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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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The speech was Lincoln-esque in its use of rhetoric.  Rather than condemn unequivocably either side of the racial divide it sought repentance and reconciliation from and with both.  Logically constructed, it also appealed to our emotions, but to those that represent our better selves, as you said, rather than the darker emotions of fear and hatred, much as Lincoln's best speeched did also.  Regardless of what happens in this campaign, this speech will be remembered as the high point of this campaign, and one of the great speeches of the 21st century.  If I were a super delegate and watched this speech, I'd be calling Obama up right now to offer my support.  The contrast with Clinton, who has run an uninspiring and mainly negative campaign in the primaries, could not be starker.  Imagine the last night of the convention when the nominee gives his or her acceptance speech and consider who you would rather have standing there talking to millions of voters.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt
by Steven D on Tue Mar 18th, 2008 at 03:31:23 PM EST
This a really went far in makignme feel like my vote for Obama was justified
by Bright Creature (kelpie (no spam filler) . b @ gmail . com) on Tue Mar 18th, 2008 at 07:11:25 PM EST
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Obama gets it.  It's not about him, it's about us.  

After Edwards pulled out I was on the fence as between him and Mrs. Clinton.  I liked her policies (except for the Middle East, which perhaps is decisive for me), and I respected her guts.  I didn't like the gold diggers she attracted to her campaign team, but overall, I was undecided.  In the past six weeks I have turned completely to Obama, to the point where as an ex-pat I was thinking perhaps I wouldn't vote this time if Mrs C were running.  Especially since I vote out of WA, where she will win anyway.

Obama is the real article.  We won't agree with everything he does or says, but we will stand with him on what he stands for.  I'm so happy the young people have sensed his greatness.

Knut

by Knut Wicksell (b_didnn@hotmail.ca) on Tue Mar 18th, 2008 at 09:40:41 PM EST
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