San Antonio College Library

The Culture of Excess is the first book to assess the impact of economic and social factors on the nation's psychological well-being. Narcissism, productive narcissism, psychopathy, rigidity and self destruction, perfectionism, the illusion of success, and identity achievement all come into play as Slosar diagnoses the psychological drivers behind this indulgent age, offering his prescription for helping "Generation Me" become "Generation We."--Publisher...

An impressive volume of poems, stories, letters, songs, folktales and short biographies, this book guides African Americans and others solidly and securely through life's moral and ethical dilemmas.

For more than thirty years Peter Marin has been thinking about and writing about the moral life of America. His is a rare voice - a writer of the Left who is also a critic of the Left; a secularist who sees modern secular humanism as a failing movement, nearly bankrupt; a thinker who ventures out into the actual world to engage himself directly in the lives of the people about whom he writes. Most often these are society's voiceless and ignored, the...

Falk (sociology, State University College of New York) explores the social conditions and cultural implications of American football, and discovers that, "football is the essence of the American spirit which has made the United States the leader of the world." He examines the college football athlete and coach, football as a profession, the psychology of the fan, the role of the media in the sport's popularity, and the revenue generated by the football...

America was built on stories: tales of grateful immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, Horatio Alger-style transformations, self-made men, and the Protestant work ethic. In this new book, renowned sociologist Robert Wuthnow examines these most American of stories--narratives about individualism, immigration, success, religion, and ethnicity--through the eyes of recent immigrants. In doing so, he demonstrates how the "American mythos" has both legitimized...

Turning his back on the British legal profession and the requirement to account for every six minutes of his time, Geoff Steward and his lucky five-inch articulated Doctor Who figure go off-grid and on the road across America. For anyone at a crossroads, contemplating a temporary or permanent career break, this affectionate travel romp is essential reading.

What mothers and fathers can do about our deteriorating families and values.

A distinguished political commentator and author of The New Americans reflects on a central dichotomy of American life--a Hard America that is ruled by accountability and competition, and a Soft America that protects people from such reality--arguing that Soft America lives off the productivity, creativity, and competence of Hard America.

In this timely and impassioned book, Dana Mack exposes a disturbing aspect of American society. Embedded in the very institutions that are supposed to be helping parents in the difficult enterprise of child-rearing is a pronounced anti-family bent. Despite the fuss over "family values," Mack argues, we're living in an increasingly family-hating culture that offers little respect or support for parents - that in fact undermines their efforts at a time...

What is America becoming? Or, more importantly, what can she be if we reclaim a vision for the things that made her great in the first place? In America the Beautiful, Dr. Ben Carson helps us learn from our past in order to chart a better course for our future. From his personal ascent from inner-city poverty to international medical and humanitarian acclaim, Carson shares experiential insights that help us understand: what is good about America;...