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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
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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


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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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My head is just spinning. I am so mad at McCain for doing this to all of us - and I've been thrown into conversations with people I used to think were rational. It just disgusts me to the core. I have family members for whom no amount of fact presentation and rational discussion (on my side at least) is helping. That is the one scary thing about all of this (oh, and the fact that some Americans are comfortable with this person being a heartbeat away from the presidency if her ticket is elected). And when you present facts, like the lies she's spouted about the bridge, etc - THEY DON'T CARE. What is wrong with people!?!?

Aaarrrggghhhhh!!!!

Isn't this exactly what McCain and the GOP wanted? <sigh> I'd probably feel better if I had more faith in people in general.

by conglomerNation on Tue Sep 2nd, 2008 at 11:22:07 AM EST
I am quickly finding out that it is often advisable to just shake your head and say "Hmmmmm, you really believe that, huh?" and then just shut up when people refuse to accept documented facts as facts.

I asked my wife last weekend before a family birthday get-together, "Please honey don't bait my mom and dad about politics today".  Because they are the type of people you describe.  I like to pick my points to make with them but sometimes it's just a losing proposition.  Unfortunately, my wife didn't heed my request and once again I had to deal with their wild imaginings and crazy ideas.

I've found I have to accept that some things are just impossible to accomplish.  Some battles are just un-winnable.  A sad fact, especially when it comes to people you care about.

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity"

by MikeInOhio on Tue Sep 2nd, 2008 at 11:38:28 AM EST
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Have a look at the polls.

There.

Don't you feel better?

by BooMan on Tue Sep 2nd, 2008 at 11:28:13 AM EST
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Thanks, BooMan. I'm trying, I'm trying...

I guess I'm just surrounded by idiots in real life. I suppose that's even more depressing!

by conglomerNation on Tue Sep 2nd, 2008 at 11:31:49 AM EST
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I'm wondering how much is convention bounce and how much is a Palin drag.

One other note: McCain is showing some serious tone deafness on when to sap the newscycle and it's reminding me of Clinton in Feb. and March.  Sure, they're taking all the news from Obama.  In a way, that's good because then Obama doesn't get overexposed.  But they're taking this 'any publicity is good publicity' thing too far.  

Remember in June how right after Obama gave his primary victory speech, McCain gave that godawful speech to anemic crowd of senior citizens?  Yes, he stole the newscycle of peopel talking about Obama's speech.  Instaed they talked about how boring it was compared to Obama's speech, how awful the delivery was, how small and old the crowd was.  Someone on MSNBC said, "But he had weeks to prepared for this speech and this is what we got?"

Now we're back in the same situation.  Even his own staff can't defend the pick, her stances or any of the tidbits we've learned.  Yes, he stole the thunder of Obama again.  Instead of the chuckcleheads talking about the historic occasion of Obama being the first black man getting the nomination of a political party, instead of them talking about his speech in general, they're talking about how much vetting Palin got? Who knew what when?  

It's seriously like watching a trainwreck. I can't not look.

~~~THIS SPACE FOR RENT~~~

by fabooj (fabooj [at} mail [dot} com) on Tue Sep 2nd, 2008 at 01:30:13 PM EST
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