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1	Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything more books like this by Steven D Levitt, Stephen J Dubner Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? What kind of impact did Roe v. Wade have on violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a ... see all copies from £7.25! new only from £10.06! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream more books like this by Hunter S Thompson Stylish reissue of a classic novel first published in the 1970s: Hunter S Thompson's ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream. 'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold...And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge ... see all copies from £2.05! new only from £8.51! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Rules of the Game more books like this by Neil Strauss The author of the bestseller "The Game" returns with the first new Game project--a two-volume pocket set, featuring Strausss first-ever how-to guide for pickup artists, "The StyleLife Challenge," and a new volume of Game stories, "The Style Diaries." see all copies from £10.20! new only from £10.20!
4	Electric Kool Aid Acid Test more books like this by Tom James Wolfe Tom Wolfe's THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST is one of the most essential works on the 1960s counterculture, revolutionizing the way the reporters wrote about the world. This seminal work of the New Journalism, a style which explored the writer's own experience of the journey rather than merely reporting the bare facts, was written in a mind ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £9.56! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Hell's Angels; a strange and terrible saga more books like this by Hunter S. Thompson Gonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. Thompson flies with the angels--Hell's Angels, that is. He's lived with them, he knows them and their machines, he speaks their language,and he reports it back to the world with all the fearsome force of a souped-up cyclone burning rubber. see all copies from £3.87! new only from £9.56! \| first editions
6	Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community more books like this by Robert D Putnam In a groundbreaking book based on vast new data, Robert Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from family, friends, neighbours and our democratic structures- and how we may reconnect. BOWLING ALONE warns Americans that their stock of "social capital", the very fabric of their connections with each other, has been accelerating ... see all copies from £6.35! new only from £8.29! \| first editions
7	The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World more books like this by Michael Pollan A farmer cultivates genetically modified potatoes so that a customer at McDonald's half a world away can enjoy a long, golden french fry. A gardener plants tulip bulbs in the autumn and in the spring has a riotous patch of colour to admire. Two simple examples of how humans act on nature to get what we want. Or are they? What if those potatoes and ... see all copies from £4.09! new only from £9.05! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto more books like this by Chuck Klosterman From the author of "Fargo Rock City" comes another hilarious and discerning take on popular culture, exploring everything from the crucial role of breakfast cereal to how John Cusack films destroy the modern meaning of love. see all copies from £7.61! new only from £8.54! \| first editions
9	The Partly Cloudy Patriot more books like this by Sarah Vowell In "The Partly Cloudy Patriot," Sarah Vowell travels through the American past and, in doing so, investigates the dusty, bumpy roads of her own life. In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell -- widely hailed for her inimitable narratives on public radio's "This American Life" -- ponders a number of curious questions: Why ... see all copies from £8.02! new only from £8.02! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	The Age of American Unreason more books like this by Susan Jacoby Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon--the addiction to infotainment, from television to the Web, which has resulted in a lazy and credulous public. see all copies from £13.97! new only from £13.97! \| first editions
11 view cover	Bobos in Paradise the New Upper Class and How They Got There more books like this by David Brooks It used to be pretty easy to distinguish between the bourgeois world of capitalism and the bohemian counterculture. The bourgeois worked for corporations, wore gray, and went to church. The bohemians were artists and intellectuals. Bohemians championed the values of the liberated 1960s; the bourgeois were the enterprising yuppies of the 1980s. ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £6.15! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter more books like this by Steven Johnson From the bestselling author of "Mind Wide Open" comes a groundbreaking assessment of popular culture as it's never been considered before: through the lens of intelligence. see all copies from £5.46! new only from £6.49! \| first editions
13 view cover	The Ascent of Man more books like this by J. Bronowski Traces our rise - both as a species and as moulders of our own environment and future. The book covers invention from the flint tool to geometry, from the arch to the Theory of Relativity. It also explores the social and historical background that gave rise to those inventions. Its grasp of both science and civilization shows man's ability to ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £12.67! \| first editions
14 view cover	Among the Thugs more books like this by Bill Buford For eight years - the years of riots on Channel ferries, street-fighting outside Britain's football grounds, and the Heysel and Hillsborough disasters - Bill Buford, an American, travelled with football hooligans up and down Britain, and to Italy, Turkey, Greece and Germany. He attended a National Front disco and witnessed the robbing of a pub. He ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £10.39! \| first editions
15 view cover	Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster more books like this by Dana Thomas The style and cultural reporter for "Newsweek" takes a hard-hitting look at the world of new luxury, and argues that globalization and corporate greed have ensured that old-time manufacturing has bowed to sweatshops and wild profits to produce mediocre merchandise. see all copies from £5.74! new only from £8.33! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things more books like this by Dr. Barry Glassner Americans are more afraid than ever. Glassner looks carefully at the objects of our fear, from road rage to diseases, to crime, finding that in most cases the threat presented is widely exaggerated. Glassner locates the source of these fears in media, corporations, and politicians who profit by raising and then exploiting our fears. . The Culture ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £6.34! \| first editions
17 view cover	The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture more books like this by Fritjof Capra, Ph.D. see all copies from £1.36! new only from £9.53! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Common Culture: Reading and Writing about American Popular Culture more books like this by Michael Petracca, Madeleine Sorapure For Freshman Composition courses. From Barbie to the Internet, the Simpsons to the malls, this engaging text on pop culture helps students develop critical and analytical skills and write clear prose while reading, thinking, and writing about subjects they find inherently interesting. Spanning a full range of topics, this text provides key ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £5.46! \| first editions
19 view cover	The social construction of reality: a treatise in the sociology of knowledge more books like this by Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann This book reformulates the sociological subdiscipline known as the sociology of knowledge. Knowledge is presented as more than ideology, including as well false consciousness, propaganda, science and art. see all copies from £1.36! new only from £9.46! \| first editions
20 view cover	The Cannabis Grow Bible: The Definitive Guide to Growing Marijuana for Recreational and Medical Use more books like this by Greg Green This guide offers methods for growers who want to maximize the yield and potency of their crop. It explains the "Screen of Green" technique that gives a higher yield using fewer plants, an important development for American growers who, if caught, are penalized according to number of plants. The Cannabis Grow Bible is an authoritative source that ... see all copies from £12.60! new only from £12.60! \| first editions
21 view cover	Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture more books like this by Ariel Levy If male chauvinist pigs of years past thought of women as pieces of meat, female chauvinist pigs of today are doing them one better, making sex objects of other women -and of themselves. With a wink and a nudge, they are welcoming back strippers, porn stars and Playboy Bunnies as the heroes of post-feminist culture. Taking off your bra used to ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £5.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (and How to Do Them) more books like this by Peter Sagal "The Big Book of Vices" will delve into the culture of vices: the appeal of many vices, how to indulge in them, what their inherent risks are, and how not to look completely foolish when inevitably caught. It will review various famous, infamous, and heretofore under-reported incidents of people being caught in particularly flagrante delicto. This ... see all copies from £6.25! new only from £6.25! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation more books like this by Jeff Chang, D J Kool Herc (Introduction by) Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop became the Esperanto of youth rebellion and a generation-defining movement. In a post-civil rights era defined by deindustrialization and globalization, hip-hop crystallized a multiracial, polycultural generation's worldview, and transformed American politics and culture. But that ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £5.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States more books like this by Professor Kenneth T Jackson The winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Francis Parkman Prize, this book is the first detailed history of suburban life in America from its origin to the drive-in culture of today. see all copies from £5.46! new only from £11.31! \| first editions
25 view cover	Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories more books like this by Chuck Palahniuk Chuck Palahniuk abandons fiction for fact in this collection of essays, which includes pieces on Marilyn Manson, his job as a hospice driver, submarines, college wrestling, his father's murder, and the making of the movie of his novel FIGHT CLUB. see all copies from £7.82! new only from £9.46! \| signed copies \| first editions

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