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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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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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Yes, because as we all know, the proliferation of nuclear reactors in France has lead to the entire country becoming a radioactive hellhole, fit only for habitation by insects. We just don't hear about it on the news, because the government suppresses it.

Kill because somebody was killed. Get killed because he killed. Do you think peace will ever come like that?
by Egarwaen on Fri Jul 18th, 2008 at 11:41:02 AM EST
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their waste (except for that which they dumped in the Atlantic Ocean).  So the problems will not turn up until the casks start leaking, in about a century.  Then they WILL turn up.  In modern life, this is called think ahead--where you lay insoluble problems for your descendants a century out, so that you can continue doing whatever stupid, pointless thing you have been doing.
by Gaianne on Sun Jul 20th, 2008 at 10:37:55 PM EST
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Solar will have huge problems.  After all, deserts have plants and animals too, and most of the deserts (which are not sterile environments) will have endangered species.  Plus, there are serious problems with power transmission - suffice it to say that moving power from Nevada to New York City is not possible in a cost-effective manner.

Wind also has limits.  Plus, wind turbines are bird-shredding machines.

Coal has carbon problems.

Oil is running out, plus carbon.

NG is running out, plus carbon.

What is your solution?  

Nuclear is the best option.  In 20 years, we will be dependent on nuclear to a level unimaginable today, and that will be good.  WE NEED NUCLEAR, and NOT JUST BECAUSE MY SON IS GOING INTO NUCLEAR ENGINEERING.

by dataguy on Mon Jul 21st, 2008 at 01:51:47 PM EST
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My solution?  There are no solutions.  That is a window that has closed.  Still, wisdom is seeking sustainability.  (Nuclear isn't.)  

Keeping doing what you are doing guarantees failure.  Like a terminal drug binge, it ends in the morgue.  

Is that what you are trying for?  

by Gaianne on Mon Jul 21st, 2008 at 03:46:03 PM EST
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