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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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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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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


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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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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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Education and universal health care for all. A great economy with Rotterdam harbor, multinationals Philips, Shell and Unilever and the Dutch sitting on immense gas reserves at Slochteren. Plenty of freedom in a tolerant society, relatively speaking. Great historic feats with Erasmus, Boerhaave, Astronomy, Rembrandt and Vermeer.

"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

by Oui on Tue Aug 19th, 2008 at 05:56:38 PM EST
Yes. Holland is my favorite country as well. I feel so free from consumerism, etc when I am there. And the people are so loving. I've been there like 15 times and can't get enough of it.
by RandyH on Tue Aug 19th, 2008 at 06:00:43 PM EST
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Stop bragging! :) You'll only make us depressed.

And I'm not kidding. I'll give one example: It's amazing what a decent public transit can do for a country. I come back home and I'm just disgusted. This is not the best we can do.

I guess that's what drives me--we can do so much better than we are doing, in so many spheres.

I think Obama should bring back that line, "It's as if they take pride in being ignorant." I am just so, so, so sick to death of that mindset.

I know that no society is perfect, of course, but you're so lucky not to have to deal with this kind of thing.

Can't hear ya, Peach!

by AP on Tue Aug 19th, 2008 at 06:18:50 PM EST
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I got to visit there about 30 years ago and would love to go back again. I didn't see as much of the country as I would have liked as I was on a limited budget and waiting for a visa so I could travel on, but I did get to see a little of Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Massluis (the city where the pension I stayed at was located) with a side trip to Hilversum to tour the studios of Radio Nederland Wereldomroep (the Dutch World Broadcasting service). Must have been a slow day, as one of the announcers whose voice I'd heard for years gave me a guided tour and allowed me to watch him tape one of his programs.

When I traveled (like to Hilversum or from Massluis to Rotterdam) I took the train, which was very quick, efficient, and as I recall cheap. At one station I was a bit surprised to see the platform covered with armed soldiers; later I figured it must have had something to do with the Moluccan uprising, which was going on at the time.

We have done the impossible, and that makes us mighty.

Now the real work begins.

by Omir the Storyteller (omir.the.storyteller -CAT- gmail -DOG- com) on Wed Aug 20th, 2008 at 01:55:27 AM EST
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by Oui on Wed Aug 20th, 2008 at 01:21:26 PM EST
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