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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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She worked her way up and when it was her time, it happened.  There was brief moment of celebration for her "first" and then we all moved on and evaluated her on the job she was doing.  THAT'S what women have been fighting for all these years.

And that's what I find offensive about the victimhood campaign strategy. I feel like it takes away from the achievements of women who have worked their way to where they are without crying victim at every step.  And that's what made me so annoyed with Hillary when she messed up at the Philly debate last fall and then tried to blame it on the boys ganging up on her.

I also have a sense that the people most responsive to it (the victim-of-sexism strategy) are on the lower middle end of the socioeconomic scale, which kind of makes sense to me because I think that's where we see the greatest effects of that 28% pay differential between men and women for doing equivalent jobs.  If you don't feel like you're a victim yourself, it doesn't work as well.

"Life is always better with clean pants."

by CabinGirl on Wed Apr 2nd, 2008 at 12:10:46 PM EST
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Well, historically the feminist movement had as much trouble convincing women to go along with change as it did convincing men.  So they developed strategies for convincing women who didn't want to be identified as an evil feminist to support policies and issues.  

One very effective way was to put a face on the problem.  Instead of talking about an issue from a theoretical point of view, they would pick a woman who was an example and put her front and center.  These women could then say "oh I'm not a FEMINIST but did you see how that poor woman is affected by that policy.  I just had to help her and women like her."   The woman didn't even have to say that SHE was a woman 'like her' if she didn't want to  - but it helped if she was.  Especially when it came to wage and hour discrimination and sexual harassment in the workplace etc.

I think it became second nature to the movement over the years because, let's face it, it is an effective strategy.  The movement was working to get important legislation passed and that needed a lot of different strategies.  This wasn't a misleading strategy but it definitely was a strategy that played off of emotion rather than intellect.

That generation of feminist might not even consciously know that they are doing this with Hillary's campaign.  It probably is second nature to them by now.  

But I see a big difference between a campaign to get legislation passed or overturned by a court and a campaign for some individual woman's personal power.  In this case I think they are blatantly using these women on whose emotions they are preying.

by maryb2004 on Wed Apr 2nd, 2008 at 12:35:18 PM EST
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