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How Doctors Think
by Jerome Groopman ()
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Jerome Groopman is a physician at Harvard Medical School. His book is an effort to dissect the anatomy of correct diagnosis, successful treatment and humane care -- and also of diagnostic error, misguided therapy and thoughtless bedside manner. His task is to offer practical advice to both patients and physicians.
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Posted: Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 8:52 am by Sylvhania
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Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin
by Kathy Griffin (2009-09-08)
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Kathy Griffin unplugged, uncensored, and unafraid to dish about what really happens on the road, away from the cameras, and at the star party after the show. (It’s also her big chance to score that coveted book club endorsement she’s always wanted. Are you there, Oprah? It’s me, Kathy.)
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Posted: Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 8:41 am by Sylvhania
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On Truth
by Harry G. Frankfurt (2006-10-31)
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(17)
With the same leavening wit and commonsense wisdom that animates his pathbreaking work On Bullshit, Frankfurt encourages us to take another look at the truth: there may be something there that is perhaps too plain to notice but for which we have a mostly unacknowledged yet deep-seated passion.
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Posted: Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at 4:27 pm by Sylvhania
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Toy Monster: The Big, Bad World of Mattel
by Jerry Oppenheimer ()
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Oppenheimer takes a tour of Mattel’s seamier side, highlighting its dubious corporate practices and kooky cast in this scathing portrait to be published to coincide with Barbie’s 50th anniversary. Drawing on personal interviews and public sources, Oppenheimer paints a bleak picture of the peculiar practices of the adults running the toy company.
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Posted: Sunday, December 27, 2009 at 5:20 pm by Sylvhania
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The God Machine: From Boomerangs to Black Hawks: The Story of the Helicopter
by James R. Chiles (2008-09-30)
average customer review: (5)
Chiles gives an anecdote-studded history of the inspired and eccentric breed of garage mechanics who tamed the helicopter's tendency to tip over in winds, twirl uncontrollably and shake itself to pieces to give us the sturdy, poised aircraft we know today.
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Posted: Sunday, December 27, 2009 at 5:17 pm by Sylvhania
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The Fearless Fish Out of Water: How to Succeed When You’re the Only One Like You
by Robin Fisher-Roffer ()
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(12)
Roffer, CEO of entertainment branding firm Big Fish Marketing, has long felt like a "fish out of water" in the office place. Instead of conforming to corporate culture, however, she learned to achieve success by turning "uniqueness into an advantage."
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Posted: Sunday, December 27, 2009 at 5:12 pm by Sylvhania
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The Fifth Vial
by Michael Palmer (2007-11-27)
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Palmer is adept at tapping into people's natural fear of disease, doctors, and hospitals and converting that fear into unnerving suspense. In this, his twelfth medical thriller, Palmer plays with the phenomenon of organ donation, forcing the reader to ask nervously, "Where do donated organs come from?"
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Posted: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 12:18 pm by Sylvhania
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Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand ()
average customer review: (2020)
Altas Shrugged asks the question: What happens to the world when the prime movers [inventors and scientists] go on strike? The protagonist, Dagny Taggart, sees society collapse around her as the government increasingly asserts control over all industry, while society's most productive citizens, led by the mysterious John Galt, progressively disappear.
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Posted: Monday, November 16, 2009 at 10:41 pm by Sylvhania
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Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy
by Eric G. Wilson (2009-01-20)
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This slender, powerful salvo offers a sure-to-be controversial alternative to the recent cottage industry of high-brow happiness books. Wilson, chair of Wake Forest University's English Department, claims that Americans today are too interested in being happy.
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Posted: Monday, November 9, 2009 at 2:24 pm by Sylvhania
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Pleasing the Dead
by Deborah Turrell Atkinson (2009-02-10)
average customer review: (7)
Hawaiian attorney Storm Kayama arrives on Maui to help Lara Farrell set up her new dive shop. Then the trouble starts. Storm begins to ask questions and finds that Yakuza is behind the violence.
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Posted: Saturday, August 22, 2009 at 11:52 am by Sylvhania
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