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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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But if your company no longer has to pay that $8,000 in benefits (even if they have to pay a fine) they will shift some or most of that $8,000 to your salary or wages.

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha. ROTFLMAO. Sure, they will! They will just pocket the money (if they are the owners) or raise their bonuses (boni?) if they are corporate executives.

by The Voice In The Wilderness on Thu Oct 8th, 2009 at 07:37:11 PM EST
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So, you reject that our wages have been flat because of the astronomical increase in the cost of health insurance.  Interesting.  
by BooMan on Thu Oct 8th, 2009 at 07:51:42 PM EST
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That is more a factor in the ballooning employee cost sharing and general cut back in benefits. However, the large scale importation of cheap foreign labor, the massive outsourcing of whole business units, and government support of union busting are much larger factors in flat wages. Why should my employer give me a raise? There are six people out there who want it and will not demand a raise. Likely, they will take it for less.

Corporations are not in business for the benefit of their employees. The too big to fail corporations are not even in business for their nominal owners, rather they are in business for the top tier of management.
When raises and other benefits are given out, it is to attract scarce workers in a tight economy. Any raises in this economy are the result of contract, minimum wage legislation, or corporate inertia.

The Citibank loan officer at my recent re-financing told me he had not had a raise in four years. Do you think Vikram Pandit and the other officers can say the same?

by The Voice In The Wilderness on Thu Oct 8th, 2009 at 08:05:25 PM EST
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At least the CEOs will have to pay taxes on their raises. Pretty thin yippee beer, but a tiny tin lining. It occurs to me that the consequences of such a scenario would cause a regional difference: top-dog execs of companies outside the E coast probably at least live in the same state their companies pay taxes in. In Manhattan they probably mostly live in CT or some such place, so the additional tax revenue would go to LiebermanLandt.

FDR's response to progressive demands: "I agree. Now go out and make me do it."
by DaveW on Thu Oct 8th, 2009 at 08:28:15 PM EST
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