 | Bowling Alone : The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $4.85 As an artist you find the word "community" is essential. Find out about how it is that this essential may be on a major decline. Very impressive book.
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 | Take the Cannoli : Stories From the New World by Sarah Vowell
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $2.80 Complain about America if you like, you have to take the good with the bad. Sarah's a misanthrope punk/part Native American who learns to somehow appreciate this f*d up country.
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 | No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies by Naomi Klein
Buy used from: $0.94 You can find your true identity. Really. In America, even. The rough part is you have to do some typically un-American things, like read a counter-culture book like this.
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 | Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge--And Why We Must by Kalle Lasn
Buy new: $9.86 / Used from: $0.01 Every time you eat you are feeding your body and mind. In America, that means that (opposed to absorbing a food with cultural history) you're a walking chemical. That's where this books STARTS.
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 | The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living by Dalai Lama
Buy new: $15.57 / Used from: $0.99 I'm a little too lazy to become a Buddist, but this book was an essential slap upside the head. Extremely comforting, even for misanthropes who are afraid of getting sugary: go in with an open mind.
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 | Cosmic Horizons: Astronomy at the Cutting Edge (American Museum of Natural History Books)
Buy new: $19.46 / Used from: $1.01 If you've ever held the faintest interest in what this universe is really like, this book has everything from pictures of Europa to the most accurate picture of the universe. Comes from a great series
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 | Introducing Postfeminism by Sophia Phoca
Buy used from: $4.13 The "Introducing..." series has taken the best concepts of comic art and made it possible to enjoy history. A must have if you've ever said "Feminism" and thought you knew what you were talking about.
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 | Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future by Jennifer Baumgardner
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.26 If you respect your daughters, buy this for them when they go away to college.
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 | Zen Speaks: Shouts of Nothingness by Tsai Chih Chung
Buy used from: $6.92 Another excellent comic-style adaptation, this one based on zen buddism stories and sayings.
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 | A Mother's Gift by Britney Spears
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 A cautionary tale about what happens when you let a materialistic, shallow brat write about tragedy. That's right, it's about a pretty girl who somehow accepts her facially-scarred mom. Burn it.
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