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Profiteering pharmaceutical companies and the FDA have met their match in Dr Jerry Avorn, a Harvard Medical school researcher and clinician. In Powerful Medicines, he brilliantly combines patient vignettes, scientific critique, and statistics to create a risk/benefit balance for prescription drugs. His premise: "Every drug is a triangle with three faces--representing the healing it can bring, the hazards it can inflict and the economic impact of each." Avorn's gifts as a writer are ... less info

Profiteering pharmaceutical companies and the FDA have met their match in Dr Jerry Avorn, a Harvard Medical school researcher and clinician. In Powerful Medicines, he brilliantly combines patient v... more info

Ever since he published his classic 1972 essay "Why They Aren't Writing the Great American Novel Anymore," Tom Wolfe has made his fictional preferences loud and clear. For New Journalism's poster boy, minimalism is a wash, not to mention a failure of nerve. The real mission of the American writer is to produce fat novels of social observation--the sort of thing Balzac would be dishing up if he had made it into the Viagra era. Wolfe's manifesto would have had a hubristic ring if he h... less info

Ever since he published his classic 1972 essay "Why They Aren't Writing the Great American Novel Anymore," Tom Wolfe has made his fictional preferences loud and clear. For New Journalism'... more info

Profiteering pharmaceutical companies and the FDA have met their match in Dr Jerry Avorn, a Harvard Medical school researcher and clinician. In Powerful Medicines, he brilliantly combines patient vignettes, scientific critique, and statistics to create a risk/benefit balance for prescription drugs. His premise: "Every drug is a triangle with three faces--representing the healing it can bring, the hazards it can inflict and the economic impact of each." Avorn's gifts as a writer are ... less info

Profiteering pharmaceutical companies and the FDA have met their match in Dr Jerry Avorn, a Harvard Medical school researcher and clinician. In Powerful Medicines, he brilliantly combines patient v... more info

Pages: 287, Edition: illustrated edition, Hardcover, New York University Press less info

Pages: 287, Edition: illustrated edition, Hardcover, New York University Press

Pages: 192, Paperback, Ulysses Press less info

Pages: 192, Paperback, Ulysses Press

Elvis's wimpled sister rocks on in a convent she calls Graceland; Nancy Sinatra gets out her boots made for walking with the Kray Sisters; Mrs Midas misses the touch of her now dangerous golden-handed husband; and Queen Herod decrees the killing of each mother's son to protect her baby daughter in Carol Ann Duffy's startling new collection The World's Wife. Doubling is one of the most common themes--and stylistic ploys--of Western culture and thought, and the concept around which Duffy has in... less info

Elvis's wimpled sister rocks on in a convent she calls Graceland; Nancy Sinatra gets out her boots made for walking with the Kray Sisters; Mrs Midas misses the touch of her now dangerous golden-han... more info

Pages: 289, Edition: New edition, Paperback, New York University Press less info

Pages: 289, Edition: New edition, Paperback, New York University Press

Pages: 224, Hardcover, Andrews McMeel Publishing less info

Pages: 224, Hardcover, Andrews McMeel Publishing

Pages: 224, Edition: 1, Paperback, Jossey Bass less info

Pages: 224, Edition: 1, Paperback, Jossey Bass

Pages: 179, Paperback, Village East Books less info

Pages: 179, Paperback, Village East Books

Adrian Mole is balding, he's bitter and he's back, this time aged 30¼. Working at the Hoi Polloy restaurant, Soho, where a typical menu includes: Heinz Tomato Soup, (with white bread floaters) Grey Lamb Chops Boiled Cabbage avec Dan Quayle Potatoes Dark Brown onion gravy Spotted Dick à la Clinton Bird's Eye Custard Cheddar Cheese, Cream Crackers Nescafé After Eight Mint he is spotted by a cable TV producer and ends up starring in a celebrity chef show celebrating offal. Though he may b... less info

Adrian Mole is balding, he's bitter and he's back, this time aged 30¼. Working at the Hoi Polloy restaurant, Soho, where a typical menu includes: Heinz Tomato Soup, (with white bread floaters) G... more info

Athena College was snoozing complacently in the Berkshires until Coleman Silk--formerly "Silky Silk", undefeated welterweight pro-boxer--strode in and shook the place awake. This faculty dean sacked the deadwood, made lots of hot new hires, including Yale-spawned literary-theory wunderkind Delphine Roux, and irritated so many people for so many decades that now, in 1998, they have all turned on him. Silk's character assassination is partly owing to what the novel's narrator, Nathan ... less info

Athena College was snoozing complacently in the Berkshires until Coleman Silk--formerly "Silky Silk", undefeated welterweight pro-boxer--strode in and shook the place awake. This faculty ... more info

Pages: 232, Paperback, Healing Arts Press less info

Pages: 232, Paperback, Healing Arts Press

Pages: 336, Edition: 1, Hardcover, OUP USA less info

Pages: 336, Edition: 1, Hardcover, OUP USA

Pages: 272, Edition: Reprint, Paperback, Atria Books less info

Pages: 272, Edition: Reprint, Paperback, Atria Books