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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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Israel just bombed Syria and no one said a thing.  They bombed Iraq in 1981 and nothing happened.  Russia won't do shit.
by BooMan on Tue Oct 16th, 2007 at 07:18:56 PM EST
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So you're saying you don't think Iran will hit back?  'Cause thats the only reason nothing has happened right now in Syria and nothing happened in Iraq in '81 - neither of them hit back.

That may be the case.  If Iran thinks that Russia won't do shit they may not hit back.  On the other hand, the dynamic of the Middle East is looking a whole lot different than it did in '81.  And Syria didn't have anyone saying they were watching their back when they got hit by Israel the other week.

I can understand why Syria isn't hitting back - they've got a weak hand and they know it.  Iran - I'm not so sure anymore.  Time will tell, I suppose.

by nonynony on Tue Oct 16th, 2007 at 09:36:59 PM EST
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Iran will strike back. Count on it. They haven't been buying all those advanced anti-ship and anti-aircraft missile systems from the Russians and the Chinese just so they can throw up their hands and let them be bombed before they are used.

---Cthulhu for President: Why vote for the lesser evil?
by eodell (eodell at naqada dot org) on Tue Oct 16th, 2007 at 10:13:37 PM EST
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The Russians don't give a damn about Syria. It has no strategic significance in the post-Soviet era, much as Israel is irrelevant to US interests now (though Washington seems to be slower to catch on to Israel's irrelevance than Moscow has been to recognize Syria's irrelevance.) Iraq was never much more than an military customer. Iran is central to Russian ambitions in the region. The same could be said of China, to a somewhat lesser degree, and it would not be the first time that Russia and China set aside their mutual antipathy to close ranks in the face of the United States.

The really dangerous misconception that I think a lot of Americans have is that this war is primarily an American concern, when it is in fact a major concern for the other three great powers: Russia, China, and the EU. All of them stand to profit hugely from an American defeat, and the Russians in particular are becoming increasingly bold about exploiting the collapse of American alliances and military and economic power.

---Cthulhu for President: Why vote for the lesser evil?

by eodell (eodell at naqada dot org) on Tue Oct 16th, 2007 at 10:11:23 PM EST
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