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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


Save 35-70% on
name brand clothing,
footwear, and outdoor gear
at SierraTradingPost.com

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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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Tampopo.....
just in case I haven't mentioned it lately.....
You're such an inspiration and dedicated activist. You exhibit the finest qualities of the pond and it's  froggy dwellers.

SS

Green Grass and High Tides Forever

by supersoling (colorsplash62@optonline.net) on Wed Dec 21st, 2005 at 06:09:32 PM EST
I'll second that.  You've kept pushing us all forward from the beginning- not an easy task!

I'm doing Day 12; I know it's going to be a summary of the other 11 days, but I think I'm going to wrap it up with the fact that we're currently having a consitutional crisis where the president has not only admitted to an impeachable offense, but declared his intention to continue doing so.  We can't afford to put someone like Alito on the Supreme Court ever, and especially not now, when the man who nominated has gone public with his disdain for the Constitution and the rule of law.

Any thoughts?  

"Life is always better with clean pants."

by CabinGirl on Wed Dec 21st, 2005 at 06:52:37 PM EST
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Keep in mind that Alito has already expressed his belief that a president should have "expanded powers" on a freakin' whim... If you look you will find the Alito quotes that back that up. (I know I read them somewhere? lol)

I think doing a summary with that added dimension is the perfect touch given all we now know about bushies crimes.

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by Connecticut Man1 (connecticutman1 AT gmail DOT com) on Wed Dec 21st, 2005 at 07:41:31 PM EST
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In 1989, Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. denounced the high court's decision that year upholding a Watergate-era law that allowed independent counsels to investigate wrongdoing in the White House, arguing that the decision amounted to a ''congressional pilfering" of presidential power...Speaking at a convention marking an anniversary of the Bill of Rights, Alito endorsed the strong view of presidential power described by Justice Antonin Scalia, the only member of the court to vote against the independent counsel law, calling Scalia's opinion ''a brilliant but very lonely dissent." Scalia argued that no president should be subject to a prosecutor who is not also answerable to that president under the Constitution.


"Life is always better with clean pants."
by CabinGirl on Wed Dec 21st, 2005 at 08:01:45 PM EST
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That is an excellent quote - horrifying in content, but supporting your perspective on Alito.

The combination of the past few days revelations on approved domestic spying and Alito's disdain for Congress feels like chains being linked, imprisoning all of us.

It is hard for me to believe senators don't recognize the danger to themselves.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music. (George Carlin)

by tampopo on Wed Dec 21st, 2005 at 09:13:31 PM EST
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The danger to everything we grew up believing about our country.  Remember in social studies class, the teacher would compare the US with the USSR, talking about Pravda, the KGB, how people living in Russia were afraid to talk about anything that disagreed with the government, being spirited away in the night without warning for having dissenting opinion...

And now look.  We have Fox and the NYT and the rest of the MSM covering up Bush's crimes so he could be re-elected, civilians being spied on without court supervision, and the Patriot Act, with it's massive expansion of powers, has yet to expire.  And it only took 5 years to get here.

"Life is always better with clean pants."

by CabinGirl on Wed Dec 21st, 2005 at 09:32:16 PM EST
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