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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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Yes, you're of course right about the bases. The U.S. bases in Saudi Arabia must have been quite substantial and pricey. They've been abandoned, those in Iraq can also be left behind. There is so much throw-away cash in the U.S. government for such projects no one can expect the people in power to worry their little heads about a couple of billion dollars which have gone to the rich. Isn't that the purpose of the whole excersie. Does anyone know what has happened to the bases in Saudi Arabia? It would be interesting to know.

by Quentin on Thu Mar 15th, 2007 at 10:47:20 AM EST
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It's not that we can't abandon the projects because of the cost, it's that we won't abandon the bases because we built them for strategic reasons which are still valid.

We had a hell of a time getting into Afghanistan because of the lack of cooperation from nearby states and we don't want to be in that position again.

That's why we are making deals for bases in many of the former Soviet Republics as well as places like the Czech Republic.

We only know how to fight with a huge supply chain these days and that means many depots on the way to the battle. Who ever heard of an occupying army setting up McDonald's in a war zone as we have done in Iraq?

Policies not Politics
--- Daily Landscape

by rdf (robert.feinman@gmail.com) on Thu Mar 15th, 2007 at 01:24:50 PM EST
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A few years ago, I read "Rise of the Vulcans" by James Mann. He notes that Wolfowitz was arguing for permanent military bases way back in the 80's. When I read this I finally felt like I had some understanding of why they were so hell bent on the invasion.

So yes, I believe this to be something that most of our establishment politicians understand and have long supported without every feeling the need to give the rest of us a clue about. They long ago sold out any semblance of democracy to the military industrial complex and their commitment to US imperialism.

Doesn't information itself have a liberal bias? Steven Colbert

by NLinStPaul on Thu Mar 15th, 2007 at 06:50:11 PM EST
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Oops, I meant to say that Wolfowitz was agruing for permanent military bases in Iraq way back in the 80's.

Doesn't information itself have a liberal bias? Steven Colbert
by NLinStPaul on Thu Mar 15th, 2007 at 06:51:59 PM EST
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About McDonalds. All through history big and small merchants have followed armies over great distances to sell their wares. Now we have a corporate government and it gives the big corporations access to the consumer and financial wishes and transactions of their military employees. Something like the company store of the past. For a price, of course, as the government is corporate.
by Quentin on Fri Mar 16th, 2007 at 07:03:10 AM EST
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