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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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name brand clothing,
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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 three Clintons need to be grilled about their stance on Florida and Michigan. No where have I seen their answers to such simple questions as:

  1. Why didn't you complain about the people of Florida and Michigan losing their vote for the Democratic nominee when the DNC announced the exclusion of the states' convention delegates for the defiantly early scheduling of the primaries?

  2. Why did you agree to punish Florida and Michigan for their defiance and to sanction the exclusion of their delegates which, according to your present standards, disenfranchises the Democratic primary voters of those states?

  3. How do you now justify your refusal to live up to your previous agreement? Do you explicately repudiate the decision of the DNC and chose to operate outside the Democratic party. Recourse to your compassion for the so-called disenfranchisement of Florida and Michigan voters is not acceptable because you previously showed absolutely no concern for the matter until you began obviously to lose the contest to Obama. If they are disenfranchised, you bear a substantial burden of responsibility.

  4. Do any of these words apply to you: treachery, dishonesty, chicanery, hypocrisy, opportunism. If not, which of the following apply to you: honesty, loyalty,   adherent to principle, political and moral consistency.  
by Quentin on Wed May 21st, 2008 at 10:42:35 AM EST
She showed her character by keeping her name on the ballot in Michigan when the other candidates removed theirs in support of the Rules Committee's decision.  

It would be unconscionable for the Rules Committee to go back on their decision now in a way that gives an advantage to the one candidate who didn't act in good faith.  

by boomermom on Wed May 21st, 2008 at 12:37:45 PM EST
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Actually, it's even worse than that -- she said she was going to remove her name from the Michigan ballot, and then left it on while commenting to the effect that it didn't matter because it wouldn't count anyways.

I regarded her move then as a ploy, and it seems even more obvious now. She and her campaign were merely using the fact that her main contenders weren't on the ballot as her ace in the hole (or joker). The Clinton campaign's comments regarding the legitimacy of the process are a sick joke. And what makes it even worse is the attempts by some supporters, and even the campaign itself, to smear Obama because he removed his name. There are various versions of the "kissing up to the DNC on Michigan" theories being pushed, presumably by the campaign.

ad bellum purificandum - Kenneth Burke

by colinski on Wed May 21st, 2008 at 09:08:15 PM EST
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