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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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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.


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John Belushi - SNL
Download South Park on iTunes
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James Hunter - People Gonna Talk:
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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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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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Display:
Hillary Clinton may well be the 'reigning dean of the women's movement' but she has no right to let her own sour grapes create another glass ceiling for other women that under consideration.

The real Queen of the Women's Movement, Gloria Steinem
has spoken.

In a rather boring article in the FT is this nugget

Everyone nourished, we are back to the 2008 election. Steinem is supporting Obama in the general race. "Women are more than smart enough to see that McCain's policies are a disaster ... He is anti every reproductive issue we've ever fought for."

She believes women will vote for Obama even if Clinton doesn't get the much-mooted consolation prize of the vice-president's spot on the Democratic ticket - a job Steinem doesn't think is good enough for her anyway. Why? "It's not an independent position, to put it mildly. I would rather see her as the president of the Senate."

The wave of enthusiasm for Clinton after she admitted defeat angers Steinem.



Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"
by idredit on Mon Aug 4th, 2008 at 10:36:53 AM EST
But will Steinem actually be angry if Obama picks a woman as his running mate?

If so, she's lost her mind.

by BooMan on Mon Aug 4th, 2008 at 10:40:04 AM EST
[ Parent ]
"It's not an independent position, to put it mildly. I would rather see her as the president of the Senate."

Isn't the President of the Senate also the Veep?

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to you country.

by Drew J Jones (blahblahblah@blahblahblah.com) on Mon Aug 4th, 2008 at 11:24:12 AM EST
[ Parent ]
yes, which makes the quote doubly funny.
by BooMan on Mon Aug 4th, 2008 at 11:25:32 AM EST
[ Parent ]
I'm a woman and a feminist.  Much as I've respected Gloria Steinem over the years, I strongly disagree: the Junior Senator from New York is not qualified to be Senate Majority Leader.  There are many intelligent, talented Senators (including a few women) who have more seniority than she.

A Progressive Christian perspective on I/P at Beyond Bethlehem
by RustyPipes (rustdotypipesatyahoodotcom) on Mon Aug 4th, 2008 at 04:50:26 PM EST
[ Parent ]
Surely she meant Senate Majority Leader, which is how I read that.

Somewhere in cyberspace, the ghost of de Chardin is smiling.
by budr (budr at hughes net) on Mon Aug 4th, 2008 at 12:55:46 PM EST
[ Parent ]
I certainly hope so.  Otherwise Gloria Steinem is, um, an idiot.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to you country.
by Drew J Jones (blahblahblah@blahblahblah.com) on Tue Aug 5th, 2008 at 02:08:40 PM EST
[ Parent ]
Steinem worked for the CIA in the fifties and sixties and behaved like she's worked for them ever since. I trust her as much talking about feminism as when Robert Gates talks about... anything.
by Bob In Pacifica on Mon Aug 4th, 2008 at 10:30:14 PM EST
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