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- Anne Fadiman - The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
  
  Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted book explores the clash between a medical center in California and a Laotian refugee ...
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  $14 - $14
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- Ted Conover - Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
  
  A journalist recounts the year he spent as a corrections officer at the notorious prison, offering a true insider's view of the culture of its guards--both idealistic " new jacks " like himself and ...
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  $2 - $62
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- J. Anthony Lukas - Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
  
  The racial turmoil of late 1960s and early '70s Boston is expertly conjured in J. Anthony Lukas's COMMON GROUND, which explores the aftermath of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King in Memphis ...
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  $1.99 - $1.99
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- Clifford Geertz - Works and Lives: The Anthropologist As Author
  
  'America's most renowned cultural anthropologist...analyzes the literary forms of several anthropologist notables.'-Richard A. Scweder, The New York Times Book Review
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  $2 - $22
- Nina Bernstein - The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care
  
  Through a long study of several principles in a landmark court decision, a journalist exposes the gulag of New York's foster care system. The author examines the lost lives that were caught up in the ...
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  $2.42 - $11.96
- Shelby Steele - Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America
  
  In this controversial collection of essays, award-winning writer Shelby Steele tackles the tough question " Why, after 25 years of legal change and ebbing prejudice, are blacks worse off today? " A ...
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  $1.99 - $1.99

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Anne Fadiman - The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted book explores the clash between a medical center in California and a Laotian refugee ...

Ted Conover - Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing

A journalist recounts the year he spent as a corrections officer at the notorious prison, offering a true insider's view of the culture of its guards--both idealistic " new jacks " like himself and ...

J. Anthony Lukas - Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families

The racial turmoil of late 1960s and early '70s Boston is expertly conjured in J. Anthony Lukas's COMMON GROUND, which explores the aftermath of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King in Memphis ...

Clifford Geertz - Works and Lives: The Anthropologist As Author

'America's most renowned cultural anthropologist...analyzes the literary forms of several anthropologist notables.'-Richard A. Scweder, The New York Times Book Review

Nina Bernstein - The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care

Through a long study of several principles in a landmark court decision, a journalist exposes the gulag of New York's foster care system. The author examines the lost lives that were caught up in the ...

Shelby Steele - Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America

In this controversial collection of essays, award-winning writer Shelby Steele tackles the tough question " Why, after 25 years of legal change and ebbing prejudice, are blacks worse off today? " A ...