 | Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $4.95 Valuable insights about life in the projects and "survival behavior," as well as social injustice (e.g. Chicago housing projects demolition).
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 | The Shelter of Each Other by Mary Pipher
Buy used from: $0.01 Once upon a time, we knew our neighbors and were aware of details about their lives. Today, we are more likely to know about the lives of celebrities.
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 | Are Men Necessary?: When Sexes Collide by Maureen Dowd
Buy new: $25.95 / Used from: $0.01 Less about men, more about feminism and some of the strange byroads it's taken (from hating Barbie to trying to BE Barbie)
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 | The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food by Jennifer 8 Lee
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $2.24 The American version of Chinese food isn't Chinese at all... Fortune cookies come from Japanese origin, General Tsao's Chicken was created to cater to American tastes, and chop suey is "the biggest culinary joke played on one culture by another."
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 | America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction by Jon Stewart
Buy used from: $0.01 Loved this hilarious satire of American history!
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 | God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It by Jim Wallis
Buy new: $20.24 / Used from: $0.01 God is definitely NOT a Republican.
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 | The Good Son: A Complete Parenting Plan by Michael Gurian
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $0.01 How to understand the unique nature of boys, without pathologizing them.
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 | The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do About It by M. Gigi Durham
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