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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

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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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Booman,

I hear ya, and agree.  But it's worth reminding ourselves that playing nice and bending over backwards to be inclusive of Republicans usually doesn't pay off in the end.  Those bastards cannot be trusted to return the favor.

by eagleye on Wed Jan 28th, 2009 at 11:08:26 AM EST
there are pros and cons to everything.  

Watch this:

[h/t to A. Gilroy]

Note in particular:

"If somebody comes at me...I will knock 'em out. If not, then I will try to understand their point of view.

I give people the benefit of the doubt; I try to understand their point of view...

---snip---

If...I perceive that they try to take advantage of that, then I will...crush them."

by BooMan on Wed Jan 28th, 2009 at 11:17:35 AM EST
[ Parent ]
true, but I think Obama is doing something else.

he's giving the appearance of "playing nice and bending over backwards to be inclusive of Republicans". It's not the same thing.  I believe Mr. Obama has figured out the GOP response will always be either a hissy-fit or moving the goalposts.  They are a two-trick pony and I think he has their number.  

It will be relatively easy to neutralize this tactic now that it has been isolated and identified.  If he wished, Obama could even channel Reagan when the GOP tries either response: "There you go again..."

I could be wrong... but I don't think I am.
NB: I still do not approve of removing family planning and larding the stimulus with ill-devised tax cuts.

John Mccain Called his wife WHAT??

by brendan on Wed Jan 28th, 2009 at 12:08:31 PM EST
[ Parent ]
both this response and the previous are for eagleeye.

"Those bastards cannot be trusted to return the favor. "

yes: that is exactly what I believe Obama is counting on.  if you think about it, both the hissy-fit and the goalpost are two versions of the same tactic: "Those bastards cannot be trusted to return the favor."

and because obama knows they will not return the favor he makes a big show of trying to meet them on their ground, and then pulls the rug out when they do their trick.  It makes him look good for wanting to work together and makes them look bad because well, there they go again...

John Mccain Called his wife WHAT??

by brendan on Wed Jan 28th, 2009 at 12:14:15 PM EST
[ Parent ]
We have a winner!  I think Obama has always been playing the game at a different level than most of his opponents.

We'll have to see how this plays out, but I remember a fw instances throughout his campaign where the blogosphere went crazy over some "mistake" he had made...well, he won the election, didn't he?

"Life is always better with clean pants."

by CabinGirl on Wed Jan 28th, 2009 at 12:18:33 PM EST
[ Parent ]
Exactly, CabinGirl!

"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 Jan 28th, 2009 at 12:27:26 PM EST
[ Parent ]
I love it.  "Controlled anger" - may we all follow his lead on that instead of losing control at the slightest little thing.
Cool - it's the new 'hot'
by Alice on Wed Jan 28th, 2009 at 12:28:54 PM EST
[ Parent ]
I love it.  "Controlled anger" - may we all follow his lead on that instead of losing control at the slightest little thing.
Cool - it's the new 'hot'

I get that part. But I still worry. People need work.


Recommended by Hideo Kojima

by robertdsc on Wed Jan 28th, 2009 at 08:49:51 PM EST
[ Parent ]

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