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A Larger Memory: A History of our Diversity, With Voices

By: Ronald Takaki

Price: $19.99

Publisher: Back Bay Books: September 1998

Seller ID: 130304

ISBN: 0316311626

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

A sweeping yet intimate history of the diverse individuals who, together, make up America. Ronald Takaki uses letters, diaries & oral histories to share their stories. Workers, immigrants, shopkeepers, women, children & others, their lives often separated by ethnic borders, speak side by side as Takaki frames their voices with his own text.
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A Tribe Apart: A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

By: Patricia Hersch

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books: August 1999

Seller ID: 119380

ISBN: 034543594X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

For three fascinating, disturbing years, writer Patricia Hersch journeyed inside a world that is as familiar as our own children and yet as alien as some exotic culture--the world of adolescence. As a silent, attentive partner, she followed eight teenagers in the typically American town of Reston, Virginia, listening to their stories, observing their rituals, watching them fulfill their dreams and enact their tragedies. What she found was that America's teens have fashioned a fully defined culture that adults neither see nor imagine--a culture of unprecedented freedom and baffling complexity, ...
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American Manhood: Transformations In Masculinity From The Revolution To The Modern Era

By: E. Anthony Rotundo

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Basic Books: May 1993

Seller ID: 147014

ISBN: 0465014097

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In the first comprehensive history of American manhood, E. Anthony Rotundo sweeps away the groundless assumptions and myths that inform the current fascination with men's lives. Opposing the views of men's movement leaders and best-selling authors who maintain that manliness is eternal and unchanging, Rotundo stresses that our concept of manhood is man-made and that, like any human invention, it has a history. American Manhood is a fascinating account of how our understanding of what it means to be a man has changed over time.
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Behind mud walls, 1930-1960, by William H. Wiser and Charlotte Viall Wiser. With a foreword by David G. Mandelbaum

By: N/A

Price: $1.00

Publisher: University of California Press: December 1962

Seller ID: 169039

ISBN: B003NIMYJ6

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Boss of Bosses: The FBI and Paul Castellano

By: Joseph F. O'Brien, Andris Kurins

Price: $1.00

Publisher: Island Books: June 1992

Seller ID: 155926

ISBN: 0440212294

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

"At least as good as Mario Puzo, with shades of David Mamet or even Arthur Miller."--New York Daily News

Paul Castellano headed New York's immensely powerful Gambino crime family for more than ten years. On December 16, 1985, he was gunned down in a spectacular shooting on Manhattan's fashionable East Side.

At the time of his death, Paul Castellano was under indictment. So were most of the major Mafia figures in New York. Why? Because in 1983 the FBI had hidden a microphone in the kitchen of Castellano's Staten Island mansion. The 600 hours of recorndings led to eight cr...
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Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media

By: Jeff Cohen

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Polipoint Press: October 2006

Seller ID: 162101

ISBN: 097606216X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Ecuador (Culture Shock! A Survival Guide to Customs & Etiquette)

By: Crowder, Nicholas B

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company: January 2002

Seller ID: 273521

ISBN: 1558686053

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Whether you travel for business, pleasure, or a combination of the two, the ever-popular Culture Shock series belongs in your backpack or briefcase. Get the nuts-and-bolts information you need to survive and thrive wherever you go. Culture Shock country guides are easy-to-read, accurate, and entertaining crash courses in local customs and etiquette. Culture Shock practical guides offer the inside information you need whether you're a student, a parent, a globetrotter, or a working traveler. Culture Shock at your Door guides equip you for daily life in some of the world's most cosmopolitan ...
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Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education

By: Margaret Mead

Price: $3.00

Publisher: William Morrow & Co: June 1976

Seller ID: 194755

ISBN: 068807989x

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

High and Mighty: SUVs--The World's Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way

By: Keith Bradsher

Price: $2.00

Publisher: PublicAffairs: August 2002

Seller ID: 143723

ISBN: 1586481231

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

SUVs have taken over America's roads. Ad campaigns promote them as safer and greener than ordinary cars and easy to handle in bad weather. But very little about the SUV's image is accurate. They poorly protect occupants and inflict horrific damage in crashes, they guzzle gasoline and they are hard to control. Keith Bradsher has been at the forefront in reporting the calamitous safety and environmental record of SUVs, including the notorious Ford-Firestone rollover controversy. In this book he traces the checkered history of SUVs, showing how they came to be classified not as passenger cars but...
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In Defense of Women By Menken

By: H. L. Mencken

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Time: December 1962

Seller ID: 118170

ISBN: B0033350KQ

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Inside Social Life: Readings in Sociological Psychology and Microsociology

By: N/A

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: August 2003

Seller ID: 209196

ISBN: 0195332415

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The Fifth Edition of Spencer Cahill's best-selling anthology provides an introduction to the sociological study of social psychology, interpersonal interaction, social construction, and the social shaping of human experience in our everyday lives. The book's primary-source articles feature both contemporary and classic theoretical statements as well as empirical studies. Introductions to each part and to each article identify and explain central issues, key concepts, and relationships among topics.
The new edition features revised introductions and 10 entirely new contributions. The new a...
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Making Connections: The Relational Worlds of Adolescent Girls at Emma Willard School

By: N/A

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Emma Willard School: January 1989

Seller ID: 271290

ISBN: 0890622396

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Place to Live

By: Wolf Von Eckardt

Price: $1.00

Seller ID: 164356

ISBN: 9110023275

Binding: New Trade

Condition: New - New

Poplorica: A Popular History of the Fads, Mavericks, Inventions, and Lore that Shaped Modern America

By: Martin J. Smith,Patrick J. Kiger

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Harper: March 2004

Seller ID: 254861

ISBN: 0060535318

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Pop culture meets pop reference in this irreverent tour of twenty unlikely events, innovations, and individuals that forever changed how we live today -- the food we eat, the places we live, the love we make, the fads we follow, the clothes we wear, the products we buy, and much more.

Veteran journalists Martin J. Smith and Patrick J. Kiger make the offbeat their beat, revealing the odd, surprising, and amusing origins of inexplicable cultural phenomena. From slam dunks to rock 'n' roll punks, permanent press to pantyhose, black velvet painting to point-click culture, high-tech diapers to l...
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Spirit of Findhorn

By: Eileen Caddy

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Harpercollins: June 1979

Seller ID: 148941

ISBN: 0060612916

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Tally's Corner

By: Elliot Liebow

Price: $2.00

Publisher: LITTLE BROWN: January 1967

Seller ID: 155512

ISBN: B006CWU8LQ

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

The Academic Revolution (A Phoenix book)

By: Christopher Jencks, David Riesman

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr (Tx): February 1977

Seller ID: 7797

ISBN: 0226396282

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Economics of Public Issues (13th Edition)

By: Roger LeRoy Miller, Daniel K. Benjamin, Douglass C. North

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Addison Wesley: July 2002

Seller ID: 144558

ISBN: 0321118731

Binding: New Trade

Condition: Used - Good

The News About the News: American Journalism in Peril

By: Downie Jr., Leonard,Kaiser, Robert G.

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Vintage: February 2003

Seller ID: 286128

ISBN: 0375714154

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Freedom of the press is a primary American value. Good journalism builds communities, arms citizens with important information, and serves as a public watchdog for civic, national, and global issues. But what happens when the news turns its back on its public role?

Leonard Downie Jr., executive editor of The Washington Post, and Robert G. Kaiser, associate editor and senior correspondent, report on a growing crisis in American journalism. From the corporatization that leads media moguls to slash content for profit, to newsrooms that ignore global crises to report on personal enterta...
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The Rights and Wrongs of Abortion (A Philosophy & Public Affairs Reader)

By: N/A

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Princeton University Press: July 1974

Seller ID: 166699

ISBN: 0691019797

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

During its first two years of publication, Philosophy & Public Affairs contributed to the public debate on abortion a set of remarkable and brilliant articles which examine the basic philosophical issues posed by this controversial subject: whether the fetus is a person, whether it has a right to life, whether a woman has a right to decide what happens in and to her body, whether there is an ethical connection between abortion and infanticide, whether there is any point after conception where it is possible to draw the line beyond which killing is impermissible. These five essays, to...
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The Serpent and the Rainbow

By: Davis, Wade

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Grand Central Pub: October 1994

Seller ID: 294842

ISBN: 0446343870

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda

By: Gourevitch, Philip

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: September 1998

Seller ID: 294748

ISBN: 0374286973

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity.
This remarkable debut book chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring states since 1994, when the Rwandan government called on everyone in the Hutu majority to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority. Though the killing was low-tech--largely by machete--it was carried out at shocking speed: some 800,000 people were exterminated in a hundred days. A Tutsi pastor, in a letter to his church president, a Hutu, used the chilling phrase that gives Philip Gourevitch his title.
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