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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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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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Social programming begins in the early years.  Note the need for cross-cultural training for expats.

I have acquired and honed my talents for observing the Kafkaesque nation we have become.
There was a sci-fi movie called "They Live" in which authority wrests control of the population by subliminals in everyday media.
Could I get a job at cognitiveliberty?

Just this morning Boston's own channel seven featured a piece about a mother and son caught attempting to steal one of those donation containers for Mother Against Drunk Driving from a convienience store.  In true fascistic marketing techniques the "newscast" went on to explain how heinous a crime such a thing was.  How this mother could "loose" her son for encouraging such behavior and blah, blah, blah.  They even went so far as to "interview" a normal person spouting out the "how could anyone do that" meme.

Almost every morning now "Nazinews" ruins my morning coffee.

http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/
Thinking people actually have not only a word, but an organization for it.

by Lasthorseman (Lasthorseman@comcast.net) on Wed Oct 10th, 2007 at 08:27:14 PM EST
They Live is an awesome film.

That said, encouraging theft in your children is one of those things society has a right to care about.

by BooMan on Wed Oct 10th, 2007 at 08:30:26 PM EST
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I don't object to that as a concept and perhaps it's a poor illustration of what I see as deliberate media influence.  Most people don't have any media or marketing training.  Kind of like subliminal advertizing.
by Lasthorseman (Lasthorseman@comcast.net) on Wed Oct 10th, 2007 at 08:42:29 PM EST
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What -- it's not OK anymore to want them to grow up to be president?

FDR's response to progressive demands: "I agree. Now go out and make me do it."
by DaveW on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 01:45:11 PM EST
[ Parent ]
Let me just say there are far higher callings.
by Lasthorseman (Lasthorseman@comcast.net) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 05:31:05 PM EST
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