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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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Learn the real story behind the CIA's War on Terror:

The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
by Jane Mayer

Read Barack Obama's vision for America:

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Barack Obama

DaveW recommends:

I Am a Strange Loop
by Douglas Hofstadter

Need some laughs?

I Am America (and So Can You!)
by Stephen Colbert

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

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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.


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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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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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Remember Ricin plot of Januari 2003 - during Bush's visit to London - and the link to Ansar al-Salam, Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein before the Invasion of Iraq? Part of the Colin Powell Act before the UNSC as the world watched.

The Guardian April 17, 2005 -- Kamel Bourgass was jailed for life for the murder of Special Branch Detective Constable Stephen Oake, and accused of plotting to manufacture the deadly poison ricin.

Blair's comments come amid concern about the role of the Algerian intelligence services in the case of the 'ricin plot'. The Observer has discovered that an Algerian terrorist supergrass used to locate Bourgass's 'chemical weapons factory' in north London was forced by his country's intelligence service to make a telephone call to Britain to 'provoke' his associates into further action. Mohammed Meguerba was central to the trial of the alleged ricin plotters, which ended last week when eight of nine defendants were cleared. Since December 2002, Meguerba has been in prison in Algeria, where the authorities are known, to torture terrorist suspects.

The news raises the possibility that Meguerba was working for the Algerians as an agent provocateur. Such was the concern about the intelligence coming from Algeria during the trial that the Attorney General appointed an independent barrister to examine its validity. It was this lawyer who advised the prosecution to disclose the phone calls to the defence.

Although the Algerians first told their British intelligence colleagues that two calls had been made for 'welfare' purposes, they changed their story. One call was to 'locate' an individual of interest to Algerian intelligence, and a second to 'provoke' another person.

Despite repeated assertions in the run-up to the Iraq war of 2003 that a chemical weapons factory had been found during a raid on a flat in Wood Green, north London, no trace of ricin was found.

July 20, 2005 -- Appeal lost

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