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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 WMD in Iraq:

The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
by Ron Suskind

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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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


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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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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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I saw Nawaf Obaid a couple weeks ago give a talk at the Wilson center in DC.  Two things he said that stuck with me: first, that, despite Iranian training for the Shi'ite militias, the Sunni insurgents were much more effective, as well as outnumbering the Shiites 80,000 to about 30,000 or so.  Essentially the Sunnis have the military advantage and the Shi'ites have the demographic advantage, which could lead to a bloody stalemate in the event of unrestricted civil war.

Second, the Saudis want to give aid, etc to Iraq, and have money in escrow accounts, but they just don't know who to give it to.  They feel that if they give it to Sunnis, it will fund the insurgency and they will be stabbing the USA, their ally, in the back.  Obviously the Saudis won't give aid to Shi'ite groups and help fund a Shi'ite crescent.  I guess if the US pulls out, the Saudis won't feel obligated to withhold aid from the Sunnis anymore.

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by a517dogg (adrian [dot] r [dot] martin [at] gmail [dot] com) on Wed Nov 29th, 2006 at 10:03:56 AM EST
Breaking News: Al Maliki  teeters; al Sadr makes good his promise to boycott Iraq government if Bush-Al Maliki meeting is held.

Lawmakers and cabinet ministers loyal to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have suspended participation in parliament and the government to protest Prime minister Nouri al-Maliki's summit with U.S.
President George Bush.
[.]

"A statement issued Wednesday by the 30 lawmakers and five Cabinet ministers said their action was necessary because the meeting constituted a "provocation to the feelings of the Iraqi people and a violation of their constitutional rights." The statement did not explain that claim."  
(emphasis added)

Over in Riga, Latvia for NATO meetup where BBC reported Bush "berated NATO members", Bush had vowed not to pull troops out of Iraq "until the mission is complete"

Thank the Karma gods, he didn't say "until mission accomplished."  Back on the JD juice?

Thinkprogress points out that Senator John Warner,(R-VA) a staunch Bush supporter has just nixed "Stay the course"  `our soldiers sailors and airmen should not be in there risking their lives to stop a civil war.'

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

by idredit on Wed Nov 29th, 2006 at 11:00:24 AM EST
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