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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

Check out
Powell's new section:
NEW FAVORITES

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.


Great Deals
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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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Check out Powell's
"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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name brand clothing,
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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
Banned Books * Are you a fan of Film Noir, Art House, Documentaries or Hong Kong Action? * Searching for a long-lost children's book or a first printing of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue on vinyl? Find it at Alibris!

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"those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it..."

What scares me more though is that last time I checked, 14% of Americans had no problem with the government spying on US citizens -- for those 14%, nothing is too far in the "war on terror"...even making war on Americans within our own borders... (Although a ray of hope -- it's down from 20% earlier...)

I'm gonna tell all you fascists, you may be surprised People all over this world are getting organized -- Wilco

by Cali Scribe on Fri Dec 16th, 2005 at 01:37:49 PM EST
"...those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it...

I often wonder why people seem to need to repeat that forgettable old saw over and over again.  As if they couldn't remember it the first time and are thus doomed to repeat it forever. It is so full of holes. Those who do not remember can repeat nothing.

So I applied William Burroughs' cutup method to the phrase. Do you know about this technique? Google <"William S. Burroughs" + cutup> for plenty. Burroughs found that if you take any cant writing and rerarrange its words at random, the truth will inevitably seep through the cracks. Then you rearrange and edit it a little, and presto!!!

The real deal appears.

Try it with any bullshit phrase, article, speech or press release. Works like a charm.

Here's what I got.

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Those Who

Those who do not redo the past are doomed to repeat it...

Remember.

The past are those who do not remember the past.

Those who do not remember do not remember.

Those do not remember the past are doomed to not remember.

Repeat it...

The past are those who do not remember.

Those who are the past do not remember.

Remember.

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Yup.

'Those who do not redo the past are doomed to repeat it..."

Sound somehow...familiar?

From Without a Doubt, a NY Times Mag article written by  Ron Suskind in October 2004 about a conversation he had with a"senior adviser to Bush".

The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.''

Keep remembering, folks.

The media will be only too happy to oblige.

Q-"What exactly was it that Mr. Libby did or didn't say to Mr Novak about whether or not he remembered to forget whether Mr. Rove was going to not remember not to say something to Ms. Novak?"

A-"ZZZZZzzzzzz..."

Meanwhile back at the ranch, Karl and the boys rove through their own version of the future.

"Those who do not redo the past are doomed to repeat it..."

Yup.

AG

Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.-Mae West

by Arthur Gilroy (arthurgilroy<at>earthlink.net) on Sat Dec 17th, 2005 at 12:06:12 AM EST
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