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Kansas Anymore: Dark Arts, Sex Spells,
Money Magic, and Other Things Your
Neighbors Aren't Telling
You
by Christine
Wicker
Magic has stepped out of the movies,
morphed from the pages of fairy tales, and
is more present in America today than you
might expect. Soccer moms get voodoo head
washings in their backyards, young
American soldiers send chants toward pagan
gods of war, and a seemingly normal family
determines that they are in fact elves.
National bestselling author and
award-winning religion reporter Christine
Wicker leaves no talisman unturned in her
hunt to find what's authentic and what's
not in America's burgeoning magical
reality.
From the voodoo temples of New Orleans
to the witches' covens of Salem to a
graveyard in north Florida, Wicker probes
the secrets of an underground society and
teaches lessons she never dreamed could be
taught. What she learns repels her,
challenges her, and changes her in ways
she never could have imagined. And if you
let it, it might change you, too.
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Fast Food
Nation
On any given day, one out of four
Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal
at a fast-food restaurant, without giving
either its speed or its thriftiness a
second thought. Fast food is so ubiquitous
that it now seems as American, and
harmless, as apple pie. But the industry's
drive for consolidation, homogenization,
and speed has radically transformed
America's diet, landscape, economy, and
workforce, often in insidiously
destructive ways.
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Balsamic
Dreams: A Short But Self-important History
of the Baby Boomer
Generation
As witty as Michael Lewis, more
sarcastic than Bobos in Paradise,
bloodthirsty pop culture critic Joe
Queenan talks trash about his generation
and its "lifestyle über alles
philosophy" in his career-capstone screed,
Balsamic Dreams. And what
distinguishes the baby boomers, in
Queenan's acerbic opinion? "They don't
ever actually want anything. They just
want a huge number of choices.... They
have to videotape everything."
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You Are
Being Lied To: The Disinformation Guide To
Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes
& Cultural Myths
An iconoclastic expose of some of our
most cherished cultural, political,
social, and institutionally cherished
errors of fact. Here revealed is the often
times startling truth about our most
commonly held mistaken beliefs ranging
from errors of science (the "Big Bang" is
not an airtight fact); to religion (there
is no hidden code in the Bible); to
national security (hackers do not pose a
grave threat to the nation and most
terrorists are not Middle Eastern); to
medicine (Alcoholics Anonymous is far from
being as effective as popular opinion
supposes); to the environment (thousands
of species have not become extinct because
of deforestation).
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