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1	An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems more books like this by Glenn Beck (Read by) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $9.07! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Real America: Messages from the Heart and Heartland more books like this by Glenn Beck (Read by) add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $4.10! new only from $7.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Who's Looking Out for You? more books like this by Bill O'Reilly add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Social Problems: A Down-To-Earth Approach more books like this by James M Henslin add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $30.00! new only from $49.95! \| SVS
5	Black Belt Patriotism: How to Reawaken America more books like this by Chuck Norris add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $4.04! new only from $6.75! \| SVS
6	Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War more books like this by Joe Bageant add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $6.39! new only from $7.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Culture Warrior more books like this by Bill O'Reilly add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.16! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The O'Reilly Factor: The Good, the Bad and the Completely Rediculous in American Life more books like this by Bill O'Reilly add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America more books like this by Lizabeth Cohen add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $7.50! new only from $10.78! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Meaning of Difference: American Constructions of Race, Sex and Gender, Social Class, and Sexual Orientation more books like this by Karen Elaine Rosenblum add to wishlist "The Meaning of Difference" focuses on the social construction of difference as it operates in American formulations of race and ethnicity, sex and gender, social class, sexual orientation, and disability. The conceptual structure of this text-reader comes from four framework essays addressing the construction of difference, the experience of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.08! \| SVS
11 view cover	Diversity in Families more books like this by Maxine Baca Zinn add to wishlist This highly regarded text, written by an award-winning author team, treats family diversity as the norm , while highlighting how race, class, gender, and sexuality produce varieties of familial relationships. Diversity in Families looks at families not as "building blocks of societies" but rather, as products of social forces within society. The ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $31.00! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Social Problems more books like this by William Kornblum add to wishlist For one-quarter or one semester Social Problems courses taught in the Sociology Department. Written by a respected scholar in the field, this authoritative and very accessible text offers students a contemporary introduction to Social Problems by introducing the major trends and future outlook for each social problem. Social policies devised to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Dharma Punx more books like this by Noah Levine add to wishlist Fueled by the music of revolution, anger, fear, and despair, we dyed our hair or shaved our heads ... Eating acid like it was candy and chasing speed with cheap vodka, smoking truckloads of weed, all in a vain attempt to get numb and stay numb. This is the story of a young man and a generation of angry youths who rebelled against their parents ... see all copies from $7.05! new only from $8.39! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg more books like this by Rick Bragg add to wishlist In this collection of more than 60 of his published articles from the New York Times and elsewhere, Bragg relates stories that made headlines everywhere, such as the Oklahoma City bombing or the Susan Smith murder/kidnapping scandal, but he also tells stories of people who live beneath the media's radar, such a graveyard worker in charge of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.55! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age more books like this by Maggie Jackson, Bill McKibben (Foreword by) add to wishlist We have vast oceans of information at our disposal, yet increasingly we seek knowledge with brief glimpses at the Yahoo headlines while juggling other tasks. We are networked as never before, but we tend to communicate even with our most intimate friends and family via instant messaging, email, and fleeting face-to-face moments that are ... see all copies from $6.14! new only from $6.14! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Radical Equations: Bring the Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement to America's Schools more books like this by Robert P Moses, Charles E Cobb, Jr. add to wishlist Through personal narrative and impassioned argument, activist Bob Moses shows the lessons of the civil rights movement at work in a remarkable educational movement today, a math literacy program called the Algebra Project. see all copies from $2.14! new only from $9.76! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Downsize This!: Random Threats from an Unarmed American more books like this by Michael Moore add to wishlist A rebuttal to the "Newtification" of America by the man who responsible for the film "Roger & Me" and the television series "TV Nation". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	A Nation of Victims: The Decay of the American Character more books like this by Charles J Sykes add to wishlist IN see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.58! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The Ten Things You Can't Say in America more books like this by Larry Elder add to wishlist An outspoken talk-radio host offers non-pc views on issues of politics and society. Elder opposes most federal programs, suggests ways to streamline government, and challenges what he sees as hypocrisy and poor thinking on the part of both black and white leaders. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole more books like this by Benjamin R Barber add to wishlist "Consumed" offers a portrait of how adults are infantilised in a global economy that overproduces goods and targets children as consumers in a market where there are never enough shoppers. Driven by a frantic imperative to sell, consumer capitalism specialises today in the manufacture not of goods but of needs. This provocative culmination of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Chasing the Red, White, and Blue: A Journey in Tocqueville's Footsteps Through Contemporary America more books like this by David Cohen add to wishlist Following the itinerary of Alexis de Tocqueville--whose 1831 travels formed the stuff of the oft-quoted DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA--South African journalist David Cohen draws parallels between the America of 1831 and the America of 2001. He journeys from New York to the deep South, and makes an additional stop in California's Silicon Valley to sketch ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America more books like this by Molly Ivins add to wishlist Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose take on the Bush administration, indicting it for trashing the rights (and substantially diminishing the lives) of average citizens while lining the pockets of the corporate rich. The authors--humorously but seriously--also take on the dangers to the environment, schools, and America's safety from terrorists. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Contemporary Social Problems more books like this by Dr. Vincent N Parrillo add to wishlist A straightforward text that uses five theoretical viewpoints to analyze contemporary problems and encourages students to think about their own lives and futures as they make decisions about solving social problems today. Contemporary Social Problems provides a solid sociological perspective by using five (instead of the usual three) theoretical ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
24 view cover	Privilege: A Reader more books like this by Michael Kimmel (Editor), Abby L Ferber (Editor) add to wishlist In this new and timely anthology on the experience of privilege in Americaas it relates to holding the identity of the dominant gender, class, race, and sexual preferencesociologists Michael Kimmel and Abby Ferber, along with a wide range of contributors, challenge students to think more critically about the myriad inequalities in society and ... see all copies from $22.49! new only from $39.84! \| SVS
25 view cover	Broken Heartland: The Rise of America's Rural Ghetto more books like this by Osha Gray Davidson add to wishlist A study of poverty in the American countryside. The author concentrates on small towns and farm communities that have suffered economically in recent years, and lays much of the blame for lost jobs and waning productivity on the North American Free Trade Agreement. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.60! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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