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Blink : the power of thinking without thinking
Malcolm Gladwell.
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In this best-seller, a staff writer for The New Yorker weighs the factors that determine good decision-making. Drawing on recent cognitive research, Gladwell concludes that those who quickly filter out extraneous information generally make better decisions than those who discount their first impressions. The author of The Tipping Point (2000) cites ...
2005; 277 p.; isbn:0316172324 More Information |
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Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America
Barbara Ehrenreich
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2001; 221 p.; isbn:0805063889 More Information |
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Hot, flat, and crowded : why we need a green revolution-- and how it can renew America
Thomas L. Friedman
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Friedman's bestseller "The World Is Flat" has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now the author brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy
2008; 438 p.; isbn:9780374166854 More Information |
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The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America
Erik Larson
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Bringing Chicago circa 1893 to vivid life, Erik Larson's spellbinding bestseller intertwines the true tale of two men--the brilliant architect behind the legendary 1893 World's Fair, striving to secure America's place in the world; and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their death. Combining meticulous research with ...
2003; 447 p.; isbn:0609608444 More Information |
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Fast food nation : the dark side of the all-American meal
Eric Schlosser
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Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but Eric Schlosser makes them stick with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, wry wit, and careful reasoning.Schlosser's myth-shattering ...
2001; 356 p.; isbn:0395977894 More Information |
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The namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri.
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A portrait of the immigrant experience follows the Ganguli family from their traditional life in India through their arrival in Massachusetts in the late 1960s and their difficult melding into an American way of life.
2003; ; isbn:0395927218 More Information |
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The orchid thief
Susan Orlean
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In Susan Orlean's mesmerizing true story of beauty and obsession is John Laroche, a renegade plant dealer and sharply handsome guy, in spite of the fact that he is missing his front teeth and has the posture of al dente spaghetti. In 1994, Laroche and three Seminole Indians were arrested with rare orchids they had stolen from a wild swamp in south Florida ...
1998; 284 p.; isbn:0679447393 More Information |
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The bluest eye
Toni Morrison ; with a new afterword by the author
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It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove--a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others--who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning ...
1993; 215 p.; isbn:0679433732 More Information |
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Our town : a play in three acts
Thornton Wilder.
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The author's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama portrays life in a small New Hampshire town during the early 1900s
1998; 121 p.; isbn:0060929847 More Information |
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Three plays
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975
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274 p; |
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Fences : a play
by August Wilson ; introduction by Lloyd Richards
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The author of the 1984-85 Broadway season's best play, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom , returns with another powerful, stunning dramatic work that has won him new critical acclaim and the Pulitzer Prize. The protagonist of Fences , Troy Maxson, is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be-to survive. For Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America ...
1986; 101 p.; isbn:0452264014 More Information |
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Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio : with variant readings and annotations
edited by Ray Lewis White
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Named a best reprint of 1997 by Library Journal.
1997; 230 p.; isbn:0821411802 More Information |
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