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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
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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,
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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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you're whining at this point, Alexander.

As you hold political opinions that are outside of the mainstream, and as you wish they were not outside of the mainstream, you wish to redefine the paramaters of the political spectrum.  You know by now that I believe wordplay never accomplished a political goal.  It's wanking to approach things that way.

by BooMan on Tue Dec 2nd, 2008 at 04:31:00 PM EST
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If you mean the inside-the-Beltway mainstream, you are right.

Republicans are like fetuses: both are incapable of thought. That's why Republicans are against abortion.
by Alexander on Tue Dec 2nd, 2008 at 05:42:44 PM EST
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But we all use wordplay in politics.  You, of all people, know that.  You are a master of using wordplay Booman.  That's why I like your writing.  And that's why you "played around" with a loaded phrase, "kiddie table" and held up Dennis Kucinich as the symbol of the "far left".   You knew exactly what you were doing. You knew you would get a rise out of those, including many of your readers, who consider themselves liberal.   I seem to remember having a number of exchanges with you on this very subject.  

But, precisely because you are such an expert wordsmith, of course you're picking up the 'far left' Dennis Kucinich stick to beat up liberals.  As Glenn notes it's always been an easy weapon to use--mocking the 'far left' anti-war politicians as fools that believe in UFOs.  You are marginalizing those to the Left of you in an effort to help Obama.  I understand that you think this is the best political course course to steer.  And maybe you're right.  Maybe Obama should engage in symbolic acts of beating the left with a stick to make it easier for him to do what he wants to do.  Maybe he is smart politically to pick up the Dennis Kucinich stick and beat the tar out of us lefties, as you seem to think.  It's not very brave.  You seem to get your cheap thrills from doing it.   I can only imagine how the Joe Liiebermans love it.  So don't play coy and pretend that others just can't comprehend or are playing word games.  

You may be right that Obama's centrist approach will work.  But don't be surprised to see the real damage it does to liberals in the meantime while Obama's magic transformative powers are working.  In fact, it's your readers that will be expected to take the quiet beating from Obama the next few years.  There's only so far your wordsmithing skills can go in teaching us to sit quietly and take our beating for our own good.  

by SFHawkguy on Tue Dec 2nd, 2008 at 06:12:34 PM EST
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