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Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together by Ron Hall and Denver Moore and Lynn Wincent Publisher Comments A dangerous, homeless drifter who grew up picking cotton in virtual slavery.An upscale art dealer accustomed to the worldof Armani and Chanel.A gutsy woman with a stubborn dream.A story so incredible no novelist would dare dream it. It begins outside a... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls Publisher Comments “Nothing short of spectacular” (Entertainment Weekly), The Glass Castle is the bestselling, critically acclaimed, highly publicized, and celebrated memoir by Jeannette Walls.Millions of readers have been transformed by Jeannette Walls’s... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson Publisher Comments A wide variety of extremist groups -- Islamic fundamentalists, neo-Nazis -- share the oddly similar belief that a tiny shadowy elite rule the world from a secret room. In Them, journalist Jon Ronson has joined the extremists to track down the fabled... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Childhood in America by Paula Fass Publisher Comments This is a very interesting collection of topics that centers on critical methodologies and the central problems of medieval alterity.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States by Helen Prejean Publisher Comments In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana's Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier's death, the Roman... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis Publisher Comments To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To its detractors, it is "The Big Nowhere." No one has better captured L.A.'s bizarre role as both utopia and dystopia than Davis, the author of this mordantly elegant and wide-ranging work... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life by Neil Strauss Publisher Comments Terrorist attacks. Natural disasters. Domestic crackdowns. Economic collapse. Riots. Wars. Disease. Starvation. What can you do when it all hits the fan? You can learn to be self-sufficient and survive without the system. "I've started to... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free by Charles P Pierce Publisher Comments The Culture Wars Are Over and the Idiots Have Won A veteran journalist's acidically funny, righteously angry lament about the glorification of ignorance in the United States. In the midst of a career-long quest to separate the smart from the pap, Charles... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Grandmothers Counsel the World: Women Elders Offer Their Vision for Our Planet by Carol Schaefer Publisher Comments In 2004, grandmothers representing 13 indigenous peoples from five continents gathered for an unprecedented meeting in the United States, where they discussed the major challenges facing the world and shared their tribes' wisdom on how best to move... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Americans are a "positive" people -- cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: This is our reputation as well as our self-image. But more than a temperament, being positive is the key to getting success and prosperity. Or so we are... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover add to wish list |
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The Moral Dimension: Toward a New Economics by A Etzioni Publisher Comments Bibliography: p. 259-300.... (read more) List Price $21.25 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Home Grown: Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico's War on Drugs by Isaac Campos Costero Publisher Comments Historian Isaac Campos combines wide-ranging archival research with the latest scholarship on the social and cultural dimensions of drug-related behavior in this telling of marijuana's remarkable history in Mexico. Introduced in the sixteenth century by... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $22.00 Used - Hardcover add to wish list |
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The Sociology of War and Violence by Sinisa Malesevic Publisher Comments War is a highly complex and dynamic form of social conflict. This new book demonstrates the importance of using sociological tools to understand the changing character of war and organised violence. The author offers an original analysis of the... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell Publisher Comments Sarah Vowell travels through the American past and, in doing so, investigates the dusty, bumpy roads of her own life. In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell -- widely hailed for her inimitable stories on public radio's This... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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California Series in Public Anthropology #21: Righteous Dopefiend by Philippe Bourgois Publisher Comments This powerful study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. For over a decade Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg followed a social network of two dozen heroin injectors and crack smokers on... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers by Alissa Quart Publisher Comments Generation Y has grown up in an age of the brand, bombarded by name products. In Branded, Alissa Quart illuminates the unsettling new reality of marketing to teenagers, as well as the quieter but no less worrisome forms of teen branding: the teen... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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City Life by Witold Rybczynski Publisher Comments In this sweeping cultural history, the author of Home and The Most Beautiful House in the World traces the development of American cities and city life from the early colonial settlements to the new downtowns of skyscrapers and high-rise apartment... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Party of One: The Loner's Manifesto by Anneli Rufus Publisher Comments The Buddha. Rene Descartes. Emily Dickinson. Greta Garbo. Bobby Fischer. J. D. Salinger: Loners, all—along with as many as 25 percent of the world's population. Loners keep to themselves, and like it that way. Yet in the press, in films, in folklore,... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman Staff Pick Klosterman understands your life. Intimately. Through this seemingly meandering and always hilarious critique of modern pop culture, he exposes how unlikely cultural minutiae make our society tick and dictate how we live our lives.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Sprawl, Justice and Citizenship (10 Edition) by Thad Williamson Publisher Comments Must the strip mall and the eight-lane highway define 21st century American life? That is a central question posed by critics of suburban and exurban living in America. Yet despite the ubiquity of the critique, it never sticks-Americans by the scores of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $19.00 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |