Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Hearing the voices of Jonestown

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#nonfiction #socialscience #hardcover #Amish #rumspringa #beingAmish #amishlife

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Georgia

To Be or Not to Be Amish

Rumspringa

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Like new, read once. #nonfiction #socialscience #paperback 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Michigan

Inside the movement for more space, less government, and true independence in modern America

Off the Grid

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Classic bestseller by Malcolm Gladwell! In good shape with a few scuffs! #nonfiction #socialscience #paperback #polysci #educational #malcolmgladwell #selfhelp #psychology 

Tennessee

The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Blink

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#hardcover #education #nonfiction #American #schools 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

Reclaiming Education for All of Us

In the tradition of Jonathan Kozol, this little book is driven by big questions. What does it mean to be educated? What is intelligence? How should we think about intelligence, education, and opportunity in an open society? Why is a commitment to the public sphere central to the way we answer these questions? Drawing on forty years of teaching and research, from primary school to adult education and workplace training, award-winning author Mike Rose reflects on these and other questions related to public schooling in America. He answers them in beautifully written chapters that are both rich in detail--a first-grader conducting a science experiment, a carpenter solving a problem on the fly, a college student’s encounter with a story by James Joyce--and informed by a deep and powerful understanding of history, the psychology of learning, and the politics of education. Rose decries the narrow focus of educational policy in our time: the drumbeat of test scores and economic competition. Why School? will be embraced by parents and teachers alike, and readers everywhere will be captivated by Rose’s eloquent call for a bountiful democratic vision of the purpose of schooling.

Why School?

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#socialscience #nonfiction #paperback #business #sociology

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

In the beginning ...was the command line

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Used copy. #nonfiction #journalism #heartbreaking 

Oregon

A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League

Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace

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#nonfiction #socialscience #paperback #1960sculture #radicalpolitics #newage #easternreligion #occult #drugs #christianalternative

The Sixties Counterculture and how it Changed America Forever

Guinness charts the journey of a generation, from the erosion of Christianity to the failure of the counterculture to provide an effective alternative to faith. The author calls for a new direction for the Western world, one which combines conviction with compassion and deep spirituality.

The Dust of Death

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Used copy, but good condition. Barcode sticker on spine. #nonfiction #socialscience 

A True Story of Murder in America

Ghettoside

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California

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • David Brooks challenges us to rebalance the scales between the focus on external success—“résumé virtues”—and our core principles. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST With the wisdom, humor, curiosity, and sharp insights that have brought millions of readers to his New York Times column and his previous bestsellers, David Brooks has consistently illuminated our daily lives in surprising and original ways. In The Social Animal, he explored the neuroscience of human connection and how we can flourish together. Now, in The Road to Character, he focuses on the deeper values that should inform our lives. Looking to some of the world’s greatest thinkers and inspiring leaders, Brooks explores how, through internal struggle and a sense of their own limitations, they have built a strong inner character. Labor activist Frances Perkins understood the need to suppress parts of herself so that she could be an instrument in a larger cause. Dwight Eisenhower organized his life not around impulsive self-expression but considered self-restraint. Dorothy Day, a devout Catholic convert and champion of the poor, learned as a young woman the vocabulary of simplicity and surrender. Civil rights pioneers A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin learned reticence and the logic of self-discipline, the need to distrust oneself even while waging a noble crusade. Blending psychology, politics, spirituality, and confessional, The Road to Character provides an opportunity for us to rethink our priorities, and strive to build rich inner lives marked by humility and moral depth. “Joy,” David Brooks writes, “is a byproduct experienced by people who are aiming for something else. But it comes.” Praise for The Road to Character “A hyper-readable, lucid, often richly detailed human story.”—The New York Times Book Review “This profound and eloquent book is written with moral urgency and philosophical elegance.”—Andrew Solomon, author of Far from the Tree and The Noonday Demon “A powerful, haunting book that works its way beneath your skin.”—The Guardian “Original and eye-opening . . . Brooks is a normative version of Malcolm Gladwell, culling from a wide array of scientists and thinkers to weave an idea bigger than the sum of its parts.”—USA Today

The Road to Character

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Reckoning with Race in America

Long Time Coming

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#johngrisham #suspense #discardedlibrarycopy

Utah

Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

Presents the real-life case of Ron Williamson, a mentally ill former baseball player who was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death for the 1982 murder of a 21-year-old woman in his Oklahoma hometown.

The Innocent Man

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#nonfiction #paperback #socialscience #culture # marketing

The Culture of Marketing, the Marketing of Culture

Arguing that the hierarchies in pop culture are crumbling, the author takes readers on a fascinating tour of American culture, and the marketing of that culture, from the Three Tenors on tour to Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Nobrow

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A revelatory look at Amish youth as they have never been looked at before

Rumspringa is a fascinating look at a little-known Amish coming-of-age ritual, the rumspringa—the period of "running around" that begins for their youth at age sixteen. Through vivid portraits of teenagers in Ohio and Indiana, Tom Shachtman
offers an account of Amish life as a mirror to the soul-searching and questing that we recognize as a generally intrinsic part of adolescence.

The trappings of the Amish way of life—the "plain" clothes and electricity-free farms—conceal the communities' mystery: how they manage to retain their young people and perpetuate themselves generation after generation. The key to this is the rumspringa, when Amish youth are allowed to live outside the bounds of their faith, experimenting with alcohol, premarital sex, trendy clothes, telephones, drugs, and wild parties. By allowing them such freedom, their parents hope they will learn enough to help them make the most important decision of their lives—whether to be baptized as Christians, join the church, and forever give up worldly ways, or to remain out in the world.

In this searching book, Shachtman draws on his skills as a documentarian to capture young people on the cusp of a fateful decision, and to give us an original and deeply affecting portrait of the Amish as a whole.

To Be Or Not to Be Amish

An analysis of Amish youth culture profiles the coming-of-age ritual known as the rumspringa, during which sixteen-year-old Amish adolescents are permitted to venture outside of the bounds of their faith, experiment with alcohol and smoking, wear trendy clothes, and ultimately decide if they want to remain detached from the outside world. Reprint.

Almost new condition, save for slight creasing on upper left of front cover. Inscribed by the author.  #criminology #currentevents #penology #crime #justice 

Presents philosophical and practical arguments in favor of the administration of judicial corporal punishment as a way of addressing problems in the American criminal justice system.

In Defense of Flogging

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#nonfiction #socialscience #paperback #Islam #fundamentalism #jihad #Muhammad #currentaffairs #religion 

Islam : history, theology, impact on the world

The sword of the prophet

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#nonfiction #paperback #socialscience #educational #whitefragility #blm #current 

Connecticut

Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’ (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.

White Fragility

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New Jersey

21 Tales of the New Recession From the Pages of Vanity Fair

The Great Hangover

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A True Story

A memoir of one woman's obsession with food sets the author's love/hate relationship with food against her painful longing for a family, love, and a sense of belonging.

Fat Girl

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#nonfiction #socialscience #paperback #hawaiianreligion #Hawaiinmagic #hawaii 

This is the first book solely devoted to the spirituality of the Hawaiian people and how taboos, superstitions and magical practices permeated and defined every aspect of their lives. With a historical and sociological perspective, it examines in detail their beliefs: the structure of their society; the names and ways of the deities; the practice of deifying ancestral spirits; the importance of dance, colors, water, stone and plants; and the concept of Mana, the spiritual power in all things.

Hawaiian Religion and Magic

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manners, morals, and misbehavior in modern America

A short history of rudeness

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Laren Stover

Paul Himmelein

Patrisha Grainger Robertson

Izak

#Bohemian #nonfiction #socialscience  #hardcover #larenstover #thebombshellmanualofstyle 

Vermont

A Field Guide to Living on the Edge

Bohemianism is a way of life, a state of mind, an atmosphere. It is not a trend, its a timeless movement. It is about living beyond convention. BOHEMIAN MANIFESTO explores and joyfully celebrates the creativity, the originality, and the splendor of a lifestyle and spirit shared by free-thinking, free-living artists, poets, writers, sculptors, musicians, and intellectuals. This is the first book to distill and categorize all the ingredients of Bohemian life. In a witty and engaging style, Laren Stover examines the contents of a Bohemians closet, bathroom, and bookshelf. She explains the allure of absinthe, why it isnt wise to leave a Bohemian unattended in your home--you could return to find nude nymphs painted on your lamp shades--and how to identify what type of Bohemian you might be.

Bohemian Manifesto

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Linda Grant

#socialscience #nonfiction #paperback #lindagrant 

The Art of Adornment, the Pleasures of Shopping, and Why Clothes Matter

“You can’t have depths without surfaces,” says Linda Grant in her lively and provocative new book, The thoughtful Dresser, a thinking woman’s guide to what we wear. For centuries, an interest in clothes has been dismissed as the trivial pursuit of vain, empty-headed women. Yet, clothes matter, whether you are interested in fashion or not, because how we choose to dress defines who we are. How we look and what we wear tells a story. Some stories are simple, like the teenager trying to fit in, or the woman turning fifty renouncing invisibility. Some are profound, like that of the immigrant who arrives in a new country and works to blend in by changing the way she dresses, or of the woman whose hat saved her life in Nazi Germany. The Thoughtful Dresser celebrates the pleasure of adornment and is an elegant meditation on our relationship with what we wear and the significance of clothes as the most intimate but also public expressions of our identity.

The Thoughtful Dresser

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#socialscience #nonfiction #paperback #history #bobdylan #lennybruce #barbarastreisand #sandykoufax

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

American Celebrity & Jewish Identity : Sandy Koufax, Lenny Bruce, Bob Dylan, and Barbra Streisand

A lively look at four major Jewish celebrities of early 1960s America, who together made their mark on both American culture and Jewish identity

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