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Find textbooks at Alibris!

NOTE: Overstock bests Amazon's prices and is "blue."

THE BOOKS WITH "BUZZ":
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Senator Edward M. Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal story:

True Compass: A Memoir
by Edward M. Kennedy.

Read Barack Obama's vision for America:

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Barack Obama

Boran2 and maryb2004 recommend:

The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime
by Jasper Fforde

Must-have information for all presidents-and citizens-of the twenty-first century?

Physics for Future Presidents: The Science behind the Headlines
Richard A. Muller

rae recommends:

Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
by Morris Berman.

On BooMan’s shelf:

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin

This looks interesting:

Adventure Divas
by Holly Morris

Here’s a good one from
Elizabeth Gilbert:

Eat Pray Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert

"Crash" * Best Motion Picture, Academy Awards * Only $11.79 at Overstock * 2006 SAG Winner, Best Ensemble

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Selected new arrivals at 30% off

Recommended by Indianadem and ejmw:
The Conscience of a Liberal
by Paul Wellstone

From northcountry’s bookshelf:

The New Golden Age:
The Coming Revolution Against
Political Corruption and Economic Chaos
by Ravi Batra

A novel about contractors in Iraq from the woman that runs The Spy That Billed Me:

Outsourced: A Novel
from RJ Hillhouse.


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Find mystery novels by Nancy Pickard ("Kansas")



Challenging Empire: How People, Governments, and the UN Defy US Power by Phyllis Bennis (interviewed on DN!)


Featured by Keith Olbermann, New (Powell's Sale): Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower by William Blum (whose other books merit serious consideration)


"Explosive" State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration
by James Risen


The book the CIA doesn't want you to read: Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander
Larry Johnson's review


BT's all-time best seller:

PERMACULTURE:
A Designers' Manual

$79.95 * Sale: $59.95


Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History (Third Edition)


The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor And Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!


The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
by Timothy Egan


Green Press Initiative
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Journalistas: 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting by Women Journalists by Eleanor Mills * NYT review


Bury Me Standing: the Gypsies & Their Journey


1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus



Brokeback Mountain
by Annie Proulx
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"At The Movies"


Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World by Noam Chomsky (Power & Terror: Post 9-11 Talks)


The Price of Privilege:

How Parental Pressure and
Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of
Disconnected and Unhappy Kids

by Madeline Levine


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We listened to PEN American Center's "State of Emergency" and found 1940s books by Curzio Malaparte only at Alibris. (Selection (MP3) excerpted from "The Skin.")

Alibris - Books You Thought You'd Never Find
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and you should get huge props for tackling it and giving insight into this incident.

While beheading of schoolgirls is a horrific and inexcusable thing, it is not unique or a recent phenomenon within the context of the history of Indonesian ethnic rivalries, and not likely to have any relation to the Arabian or even the Indonesian Resistance.

This is not to say that Indonesia has not received its share of US interference, but simply that it is such a very large and complex country, that there are many things that go on there that have nothing to do with the US.

one man's conspiracy is another man's business plan
Blog updated as needed

by DuctapeFatwa (DuctapeFatwa@yahoo.com) on Mon Oct 31st, 2005 at 09:37:21 PM EST
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Thanks for the compliment. :-)

I had the pleasure of living on Ambon (island & capital of Maluku) for 2 months while completing my Honour's research there, looking at models for implementing better coastal zone management. I had a wonderful time, and as it was 1996, unbenknownst to me, I was witnessing the final chapter of ethnic and religious harmony in the island group before violence erupted on Ambon in 1997. I still don't know to this day if everyone I cared about there made it out ok - I was staying with a christian family.

An interesting fact that reflects beautifully how stark the cultural differences are: Polynesian and Melanesian people can of course naturally sing in absolutely wonderful and complex harmonies; the Javanese cannot at all. So because the Javanse dominate, all Indonesians are specifically banned from singing the national anthem with harmonies, the pretext being "it's our anthem of unification" - and that ban is there of course to deny an integral part of polynesian/melanesian culture.

"this just can't get more disturbing!" - Willow

by myriad (imogenk at wildmail dot com) on Mon Oct 31st, 2005 at 11:11:27 PM EST
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General Wiranto is the best singer of all genocidal maniacs in history.  If you like the old standards, done the old way, he is your Indonesian Michael Buble.

Forget that "Feelings" fiasco. His album is perfect for entertaining elders whose musical tastes stayed stuck on Al Martino and roses and moonlight and you dear.

It is available for download from any of the usual places. "Flamboyan" is my favorite track.

one man's conspiracy is another man's business plan
Blog updated as needed

by DuctapeFatwa (DuctapeFatwa@yahoo.com) on Mon Oct 31st, 2005 at 11:22:34 PM EST
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