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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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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


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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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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Display:
Exhibit A - doesn't care if women are raped if they are crossing the border.

Latino Político | "We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit." - Octavio Paz
by Man Eegee (man.eegee at gmail.com) on Thu Aug 21st, 2008 at 05:04:32 PM EST
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You're absolutely right.  I [b]don't[/b] care if illegal aliens are raped, killed, or hunted for sport when they're breaking Federal law and entering our country illegally.  Most Americans feel the same way.
by KansasVoter on Thu Aug 21st, 2008 at 05:06:45 PM EST
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I sincerely pray that you or anyone you love never experience the irrational hate that you are exhibiting for all to see.

Latino Político | "We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit." - Octavio Paz
by Man Eegee (man.eegee at gmail.com) on Thu Aug 21st, 2008 at 05:15:49 PM EST
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 I [b]don't[/b] care if illegal aliens are raped, killed, or hunted for sport when they're breaking Federal law and entering our country illegally.

That's one of the most disgustingly inhuman comments I think I've seen lately.

Nice to see the monstrousness on full display - it's always better when the monsters out themselves to the public.

by nonynony on Thu Aug 21st, 2008 at 05:16:46 PM EST
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yup.  which is why I haven't mega-troll rated KansasVoters comments.  I want everyone to see what's been whipped up by people like Limbaugh, Dobbs, etc.  

If you think people like this differentiate between indigenous and non-indigenous latinos with their scorn, I have one of McCain's beach-front condos here in Arizona to sell you.

Latino Político | "We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit." - Octavio Paz

by Man Eegee (man.eegee at gmail.com) on Thu Aug 21st, 2008 at 05:19:24 PM EST
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wow, what a piece of work you are.  I'm sorry I troll rated your other comments...they should stay up here so everyone can see the hate they exhibit.
by Second Nature on Thu Aug 21st, 2008 at 05:22:14 PM EST
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Yup.  The only reason I haven't given it a zero is so people know what KansasVoter was all about.
by CabinGirl on Thu Aug 21st, 2008 at 05:44:24 PM EST
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you're banned.  
by BooMan on Thu Aug 21st, 2008 at 05:38:21 PM EST
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by Teacher Toni (tacoralatyahoodotcom) on Thu Aug 21st, 2008 at 08:46:04 PM EST
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Must be six months since I had to ban someone.
by BooMan on Thu Aug 21st, 2008 at 09:12:05 PM EST
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You're absolutely right.  I don't care if illegal aliens are raped, killed, or hunted for sport when they're breaking Federal law and entering our country illegally.  Most Americans feel the same way.

Wow.  I don't know what to say.  I have never, in all time I have been on this site, seen a more sickening comment.  And the fact of the matter is that you're just wrong.  "Most Americans" don't feel that way.  Yes, "most Americans" are against illegal immigration.  But only in the world that George Bush and his hate-mongering friends have created would we cheer and exhort people to "rape, kill and hunt people for sport".  You're way, way past the tipping point with your comments.  Your inhumanity is intolerable and revolting.  

"I think generations pretty soon are going to start to thank this president for what he's done. This generation will."

by MikeInOhio (miken45054@yahoo.com) on Thu Aug 21st, 2008 at 06:18:32 PM EST
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Count me as not one of "most Americans" then, nor anyone in my family.

And if you are really so concerned about "illegal" aliens then maybe you should support stiffer penalties for those who employ them.  After all, without companies willing to exploit a cheaper labor force there would be much less movement across our borders by poor Latinos simply looking to make a living.

If CEO's of companies had to do hard time, and if their shareholders had to suffer lost profits because all revenue generated by exploiting the labor of "illegal" aliens would be subject to forfeiture as fines or tax penalties, wouldn't that be a more effective approach, if you are primarily concerned about jobs going only to American citizens?

But we all know that isn't going to happen.  Instead, the media and too may like you demonize poor people who came to this country, like most Americans or their ancestors did, for the opportunity to make a better life for themselves.  At least that's why my ancestors came here.  I'm sure to Native Americans they were unwanted immigrants too, or in the case of my German and Irish relatives, unwanted by former English "immigrants" to America.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt

by Steven D on Thu Aug 21st, 2008 at 08:02:44 PM EST
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Isn't there a book called 'What's the Matter With Kansas?'...well now we know.  Scary sick and twisted doesn't begin to explain statements like that.

'Poverty is the worst form of violence'--Gandhi
by chocolate ink on Fri Aug 22nd, 2008 at 01:44:16 PM EST
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