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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

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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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Display:
Please make sure to include that list when I ask for your "progressive platform" planks.

I would like to see more specifics in that first plank.  What human rights are you talking about outside of "Maslow's pyramid"?  I don't quite understand that last bit about "social security" either; I don't think you're using the term in the conventional way, are you?

k/o

by kid oakland (kidoakland<AT>comcast<DOT>net) on Mon Jul 3rd, 2006 at 02:26:15 AM EST
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--A social guarantee of certain critical human rights on an egalitarian basis. These rights take into account the human condition of certain need fulfillment (such as Maslow's pyrimid), and also the security that is due all people as they age and cannot cope like they did while young.  To put it another way, a social security guarantee as one loses time they cannot ever repeat.

The social security guarantee is best illustrated by looking at the defined benefits pension fiasco going on now in many industries.  For example, pilots who have to retire by federal law at 60 are having their pension contracts violated by bias bankruptcy courts, and the Federal safety net agency will only pay half of what many pilots worked an entire career for.  To make matters worse, the federal safety net agency will not pay until 65, but again pilots have to retire at 60.  The point is that these pilots in their late 50s can not go back and relive their lives.  I suppose they could be more cautious in their next lives, but in this life, they are royally screwed by unfair business practices with the help of conservative government.  

This type of overlooking the reality of aging with the screwing of older workers is becoming epidemic in America, and it is wrong.  A political position of guaranteed fairness in retirement actions is a must, and the basic government sponsored social security program, while important, is not enough!

As for guaranteed human needs fulfillment, I am talking the lower levels of Maslow's needs pyrimid. These are the physiologic needs that people must meet to survive, not the higher level luxury needs.  It is just another way of saying that every citizen must have certain needs fulfilled in order to live a minimally satisfactory and secure life.  For example, a minimum of Food, shelter, safety, healthcare, and ability to compete fairly for an even better life are among those needs fulfillments that everyone should have on an egalitarian basis, IMO.

by NG on Mon Jul 3rd, 2006 at 03:32:23 PM EST
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