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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 the problem is that "clean coal" is a fraud.  It doesn't exist in real life - it is only a concept.  They are giving money to "study" and "research" the thing, so the money spent won't cause any CO2 be sequestered.

In the end, any sort of CO2 capture is going to cost money.  Even in the best of circumstances, a plant with CO2 capture is going to generate electricity that costs more than plain old coal, and it would likely cost more than wind and solar as well.

That's what is so irritating about all of this.  We already know what will work, but the powers that be aren't interested - they are just interested in business as usual.

If you follow the link you see:

On the other side of this debate, many environmental advocates like the Natural Resources Defense Council believe clean coal is a pipe dream and distracts us from better, cheaper, and quicker solutions.

by ericy on Wed Feb 4th, 2009 at 09:46:30 AM EST
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And the transition is...

There are a lot of kW being generated from coal.  Renewables won't replace them tomorrow.  Should we just let coal-fired generating plants spew CO2 and create sludge pits or should we find ways to reduce the pollutants from these admittedly dirty plants.

That's what's being looked at in real terms.

The problem is that right now there is not sufficient renewable capacity to magically take these coal-fired plants offline.

And yes, "clean coal" will be proven to be a fraud.  But in the meantime the transition can be made somewhat cleaner if more expensive.

And the fools errand of research into this quite possibly might come up with ways of cleaning up the atmosphere by sequestering CO2 from other sources.

50 states, 210 media market, 435 Congressional Districts, 3080 counties, 192,480 precincts

by TarheelDem on Wed Feb 4th, 2009 at 05:53:32 PM EST
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Booman Tribune ~ Where's the Green Stimulus?
That's what is so irritating about all of this.  We already know what will work, but the powers that be aren't interested - they are just interested in business as usual.

what bugs me is that the health effects and costs from coalburning are right up there with global warming in negativity, yet they go unmentioned.

if he had bit the bullet and sent all that to wind and solar, his popularity (except among repugs) would have soared.

he likes to play the long game, i know, but i regret this. being conciliatory with assholes is worthy but impractical.

this honeymoon period should have been more about emasculating what's left of the repugs, and less about schmoozing them.

he may well be a better judge, time will tell.

if we have enough of it...

"Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich." Peter Ustinov

by melo on Thu Feb 5th, 2009 at 05:06:22 AM EST
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