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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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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.")

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They were replaced by DLC and Blue Dog Democrats, a decided improvement, albeit, one that abandoned southern populist principles along with its racism.

I would firmly disagree with the notion that the DLC and blue dogs are a "decided improvement". They're just as racist and probably more misogynist. (of course they, like all the 'new democrats' have their tokens. I would likewise dispute the notion that the southern Democrats or the country as a whole has overcome the little racism problems and certainly not their gender problems.  Indeed it seems to me that the regressive social attitudes of the south dominate the Democratic party power structure just as much as the GOP's.

I must say that my focus of the past few years of listening to, observing the behaviors of and occasionally interacting with Democratic party operatives and strategists has made me a firm Independent. The Fpagers on TNH and DK (and their abused wives and co-workers) have and continue to provide the material for a great book on what precisely is wrong with the Democratic party and that is useful but it's a little like looking at a long dead body infested with maggots. Unpleasant work but someone should do it.

by the other colleen on Mon Oct 9th, 2006 at 12:37:03 AM EST
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It's not really my job to defend other bloggers but you are painting with a pretty broad brush there.

Are Georgia10, McJoan, Plutonium Page, Marcy Wheeler, SusanG and other FP'ers really misogynists?

Are Markos and Armando and Meteor Blades racists?

And if you can't see any improvement between Richard Russell and Max Cleland, Orval Faubus and Bill Clinton, etc., then I don't know what to tell you.

The DLC, as odious as it is, was built as a way to get the Dems to win in the south again.  The DLC is pro-corporate, pro-empire, pro-Israel...but it is isn't racist, and it at least formally pro-choice.

Madman and I pretty much agree on what is really wrong with the DLC and we seem to agree, for the most part, that economic populism is the best way to win in the south.  What we disagree on is whether or not the best thing for this country is for the left to suffer even worse losses.  I have lost enough, thank you.  

by BooMan on Mon Oct 9th, 2006 at 01:15:18 AM EST
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Are Georgia10, McJoan, Plutonium Page, Marcy Wheeler, SusanG and other FP'ers really misogynists?

Are Markos and Armando and Meteor Blades racists?

no, that was not what I was saying as you well know.

Tell me, Boo, did you come up with this twisted and insane misinterpretation yourself or did you have help?

by the other colleen on Mon Oct 9th, 2006 at 05:49:44 PM EST
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