Barbara Ehrenreich

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This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation

Barbara Ehrenreich

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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America

Barbara Ehrenreich

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Bait And Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream

Barbara Ehrenreich

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Abu Ghraib: The Politics Of Torture

Barbara Ehrenreich; Meron Benvenisti; John Gray; Richard Grossinger; Charles Stein; Mark Danner; David Matlin; David Levi Strauss; Brooke Warner

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For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of Experts' Advice to Women

Barbara Ehrenreich; Deirdre English

A provocative new perspective on female history, the history of American medicine and psychology, and the history of child-rearing unlike any other.

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Bait And Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream

Barbara Ehrenreich

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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America

Barbara Ehrenreich

The New York Times bestseller, and one of the most talked about books of the year, Nickel and Dimed has already become a classic of undercover reportage.
Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that any job equals a better life. But how can anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 to $7 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich moved from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, taking the cheapest lodgings available and accepting work as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, nursing-home aide, and Wal-Mart salesperson. She soon discovered that even the "lowliest" occupations require exhausting mental and physical efforts. And one job is not enough; you need at least two if you intend to live indoors.
Nickel and Dimed reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity -- a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate strategies for survival. Instantly acclaimed for its insight, humor, and passion, this book is changing the way America perceives its working poor.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2003, Hardcover - 2001

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Nickel And Dimed: On Not Getting By In America

Barbara Ehrenreich

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Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War

Barbara Ehrenreich

In Blood Rites, Barbara Ehrenreich confronts the mystery of the human attraction to violence: What draws our species to war and even makes us see it as a kind of sacred undertaking? Blood Rites takes us on an original journey from the elaborate human sacrifices of the ancient world to the carnage and holocaust of twentieth-century "total war." Sifting through the fragile records of prehistory, Ehrenreich discovers the wellspring of war in an unexpected place--not in a "killer instinct" unique to the males of our species but in the blood rites early humans performed to reenact their terrifying experience of predation by stronger carnivores. Brilliant in conception, rich in scope, Blood Rites is a monumental work that will transform our understanding of the greatest single threat to human life.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1997, Hardcover - 1997

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The Snarling Citizen: Essays

Barbara Ehrenreich

In this collection of essays, Ehrenreich's uncompromising gaze leaves no dogma untouched, no piety unturned. A sane voice that illuminates the foibles of the 1990s, "The Snarling Citizen" is sure to delight everyone who still believes in the sublime lunacy and promise of humanity.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1995

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The Snarling Citizen

Barbara Ehrenreich

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Kipper's Game

Barbara Ehrenreich

Della Markson is searching for her son, a brilliant, nihilistic computer hacker who has invented an addictive computer game. Her former professor, Alex MacBride, an academic has-been desperately in need of a publication and a drink, is looking for the papers of an obscure, long-dead neurobiologist. As they stumble through a suburban landscape littered with broken marriages and blighted careers, they discover that their personal quests are of great interest to mysterious others, and that they have been drawn into a grand design full of wondrous possibilities and perilous meanings. For Della and Alex live in a hyper-real world of strange portents and accelerating decay. Caterpillars are destroying the trees. A cracked but eerily lucid evangelist preaches apocalypse on a pirate frequency. And in the renowned biological research institute where Della and Alex work, escaped laboratory animals roam the corridors, hazardous wastes leak unchecked, and a lethal new disease is outwitting the researchers. In this menacing yet unsettlingly familiar environment, the search for Della's son and Alex's missing papers turns out to hinge on the ancient quest for the ultimate purpose of human intelligence and life. A startling feat of the imagination from one of our sharpest social observers, Kipper's Game is a daring and sophisticated adventure at the interface of science and metaphysics, human love and the equally human hunger for knowledge.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1994

The Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed

Barbara Ehrenreich

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1990

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Re-Making Love: The Feminization of Sex

Barbara Ehrenreich; Elizabeth Hess; Gloria Jacobs

This provocative book reveals how the real sexual revolution was initiated by women -- not men -- and how it transformed both our behavior and our understanding of what sex means in our lives.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1986

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Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class

Barbara Ehrenreich

An examination of the middle class and why it has turned to the right during the past two decades. "Brilliant social analysis and intellectual history, quite possibly the best on the subject since Tocqueville's."--Chicago Tribune

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1989

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For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women

Barbara Ehrenreich; Deirdre English

A provocative new perspective on female history, the history of American medicine and psychology, and the history of child-rearing unlike any other.

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Other editions: 1978

The Mean Season: The Attack on the Welfare State

Barbara Ehrenreich; Fred L. Block; Richard A. Cloward; Frances Fox Piven

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Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment

Barbara Ehrenreich

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1983

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Women in the Global Factory

Barbara Ehrenreich; Annette Fuentes

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Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers

Barbara Ehrenreich; Deirdre English

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Other editions: Softcover - 1972

The American Health Empire: Power, Profits, and Politics

Barbara Ehrenreich

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The American Health Empire:Power, Profits, and Politics: Power, Profits, and Politics

Barbara Ehrenreich; John Ehrenreich; Health/PAC

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Long March, Short Spring the Student Uprising at Home and Abroad

Barbara Ehrenreich; John Ehrenreich

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