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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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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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I see it as Obama retreating from the EFCA.
by The Voice In The Wilderness on Mon Jan 19th, 2009 at 06:49:13 PM EST
Unsurprising considering the general tenor of your posts.  Yet, it's a failure to understand the proper uses of power and rhetoric with a Congress that is dominated by Democrats and with a Republican Party that desperately wants to use the issue to their advantage and to gain their sea-legs.
by BooMan on Mon Jan 19th, 2009 at 06:56:08 PM EST
[ Parent ]
Well, you did ask for comments.  However, I am aware that I am a guest in your house, so please let me know if I am becoming offensive or sounding like a broken record.

I propose to refrain from criticism of Obama personally (as opposed to criticizing particular policies without regard to personalities) for a period of one year. If you are right, I will post a big humble apology. If I am right, you will admit that I was right. No need to be humble or apologize, just to admit I was right. Deal?

Oh, and this applies to Obama only, not appointees, but I will not tie the appointee to Obama. If I criticize, and I'm sure I will, it will be because of specific personal actions by them. Still a deal?

by The Voice In The Wilderness on Mon Jan 19th, 2009 at 10:29:25 PM EST
[ Parent ]
you can say what you want and what you think.  I only note that your general tone is one of great skepticism.
by BooMan on Tue Jan 20th, 2009 at 12:22:49 AM EST
[ Parent ]
Thanks for the carte blanche. Skepticism, yeah, you're right. I'm in danger of becoming (have become?) a bitter old man, like an old dog that's been kicked too many times. I've got to avoid that. I shudder at the thought of becoming a McCain.

Still, to respond to your first reply, I don't think this is a proper use of power. This is wasting power. Obama is from Chicago and should know the Chicago Way. The Machine has room for everyone that will swear fealty, but will crush dissent ruthlessly. The Boss doesn't make concessions. He makes dispensations. Everybody gets their allocated piece of graft, but everybody obeys orders. No one makes demands.

by The Voice In The Wilderness on Tue Jan 20th, 2009 at 08:41:56 AM EST
[ Parent ]
Obama knows machine politics well enough to not want to emulate it.  
by BooMan on Tue Jan 20th, 2009 at 11:08:56 AM EST
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