I picked up a ton of books at the AAA exhibit hall last week. Discounts galore, with books selling at 20, 25, and 50% off. On the last day, some of the university presses were selling paperbacks at $5 and hardbacks at $10 a pop. This was 50 - 75% off the list price. Woohoo! The books I got were:

Achino-Loeb, Maria-Luisa, ed. 2006    Silence: The Currency of Power. New York: Berghahn Books.

Collins, John 2004    Occupied by Memory: The Intifada Generation and the Palestinian State of Emergency. New York: New York University Press.

Hancock, Ange-Marie 2004    The Politics of Disgust: The Public Identity of the Welfare Queen. New York: New York University Press.

Marcus, Anthony 2006    Where have all the homeless gone? The making and unmaking of a crisis. New York: Berghahn Books.

Nordstrom, Carolyn 2004    Shadows of War: Violence, Power, and International Profiteering in the Twenty-First Century. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Sanford, Victoria 2003    Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Stein, Rebecca L. and Ted Swedenburg, eds. 2005    Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture. Durham: Duke University Press.

Walkowitz, Daniel J. and Lisa Maya Knauer, eds. 2004    Memory and the Impact of Political Transformation in Public Space. Durham: Duke University Press.