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On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (and Always Have) in the Future Tense
by David Brooks
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Americans are the inheritors of a sense of limitless possibilities raised to think in the future tense. The author takes a serious and comic look at this future-mindedness that shapes personalities and underlies beliefs.... ( read more)
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Affluenza the All-consuming Epidemic 2ND Edition
by John De Graaf
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Based on two highly acclaimed PBS documentaries watched by 10 million viewers, Affluenza uses the whimsical metaphor of a disease to tackle a very serious subject: the damage done ? to our health, our families, our communities, and our environment ? by... ( read more)
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E, the Incredibly Strange History of Ecstasy
by Tim Pilcher
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Disco biscuits, happy pills, doves, wobbly eggs, burgers, X, Adam, e, ecstasy-however you refer to it, MDMA (3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine) has been a life-changing force, for both good and bad, in millions of people’s lives. Not since LSD and... ( read more)
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Tongue First: Adventures in Physical Culture
by Emily Jenkins
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A smart, humorous exploration of bodily thrills and paranoia from aerobics to acupuncture, strip shows to sensory deprivation. Your perception of your body will change when you read this book. You will be pulling on your boxer shorts or your black lace... ( read more)
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Theater of War: In Which the Republic Becomes an Empire
by Lewis Lapham
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In the months since the destruction of the World Trade Centers, voices of dissent have been rare. Lapham, the editor of "Harper's," is an exception as he questions the motive and feasibility of the Bush administration's crusade against the evildoers.... ( read more)
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American Nerd: The Story of My People
by Benjamin Nugent
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Most people know a nerd when they see one but can't define just what a nerd is. American Nerd: The Story of My People gives us the history of the concept of nerdiness and of the subcultures we consider nerdy. What makes Dr. Frankenstein the archetypal... ( read more)
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The Greatest Generation
by Tom Brokaw
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"In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of Europe that marked the beginning of the end of Adolf Hitler's Third... ( read more)
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Jeans: A Cultural History of an American Icon
by James Sullivan
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Subtitled, "A Cultural History Of An American Icon". The story of the world's best-loved garment, from its humble beginnings to current star status.... ( read more)
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Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster
by Dana Thomas
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Thomas, the style and cultural reporter for "Newsweek," takes a hard-hitting look at the world of new luxury, and argues that globalization and corporate greed have ensured that old-time manufacturing has bowed to sweatshops and wild profits to produce... ( read more)
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Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America
by Dan Savage
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Dan Savage is irreverent, irrepressible, and opinionated. He's held his own on Politically Incorrect, told tales on This American Life, continues to write a beloved nationally syndicated column-and he's had it up to here (my hand is higher than my head... ( read more)
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Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Box Car Bertha
by Bertha Thompson as told to Ben L. Reitman
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Another raging slab of real American history you're not likely to find in the textbooks. This is second title in the new (and best-selling!) Nabat series that debuted with Jack Black's You Can't Win. It's a window into a wildly under-appreciated dropout... ( read more)
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American Foundations: An Investigative History
by Mark Dowie
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In American Foundations, Mark Dowie argues that organized philanthropy is on the verge of an evolutionary shift that will transform America's nearly 50,000 foundations from covert arbiters of knowledge and culture to overt mediators of public policy and... ( read more)
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The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s
by Lynn Dumenil
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When most of us take a backward glance at the 1920s, we may think of prohibition and the jazz age, of movies stars and flappers, of Harold Lloyd and Mary Pickford, of Lindbergh and Hoover--and of Black Friday, October 29, 1929, when the plunging stock... ( read more)
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Counterculture Reader : a Longman Topics Reader (04 Edition)
by E.a. Swingrover
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The Counterculture Reader provides a fascinating look at American culture in the 60's. This brief collection of readings presents an engaging and informed overview of the counterculture movement, challenging students to understand “what happened... ( read more)
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Anarchy, Protest & Rebellion: And the Counterculture That Changed America
by Fred Mcdarrah
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-371) and index.... ( read more)
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A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard
by Paul Bowles
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"Paul Bowles, author of the magisterial novel The Sheltering Sky, was also
a master of the short story. This book, A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard,
demonstrates that fact succinctly, using hashish as a means of delivering
bizarre, dreamlike tales of... ( read more)
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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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Stopping Power: Why 70 Million Americans Own Guns
by J Neil Schulman
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Did you know that every 13 seconds one of America's 70 million gun owners uses a firearm in defense against a criminal? That American women use handguns 416 times a day in defense against rapists, which is a dozen times more often than rapists use a gun?... ( read more)
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Toxic Sludge Is Good for You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry
by John Stauber
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Common Courage's number one seller blows the lid off of today's multi-billion-dollar propaganda-for-hire PR industry, revealing how public relations wizards concoct and spin the news, organize phony "grassroots" front groups, spy on citizens and conspire... ( read more)
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Step Right Up (Performance Studies)
by Brooks Mcnamara
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The immensely entertaining history of the rise and fall of an American institution, the medicine show... ( read more)
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