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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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John Belushi - SNL
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James Hunter - People Gonna Talk:
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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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Alibris - Books You Thought You'd Never Find
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I'll tell you what one of them thinks.

The real question is why is any name being considered more seriously than Clinton? Why hasn't she been the buzz? She garnered 18 million votes, something no other person in consideration has done. She can unite the party like no one else. The can also go into states like Florida, Arkansas and Ohio, even Michigan and Pennsylvania and make the economic case better than anyone else, including the nominee. So why not Clinton?

There will be no reconciliation until Obama picks Not Hillary as his veep.

There will be no reconciliation after he picks Not Hillary as his veep.

We're still fighting ourselves, rather than McSame.

More at Zandar vs. The Stupid.

by Zandar1 on Tue Aug 5th, 2008 at 05:46:57 PM EST
They'll love us when we win.  Fuck'em.

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 06:15:00 PM EST
[ Parent ]
has a piece on HuffPost RIPPING PUMAs and SHREDDING them.

Taylor was THE Hillary dead-ender, too, and now she is totally totally against these PUMA morons.

I did not respect her, but do now.  She has turned the corner.

by dataguy on Tue Aug 5th, 2008 at 09:07:20 PM EST
[ Parent ]
I trust Taylor Marsh as far as I can throw her.
by Bob In Pacifica on Tue Aug 5th, 2008 at 10:02:27 PM EST
[ Parent ]
Go read her HuffPost piece.  Very interesting.
by dataguy on Tue Aug 5th, 2008 at 11:30:54 PM EST
[ Parent ]
As long as it doesn't require throwing her.
by Bob In Pacifica on Wed Aug 6th, 2008 at 09:19:51 AM EST
[ Parent ]
I didn't respect her before and I don't now either. She's blowing in the direction she thinks will carry her. I don't think she has a moral compass.

"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 Tue Aug 5th, 2008 at 11:39:18 PM EST
[ Parent ]
the primary is over. Taylow is doing excellent work for Obama. Would it kill you to say thank you?
by AliceDem on Wed Aug 6th, 2008 at 12:43:18 AM EST
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Thank you? Obama is blowing off support left and right as if he has this thing in the bag. Looks like the apples don't fall far from the tree.

Green Grass and High Tides Forever
by supersoling (colorsplash62@optonline.net) on Wed Aug 6th, 2008 at 01:18:42 AM EST
[ Parent ]
Huh?

I'll send out my thank yous to all my journalistic friends at Christmas.

by Bob In Pacifica on Wed Aug 6th, 2008 at 09:21:35 AM EST
[ Parent ]
Obama's blowing too, per your comment upthread about saying whatever he needs to say. Making this comment a bit hypocritical, no?

Green Grass and High Tides Forever
by supersoling (colorsplash62@optonline.net) on Wed Aug 6th, 2008 at 01:14:42 AM EST
[ Parent ]
The difference is, I believe he's doing that to help others. I believe Taylor changes rhetoric to help herself.

"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 Wed Aug 6th, 2008 at 10:57:58 AM EST
[ Parent ]
Heh.

I never think a pol is doing anything to help anyone but themselves.

The trick is to put them into a position where the best way to help themselves IS to help others.

I've found that I'm almost never disappointed in politicians if I trust their self-promotion and personal advancement instincts to come before their moral centers.  In fact, I've found it best to just assume that they have no moral centers and are only kept in check by the fact that they have to answer to voters eventually.

Sure it's cynical.  But it's pretty much how representative democracy works.

by nonynony on Wed Aug 6th, 2008 at 01:55:43 PM EST
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