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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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ACTION ALERT: Stop the Unconstitutional "Protect America" Act

by populist
Thu Sep 20th, 2007 at 09:49:50 PM EST

...The single largest anti-Constitutional contribution to the Bush Regime by the PAA is its effective cancellation of legislative and judicial oversight on warrantless wiretapping. When this bill was signed into law, the Constitution's separation-of-powers principle had its arms ripped off...

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Impeachment as Political Solution to Iraq War

by populist
Tue Aug 7th, 2007 at 02:31:28 PM EST

...Improperly framing Iraq as a war benefits those responsible for it and obscures the clearest path to a saner future. If instead Iraq was framed as the armed assault that it was (billed as "Shock and Awe"), there is a logical, expedient political solution at our disposal - impeachment...

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You are Destroying America. Yes, You.

by populist
Wed Jul 18th, 2007 at 10:02:58 PM EST

...Terrorism will never destroy America. It will come from within. From fear-addicts who have raped the U.S. so much that they should be drawn up on charges of treason. The cowards who want a nanny state to coddle them, hug them, and ultimately contain them in a little crib with bars and monitors and cameras...

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A Letter to My Son Regarding the Problem of War

by populist
Mon Jul 9th, 2007 at 11:59:33 PM EST

...As an old man then, one who was given the opportunity to be your father, my advice to you is to do the right thing; always, without exception, follow your conscience. Do that which will enable you to stand tall as a man of honor, a man of true integrity, one who will have chosen life as opposed to death...

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What The Hell Was Cicero Thinking?

by populist
Thu Jun 28th, 2007 at 07:06:32 PM EST

...When you read Cicero, the great Roman Philosopher, and his Six Mistakes of Man, you cant help but think that he may have been wasting his time. After all, no one needs to be reminded what should be simple common sense ... particularly the leaders of powerful tribes, religious institutions, villages, towns, cities, or vast empires...right?

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It's Time for a Decision, Not More Hot Air

by populist
Tue Jun 26th, 2007 at 11:56:51 PM EST

...Four years of occupation later and still we do not seem to understand what is going on. History is replete with examples, but who reads history anymore? Unless they are utterly exterminated, occupied peoples fight back! They fight by any means at their disposal, and they often set aside old quarrels until the invaders are gone...

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Top-Ten Reasons to Get Out of Iraq. Now!

by populist
Fri May 18th, 2007 at 07:43:40 AM EST

...You don't bring freedom to people by waging war on their cities and towns, and you don't protect innocent people by killing innocent people. It is a crime to aggressively take the life of another person. There is no murder of innocent people that can be justified by claiming that it was necessary for the "greater good." ...

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The America Haters Strike Again

by populist
Mon Apr 9th, 2007 at 02:53:00 PM EST

...For them, the military IS America. War is America. The president is America. The NSA is America. Every politician that they love and worship is America. And, if you don't like it, you obviously hate America. You must be some kind of terrorist, or communist; and you'd rather be living in some foreign dictatorship...

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Unclear on the Concept? You Betcha!

by populist
Fri Mar 30th, 2007 at 01:37:11 PM EST

...If Congress will just read the Constitution they have sworn to uphold, the rest is a "no-brainer."

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A Lonely Plan Makes a Lonely Man

by populist
Wed Mar 28th, 2007 at 03:05:50 PM EST

...Today we stand on the precipice of a most divided union. These United States have become the most divisive and unilateral entities our country has ever known. We, collectively as a nation, have certainly exercised our right to autonomy and individualism, and that, to an extreme. No longer does "one" mean the same as it did in the beginning of mankind, no matter your personal beliefs, but the "one" in oneness now seems to shade to different shadows and shades away to shine in a different room...

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On the Fall of Empires

by populist
Mon Mar 26th, 2007 at 06:56:08 PM EST

...It is interesting to note that the United States is never officially referred to as an empire, although our country has assumed many imperial characteristics...

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'Nam War, 'Raq War: Similarities, Differences

by populist
Fri Mar 23rd, 2007 at 03:36:22 PM EST

...Many people who observe current events in the United States and overseas have said, "We are fighting the Vietnam war all over again." As many military experts have noted, Iraq is not precisely Vietnam. But there are significant similarities. Clearly, some people did not learn from it...

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America's Two Illicit Addictions: Drugs & Immigration

by populist
Tue Mar 20th, 2007 at 08:09:05 PM EST

...We have been 'at war' with those who supply illicit drugs to our population for more than two generations, failing to admit that drug-addiction is mainly a demand problem, not supply. Again, just like the illicit drugs issue, immigration should not be treated as criminality...

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US Military Bases Around the World

by populist
Fri Mar 16th, 2007 at 05:36:55 PM EST

...People in US cities would be outraged if another country garrisoned its troops close by with all the resulting fallout: unacceptable noise, pollution, environmental destruction, appropriation of valued public real estate along with drunken soldiers on the loose violating laws, causing damage and raping local women. Not the kinds of neighbors we choose, especially when they're mostly unaccountable for their actions...

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