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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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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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Booman, this is your site....your place you have made for us.  It is up to you to define your ethics.  If you want others of your site to help define it, then it must be known for all, to digest to what your ethics is.  It has to be known ahead of time so no one will call you on it.  All you have to do it be upfront with us, as a whole. (just like your only requirement is not to be a prick)  I do congratulate you for what you so far have done with it.  I believe in you enough to trust your judgment call on this.  However, if I do disagree with you on something, I have enough personal ethics to say so and not go behind your back and say to others my disagreement on the ethics of your decision.  The blogosphere is a new medium for us all to consider as to what is to be the ethicical behavior of most things.(which now involves journalism)  I have read it over the past year, since this site has been made for us.  Many have complimented you on your ethical behavior and at times have had to call you on your judgment on this. (I consider this growing) It usually works out for the best.  If we do have a problem with it, as a group, I feel we have enough faith in you and your cabinet, to talk to you and the group about it.  

Now What is your ethics?  Can you say it is different than that of other sites, be it progressive or democratic or republican?  I applaud the group and you for your most honorable behavior here.  I really do think I understand your position, ethically, morally and otherwise.  If I should be wrong, I stand to be corrected, by you or anyone else.

I have to leave now for I have my Christmas day with my family today.  I hope I have a chance to check in later on today with you all.  For you see, I am ethically bonded to be on call as well.  Unless someone is in a life or death state, I will do my job later on in the day.  I have set my ethics right up front for everyone to know where I stand on this of today's being for me and the job I do.  I could be a prick and refuse to do call all month long.  But you see there is no one...really, no one to do my job, so I have to set my standards for during the holidays and my behavior, trying to be fair and accommodate everyone in concern.

by BrendaStewart (stormyweather1@hotmail.com) on Mon Dec 26th, 2005 at 11:21:56 AM EST
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I don't know.

One reason that I like blogging is that I can write about what I want, and I can write what I want in the way that I want.

So, taking money to promote some politician or policy that I do not like would destroy the whole purpose.  But what about taking money to write about stuff I support?  Well, if I wasn't inclined to write about it, that too would destroy the purpose.  Suddenly I would have homework.

So, I am basically tempermentally disinclined to enter into these arrangements.

But, if someone wants to help lift me out of poverty (and based on my earnings this year I am impoverished) I am willing to listen.  My ethics demand that I disclose any outside financial support.  And my temperment requires that it not come with any strings attached that would require me to support any candidate or policy, or that I would have to cover certain stories.  

That means that I would not accept $2,000 to write an editorial opposing private accounts for social security without disclosing that fact.  And I wouldn't accept the deal because I don't want to have others tell me what to write.

If it was disclosed I don't think it would be unethical.  Just boring.

by BooMan on Mon Dec 26th, 2005 at 11:33:57 AM EST
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