--to date the only reliable and substantive book of its kind--as well as four other books for the general reader on stress and its... (read more)

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American Meth: A History of the Methamphetamine Epidemic in America American Meth: A History of the Methamphetamine Epidemic in America
by Sterling R Braswell

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Methamphetamine: the quintessential American drug. American housewives, heads of state, businessmen and poets alike have acquired a taste for the yellow, crystalline powder. Everyone from Hitler to President Kennedy to Elvis to Jack Kerouac indulged in... (read more)

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Neuropolitique: A New Vision of Neuropolitics Neuropolitique: A New Vision of Neuropolitics
by Timothy Franc Leary

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The first version of Neuropolitics was written between 1973 - 1976 when Dr. Leary was in prison. Several chapters were composed during solitary confinement. Leary explores the role of the dissedent/philosopher and offers a multitude of brilliant... (read more)

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Storming Heaven Storming Heaven
by Jay Stevens

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For Aldous Huxley it was the next step in human evolution; for the CIA it was a potential tool for mind control; for Timothy Leary it was the liberator of humankind (a belief that led to his being branded "the most dangerous man in America"); for Ken... (read more)

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Tony Soprano's America Tony Soprano's America
by David Simon

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Hit Man. Family Man. Drug Dealer. Devoted Dad. Meet Tony Soprano--the chilling mob boss and central character of the popular HBO series The Sopranos. To millions of viewers, Tony is the "good guy," the solid provider who commits nearly every crime... (read more)

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100 Years on the Road: The Traveling Salesman in American Culture 100 Years on the Road: The Traveling Salesman in American Culture
by Timothy B Spears

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Vividly illustrated, this lively book presents the first in-depth study of the traveling salesman, illuminating his role in American culture from 1830 to 1920. Drawing on letters, diaries, and autobiographies, as well as on literary works by Crane... (read more)

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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
by Chuck Klosterman

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"Part memoir, part meditation on crappy television, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs is a raucous ride through the cultural wasteland of Generation X. Don't think, though, that this book's obsession with meaningless trivia is worthless. Chuck Klosterman's... (read more)

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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell

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Somewhere along the way to guru-dom, Malcolm Gladwell got tagged as a business writer. Fair enough — The Tipping Point speaks more powerfully to the principles of succesful marketing than any pedestrian semester in the classroom. But while raves... (read more)

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Tipping Point : How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (00 Edition) Tipping Point : How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (00 Edition)
by Malcolm Gladwell

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Somewhere along the way to guru-dom, Malcolm Gladwell got tagged as a business writer. Fair enough — The Tipping Point speaks more powerfully to the principles of succesful marketing than any pedestrian semester in the classroom. But while raves... (read more)

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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
by Tony Horwitz

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When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire... (read more)

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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser

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"What we eat has changed more in the last forty years than in the last forty thousand," Schlosser observes, yet most Americans know very little about how that food is made, where, by whom, and at what cost. Fast Food Nation traces the industry's... (read more)

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Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture
by Marita Sturken

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Ideal for students studying visual culture for the first time, Practices of Looking explores the ways we use and understand images. Truly interdisciplinary, this comprehensive and engaging introduction can be used in courses across a range of disciplines... (read more)

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Gunfighter Nation (98 Edition) Gunfighter Nation (98 Edition)
by Richard Slotkin

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In the third of a three-volume study in the development of the myth of the frontier in US literary, popular, and political culture from the colonial period to the present, Slotkin (English, Wesleyan U.) covers Theodore Roosevelt's and Frederick... (read more)

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Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
by Camille Paglia

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A collection of twenty of Paglia's out-spoken essays on contemporary issues in America's ongoing cultural debate such as Anita Hill, Robert Mapplethorpe, the beauty myth, and the decline of education in America.... (read more)

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Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge-And Why We Must Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge-And Why We Must
by Kalle Lasn

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America is no longer a country but a multimillion-dollar brand, says Kalle Lasn and his fellow "culture jammers". The founder of Adbusters magazine, Lasn aims to stop the branding of America by changing the way information flows; the way institutions... (read more)

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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (P.S.) Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (P.S.)
by Eric Schlosser

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To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar America. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has triggered the homogenization of our society. Fast food has hastened the malling of our... (read more)

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Hop on Pop-PB Hop on Pop-PB
by Henry Jenkins

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Hop on Pop showcases the work of a new generation of scholars--from fields such as media studies, literature, cinema, and cultural studies--whose writing has been informed by their ongoing involvement with popular culture and who draw insight from their... (read more)

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Voodoo Science : the Road From Foolishness To Fraud (00 Edition) Voodoo Science : the Road From Foolishness To Fraud (00 Edition)
by Robert L. Park

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In a time of dazzling scientific progress, how can we separate genuine breakthroughs from the noisy gaggle of false claims? From Deepak Chopra's "quantum alternative to growing old" to unwarranted hype surrounding the International Space Station, Robert... (read more)

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Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter
by Steven Johnson

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Forget everything you've read about the age of dumbed-down, instant-gratification culture. In this provocative, intelligent, and convincing endorsement of today's mass entertainment, national bestselling author Steven Johnson argues that the pop culture... (read more)

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