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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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Senator Edward M. Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal story:

True Compass: A Memoir
by Edward M. Kennedy.

Read Barack Obama's vision for America:

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

Boran2 and maryb2004 recommend:

The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime
by Jasper Fforde

Must-have information for all presidents-and citizens-of the twenty-first century?

Physics for Future Presidents: The Science behind the Headlines
Richard A. Muller

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

Check out
Powell's new section:
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.


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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you want to be a sophisticated consumer of political information?  Don't watch cable news, even Olbermann.  It will make you stupid.  

You'll nod your head and it will feel good, but you'll begin to lose all sense of why things are done, who is behind them, how elections are won, what really matters politically, etc.  You'll start worrying about nothing but 'message discipline' and 'framing the arguments' and getting more libruls on teevee, as if it will solve something.  

You don't have to listen to me.  You can ignore my advice.  But people that watch a lot of cable news and that worry about it a lot (aside from the people making a living out of it) are making themselves stupider and stupider every night.  

It's no different from that Wendy's.  It gave you lower energy, lowered your brain function, and shortened your life, possibly considerably.  Maybe you couldn't afford anything else.  That's a problem U of M should think about solving.  

by BooMan on Wed Aug 20th, 2008 at 11:58:23 PM EST
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I think you're giving far too little credit to your readers.  Watching cable news and believing every drop of it are hardly the same thing.

Personally I feel like I have a decent handle on the power structure of Washington, how things happen, why, and what they mean.  I don't live it and breathe it like you do but I still have a pretty good BS meter.

And when I do sit through a cable news show, I do find it interesting and at least marginally valuable to see how and try to gauge why they are constructing the narratives they do.  You have to admit that there is some use to seeing what the gentrified classes are putting forth.

When I was eating Wendy's, I was working out more and studying more...so despite the fact that I knew what I was doing to myself, I was compensating appropriately.  I think it's a valid analogy to why we watch cable news.

Tengo un sueño.
by ejmw (ewitham (at) umich (dot) edu) on Thu Aug 21st, 2008 at 12:51:44 AM EST
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