Sociology
Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole
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"Powerful and disturbing. No one who cares about the future of our public life can afford to ignore this book." —Jackson Lears
Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve
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"The most comprehensive multidisciplinary contemplation of mortality we are likely to get."--Thomas Lynch, New York Times Book Review
Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny
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“One of the few world intellectuals on whom we may rely to make sense out of our existential confusion.”—Nadine Gordimer
The Place You Love Is Gone: Progress Hits Home
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"Smart and defiant. Rich with characters and anecdote and heart. A great success." --Anthony Swofford, New York Times Book Review
College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-eds, Then and Now
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The author of Pink Think takes on a twentieth-century icon: the college girl.