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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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obviously there is reason for concern, but before I go leaping to conclusions, there is data to analyze.

I guess my biggest shock is that there is any way that people broke Clinton's way in the media environment of the last three days.

by BooMan on Tue Jan 8th, 2008 at 11:48:06 PM EST
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I don't find it such a shock. Though a long-time Clinton-loather (both of 'em) I'm finding myself more and more sympathetic to her every time sexist drivel is directed at her by the boyz. If Edwards drops out Clinton might well get my vote, if not enthusiastic support, in the primary. I'd bet that I'm not the only one and that she gained thousands of votes from people disgusted by media reaction to her "emotional display" yesterday.
by librarylil (librarylil at geemale ) on Wed Jan 9th, 2008 at 12:29:27 AM EST
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I'm not going to vote for Hillary but early tonight I found myself hoping that she wasn't blown away and that she maybe could pull off a miracle and come within 5 of Obama.  And I felt that way because I was disgusted by the media coverage of her emotional moment. Good god, you would have thought the woman broke down sobbing the way they talked about it.  

Unfortunately, she did better than I wanted tonight so I'll have to watch those good thoughts for her next time, lol.  But I don't find myself distraught over her win tonight.

And I still think Super Tuesday will be her last stand.  

by maryb2004 on Wed Jan 9th, 2008 at 12:43:41 AM EST
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Yup be careful what you wish for! As soon as I wrote that I'd vote for Clinton I wanted to take it back. I couldn't vote for her in the primary. I don't think I could. It just makes me so mad though, the sniggering condescending idiocy she has to put up with. I think she's very cool about it, and I admire that.
by librarylil (librarylil at geemale ) on Wed Jan 9th, 2008 at 12:59:45 AM EST
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Me too, hence my preference for explanation #1.

"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 Wed Jan 9th, 2008 at 12:13:48 AM EST
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Women were 57% of the vote according to CNN's exit pollsand she took 46% of them.  Obama only took 34%.  It was enough to put her over.

It's possible that the demographics of her internal polling didn't match actual turnout of women.  Or it's possible that many of those women were still reflecting as undecideds.  There was a large number of undecideds when the polls opened this morning.  Something like 14%.

by maryb2004 on Wed Jan 9th, 2008 at 12:26:16 AM EST
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Btw, Mark Crispin Miller and others in the evoting community are all abuzz about this. Believe me, we have a right to be suspicious.

"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 Wed Jan 9th, 2008 at 12:29:28 AM EST
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