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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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McCain is riding on the military worship that has reached a point of mental illness in this country. Like dogmatic religion, it has become a serious obstacle to rational discussion of policy and ethical behavior. Because the military has become America's de facto god, it is proposed as the solution to every threat, every crisis, that would be better solved by other means.

Yes, the troops in the field deserve our empathy and our support for trying to do their duty, for being victims of malevolent forces overseas and at home. That does not make what they accomplish as a group heroic or useful in itself. Individual heroism, yes. But true heroism cannot be separated from its results, and the results in the case of Iraq and Vietnam have proven to be a net minus on the scale of America's security and well-being.

McCain, like his fellow soldiers in Vietnam, was a victim of both the enemy there and his own government. He was more unlucky than many in being captured, but that doesn't make him a hero. It makes him a victim who suffered from a particularly bad run of luck and/or ineptitude -- like millions or billions of humans around the world do every day. It hurts to say it, but his suffering brought no benefit to the United States as a nation so it does not qualify him as a national hero.

Sometimes suffering is ennobling and enlarges human empathy. That is the heroic journey. Other times suffering simply shrinks the spirit and nurtures little more than lifelong self-absorption. That appears to be the where McCain's path took him since Vietnam. His suffering deserves our sympathy, but its results do not justify our admiration.

FDR's response to progressive demands: "I agree. Now go out and make me do it."

by DaveW on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 02:09:14 PM EST
The word hero like many other words has become so overused and abused as to be almost meaningless as to the true meaning of the word. I always thought hero was used to denote some singular act of bravery for the good of others...or even in the long term more selfless acts benefiting others.

'Poverty is the worst form of violence'--Gandhi
by chocolate ink on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 03:06:50 PM EST
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" I always thought hero was used to denote some singular act of bravery for the good of others...or even in the long term more selfless acts benefiting others."

Yep,
like this woman.  

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Green Grass and High Tides Forever

by supersoling (colorsplash62@optonline.net) on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 03:28:34 PM EST
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hey super..and Tubbs and Boxer have been proved right over/over about the Ohio vote.  The more it was investigated the more it was proven how much cheating went on in Ohio by the rethug party there.

'Poverty is the worst form of violence'--Gandhi
by chocolate ink on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 06:49:52 PM EST
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