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Book cover for Advisory Committee on Human Radiation: The Human Radiation Experiments

The Human Radiation Experiments

Advisory Committee on Human Radiation
Hardcover - $117.95

This book describes, in fascinating detail, a variety of experiments sponsored by the U.S. government in which people were exposed to radiation, often without their knowledge or consent.

Book cover for Eleanor Agnew: Back from the Land

Back from the Land : How Young Americans Went to Nature in the 1970s, and Why They Came Back

Eleanor Agnew
Hardcover - $45.95

When Eleanor Agnew, her husband, and two young children moved to the Maine woods in 1975, the back-to-the-land movement had already attracted untold numbers of converts who had grown increasingly estranged from mainstream American society. This is th ...

Book cover for Eleanor Agnew: Back from the Land

Back from the Land : How Young Americans Went to Nature in the 1970s, and Why They Came Back

Eleanor Agnew
Paperback - $29.95

When Eleanor Agnew, her husband, and two young children moved to the Maine woods in 1975, the back-to-the-land movement had already attracted untold numbers of converts who had grown increasingly estranged from mainstream American society. This is th ...

Book cover for Stanley Aronowitz: Roll Over Beethoven

Roll Over Beethoven : The Return of Cultural Strife

Stanley Aronowitz
Paperback - $54.95

The question of culture has become central for a new generation of scholars raised in a world of television and mass production. At the same time debates about culture have become a point of reference for criticism of current trends in academia and s ...

Book cover for Christopher Myers Asch: The Senator and the Sharecropper

The Senator and the Sharecropper : The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer

Christopher Myers Asch
Hardcover - $46.95



Book cover for Lewis V. Baldwin: Legacy of Martin Luther King, JR.

Legacy of Martin Luther King, JR. : The Boundaries of Law, Politics, and Religion

Lewis V. Baldwin
Paperback - $60.95

The Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. explores the development of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s understanding of the relationship between religion, morality, law, and politics. This fascinating work is part of a broader effort by scholars in various fiel ...

Book cover for Benjamin Barber: The Truth of Power

The Truth of Power : Intellectual Affairs in the Clinton White House

Benjamin Barber
Paperback - $32.95



Book cover for Irving H. Bartlett: Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster

Irving H. Bartlett
Paperback - $40.95



Book cover for Thomas A. Bass: Vietnamerica

Vietnamerica : The War Comes Home

Thomas A. Bass
Paperback - $24.95

The Vietnamese called the Amerasian children of U.S. servicemen bui doi, "the dust of life". Half American and half Asian, they had been abandoned by their fathers to a xenophobic society that ostracized them. Nor was the U.S. government anxious to a ...

Book cover for Bob Batchelor: The 1980s

The 1980s

Bob Batchelor
Hardcover - $107.95

The eighties are seen by many as a time of excess and extremes. From Boy George to Madonna, metal heads to valley girls, and workout clothes to shoulder pads, many pushed the boundaries of what was was conventional. After a decade of war, disillusion ...

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