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Assassination Vacation Assassination Vacation
by Sarah Vowell

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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)

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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich

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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)

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Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America
by Morgan Spurlock

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The nauseating truth from the producer, director, and guinea pig of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Super Size Me. Just when you figured it was safe to scarf fries again comes the factpacked and funny new alarm bell from the man whose month-long... (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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Bait and Switch Bait and Switch
by Barbara Ehrenreich

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Bait and Switch, Barbara Ehrenreich's remarkable follow-up to Nickel and Dimed, examines life in the ever-increasing population of the white-collar unemployed. Veering from the absurd (Wizard of Oz dolls) to the unsettling (Christian prayer breakfasts... (read more)

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Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
by Eric Schlosser

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America's black market is much larger than we realize, and it affects us all deeply, whether or not we smoke pot, rent a risqué video, or pay our kids' nannies in cash. In Reefer Madness the best-selling author of Fast Food Nation turns his... (read more)

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Mongo: Adventures in Trash Mongo: Adventures in Trash
by Ted Botha

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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)

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The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
by Barry Glassner

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There has never been another era in modern history, even during wartime or the Great Depression, when so many people have feared so much. Three out of four Americans say they feel more fearful today then they did twenty years ago. The Culture of Fear... (read more)

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Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (with Kids) in America Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (with Kids) in America
by Michelle Kennedy

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The shocking story of a suburban mother's plunge into homelessness Michelle Kennedy had a typical middle class American childhood in Vermont. She attended college, interned in the U.S. Senate, married her high school sweetheart and settled in the suburbs... (read more)

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The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
by Louis Menand

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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)

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Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
by Neil Postman

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In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it--with... (read more)

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Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
by Melanie Rehak

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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)

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Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town
by Nate Blakeslee

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In the summer of 1999, in the tiny west Texas town of Tulia, thirty-nine people, almost all of them black, were arrested and charged with dealing powdered cocaine. The operation, a federally-funded investigation performed in cooperation with the local... (read more)

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Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir
by D J Waldie

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An exquisitely realized and wholly original memoir of growing up in blue-collar 1950s Lakewood, California, the quintessential post-world war II American suburb and the prototype for the countless tract developments that would follow. Lyrical... (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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Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
by David Brooks

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For the past two hundred years, bohemians and bourgeois have loved to hate one another. To the moneyed classes, concerned with stability and respectability, bohemians had dubious morals and unsightly hair. And for the artists and intellectuals... (read more)

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The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead
by David Callahan

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Free cable television. Imaginary tax deductions. Do you take your chance to cheat? David Callahan thinks many of us would; witness corporate scandals, doping athletes, plagiarizing journalists. Why all the cheating? Why now? Callahan blames the dog-eat... (read more)

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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap 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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The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real
by William Irwin

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If the world as we know it is nothing more than our dream of it, does this make the dream real? If we had the choice to step out of our world into a more-real but less-pleasant one—to take the red pill—would it be a moral failure not to do so?... (read more)

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The Greatest Generation Speaks: Letters and Reflections The Greatest Generation Speaks: Letters and Reflections
by Tom Brokaw

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Brokaw wrote the bestselling "The Greatest Generation" and now the subjects have written back. This book of letters and reflections allows members of the World War II generation and their families to speak for themselves.... (read more)

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