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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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I'm pretty surprised that Clinton's presumed margins in the more conservative, white, Scotch-Irish Appalachian part of the state aren't hurting him more. My guess (baseless) is that in NC those voters have finally become Republicans, and so aren't voting in the Democratic primary.
by Addison on Sun Apr 6th, 2008 at 01:11:13 AM EST
The portion of NC that's in Appalachia has some towns with a bit of a Yuppie feel to them, though, and Yuppies are a definite Obama demographic.  Asheville comes to mind.  And they're fairly diverse.  The magic numbers for Obama seem to be areas having black populations above 20% or below 5%, and some of those areas qualify, or come close to it.  And beyond those towns, there simply aren't that many people in the region.  Many more are on the Piedmont Plateau, where Obama did very well in Georgia, Virginia and South Carolina.

I think he's likely to do well in the middle of the state.  Charlotte, Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, Winston-Salem/Greensboro, etc.  He'll do well with whitefolk in those cities, and he'll hold enough of the white vote outside of those (eg, Asheville in Appalachia, Rocky Mount on the coastal plain) to carry the day with black folks and Latinos.  (Last I looked, Latinos had flipped and we going two-to-one for Obama after the Richardson endorsements, and they're not an insignificant demographic there.)

If he's going to take over 40% of the white vote, then Clinton has no chance.  (I think it's entirely conceivable that he gets closer to 50% of it.)  And that makes sense.  North Carolina is more like Virginia and Georgia than South Carolina and Alabama.  It's one of those fast-changing southern states that seems to have stumbled into pretty good times (even with the water shortages in Atlanta and Charlotte), at least within its population centers.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to you country.

by Drew J Jones (blahblahblah@blahblahblah.com) on Sun Apr 6th, 2008 at 11:22:31 AM EST
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