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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
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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,
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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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Overall, it's just really heartening when a civilized and respectful discourse is taking place between people with differing viewpoints.  It's part of the healing that's so desperately needed for this country.

As for Iraq, obviously, there are no simple or easy solutions.  If I were Queen for a Day, I would get our troops out and get the Red Cross and the UN in there on the double.  

If I were Queen for a Day in a dialogue with GWB helping him save face for his tragic failures as a leader, I would say take responsibility.  That's what we're paying you for, buddy.

by mythmother (mythmother (at) gmail.com) on Thu May 18th, 2006 at 06:53:41 PM EST
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I really believe that the only answer for Iraq is to remove Bush, Rummy, and Cheney from their positions.  I felt that way in November 2004, and nothing has changed.  We cannot prevent disaster with them at the helm.  And I really think it is a matter of repairing the damage and limiting the fallout at this point.  And we can't get started until they are removed from office.  

Impeachment makes policy sense as well as good solid constitutional and moral sense.  

by BooMan on Thu May 18th, 2006 at 06:58:48 PM EST
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I don't think that there is an answer that does not involve disaster.  That is the trouble with lying and cheating and stealing and aggression.  Once you do them it gets the situation you are trying to manipulate out of control.  I say pull out of Iraq, not because I think it will help the situation there much, at best it will start the civil war before the parties are amed more fully and there may be some fewer casualties.  The truth though, is that we have probably doomed that country to extinction as a country.  Whether it ever was a nation-state in the absence of a dictator I don't know.

I can't think of a leader from now or from history that I believe could put this poor place back together again.  The best I can see is that we turn the thing over to the United Nations and get the check book out and start paying reparations.  A journey to the Hague from those you mention would be helpful also.

"I said, 'Wait a minute, Chester, you know I'm a peaceful man.'" R. Robertson.

by NearlyNormal on Thu May 18th, 2006 at 07:30:40 PM EST
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