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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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And this is where the Dean Revolution comes into play. If my memory serves, most of the major environmental efforts since the 1970s have been directed at effecting top-down change. Developing environmentalism at the federal level, and then moving it down from there.

To quote the immortal Rincewind, That Doesn't Work.

However, if we start developing environmentalism at the community level and moving up from there to bigger and bigger projects, I think there's hope. A municipal government is a lot easier for a half-dozen people to affect than a federal government, after all. And guess which one's the only one that really matters when, say, attempting to implement a car-free city plan?

As an example, environmentalists in the city of Halifax rammed through a mandatory compost provision a few years back. Citizens are required to separate waste into compostable, recyclable, and other. The compost then gets hauled off and used to create cheap, effective fertilizer. The conservatives in the city screamed bloody murder when the plan first went into action. They shouted from the rooftops about the smell (horrible and everywhere) it would cause and the pests (rats and flies) it would attract. Not a single one of their predictions has come true. Most of the city now appears to be proud of the program, and the hard-line conservatives are reduced to angry grumbling.



Kill because somebody was killed. Get killed because he killed. Do you think peace will ever come like that?
by Egarwaen on Mon Jan 2nd, 2006 at 11:54:33 AM EST
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Agree absolutely.

As I said somewhere else, as energy becomes a scarce resource, the places that adapt best will do relatively well, and stand out as guideposts for others amid a sea of economic morass.

The existence of mass communication media and especially the internet make me hopeful that we can avoid a total societal collapse, because word of new discoveries of how to do things better for less can be spread much more rapidly than previously.

And in a national crisis, I suspect even the forces representing the status quo big businesses (e.g. big oil / Bush-Cheney Republicanism) will see that it's in their own self-interest to allow/encourage innovation so they can have workable solutions to steal and sell everyone else.  The coming decades in that regard will continue on in the well-worn paths of the American past, unless we make a radical break in our social structure, like limiting the rights of giant corporations (a la Thom Hartmann).

Ecological collapse is already happening. Your resentment of the word doesn't change the fact that it is occurring.

by Knoxville Progressive (green_planet_2000 (at) yahoo (dot) com) on Mon Jan 2nd, 2006 at 02:14:08 PM EST
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