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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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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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Maronite Cathedral, Aleppo, Syria.

The Maronite church is part of the Roman Catholic Church, but has its own liturgy and rules. The liturgy and hymns are in Aramaic (which is closely related to, and sounds like Hebrew), and Arabic. For a non-Maronite attending a Maronite service at one moment it sounds like you are in a synagogue, and at the next, an Arabic church. In the Maronite church, unlike the mainstream Catholic church, a married man may become a priest, but a priest may not marry once he enters the priesthood. Most of the Maronites are in Lebanon, and prior to 1948 there was a significant Maronite population in Palestine, some of which was allowed to remain after the creation of the State of Israel. There are also Maronites in Syria, as this lovely old cathedral, located in the Jdeida district of Aleppo, indicates.

Scene in the Jdeida district, Aleppo, Syria.

Jdeida, or "new" district, is only called "new" because it is less ancient than the Old City of Aleppo. It is still more than a thousand years old. It is sometimes called the Armenian district because it was originally inhabited mainly by affluence Christian merchant families. Now it is a more mixed district, and one of the favourite upscale shopping and dining areas in the city as well as a very pleasant place to hang out and just wander around. It is one of the most delightful historic parts of Aleppo, one of my favorite cities on earth.

by Hurria (Muslawia@gmail.com) on Sat Nov 22nd, 2008 at 08:28:07 PM EST
Beautiful pictures, Hurria.  Thirty some years ago I went to Europe on a college summer study program.  Somewhere in northern Spain I walked on a Roman aqueduct, still in good repair and I think still in use.  I wondered then and I wonder now, looking at your photos, how many of my nation's creations will still be standing in a thousand years.  Not many, I think, and not so beautiful.

What part of "international war crimes" do you not understand?
by budr on Sun Nov 23rd, 2008 at 12:37:24 PM EST
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