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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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Display:
Let's separate two issues here.

If someone wants to issue racist statements, whether that's against Jews or African-Americans or anyone else, that should be deplored.  I agree with you that it shouldn't be illegal per se, but definitely to be condemned.

However questioning history is a separate issue.  If someone wants to question the established history of slavery in the USA, should that be illegal? I don't think so.  Of course most people questioning the established historical account of slavery ARE doing so to further a racist agenda.

That being said, there ARE people who do question the established historical record on a number of issues, including WW2 and the persecution of Jews, who do not do it to further a racist agenda.  That this should be a crime in and of itself is wrong in my opinion.

Pax

Night and day you can find me Flogging the Simian

by soj on Wed Jan 18th, 2006 at 02:18:50 AM EST
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That being said, there ARE people who do question the established historical record on a number of issues, including WW2 and the persecution of Jews, who do not do it to further a racist agenda.  That this should be a crime in and of itself is wrong in my opinion.

What do you mean by 'questioning the established historical record' being a crime? It isn't. There are plenty of debates among historians relating to the Holocaust. I think you don't understand what it is you need to do to get prosecuted. Examples are suggesting that there was no systematic extermination of Jews, denying the existence of gas chambers, arguing that the number of Jews killed lies in the hundreds of thousands rather than millions. None of those are an alternative point of view of history any more than saying that the world is ten thousand years old is an alternative view of geology. They are simply lies. Technically I suppose such delusional nonsense could be separate from racism, in the real world, however, those who promote it are inevitably racist.

There is thus a fundamental difference between the Turkish banning of discussing the Armenian genocide and the European banning of Holocaust denial. One seeks to ban speaking the truth because of a chauvinistic insistence on lies, the other criminalizes lying based on racism. In other words one bans a critique of racism, the other bans racist speech. From an abstract freedom of speech point of view both are limits on freedom, but it is wrong to blithely equate the two.

by MarekNYC on Wed Jan 18th, 2006 at 10:48:31 AM EST
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