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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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But if what she posted is anything like what I've seen elsewhere, it's the height of delusion.  The thing that kills me how they get the electoral votes.  Some of it seems based on the primary vote, and some seem based on internal polls.  Fair enough, but they can't say "Clinton will win Oklahoma because she won it in the primary and turn turn around and scoff, "Do you really believe Obama's gonna win Mississippi or Idaho just because he won it in the primary?"  

It's crazy talk.

I'm looking at numbers.  Over a million people vote for ONE Democratic candidate vs. the few hundred thousand who voted for all the GOP candidates combined.  If those numbers hold, and I don't say they will, but what's not to say that any Democratic candidate would win those states?  

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by fabooj (fabooj [at} mail [dot} com) on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 07:35:16 PM EST
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"The thing that kills me how they get the electoral votes. "

Obviously they're from the "When all else fails, pull the numbers out of your ass" school of thought.

The problem here is that Dem turnout is so much higher than GOP turnout that whoever gets the nomination is basically the next president (it reminds me of Philly mayoral races, but I digress).  

Which explains why they'll say and do anything to get the nomination, all the while claiming it's the other guy doing the disenfranchising.  Slimeballs.

"Life is always better with clean pants."

by CabinGirl on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 07:48:04 PM EST
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Because McCain is the undisputed GOP nominee, don't you think most Repubs wouldn't bother voting in their primary. They'd all sit home saying to themselves, "I'll wait til Novemeber when it will count." I don't think we should underestimate the potential in the GE. Afterall, a helleva lot of fools voted for Bush. Twice. We can all hope they've learned their lesson but I don't think we can count on it.
by sjct on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 07:57:34 PM EST
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And I should have clarified that I was looking at numbers up until Feb. 5th.  After that, I expect low turnout.  But look at those early states.  I'm blanking on the state, but it was a state on Super Tuesday that Obama lost.  He still got more votes than the GOP candidates combined and at that time they had no clear winner.  

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by fabooj (fabooj [at} mail [dot} com) on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 08:19:28 PM EST
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But by the same measure, look at the proportion of GOP voters showing up to cast protest votes for Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee last week in WV. McCain won, but with only 76% of the vote, which I think is pretty amazing for the same reasons you've mentioned: it's already been decided, why waste the gas driving to the polls?

I don't know how happy those folks will be to vote for McCain in the fall either...but who knows?

"Life is always better with clean pants."

by CabinGirl on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 09:39:28 PM EST
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