The following books are available at the campus bookstore and on reserve at the library. If you obtain these books elsewhere, be sure that their ISBN numbers or editions match those listed below. Other readings will be made available in class or on Blackboard.

Gregg Easterbrook, The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse (Random House, 2004). ISBN: 0812973078.

John de Graaf et al., Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic, 2nd ed. (Berrett-Koehler, 2005). ISBN: 1576753573.

Joanne B. Ciulla, The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work (Three Rivers, 2001). ISBN: 0609807374.

Steven Mintz, Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood (Belknap, 2006). ISBN: 0674019989.

Judith Warner, Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety (Riverhead, 2006). ISBN: 1594481709.

Robert N. Bellah et al., Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life, updated ed. (University of California Press, 1996). ISBN: 0520205685.

David Brooks, On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense (Simon & Schuster, 2005). ISBN: 0743227395.

 

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