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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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is.  I usually don't bother to read him. But today, he's writing (in his smug supercilious blowhole way) about Deadwood.  An on-site pseudo-report on the so-called inaccuracies of my favorite series.  Tierney decries the profanity, the lawlessness (and probably the sex, though I suspect he's too timid even to type the letters) of Milch's representation and proposes a much more decorous old West than anybody has bothered to imagine.

So can I just say one thing??

Tierney, you stooge, you asshole, don't you know that all writing, all dramaturgy, is always projection, always and only about the writer's view of the world????  What else can he fucking do? Don't you know-- you dope, you patriarchal milquetoast of a sly puss-- that every time a writer like Milch picks a word or a director places a camera that they are leaving out as much as they put in? And that the "West" of more than a hundred years ago was not like what you say it is, either??

Phew.  That felt good. Just that every so often the smugness of these guys gets me down.  Not to mention, the agenda that goes with it. Ack!! Ptui!! (should've remembered not to read it)

by tulip on Sat Jun 25th, 2005 at 09:47:30 AM EST
Tierney make Brooks and Friedman look like Robert Caro.

"If Adolph Hitler flew in today, they'd send a limousine anyway" -- Joe Strummer
by urizon (cognitivediss@gmail.com) on Sat Jun 25th, 2005 at 09:54:39 AM EST
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Not Patrick.

Please visit my blog Penndit
by Newsie8200 on Sat Jun 25th, 2005 at 10:58:59 AM EST
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right you are.  he's got a brother named Patrick.
by tulip on Sat Jun 25th, 2005 at 11:25:36 AM EST
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Really?

Is Patrick as hacktacular as John?

Please visit my blog Penndit
by Newsie8200 on Sat Jun 25th, 2005 at 06:17:51 PM EST
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uh-huh, sort of.  A little better, though.  He got himself in a pickle of a scandal a few years ago with a book he wrote about anthropologists & one particular aboriginal tribe in the rainforest of the Amazon.  Accused the first anthropologists who went there (rather revered in the field) of terrible hugger-mugger with the tribes.  There was a terrific hue and cry from the academics at the time.

I didn't follow it closely & don't know enough about either the subject or the scandal to have formed an opinion.

by tulip on Sun Jun 26th, 2005 at 11:14:44 AM EST
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