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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


Save 35-70% on
name brand clothing,
footwear, and outdoor gear
at SierraTradingPost.com

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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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This "bailout" system can't go on forever, and I note the snark in your use of "free market," which really IS the take home point here, that this is not a free market. If it was, Bear Stearns would have gone belly up and havoc would have run amok in the markets. The They are preserving Their corner of the woods, and could care less about the plebs, until we can't pay our bills and buy their corporate crap, including gasoline and heating oil.

Grrrr. I'd hate to single out Michigan and deny the people there the benefit of a "bailout," but we can't accept the spin that this is about the people of S.E. Michigan, it's about saving the investments of a very very very small slice of the population -- the investor class.

"Don't believe the hype"
Chuck D

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 Sun Aug 24th, 2008 at 11:29:01 PM EST
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This "bailout" system can't go on forever, and I note the snark in your use of "free market," which really IS the take home point here, that this is not a free market. If it was, Bear Stearns would have gone belly up and havoc would have run amok in the markets.

There's no such thing as a free market except in an economics textbook.  It's a mental construct that has as much relation to real world economics as the electron shell model does to particle physics - a useful construct for teaching, and a useful model for building more complex things on, but not really how the world operates.

Until we plebeians understand and internalize this, the patricians are just going to continue to use the rhetoric of "free market" economics to suck as much money out of us as they can.

Republican "free market economics" has always - ALWAYS - been a scam to demolish the political power of the Democratic-voting union bloc.  That's all.  That's what all of this encouragement of outsourcing and sending jobs overseas is as well - a way to demolish the political power of labor in our country.  The unAmerican bastards would rather destroy our economy than let labor have an ounce of power.  The fact that "free market economics" rhetoric also brings in the votes of economically clueless libertarians is a bonus, but not the primary reason that the Republicans have been systematically destroying our labor economy for the last 30 years.

by nonynony on Mon Aug 25th, 2008 at 11:05:54 AM EST
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