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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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John Belushi - SNL
Download South Park on iTunes
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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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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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Gergen is pretty much the most loathsome of the bunch.  I won't watch CNN because of him.  I will watch MSNBC to see Rachel Maddow and Pat Buchanan fight, however.

More at Zandar vs. The Stupid.
by Zandar1 on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 12:00:23 PM EST
Yeah - I truly love how she's not afraid to go toe to toe with him. Go, Rachel!

"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes
by Real History Lisa (lpeaseRemoveThis@gte.net) on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 12:14:18 PM EST
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I simply do not understand why Pat Buchanan is allowed to continuously assault our senses when it is apparent that he is representative of only the most neanderthal and outlier views in our society (my apologies to neanderthals everywhere).  I have studiously avoided the corporate news during the convention, but I stopped briefly while MSNBC was having their "roundtable", in what appeared to be the parking lot, at the end of the evening.  Buchanan was simply ranting disjointed thoughts on how big a pussies the Dems had been up to that point by not calling McCain a sonofabitch, white trash, a racist and spewing venom just like the Republicans will from their podium next week.  Apparently this, to Buchanan, was some indication that Obama and all his ilk were just not up to the task of governing because they won't voluntarily step in their own shit by somehow creating their own "bring 'em on" moment.  Rachel Maddow was sitting next to him with a "why in the fucking world do we allow this guy to talk" look.  She tried to get a word in but Buchanan just kept going on and on and on.  And Norah O'Donnell just sat there and acted like Buchanan was preaching the gospel.  The fact that people like this drive the narrative makes me fear for our future.  There are no dumber sacks of shit in this world than our television punditry and the "journalistic" hacks who opine in a wide swath of our print media.

Pat will have a full blown right wing orgasm right there on the teevee tonight after Obama's speech.  I can't wait to see the love fest the corporate media puts on next week for their beau-in-waiting John McCain.

With the American public getting 90% of their education and information during election cycles from the pinheads and dolts on television, is it any wonder we elect such assholes and idiots on a regular basis.

"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 28th, 2008 at 12:59:39 PM EST
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no, it's no wonder.  it's no wonder we invade the wrong countries, either.
by BooMan on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 01:05:54 PM EST
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