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05/21
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Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Hardcover) by Melody Petersen bookshelves: currently-reading |
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recommended for: all people that are on more than one medication.
Ricky said:
"It is an awesome book that details just how human doctors are. I say this with a wry smile because they just like us all have been manipulated by corporate greed and have become tools for the Pharmarceutical companies rather than a protector agaisnt...more
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Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software (Hardcover) by Scott Rosenberg bookshelves: have-read-and-loved-it |
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Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures (Paperback) by Carl Zimmer bookshelves: have-read-and-loved-it |
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Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Hardcover) by Melody Petersen bookshelves: currently-reading |
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recommended for: all people that are on more than one medication.
Ricky said:
"It is an awesome book that details just how human doctors are. I say this with a wry smile because they just like us all have been manipulated by corporate greed and have become tools for the Pharmarceutical companies rather than a protector agaisnt...more
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The Seventeen Traditions (Hardcover) by Ralph Nader |
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Katy's
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" Who knew?? Ralph Nader is a conservative!! And this book proves it. It is not about traditions so much as it is a rant against the commercialization of the culture. Hard to disagree with that of course, but he does not present any feasible so...more " | |||
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Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future (Paperback) by Jeff Goodell |
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Got it off of a Fresh Air broadcast, a talk show on NPR.
recommended for: Environmentalist who are anti Nuclear read in February, 2008
Ricky said:
"I am actually reading this book for the second time. It has eminded me the importance of turning off the light. It has reminded me that there is an important reason that we have for government. It reminded me that big business and corporations can...more
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Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy (BK Currents) by Ted Nace bookshelves: to-read |
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Crashing the Party: Taking on the Corporate Government in an Age of Surrender
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The Good Fight: Declare Your Independence and Close the Democracy Gap (Paperback) by Ralph Nader bookshelves: political-reads |
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read in January, 2005
Ricky said:
"I read this book as soon as it came out. It did not add much to my knowledge about nader, but it did make me more aware of the hard fight against the man that has to be fought. I agree with Nader it is the Good Fight.
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Ricky
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Crashing the Party: Taking on the Corporate Government in an Age of Surrender (Paperback) by Ralph Nader bookshelves: political-reads |
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read in March, 2000
Ricky said:
"I am a total Nader fan. In this book it shocked me to learn how much of our democratic process is undemoctratic.
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