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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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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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I love this site, but it brings me great sadness that you find a dog's brutal death amusing.  We consider our dogs to be family members, and the fact that you can make a joke out of a brutal killing by Blackwater most disheartening.  I will be deleting you from my bookmarks.  
by rosie0542 on Wed Dec 19th, 2007 at 11:04:35 AM EST
I had a rough day yesterday, spending about 10 hours in the emergency room and OR waiting room.  The only humor I found in it was dark humor.
by BooMan on Wed Dec 19th, 2007 at 11:23:17 AM EST
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The only humor I found in it was dark humor.

Many of us who do emergency work find its a way we can cope, long term. I'm sure a lot of people would be appalled, but you get by the best you can.

On the other hand, I've never become callous and probably have more reverence for life in general, human or animal, than before and for that I'm grateful.

Glad to hear CBtY is doing well. The laparoscopy scar won't be nearly as cool to show off as the old fashioned  incision would have been, but he'll be up & about much sooner:-)    

"I never trust people who don't laugh." Maya Angelou, March 5, 2009

by Indianadem on Wed Dec 19th, 2007 at 07:30:40 PM EST
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It is a sad commentary on our priorities when a dog's shooting is given similar coverage in the media as that of numerous Iraqis.  Not that the dog's death is not heinous, but that we consider some human beings to be so readily expendable for our dear leader's misadventure in the middle east.  Just sayin'.

On another note, I know how much the writer of this post adored his Newf (click on "about" in the upper right corner to see a pic), and loves the other dogs he's known too. Knowing that BooMan spent 12 hours in the emergency room and surgical waiting room with someone with appendicitis yesterday, I would hope that people will just realize that this was a poor word choice at the end of an excruciatingly long day and cut him a break.  I know I've misspoken plenty of times in my life...and not with ill intent.

Peace.

"Life is always better with clean pants."

by CabinGirl on Wed Dec 19th, 2007 at 12:21:32 PM EST
[ Parent ]
Glad to hear all went well.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt
by Steven D on Wed Dec 19th, 2007 at 02:22:03 PM EST
[ Parent ]
Glad everything went well CG and that long day is over.  As for Boo's remark, well I rather thought when he said 'funny' he really meant just the opposite  and that the story about the dog was a sick/sorry commentary on all that is happening in Iraq. I certainly didn't think he meant that it was really 'funny' in any way except as he said very very black humor type thing.

'Poverty is the worst form of violence'--Gandhi
by chocolate ink on Thu Dec 20th, 2007 at 02:32:25 PM EST
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Yeah - it is sad. But many of us find a real correlation between the way people treat animals & the way they treat people.

Someone (or some group) that callously hurts, mistreats or kills animals probably has serious problems in their relations with people too.

Granted, we already know that about Blackwater - this incident confirms it.

by sidewinder on Thu Dec 20th, 2007 at 11:17:03 PM EST
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