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New Arrivals $16.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist Up Against the Wall Motherf**ker: A Memoir of the Sixties with Notes for Next Time Osha Neumann $34.95 Hardcover add to wishlist Seaway to the Future: American Social Visions and the Construction of the Panama Canal (Studies in American Thought and Culture) Alexander Missal $16.00 Trade Paper add to wishlist The Soiling of Old Glory: The Story of a Photograph That Shocked America Louis P. Masur $13.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist America Unzipped: In Search of Sex and Satisfaction Brian Alexander $27.00 Hardcover add to wishlist Banquet at Delmonico's: Great Minds, the Gilded Age, and the Triumph of Evolution in America Barry Werth $45.00 Hardcover add to wishlist Jenny Holzer Joan Simon $16.00 Trade Paper add to wishlist Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping--Updated and Revised for the Internet, the Global Consumer, and Beyond Paco Underhill $27.00 Hardcover add to wishlist Taking Back God: American Women Rising Up for Religious Equality Leora Tanenbaum $34.95 Hardcover add to wishlist The American College Town Blake Gumprecht $9.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist Don't Stop Believin': How Karaoke Conquered the World and Changed My Life Brian Raftery $37.95 Hardcover add to wishlist Race and Culture in the American West #03: Race and the War on Poverty: From Watts to East L.A. Robert Bauman $19.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist The Nation Guide to the Nation (Vintage) Richard Lingeman General The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert Review "Gilbert examines America's ongoing infatuation with the frontier and leaves no stone unturned in her exploration of the cultural landscape of masculinity. Why, she asks, do American men continue to find themselves attracted to the wilderness? And what, precisely, does it mean to be a man in today's world?..." Heather Hewett, The Christian Science Monitor (read more)   Your price $24.95 (New - Hardcover) check for other copies   Sale Books Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak Publisher Comments In 1930 a plucky girl detective stepped out of her shiny blue roadster, dressed in a smart tweed suit, ready to restore a stolen inheritance to its rightful owner. Tied up by the villains, she managed to free herself and bring them to justice - all while... (read more) Your Price $14.00 (New - Trade Paper) Browse more featured Sale titles Used Books Mongo: Adventures in Trash by Ted Botha Publisher Comments Journalist Ted Botha became obsessed with mongo (defined as any discarded object that is retrieved) when he moved to New York. Decorating his apartment with the furniture and objects he found on Manhattan's streets, he soon realized he wasn't the only... (read more) Your Price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) Browse more featured Used titles Sign up to get our most recent used additions in American Studies to your inbox General The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell Powells.com Staff Pick At once a meditation on the motives of the pilgrims and a history of religion in America, The Wordy Shipmates will be a welcome addition to your history shelves. Sarah Vowell brings her usual wry humor and sharp insight to a piece of American history... (read more) Your Price $17.95 Used - Hardcover check for new and sale copies Popular Culture The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell Powells.com Staff Pick 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) Your Price $4.95 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies 50s, 60s, and 70s Boom!: Talking about the Sixties: What Happened, How It Shaped Today, Lessons for Tomorrow with DVD by Tom Brokaw Publisher Comments In Boom!, Tom Brokaw, one of America’s premier journalists and the acclaimed author of The Greatest Generation, gives us an epic portrait of another defining era in America: the tumultuous Sixties. The voices and stories of both famous people and... (read more) Your Price $18.00 New - Trade Paper check for used and sale copies 80s to Present Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments The New York Times bestseller, and one of the most talked about books of the year, Nickel and Dimed has already become a classic of undercover reportage.Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join... (read more) Your Price $5.95 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Drugs and Culture Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom by Andy Letcher Publisher Comments Did mushroom tea kick-start ancient Greek philosophy? Was Alice's Adventures in Wonderland a thinly veiled psychedelic mushroom odyssey? Is Santa Claus really a magic mushroom in disguise? The world of the magic mushroom is a place where shamans and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper check for used copies 20s to 40s Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw Publisher Comments "They came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to build modern America -- men and women whose everyday lives of duty, honor, achievement, and courage gave us the world we have today." In this magnificent... (read more) Your Price $7.95 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Pre World War I The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand Publisher Comments Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History A riveting, original book about the creation of modern American thought. The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included... (read more) Your Price $6.95 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Locked Case The Cannabible Collection by Jason King Publisher Comments Renowned pot connoisseur and photographer King shows off the best marijuana strains, from the coffee shops in Amsterdam to the volcanoes of Hawaii--each accompanied by stunning photos and enlightened commentary. Housed in a gorgeous slipcase box, this... (read more) Your Price $24.95 New - Trade Paper check for used and sale copies General Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell Powells.com Staff Pick Leave it to Sarah Vowell to roam across America in search of the motivations and culture of political murder. Obsessive, edifying, and, of course, witty, Assassination Vacation is unlike any other historical tourism or travel writing book you'll ever... (read more) Your Price $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper check for used copies

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