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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.

On BooMan’s shelf:

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

This looks interesting:

Adventure Divas
by Holly Morris

Here’s a good one from
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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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


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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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by Annie Proulx
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The Price of Privilege:

How Parental Pressure and
Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of
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by Madeline Levine


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I like Taiwan's system, which was based on our Medicare system, but they added electronic records and billing to the single payer system. It would be an easy transition too.
by RandyH on Tue Jun 17th, 2008 at 03:35:35 PM EST
...has its problems, like I've heard it loses money, and there are ways for doctors to game the system and get a lot of government paybacks, but in the almost 7 years I've lived here it's never failed or faltered, and if it isn't truly single-payer (I don't know what it is, employers pay a monthly premium but it's not very high) it sure operates like one when you're using it.  You go to a hospital and pay a basic rate (I think the most I've paid was about US$15) and that's it.  There can be other charges for some kinds of pharmaceuticals (very cheap) or vaccinations, but that's about it.

My wife and I had a baby last year and we got lots of checkups with the doctor, mris (or is it sonograms?  I'm not too sharp on this stuff, one test was in color and all the others were bw) every time she visited (which was at least once a month) and an amniocentesis test that was government-funded because she was over a certain age.  My sister had a baby in America last year and what she paid for a single image (probably an mri) cost her more than I think the entire pregnancy cost us, including a private hospital room for 3 days and a c-section.  

And this is high-tech care here, on top of which the doctors are also educated in English so even a foreigner like myself can walk in off the street and get by without knowing any Chinese.  

...and Taiwan isn't even officially a country.  I couldn't even afford to have a kid at the wages I was making (from 2 jobs, 7 days/week) in the US.  That's the real shame here...good for Baucus, I hope something comes from this, and that we get a real blowout/realignment in November.  It'd be nice to one day be able to live the American dream on actual American soil.

The Wages of Sin is about $5.15 an Hour

by hz on Wed Jun 18th, 2008 at 07:07:33 AM EST
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