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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:

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

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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.


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John Belushi - SNL
Download South Park on iTunes
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James Hunter - People Gonna Talk:
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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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"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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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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Kerry redux? Obama has been totally consistent...as was Kerry. But in fact, Obama was always coming from hear the middle while Kerry was farther left. Those who think he's changed were not listening to begin with.

Michaela
by michaelmt (MrMichael_t@yahoo.com) on Tue Jul 15th, 2008 at 06:10:57 AM EST
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Actually, Obama did flip-flop on FISA.

I always knew that Obama is a corporate lackey. I couldn't understand why some progressives thought differently, just because, apparently, his skin is a little darker than that of the other Democrats who ran for president this time, and because he is younger.

The reason Obama is Kerry redux is that we desperately wanted a candidate to take us out of our national nightmare, but Obama is basically running the same campaign Kerry did, talking about "change" in the abstract but, in the concrete, saying he will just implement Bush's policies better. Like Kerry, he is Republican Lite.

He even wants to increase our involvement in the war in Afghanistan, for Christ's sake!

Change we can't believe in. No we can't!

by Alexander on Tue Jul 15th, 2008 at 09:02:35 AM EST
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Don't forget how stupid and idealistic the American public is, regardless of political affiliation. Americans are so insulated, isolated, non-historic and LAZY that they'll throw their idealism behind anyone who makes it easy to do so. "Hope for Change" What a bunch of baloney!! How dumb do you get? Obama is a centrist.

I completely agree with you regarding Obama's motives and allegiances. He's just another version of Hillary Clinton.

Share. Share resources, share delight, share burdens, share the healing. Sharing will bring us back from mass suicide. www.share-international.org

by Isis on Tue Jul 15th, 2008 at 10:54:45 AM EST
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Frankly, I think that people are focusing on Obama's snapshot positions rather than his methods. He's totally different than Clinton in method; she works independently, he believes very strongly in collaboration.

He did not do a flip on FISA, unfortunately. (I would never have supported it.) But his METHOD is negotiation and collaboration, to get things done. He had one bottom line criterion for the revised bill, FISA court exclusivity, and when that was achieved he voted for the compromise. He changed because the bill changed.

And whether or not I agree with his position (I don't) he WAS consistent. He wants a government that works through negotiation and compromise, not future veto bravado.

Michaela

by michaelmt (MrMichael_t@yahoo.com) on Wed Jul 16th, 2008 at 07:57:31 AM EST
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