ISSUE ORIENTED BOOK LIST
Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer’s Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty – Scott Turow
Debating the Death Penalty: Should America Have Capital Punishment? - Hugo Adam Bedau
Tragic Indifference : One Man's Battle with the Auto Industry over the Dangers of SUVs - Adam Penenberg
High and Mighty: SUVs--The World's Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way - Keith Bradsher
FatLand: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World – Greg Critser
Food Fight: The Inside Story of the Food Industry, America’s Obesity Crisis and What We Can do About it – Kelly Brownell
Diet For A New America - John Robbins
The Great American Detox Diet - Alex Jamieson
Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser
Don’t Eat This Book - Morgan Spurlock
Chew on This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know About Fast Food - Eric Schlosser
Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health - Marion Nestle
A Consumer’s Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America - Lizabeth Cohen
Affluenza: The All Consuming Epidemic – John De Graaf
Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids: American Teenagers, Schools, and the Culture of Consumption - Murray Milner
Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture - Juliet B. Schor
The Sponsored Life: Ads, Tv, and American Culture (Culture and the Moving Image) - Leslie Savan
The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don’t Need - Juliet B. Schor
No Logo - Naomi Klein
Branded: The Buying & Selling of Teenagers - Alissa Quart
High Noon for Natural Gas: The New Energy Crisis - Julian Darley
Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering Americans Lives, Minds, and Bodies – Greg Critser
Selling Sickness: How the World’s Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us all Into Patients - Ray Moynihan &Alan Cassels
Life: The Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality – Neal Gabler
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business – Neil Postman
All Grown up and Nowhere to Go: Teenagers in Crisis–David Elkind
A Tribe Apart: A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence – Patricia Hersch
The Disappearance of Childhood - Neil Postman
The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager – Thomas Hine
Generation Me: Why Today’s Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled and More Miserable Than Ever Before – Jean Twenge
The Culture of Fear - Barry Glassner
Coercion - Douglas Rushkoff
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture - Ariel Levy
The Gender Knot - Allan G. Johnson
Reviving Ophelia - Mary Pipher
Slut! Growing up Female with a Bad Reputation – Leora Tanenbaum
Real Boys - William Pollack
And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students – Miles Corwin
The Working Poor - David Shipler
No Brow - John Seabrook
One Nation, Underprivileged - Mark Robert Rank
Nickel & Dimed: On Not Getting by in America - Barbara Ehrenreich
Culture Jam - Kalle Lasn
Why White Kids Love Hip Hop: Wangstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America–Bakari Kitwana
Slam Dunks and No-Brainers: Pop Language in Your Life, the Media, and Like . . . Whatever - Leslie Savan
"Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of RacialIdentity – Beverly Daniel Tatum
The End of Education: Refining the Value of School – Neil Postman
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology – Neil Postman
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community - Robert Putnam
Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy - Matthew Scully
The Cheating Culture : Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead - David Callahan