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1	Orientalism more books like this by Professor Edward W Said add to wishlist The noted critic and a Palestinian now teaching at Columbia University, examines the way in which the West observes the Arabs. see all copies from $6.85! new only from $8.54! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme more books like this by Richard Brodie add to wishlist We are surrounded by information in the 21st Century: we are bombarded by advertising, attitudes, celebrities, news, wars, fashion, the latest fads...the sheer amount of information we have access to appears untameable, unworkable, and too much to gain sense from unless we pick and choose very carefully. However, our choices are very often made ... see all copies from $8.76! new only from $16.60! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Obama Nation more books like this by Jerome R Corsi, PH.D. add to wishlist Barack Obama stepped onto the national political stage when the then-Illinois State senator addressed the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Soon after Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate, author Jerome Corsi began researching Obama's personal and political background. Scrupulously sourced with more than 600 footnotes, The Obama Nation is the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	No LOGO: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies more books like this by Naomi Klein add to wishlist An analysis of the invasion of our personal lives by logo-promoting, powerful corporations combines muckraking journalism with contemporary memoir to discuss current consumer culture. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.73! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	From Silence to Voice: What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public more books like this by Bernice Buresh, Suzanne Gordon, Ms. Patricia Benner (Foreword by) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.55! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War more books like this by John W Dower add to wishlist Now in paperback, this monumental history has been hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most important books ever written about World War II in the Pacific". 20 pages of illustrations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin more books like this by Gordon S Wood add to wishlist Wood scrutinizes the less typically American traits possessed by Franklin--such as his longtime loyalty to the Crown--and why he still became one of the Revolution's necessary men. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War more books like this by Chandra Manning add to wishlist A vivid, unprecedented account of why Union and Confederate soldiers identified slavery as the root of the Civil War, how the conflict changed troops' ideas about slavery, and what those changing ideas meant for the war and the nation. see all copies from $7.35! new only from $9.11! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Nursing Against the Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care more books like this by Suzanne Gordon add to wishlist A leading health care journalist unravels the complexity of the current nursing shortage while offering possible solutions to the resulting health care crisis. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Ecological Indian: Myth and History more books like this by Shepard Krech, III add to wishlist This scholarly book studies the reality behind the "ecological Indian" myth, and warns that revisionist historians who perpetuate this false history oversimplify both the positive and negative aspects of the Native American legacy. see all copies from $5.30! new only from $10.65! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering more books like this by Norman G Finkelstein add to wishlist In this study, the author interrogates the conventional accounts of the place the Holocaust has come to occupy in American culture. It was not until the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, when Israel's evident strength brought it into line with US foreign policy, that memory of the Holocaust began to acquire the exceptional prominence it enjoys at the ... see all copies from $4.07! new only from $8.33! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women more books like this by S Faludi add to wishlist A New York Times bestseller for more than four months, Backlash is Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Susan Faludi's eye-opening, meticulously documented account of the growing and effective anti-feminist backlash in America during the last 10 years. "A bracing look at the counter-assault in our society on women's progress over the last decade".--The ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Distant Mirrors: America as a Foreign Culture more books like this by Philip R DeVita (Editor), James D Armstrong (Editor) add to wishlist This book consists of essays written by anthropologists and other scholars using an ethnographic perspective to interpret aspects of American culture. These essays enable readers to understand themselves better by focusing on others in their cultures, giving anthropology a comparative perspective that provides a reflective lens for understanding ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Halo Effect: And the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers more books like this by Phil Rosenzweig add to wishlist Why do some companies prosper while others fail? Despite great amounts of research, many of the studies that claim to pin down the secret of success are based in pseudoscience. The Halo Effect is the outcome of that pseudoscience, a myth that Philip Rosenzweig masterfully debunks in THE HALO EFFECT. The Halo Effect describes the tendency of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence more books like this by Judith P Butler add to wishlist Written after September 11, 2001, in response to the conditions of heightened vulnerability and aggression that have prevailed since then, Judith Butler critiques the use of violence and argues for a response in which violence might be minimized, and interdependency becomes acknowledged as the basis for global political community. Following the ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $9.18! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion more books like this by Anthony Pratkanis, Elliot Aronson add to wishlist An analysis of the use and abuse of persuasion in daily life, "Age of Propaganda" reveals how persuasion influences our behaviour, which propaganda strategies are most commonly used today, and why some techniques work better than others. Drawing on the history of propaganda and modern research in social psychology, the authors show how the tactics ... see all copies from $2.77! new only from $9.94! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response more books like this by Peter Balakian add to wishlist A "New York Times" bestseller, this masterful history of the Armenian massacres of the 1890s and the genocide of 195 is told from the view of American involvement in what was the first major international human rights movement in American history. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.66! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Polling and the Public: What Every Citizen Should Know more books like this by Herbert Asher add to wishlist How can a public opinion poll of only 1,500 Americans accurately represent the entire population? Asher demystifies this and other polling issues with clear descriptions, colorful anecdotes and such up-to-date examples as polls concerning doctor-assisted suicide and NATO expansion. He explains how the wording and ordering of the survey questions, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion more books like this by John R Zaller, James H Kuklinski (Editor), Dennis Chong (Editor) add to wishlist In this book John Zaller develops a comprehensive theory to explain how people acquire political information from elites and the mass media and convert it into political preferences. Using numerous specific examples, Zaller applies this theory to the dynamics of public opinion on a broad range of subjects, including domestic and foreign policy, ... see all copies from $9.85! new only from $11.99! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The Paranoid Style in American Politics: And Other Essays more books like this by Richard Hofstadter add to wishlist This timely reissue of Richard Hofstadter's classic work on the fringe groups that influence American electoral politics offers an invaluable perspective on contemporary domestic affairs. In "The Paranoid Style in American Politics," acclaimed historian Richard Hofstadter examines the competing forces in American political discourse and how ... see all copies from $8.98! new only from $8.98! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	They Take Our Jobs!: And 20 Other Myths about Immigration more books like this by Aviva Chomsky add to wishlist Claims that immigrants take Americans' jobs, are a drain on the American economy, contribute to poverty and inequality, destroy the social fabric, challenge American identity, and contribute to a host of social ills by their very existence are openly discussed and debated at all levels of society. Chomsky dismantles twenty of the most common ... see all copies from $5.16! new only from $8.74! \| SVS
22 view cover	History Lessons: How Textbooks from Around the World Portray U.S. History more books like this by Dana Lindaman, Kyle Ward add to wishlist By juxtaposing starkly contrasting versions of the historical events people take for granted, "History Lessons" affords readers a sometimes hilarious, often sobering look at what the world learns about America's past. see all copies from $2.32! new only from $6.46! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America more books like this by Karen Ordahl Kupperman add to wishlist In this vividly written book, prize-winning author Karen Ordahl Kupperman refocuses our understanding of encounters between English venturers and Algonquians all along the East Coast of North America in the early years of contact and settlement. All parties in these dramas were uncertain -- hopeful and fearful -- about the opportunity and ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $14.78! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know more books like this by Jessica Valenti add to wishlist Double standards are nothing new. Women deal with them every day. Take the common truism that women who sleep around are sluts while men are studs. Why is it that men grow distinguished and sexily gray as they age while women just get saggy and haggard? Have you ever wondered how a young woman is supposed to both virginal and provocatively ... see all copies from $6.78! new only from $7.53! \| SVS
25 view cover	Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason more books like this by Michel Foucault add to wishlist The distinguished French psychologist and philosopher Michel Foucault seeks to answer the question of madness and how to define it. see all copies from $4.25! new only from $8.50! \| first editions \| SVS

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