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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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Learn the real story behind the WMD in Iraq:

The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
by Ron Suskind

Read Barack Obama's vision for America:

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Barack Obama

DaveW recommends:

I Am a Strange Loop
by Douglas Hofstadter

Need some laughs?

I Am America (and So Can You!)
by Stephen Colbert

rae recommends:

Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
by Morris Berman.

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The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End
by Peter W. Galbraith

This looks interesting:

Adventure Divas
by Holly Morris

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Elizabeth Gilbert:

Eat Pray Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert

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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.


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"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:
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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


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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



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The Price of Privilege:

How Parental Pressure and
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by Madeline Levine


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It isn't just bureaucrats or nit-wits versus common sense.  It is a matter of religious belief versus knowledge.

If you believe that the toothpick disappeared and then discovered that it was a trick... THEN believing that somebody in a book turned water into wine or raised the dead could also be called into question.  What if it is all tricks and lies?  Once the questions start, the assault upon delusion begins.  Absolute authority (because I SAID SO) rests on very shaky ground, so authoritarians must firmly repel any questionable matters.

After all, if a parent (the most trusted authority) would lie about tooth-fairies, then why wouldn't they lie about angels?  If a parent would lie, with nothing at stake, then a preacher or pope who is out there gathering money and power would certainly lie and embellish those lies.

The Bible is full of stories about men turning sticks into snakes, water into blood or wine, making rocks weep, and other such visual tricks.  Stories.

Ignorant and fearful people in the swampland of Florida and marble halls of Washington cling desperately to the reality of those stories.

VERY DESPERATELY.

by hauksdottir on Wed May 7th, 2008 at 06:11:58 PM EST
In my youth I performed miracles on a regular basis.  For example, I was well known for my trick of turning beer into urine.  Not that there was all that much difference in the taste, considering the quality of the beer I used to drink.

John McCain hates my wife because she's a "gook."
by Steven D on Wed May 7th, 2008 at 06:15:40 PM EST
[ Parent ]
There is a psychogenic mushroom amanatia muscaria, which becomes stronger when it is filtered through the human kidneys.  Thus, you ingest it, piss it out saving the contents, and drink it again.  Voila, the drink gets stronger, the party gets better and everyone wants to screw.  Or so I have been told.

Just thought you might want to know, Steven.  

You can never have enough close friends.

All members of the frog pond are special.

by Daredevil Don on Wed May 7th, 2008 at 06:30:59 PM EST
[ Parent ]
Be careful of this mushroom.  Its look-alike cousin is very lethal.  Best leave them both alone.

Ignod  =  Dongi backwards

All members of the frog pond are special.

by Daredevil Don on Wed May 7th, 2008 at 06:45:58 PM EST
[ Parent ]

I never got invited to those sorts of parties :-(.
by ericy on Wed May 7th, 2008 at 06:57:00 PM EST
[ Parent ]
You're not missing anything. ;-)

"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes
by Real History Lisa (lpeaseRemoveThis@gte.net) on Wed May 7th, 2008 at 08:52:35 PM EST
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