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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:
Excuse me, but I did NOT use "Barney Miller" as a justification for anything. It is context for the way I viewed the World Trade Center. Until the day of the bombings I had no idea what went on in the World Trade Center, nor did I particularly care any more than I cared what happened inside any of hundreds of other prominent buildings in this country.

As for the rest of your rant, you seem to have completely ignored what I wrote in favor of a jeremihad against television, which while I will admit 94% of it is not worth watching, there is still that 6% that keeps me from ripping the box out of the wall. (None of which, I assure you, is televised news. I couldn't tell you who the anchors on the various network newscasts since Brokaw, Rather and Jennings moved on are, nor does it concern me overly much.)

I suggest you go take that constitutional you mentioned in your original post.

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Our Man In Redmond is now Omir the Storyteller

by Our Man in Redmond (omir.the.storyteller -DORT- gmail -ART- com) on Thu Feb 23rd, 2006 at 04:27:36 PM EST
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Plus, Barney Miller had one of the best theme songs ever.  It was the first thing I ever learned to play on a bass.  
by BooMan on Thu Feb 23rd, 2006 at 04:32:10 PM EST
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IIRC Barney Miller and M*A*S*H were two of the first shows on TV where the focus was as much on the ensemble as it was on the main characters.

As for the bass, yeah, that was one cool bass line. I once made an offhand comment about prominent bass lines to someone and they came back with "Yea, the opening theme from Jefferson Airplane's 'White Rabbit' and . . . "

That's about as far as it got. LOL

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Our Man In Redmond is now Omir the Storyteller

by Our Man in Redmond (omir.the.storyteller -DORT- gmail -ART- com) on Thu Feb 23rd, 2006 at 04:34:49 PM EST
[ Parent ]
"Until the day of the bombings I had no idea what went on in the World Trade Center, nor did I particularly care any more than I cared what happened inside any of hundreds of other prominent buildings in this country."

Precisely.

Deaf, dumb and blind.

SURPRISE!!!

There ARE people who think about such things, and any NUMBER of them are right now ready to die to make well-meaning people like YOU see what is really happening.

I suppose not many well meaning Germans "particularly cared"
what went on in Hitler's beautiful mountaiin home in the Alps...the Berghof...or for that matter in the Reichstag or Gestapo headquarters. THEY were nice buildings too. At least they didn't care much until the food got short and the bombs started raining down on Berlin.

Start caring.

We're getting close to the same place.

AG

Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.-Mae West

by Arthur Gilroy (arthurgilroy<at>earthlink.net) on Thu Feb 23rd, 2006 at 06:09:13 PM EST
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