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Find textbooks at Alibris!

NOTE: Overstock bests Amazon's prices and is "blue."

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Learn the real story behind the WMD in Iraq:

The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
by Ron Suskind

Read Barack Obama's vision for America:

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Barack Obama

DaveW recommends:

I Am a Strange Loop
by Douglas Hofstadter

Need some laughs?

I Am America (and So Can You!)
by Stephen Colbert

rae recommends:

Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
by Morris Berman.

On BooMan’s shelf:

The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End
by Peter W. Galbraith

This looks interesting:

Adventure Divas
by Holly Morris

Here’s a good one from
Elizabeth Gilbert:

Eat Pray Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert

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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.


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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


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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



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by Annie Proulx
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The Price of Privilege:

How Parental Pressure and
Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of
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by Madeline Levine


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Display:
1)Hmmm, not sure about that!  It still seems to me that some sort of molecule or another would have to make direct contact with those nerves in our noses.  I guess I could envision some sort of ray beams, but that is kinda way out there, I think?

2)Wind on Mars is a little easier, because I happen to know a lot more about Mars than I do about quantum ray beams :)

And yes, you are correct that the ice cap on Mars is covered by wind blown dust.  It is also quite probable that the ice cap is similar to our "permafrost" in the tundras of the far northern latitudes of earth, where the moisture is contained within the upper layers of sediments.  Also, some of the water and CO2 at the poles evaporates/sublimates into the atmosphere and then recondenses and freezes on a seasonal cycle.  We'll know a lot better when we get landers on the surface there...

Here's a nice movie of a dust-devil on Mars, captured by the Spirit Rover:



Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. -Margaret Mead

by blueneck on Fri Feb 2nd, 2007 at 10:03:50 PM EST
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Totally cool moving image!

I got to see Mars up close one time through the huge telescope at Griffith Park in Los Angeles. I was the very last one in line at the end of the night, and the guy running the 'scope let me take my time. Then he brought me a pad and pencil and asked me to sketch what I saw.

He opened a book of images of Mars so we could try to find what part of Mars we were looking at. It was one of the coolest little adventures. He was so nice.

I've been waiting for the reopening of the observatory. It was closed for three years, starting not long before I moved back to Los Angeles. But it's open again. I just haven't had the time. Maybe this weekend, come to think of it. I love that place!

"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes

by Real History Lisa (lpeaseRemoveThis@gte.net) on Sat Feb 3rd, 2007 at 03:22:54 AM EST
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I've spent uncountable hours with my eye to a telescope, as an amateur and as an academic.  There is nothing so wondrous as the ability to extend our vision into the universe.  I encourage everyone to seek out the local amateur astronomy clubs and attend public nights at the local institutions of higher learning that may have a telescope available.  To me, it is like the need for everyone to travel to another country other than their own.  It is liberating and broadening and your life will be changed forever.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. -Margaret Mead
by blueneck on Sat Feb 3rd, 2007 at 04:14:51 AM EST
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