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An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems
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Glenn Beck (Read by)
Ever wondered why some of the biggest problems the World faces from Global warming to poverty, never get resolved? The reason is simple: the solutions just aren't convenient. Radio & TV host Glenn Beck doesn't care about being convenient or about making comments politicians & celebrities want to hear, he cares about common sense. The world is a ...
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The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
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Nikki Sixx
In one of the most unique memoirs of addiction ever published, Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx shares mesmerizing diary entries from the year he spiraled out of control in a haze of heroin and cocaine, presented alongside riveting commentary from people who were there at the time, and from Nikki himself. When Motley Crue was at the height of its fame, ...
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1984
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George Orwell
George Orwell's celebrated and always timely 1948 vision of a world subsumed in tyranny and war describes the process of events by which Winston Smith, a London clerk at the Ministry of Truth, comes to understand the true nature and aims of the government he works for, and portrays his doomed attempt to create a private life for himself and his ...
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The Real America: Messages from the Heart and Heartland
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Glenn Beck (Read by)
Plain-speaking radio host Glenn Beck shares his views on topics such as alcohol, family, politics, race, religion--and the flag. He connects these to mainstream American values, and offers his balance of humor and sincerity to counter what he sees as the doubletalk that too often prevails in the media.
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Bobos in Paradise the New Upper Class and How They Got There
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David Brooks
In this study of trends and class, a writer defines and decodes a new group in American society which he calls BoBos--a portmanteau word made from "bohemian" and "bourgeois"--who embody a consumerist combination of those two world-views. Brooks engages in what he calls "cosmic sociology," and writes in the tradition of William H.Whyte (THE ...
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Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic
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John de Graaf, David Wann, Thomas H Naylor
Based on the much heralded PBS show, AFFLUENZA blends humor and social commentary to warn about the dangers of being overconsumers. The wit aside, the book also provides new ways of looking at and structuring family and community infrastructures to better keep ourselves in check, less we consume ourselves out of house and home.
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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
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John Grisham
In his first work of nonfiction, #1 "New York Times" bestselling author John Grisham pens an exploration of small-town justice gone terribly awry, in a book that reads like one of his fictional, page-turning legal thrillers. A gritty, harrowing true-crime story.--"Time."
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Who's Looking Out for You?
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Bill O'Reilly
Plain-speaking commentator Bill O'Reilly looks with outrage at corporate and political entities that he sees as failing the common person. He also looks at the absence of altruism and personal responsibility on the part of individuals. O'Reilly connects the dots and points out how all this adds up to a society in which greed, venality, and ...
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Social Problems: A Down-To-Earth Approach
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James M Henslin
This theoretically balanced text provides the latest research findings and a consistent structure to help students analyze major social problems facing the United States. Henslin presents boths sides of an argument with a neutral voice and has a "down-to-earth" writing style. When students complete this text, not only do they gain a sociological ...
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Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer--America's Deadliest Serial Murderer
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Ann Rule
Ex-Seattle police officer and critically acclaimed bestselling true crime author Ann Rule covers a hometown case: the hunt for the notorious Green River killer. Gary Ridgway killed dozens of young women in the Seattle area in the early eighties, and remained at large for nearly 20 years before DNA evidence definitively identified him and led to ...
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Sociology--A Brief Introduction
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Richard T Schaefer
This text represents all major theoretical perspectives and research methods, taking a social policy emphasis that underscores the usefulness of sociological theory and research in understanding and resolving the issues facing the modern world.
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The Septembers of Shiraz
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Dalia Sofer
As Isaac navigates the tedium and terrors of prison, forging tenuous trusts, his wife feverishly searches for him, suspecting, all the while, that their once-trusted housekeeper has turned on them and is now acting as an informer. And as his daughter, in a childlike attempt to stop the wave of baseless arrests, engages in illicit activities, his ...
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She's Come Undone
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Wally Lamb
In his first novel, Wally Lamb creates a heroine--Dolores Price--who survives family insanity, rape, abuse, obesity, and the death of loved ones, emerging at the end as a strong, tough woman whose life is moving toward hope and salvation.
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
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Alexandra Fuller
Raised in Rhodesia during the Rhodesian War (1971-1979), this memoirist expresses the violence of African politics and the African landscape from her perspective as a white citizen born in England. Insects, landmines, leopards, and terrorists imprint this coming-of-age story. A New York Times Notable Book of 2002.
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An Absolute Scandal
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Penny Vincenzi
Set during the boom-and-bust years of the 1980s, "An Absolute Scandal" follows the lives of a group of people drawn together by their mutual monetary woes when the great financial institution Lloyd's undergoes a devastating downturn.
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Black Belt Patriotism: How to Reawaken America
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Chuck Norris
Norris--hero, icon, and legend--is back, packing a political and cultural punch with his new book. In it, Norris gives a no-holds-barred assessment of American culture and shows how Americans can get involved and change the nation's course for the better.
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Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History
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George Crile
"Charlie Wilson's War" tells the story of what became the largest covert operation in history--costing over $1 billion a year. Moving from the back rooms of the Capitol, to secret chambers at Langley, to arms-dealer conventions, to the Khyber Pass, this is a compulsively readable account of the inside workings of the CIA.
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Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
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Joe Bageant
Web columnist Bageant takes readers on a raucous tour through the taverns, churches, and double-wide trailers of the invisible working class--the very people who carried George W. Bush to victory--offering a vivid and sobering snapshot of a nation on the brink of catastrophe.
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Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline
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Robert H Bork
In this book Robert Bork identifies what he sees as the important issues of our time and what needs to be done if the American nation is to avoid further decline.
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Culture Warrior
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Bill O'Reilly
With three straight #1 bestsellers and more than four million copies of his books in print, the most powerful traditional force in the American media now takes off his gloves in the ongoing struggle for Americas heart and soul, and dissects the forces driving the secular-progressive agenda in the media and behind the scenes.
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The O'Reilly Factor: The Good, the Bad and the Completely Rediculous in American Life
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Bill O'Reilly
These observations on politics and American life--from the popular television commentator--are terse, acerbic, and sometimes witty. Considered by some to be right-of-center, O'Reilly calls them the way he sees them, and he is no defender of the status quo.
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A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
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Lizabeth Cohen
Cohen, a professor of American Studies at Harvard, examines how the quest for prosperity informed much of American culture and society in the decades following World War II. Touching on a variety of movements, from activism to education, A CONSUMER'S REPUBLIC argues for a reappraisal of the effect consumerism has had historically and today.
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Somebody's Gotta Say It
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Neal Boortz (Read by)
The bestselling author of "The FairTax Book" returns with a hilarious but serious-as-taxes creed that covers all the issues that get Boortz and his talk-radio audience hot under the collar on a daily basis.
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Veronica
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Mary Gaitskill
In this finalist for the 2005 National Book Award, an ex-model, now an aging office-cleaner struggling with poor health, looks back upon her rocky life and her friendship with an unusual woman. As Alison Owen transforms herself from teenage runaway to runway walker, her success as a beauty can never efface her feeling of inner ugliness. When her ...
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While They Slept: An Inquiry Into the Murder of a Family
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Kathryn Harrison
In this mesmerizing book, bestselling writer Harrison brilliantly uncovers the true story behind a shocking and unforgettable crime, as she explores the impact of escalating violence and emotional abuse visited on the children of a deeply troubled family.
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