Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patientsby Ben Goldacre We like to imagine that medicine is based on evidence and the results of fair testing and clinical trials. In reality, those tests and trials are often profoundly flawed. We like to imagine that doctors who write prescriptions for everything from antidepressants to … Continue reading Bad Pharma
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Amusing Ourselves to Death
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Businessby Neil Postman What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell's 1984, Neil's Postman's essential guide to the modern media is more relevant than ever. Neil Postman’s groundbreaking polemic about the … Continue reading Amusing Ourselves to Death
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All the Presidents’ Bankers
All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances That Drive American Powerby Nomi Prins A groundbreaking narrative of how an elite group of men transformed the American economy and government, dictated foreign and domestic policy, and shaped world history. Culled from original presidential archival documents, All the Presidents' Bankers delivers an explosive account of the hundred-year … Continue reading All the Presidents’ Bankers
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The Killing of Uncle Sam
The Killing of Uncle Sam: The Demise of the United States of America documents that pride, greed, and power have driven men to do the unthinkable–including selling out their nations and unsuspected citizens to the most corrupt and destructive “invisible” global leaders on Earth. But how did this happen on American soil? How did the … Continue reading The Killing of Uncle Sam
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The Thirty-six Strategies Of Ancient China
The THIRTY-SIX STRATEGIES is a unique collection of ancient Chinese proverbs that describe some of the most cunning and subtle war tactics ever devised. Whereas other Chinese military texts such as Sun Zi's THE ART OF WAR focus on military organization, leadership, and battlefield tactics, the THIRTY-SIX STRATEGIES are more suitably applied in the fields … Continue reading The Thirty-six Strategies Of Ancient China
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Memory Lands
BOOK REVIEWMemory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeastby Christine M. DeLucia 2019 About the AuthorChristine M. DeLucia is associate professor of history at Mount Holyoke College and lives in western Massachusetts. About the Book Awarded Honorable Mention for the 2019 National Council on Public History book prize Winner of … Continue reading Memory Lands
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The Gutenberg Parenthesis
BOOK REVIEWThe Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internetby Jeff Jarvis 2023 About the AuthorJeff Jarvis holds the Leonard Tow Chair in Journalism Innovation and directs the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the City University of New York's Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. He was … Continue reading The Gutenberg Parenthesis
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