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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
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.


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


Save 35-70% on
name brand clothing,
footwear, and outdoor gear
at SierraTradingPost.com

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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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This takeover by the Fed falls far beyond nationalization.  Under nationalization, at least the taxpayer might see the prospect for some return.  Paulson's action is intended solely to socialize the losses while cronies privatize the profits.  We've become the world's largest kleptocracy.
by VizierVic (VizierVic@hotmail.com) on Sun Sep 7th, 2008 at 09:06:58 AM EST
It's called muddling through until November 4th after which Sh*t or fertilizer, take your pick, will hit the fan.

This take over, plain and simple, was to rescue Fannie Freddie and yes, PIMCO the world largest bond fund that held 61% of the Fannie Freddie shit pile.

Up next: the busted Lehman Investment Bank as they've reportedly turned down a ten cents on the dollar bid from the Korean Development Bank.

Uncle Sam is bankrupt and if truth be told he would require an 88% tax increase to stand still. There are:

$63 trillion of unfunded federal government liabilities
$10 trillion  "official" debt
$ 6 trillion Fannie and Freddie paper
$ ? trillions to assist FDIC take over 700 banks
$ 1 trillion to replenish Federal Reserve balance sheet
    those 28 day term loan being rolled over.

all in an effort to camouflage over $612 trillions of OTC derivatives FWMD paper....paper that will be exchanged at the Feds' begging bowl for U.S. treasuries.

Soon at the local hardware store there'll be a run on wheelbarrows. Mugabe has been hired for the role of manning the Welcome Wagon.


Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

by idredit on Sun Sep 7th, 2008 at 12:11:21 PM EST
[ Parent ]

My God.

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; now we know that it is bad economics;" - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
by Salunga on Sun Sep 7th, 2008 at 12:22:54 PM EST
[ Parent ]
Indeed, we have truly become the "Why, More?" republic.

I don't think we should discount the idea that the aborted effort to privatize Social Security was in fact merely another effort to find a source of funds to push this debacle out beyond the immediate end of the Bush administration.  Had they been able to paper over the looming defaults by this "bridge to nowhere" financially, the Bush family could have established plausible deniability for the bankruptcy of their policies.

by VizierVic (VizierVic@hotmail.com) on Sun Sep 7th, 2008 at 12:55:57 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Weimarmerica because soon we'll be asking what's a quadrillion.

The transportation fund is busted too. Have you had your roads and bridges fixed to optimum?  Elected officials have been rushing to privatize at bottom dollar rates - another giveaway of taxpayer funded infrastructure assets.

Learn to read, write and speak Mandarin, Russian, Arabic and Spanish.  Your new owners and bosses.

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

by idredit on Sun Sep 7th, 2008 at 01:57:59 PM EST
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