Lists of Bests: amamik's "Misc. nonfiction" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/25334 Random books on my reading list. Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:12:08 GMT en-us 0 50 76 50 0 One Nation Divisible: What America Was And What It Is Becoming http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1474421 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1474421"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0871544458.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael B. Katz</div> From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/206172 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/206172"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226534650.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Monmonier</div> Burning Books http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1609047 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1609047"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0786422084.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Haig Bosmajian</div> The Antiquities Act: A Century of American Archaeology, Historic Preservation, And Nature Conservation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2644025 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2644025"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0816525617.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> The European Renaissance in American Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1609089 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1609089"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0275984869.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul F. Grendler</div> On Justification: Economies of Worth (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1609145 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1609145"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0691125163.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Luc Boltanski</div> Where Men Hide http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/218357 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/218357"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0231137346.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James B. Twitchell</div> Discrimination by Default: How Racism Becomes Routine (Critical America Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1003391 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1003391"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0814793797.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lu-In Wang</div> The Language of Evaluation: The Appraisal Framework http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1259931 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1259931"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/140390409X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James R. Martin</div> The Body as Material Culture: A Theoretical Osteoarchaeology (Topics in Contemporary Archaeology) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1609281 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1609281"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0521521467.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joanna R. Sofaer</div> Sex Objects: Art And The Dialectics Of Desire http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1300188 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1300188"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0816645264.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jennifer Doyle</div> Flavor of the Month: Why Smart People Fall for Fads http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/576193 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/576193"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0520246268.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joel Best</div> Creators: From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2570631 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2570631"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000JU7MQQ.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul M. Johnson</div> Honor: A History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1297151 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1297151"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1594031428.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Bowman</div> With Amusement for All: A History of American Popular Culture Since 1830 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1484045 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1484045"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0813123976.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leroy Ashby</div> The Americanization of Europe: Culture, Diplomacy, And Anti-americanism After 1945 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1614452 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1614452"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/184545085X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Putting Meat on the American Table: Taste, Technology, Transformation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2455017 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2455017"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0801882400.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45247143_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roger Horowitz</div> The National Fabric: Fashion, Britishness, Globalization (Dress, Body, Culture) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1614577 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1614577"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1845201876.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alison Goodrum</div> Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind And the Novel (Theory and Interpretation of Narrative) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1129042 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1129042"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0814210287.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lisa Zunshine</div> Emerging Adults in America: Coming of Age in the 21st Century (Decade of Behavior) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1479184 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1479184"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1591473292.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Multiculturalism and the Mouse: Race and Sex in Disney Entertainment http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/282861 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/282861"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0292709609.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas Brode</div> The Economics of Illegal Immigration http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1614980 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1614980"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1403920753.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chisa To Yoshida</div> Freedom and Entertainment: Rating the Movies in an Age of New Media http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1614990 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1614990"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0521676541.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen Vaughn</div> Museums, Anthropology and Imperial Exchange http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1614993 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1614993"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0521835917.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Amiria Henare</div> The Contest of Language: Before And Beyond Nationalism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2644180 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2644180"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0268021910.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Freedom to Smoke: Tobacco Consumption And Identity (Studies on the History of Quebec) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1615035 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1615035"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/077352911X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jarrett Rudy</div> Doormen (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1615037 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1615037"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226039692.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Bearman</div> Art and Advertising (Art and... Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1692501 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1692501"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1850435863.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joan Gibbons</div> Fashioning Film Stars: Dress, Culture, Identity http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1615061 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1615061"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1844570681.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> The Hollywood Studio System: A History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1615063 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1615063"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1844570649.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas Gomery</div> Materiality (Politics, History, and Culture) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/163327 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/163327"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0822335425.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel, ed. Miller</div> Too Much Too Young http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1654734 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1654734"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0415310288.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sheila Whiteley</div> The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2834 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2834"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140196013.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leonard Shlain</div> Last Chance to See http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7674 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7674"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345371984.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas Adams</div> Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Arab Middle Class http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2100689 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2100689"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0691121699.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Keith David Watenpaugh</div> How Invention Begins: Echoes of Old Voices in the Rise of New Machines http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2238521 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2238521"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/019530599X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John H. Lienhard</div> Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19599 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19599"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684866005.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean Kilbourne</div> Reading 'Bollywood': The Young Audience and Hindi Films http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2239190 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2239190"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0230001726.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Shakuntala Banaji</div> Everyday Modernity in China (Studies in Modernity and National Identity a China Program Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1438000 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1438000"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0295986026.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English, Second Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52422 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52422"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1594480060.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patricia T. O'Conner</div> The Five People You Meet in Heaven http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21797 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21797"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0751536822.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mitch Albom</div> Witness: For the Prosecution of Scott Peterson http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/572987 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/572987"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000BPG274.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Amber Frey</div> Tales from a Traveling Couch: A Psychotherapist Revisits His Most Memorable Patients http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2250804 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2250804"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393314987.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert U. Akeret</div> The Day I Turned Uncool: Confessions of a Reluctant Grown-up http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25550 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25550"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812967224.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dan Zevin</div> Confessions of a Window Dresser http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/158038 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/158038"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141003626.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Simon Doonan</div> The Planets http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/766877 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/766877"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142001163.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dava Sobel</div> The Power of Myth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10206 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10206"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385418868.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43057146_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Campbell</div> There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10025 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10025"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385265565.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43040799_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alex Kotlowitz</div> The Texas Book: Profiles, History, and Reminiscences of the University (Focus on American History Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2311907 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2311907"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0292714297.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Orientalism (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2487042 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2487042"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141187425.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward W. Said</div>