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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


Save 35-70% on
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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Well, BooMan, for starters, everyone pays for the U.S. military, government officials and employees (like Mrs. Clinton's secret service detachment), highways, education, everything the federal government does, everything. And everyone pays local taxes on real estate, sales taxes, education, everything anyone can imagine. So why can't everyone pay taxes for the maintenance of the physical, human bodies that populate the U.S. Of course the insurance companies can't be allowed to suck out a new health care system. But they will because the U.S. refuses to let its government control doctors, pharmaceutical companies and everything connected to them. The electorate refuses to demand it. You see, its socialist. Well, social security and Medicare are equally so, why does everyone keep bitching! There will be no health care reform, from either Clinton nor Obama. And everyday more and more people will lose coverage. Great country, the richest country in the world. What a laugh, bitter and nasty.
by Quentin on Fri Feb 1st, 2008 at 04:07:40 PM EST
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PROFIT.

When we have single-payer system, then mandates are just fine by me.

Until then, I will literally fight to keep us from being forced to supply profit to un-worthy corporations who already practice patient abuse.

[Imagine Jeff Foxworthy's delivery:] If you are forced to pay a corporation as much or MORE than you are forced to pay your government in taxes, you just might be a fascist tool.

Our country was founded in part by people who were motivated to revolt for JUST these reasons. Because we don't have sway over the behavior of the corporations, yet supposedly do over the gov't - well, you can guess which one I want to be force to pay.

HILLARY A NEW FORM OF EVIL! Think of the precedent that this sets. Especially in concert with all the crap Bush has pulled. IT IS AN ISSUE OF CIVIL LIBERTY.

If she thinks she's done anyone a favor by making this crap come even close to our laws, she's got another thing coming.


Do or do not, there is no try.

by anarchronarchist (mincers (-at-) hotmail (-dot-) com) on Fri Feb 1st, 2008 at 07:18:26 PM EST
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"When we have single-payer system, then mandates are just fine by me."

I agree. It's more than profit, however ... I don't want to be forced to fund a nonprofit either.

Corporations are simply not as accountable as governments are. I can't vote for the Board of Directors or President of Blue Cross or Pfizer.

by shaej on Fri Feb 1st, 2008 at 08:54:13 PM EST
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..then you don't want a single-payer system? Taxes are the method of force in all single-payer systems.

It also happens to be a great way to redistribute wealth.

That goes both ways obviously. Right now the money flows up, in single-payer in flows down, and in the Hillary/Barak world it just flows around and around until it's all spent on paperwork and profit.

So either it's all good now (GOP), just needs a tweak or two to expand coverage 'enough' (Obama), will be the corporate boot on the neck of the working classes (Hillary and the 'Old Romney') or will be the government's boot instead (Single Payer).

I wonder what the other options are? To me, of all of these options, the proven one is best: Good ol' European Socialized Medicine. And that means compelling people to participate through taxation. It also means re-exerting influence over our own government.

Unfortunately, for another 4-8 years, the game is already lost.

Do or do not, there is no try.

by anarchronarchist (mincers (-at-) hotmail (-dot-) com) on Fri Feb 1st, 2008 at 09:27:12 PM EST
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Yes, single payer would be great.

I just don't want the government mandating that I have to pay money to a private insurer.

by shaej on Sat Feb 2nd, 2008 at 12:17:03 AM EST
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