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Presents a collection of essays that cover the issues surrounding Abu Ghraib Prison.
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9781556435508 | North Atlantic Books, January 7, 2005, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Presents a collection of essays that cover the issues surrounding Abu Ghraib Prison.

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9780394714530 | Random House Inc, February 1, 1971, cover price $3.50

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Focuses on the world of white-collar unemployment as seen through the eyes of the unemployed, describing the woes of 'surplus' employees who are forced to confront the realities of financial hardship with few social supports or security.
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9780805076066, titled "Bait And Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream" | Metropolitan Books, September 1, 2005, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Focuses on the world of white-collar unemployment as seen through the eyes of the unemployed, describing the woes of 'surplus' employees who are forced to confront the realities of financial hardship with few social supports or security.

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9780805081244, titled "Bait And Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream" | Owl Books, July 25, 2006, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Focuses on the world of white-collar unemployment, describing the woes of 'surplus' employees who are forced to confront the realities of financial hardship with little social support or security.

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9780792737476 | Chivers Audio Books, March 30, 2009, cover price $64.95
9780792737469 | St Martins Pr, February 28, 2006, cover price $39.95
9781593977290, titled "Bait And Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream" | Unabridged edition (St Martins Pr, September 7, 2005), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Focuses on the world of white-collar unemployment as seen through the eyes of the unemployed, describing the woes of 'surplus' employees who are forced to confront the realities of financial hardship with few social supports or security.
9781593977306, titled "Bait And Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream" | Abridged edition (St Martins Pr, September 7, 2005), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Focuses on the world of white-collar unemployment as seen through the eyes of the unemployed, describing the woes of 'surplus' employees who are forced to confront the realities of financial hardship with few social supports or security.

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9781593977313 | St Martins Pr, December 30, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Barbara Ehrenreich+s Nickel and Dimed explored the lives of low-wage workers.
9781593977917 | Abridged edition (St Martins Pr, September 7, 2005), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Barbara Ehrenreich+s Nickel and Dimed explored the lives of low-wage workers.
9781593977528, titled "Bait And Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream" | Unabridged edition (St Martins Pr, September 6, 2005), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Focuses on the world of white-collar unemployment as seen through the eyes of the unemployed, describing the woes of 'surplus' employees who are forced to confront the realities of financial hardship with few social supports or security.

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A study of the human attraction to violence and war ranges from the human sacrifices of the ancient world to the Holocaust, tracing the impulse to slaughter to the blood rites enacted by the earliest human hunters. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.
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9780805050776 | Henry Holt & Co, May 1, 1997, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Traces the evolution of war from ancient symbolic sacrifices to contemporary total war
9780756754389 | Diane Pub Co, January 1, 1997, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The author of Fear of Falling traces the evolution of human warfare from an elite religion of a privileged caste reenacting the experience of predation to a rite of mass worship that we know today as nationalism.

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9780805057874 | Reprint edition (Henry Holt & Co, May 1, 1998), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: A study of the human attraction to violence and war ranges from the human sacrifices of the ancient world to the Holocaust, tracing the impulse to slaughter to the blood rites enacted by the earliest human hunters

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Product Description: Americans are a positive people -- cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat. This is our reputation as well as our self-image. In this utterly original take on the American frame of mind, Barbara Ehrenreich traces the strange career of our sunny outlook from its origins as a marginal nineteenth-century healing technique to its enshrinement as a dominant, almost mandatory, cultural attitude, and exposes the downside of irrational optimism...read more
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9781410424709 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, March 17, 2010), cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Americans are a positive people -- cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat.
9780805087499 | 1 edition (Metropolitan Books, October 13, 2009), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A sharp-witted knockdown of America’s love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realismAmericans are a “positive” people—cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: this is our reputation as well as our self-image.

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Product Description: A sharp-witted knockdown of America’s love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realismAmericans are a “positive” people—cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: this is our reputation as well as our self-image. But more t...read more
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9781427208361 | Unabridged edition (St Martins Pr, October 13, 2009), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: A sharp-witted knockdown of America’s love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realismAmericans are a “positive” people—cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: this is our reputation as well as our self-image.

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Product Description:    In this exciting sequel to their underground bestseller, Witches, Midwives, and Nurses, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English document the tradition of American sexism in medicine before and after the turn of the century. Citi...read more
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9780912670201 | Feminist Pr, June 1, 1977, cover price $6.95 | About this edition:    In this exciting sequel to their underground bestseller, Witches, Midwives, and Nurses, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English document the tradition of American sexism in medicine before and after the turn of the century.

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9780716785354 | Package edition (Worth Pub, December 28, 2005), cover price $159.05

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Product Description: A brilliant and insightful work that examines the insecurities of the middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the past two decades, Fear of Falling traces the myths about the middle class to their roots in the ambitions and anxieties that torment the group and that have led to its retreat from a responsible leadership role...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780394556925 | Pantheon Books, July 1, 1989, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A brilliant and insightful work that examines the insecurities of the middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the past two decades, Fear of Falling traces the myths about the middle class to their roots in the ambitions and anxieties that torment the group and that have led to its retreat from a responsible leadership role.

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9780060973339 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, September 1, 1990), cover price $13.50 | About this edition: A brilliant and insightful work that examines the insecurities of the middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the past two decades, Fear of Falling traces the myths about the middle class to their roots in the ambitions and anxieties that torment the group and that have led to its retreat from a responsible leadership role.

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A history of the experts, largely men, who have given professional advice to women making the point that this advice has been unscientific, arrogant and generally self-serving
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9780385126519 | Reissue edition (Anchor Books, April 1, 1989), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A history of the experts, largely men, who have given professional advice to women making the point that this advice has been unscientific, arrogant and generally self-serving

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An updated history of the experts, largely men, who have given professional advice to women makes the point that this advice has been unscientific, arrogant, biased, and generally self-serving and exposes the myths told to women in the name of science. Original.
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9781400078004 | Anchor Books, January 4, 2005, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: An updated history of the experts, largely men, who have given professional advice to women makes the point that this advice has been unscientific, arrogant, biased, and generally self-serving and exposes the myths told to women in the name of science.

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Product Description: FDR's Four Freedoms--Freedom of Speech, Freedom to Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear--were presented to the American people in his 1941 State of the Union address, and they became the inspiration for a second bill of rights, extending the New Deal and guaranteeing work, housing, medical care, and education...read more
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9780275989118 | Praeger Pub Text, November 30, 2006, cover price $24.98 | About this edition: FDR's Four Freedoms--Freedom of Speech, Freedom to Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear--were presented to the American people in his 1941 State of the Union address, and they became the inspiration for a second bill of rights, extending the New Deal and guaranteeing work, housing, medical care, and education.

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9781597972178, titled "The Four Freedoms Under Siege: The Clear and Present Danger from Our National Security State" | Potomac Books Inc, February 6, 2009, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: FDR's Four Freedoms--Freedom of Speech, Freedom to Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear--were presented to the American people in his 1941 State of the Union address, and they became the inspiration for a second bill of rights, extending the New Deal and guaranteeing work, housing, medical care, and education.

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Two social scientists chart the consequences of the global economy on women across the world, revealing the underground economy that has turned many poor women into virtual slaves. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.
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9780805069952 | 1 edition (Metropolitan Books, January 1, 2003), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Two social scientists chart the consequences of the global economy on women across the world, revealing the underground economy that has turned many poor women into virtual slaves.

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9780805075090, titled "Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy" | 2 reprint edition (Owl Books, January 1, 2004), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Two social scientists chart the consequences of the global economy on women across the world, revealing the underground economy that has turned many poor women into virtual slaves.
9781862075887 | Granta Books, July 1, 2003, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In a world shaped by mass migration and economic exchange on an ever- increasing scale, women are moving around the globe as never before.

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An analysis of recent cultural evolution argues that the abandonment by men of the traditional male commitment to the 'breadwinner ethic' has had the greatest impact on changing sex roles (view table of contents)
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9780385176149 | Anchor Books, May 1, 1983, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: An analysis of recent cultural evolution argues that the abandonment by men of the traditional male commitment to the 'breadwinner ethic' has had the greatest impact on changing sex roles

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9780385176156, titled "Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment" | Reprint edition (Doubleday, May 1, 1984), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: An analysis of recent cultural evolution argues that the abandonment by men of the traditional male commitment to the 'breadwinner ethic' has had the greatest impact on changing sex roles

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Product Description: The first novel by the bestselling author of Fear of Falling and The Worst Years of Our Lives is a futuristic thriller about science, love, politics, and social disarray. "An intriguing fusion of subject and style."-- Entertainment Weekly.
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9780374181550 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 1, 1993, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: In her search for her son, the inventor of an addictive computer game, Della Markson teams up with her former professor, Alex MacBride, who is himself searching for the papers of a long dead neurobiologist

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9780060976156 | Reprint edition (Perennial, July 1, 1994), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: The first novel by the bestselling author of Fear of Falling and The Worst Years of Our Lives is a futuristic thriller about science, love, politics, and social disarray.

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9780853450863 | Monthly Review Pr, June 1, 1969, cover price $5.95

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9780716784524 | Worth Pub, February 15, 2006, cover price $146.30

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9780716784579 | Worth Pub, February 15, 2006, cover price $109.35

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9780716784487 | Package edition (Worth Pub, December 15, 2005), cover price $117.90

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Essays discuss the background of welfare criticism, the attacks of the New Right, and the importance of maintaining the present welfare system
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9780394553382 | Pantheon Books, August 1, 1987, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss the background of welfare criticism, the attacks of the New Right, and the importance of maintaining the present welfare system

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9780394744506 | Pantheon Books, August 1, 1987, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss the background of welfare criticism, the attacks of the New Right, and the importance of maintaining the present welfare system

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9780716761235 | Package edition (Worth Pub, January 31, 2006), cover price $146.30

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9780716761228 | Package edition (Worth Pub, January 31, 2006), cover price $146.30

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9780716784050 | Package edition (Worth Pub, November 10, 2005), cover price $109.35

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