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Books: Subjects: Pharmaceuticals
The Time Traveler's Wifeby Audrey Niffenegger List Price: $14.00 Available from Amazon $8.40 On 7-19-2006 
See Item's Page From Publishers Weekly This highly original first novel won the largest advance San Francisco-based MacAdam/Cage had ever paid, and it was money well spent. Niffenegger has written a soaring love story illuminated by dozens of finely observed details and scenes, and one that skates nimbly around a huge conundrum at the heart of the book: Henry De Tamble, a rather dashing librarian at the famous Newberry Library in Chicago, finds himself unavoidably whisked around in time. He disappears from a scene in, say, 1998 to find himself suddenly, usually without his clothes, which mysteriously disappear in transit, at an entirely different place 10 years earlier-or later. During one of these migrations, he drops in on beautiful teenage Clare Abshire, an heiress in a large house on the nearby Michigan peninsula, and a lifelong passion is born. The problem is that while Henry's age darts back and forth according to his location in time, Clare's moves forward in the normal manner, so the pair are often out of sync. But such is the author's tenderness with the characters, and the determinedly ungimmicky way in which she writes of their predicament (only once do they make use of Henry's foreknowledge of events to make money, and then it seems to Clare like cheating) that the book is much more love story than fantasy. It also has a splendidly drawn cast, from Henry's violinist father, ruined by the loss of his wife in an accident from which Henry time-traveled as a child, to Clare's odd family and a multitude of Chicago bohemian friends. The couple's daughter, Alba, inherits her father's strange abilities, but this is again handled with a light touch; there's no Disney cuteness here. Henry's foreordained end is agonizing, but Niffenegger has another card up her sleeve, and plays it with poignant grace. It is a fair tribute to her skill and sensibility to say that the book leaves a reader with an impression of life's riches and strangeness rather than of easy thrills. Copyright 2003 Reed business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. From AudioFile Although the title suggests that this is science fiction, Niffenegger's charming, emotionally charged novel is much more a love story. Told alternately from the viewpoints of time traveler Henry and his wife, Clare, it's highly enjoyable on audio. Readers Christopher Burns and Maggi-Meg Reed blend their respective chapters seamlessly. Each reader characterizes all roles within a chapter, and the depictions mesh beautifully. Both narrators characterize Korean friend Kimmy in a charmingly amusing voice and lend a light mood to the couple's daughter, Alba. Burns portrays the emotional chaos of Henry's life so genuinely as to cast the listener directly into his pain and joy. The abridged recording leaves one longing for more. J.J.B. 2004 Audie Award Finalist © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition. |
Saunders Pharmaceutical Word Book 2006 (Saunders Pharmaceutical Word Book)by Ellen Drake and Randy Drake Available from Amazon $39.95 On 7-19-2006 
See Item's Page Book Description The Saunders Pharmaceutical Word Book contains the correct spelling and capitalization of over 27,000 brand-name and generic drugs with dosage forms, investigational drug names and codes, chemotherapy protocols, trademarked dosage forms, and drug categories/classes. Although it is not a prescribing reference, it also contains the indications of approved drugs and standard dosages.
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Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patientsby Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels List Price: $25.00 Available from Amazon $15.75 On 7-19-2006 
See Item's Page From Publishers Weekly This accessible study about the collusion between medical science and the drug industry emphasizes how drug companies market their products by either redefining problems as diseases (like female sexual dysfunction) or redefining a condition to encompass a greater percentage of the population. Moynihan, a health journalist for the New England journal of Medicine and the Lancet, and Cassels, a Canadian science writer, note, for instance, that eight of the nine specialists who wrote the 2004 federal guideline on high cholesterol, which substantially increased the number of people in that category, have multiple financial ties to drug manufacturers. Physicians now routinely prescribe cholesterol-lowering pills (statins) that may have perilous side effects, when many people could lower their risk of heart attack with less costly and dangerous steps, such as exercise and improved diet. Through aggressive merchandising, funding of medical conferences and expensive perks, drug companies win doctors over to diagnosing these "diseases" and prescribing drugs for them. Unfortunately for these authors, much of this territory has been covered by several books in the past year, most notably Marcia Angell's The Truth About the Drug Companies Copyright © Reed business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Booklist Science and medicine writers Moynihan and Cassels conjecture that most Americans believe, based on information gleaned from a deluge of pharmaceutical-company advertisements, that conditions such as hypertension, high cholesterol, menopause, and chronic constipation are bona fide diseases. They quote reputable medical experts, however, who refute such understandings. What's more, they suggest that billions of precious and diminishing health-care dollars are squandered treating those nondiseases of healthy, wealthy Americans and would be better spent treating the legitimately sick poor and fighting the international AIDS epidemic. Quoting former Merck CEO Henry Gadsen--who, in a 1976 Fortune article, confessed that "it had long been his dream to make drugs for healthy people. Because then, Merck would be able to 'sell to everyone'"--they lay the blame for the misdirected billions at the feet of just such pharmaceutical giants as Merck. Finally, they counterpoint glossy pharmaceutical ad campaigns with alternatives that consumers may consider before asking their doctors for prescription drugs they saw touted on TV. Donna Chavez Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved |
Pharmaceutical Calculationsby Howard C Ansel and Mitchell J Stoklosa Available from Amazon $61.95 On 7-19-2006 
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Insider's Guide to the World of Pharmaceutical Sales, Eighth Editionby Jane Williams List Price: $37.49 Available from Amazon $23.62 On 7-19-2006
See Item's Page Lori Shreve Blake, Director, Alumni & Student Career Services University of Southern California May, 2005 "the premier resource for professionals considering a sales career in the pharmaceutical industry. I recommend this book" Bridget Weide, C.P.R.W., Editor Resume Writers’ Digest May 1, 2002 "Jane Williams’ fabulous book, ‘Insider’s Guide to the World of Pharmaceutical Sales’is a MUST-READ…" |
Be Brief. Be Bright. Be Gone.: Career Essentials for Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Sales Representatives by Jay Frost and David Currier List Price: $19.95 Available from Amazon $12.97 On 7-19-2006
See Item's Page Book Description A great way to jump-start your career in pharmaceutical and biotechnology sales! “Be brief, be bright, be gone” is the philosophy that launched David Currier to a successful career as a pharmaceutical sales representative. Simply stated, this approach encourages aspiring sales professionals to:
But that is only one piece of advice an aspiring representative should retain from this book. This book also covers:
…and lots more, including 10 key tips that help ensure long-term career success. This is the book that top pharmaceutical and biotech sales trainers have asked for! "I wish I read this book when I got started. It is easily the best book I have seen on the subject."—Ellen F. Simes, Springfield, MA, Pharma/biotech trainer "Anyone even thinking about a career in the industry should read this book.”—Pam Marinko, Wilmington, NC, Pharma/biotech trainer "Wow! Very well done. Some really good information for folks just starting out—and for veterans like me, too."—JoAnne Skypeck, Holyoke, MA, Pharmaceutical sales representative About The Author David Currier is currently a performance improvement manager for a premier biotechnology company. Previously, he was a consultant to the pharmaceutical industry at a training firm. He also worked at a leading pharmaceutical corporation for several years as a sales representative and sales training manager. Jay Frost is a freelance writer who has authored several books on managed care. He has also prepared text for dozens of sales training manuals, newsletters, workshops, audio/visual scripts, CD ROM programs, and web pages. |
Martin's Physical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciencesby Patrick J Sinko Available from Amazon $70.95 On 7-19-2006
See Item's Page Book Description Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jersey, Piscataway. Previous edition was titled Physical Pharmacy: Physical Chemical Principles in the Pharmaceutical Sciences, c1993. New edition includes chapters on biopharmaceutics and drug delivery, expanded content on diffusion and drug dissolution, kinetic phenomena, equilibrium phenomena, and more. For pharmacists and pharmacy students. |
Ansel's Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms and Drug Delivery Systemsby Loyd V Allen, Nicholas G Popovich, and Howard C Ansel Available from Amazon $57.95 On 7-19-2006
See Item's Page Book Description This edition retains the popular format of previous edtions and also includes case studies for more effective learning, as well as numerous additional product and equipment photographs. Book Info Univ. of Georgia, Atlanta. Introductory textbook for pharmacy students. Discusses basic pharmaceutic principles and technologies applied in the preparation of pharmaceutical dosage forms and drug delivery systems. Includes current good compounding practices and a new chapter-at-aglance at the beginning of each chapter. Previous edition: c1995. Softcover. DNLM: Dosage Forms. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. |
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