Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock N Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock N Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
A Trashy but Entertaining Look at the 70s Film Generation (
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls is a director-to-diretor, movie-to-movie account of the New Hollywood generation of the 70s. What is so amazing about this book is how well its author Peter Biskind has researched and structured it. Sadly much of the books potential is ruined with the blatant gossip and rep
SHOW BIZ IS NOT BUSINESS (
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Like Bob Evans "The Kid Stars In the Picture", "Swimming With Sharks", and Bob Altmans "The Player", Peter Biskinds book is one of the best and most exemplary works describing this crazy "business" called Hollywood.
It is very, very engaging and informative. What the book centers on are two things
A great decade of filmmaking, or nasty, spiteful gossip? (
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Im very puzzled by the purpose and intent of this book. The author seems to have a genuine appreciation for the revolution in extraordinary, personal filmmaking in American film in the 1970s. Yet the book itself is filled with the nastiest, pettiest, disgusting portrayals of the remarkable filmmaker
Mosbys 2004 Nursing Drug Reference (Mosbys Nursing Drug Reference)
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Great resource for nursing students (
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This book is highly recommended for both classroom and clinical work. I have found it to be helpful on many levels. The book reviews drugs as well as drug classes. Each entry outlines: Mechanism of action Uses Side effects and adverse reactions Contraindications Pharmacokenetics In..
The A-List
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Intriguing and Addictive-- The A-List is ON my A-List (
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I read this entire book in one day because I liked it so much! Anna, a rich preppy girl from Manhattan, moves to her now druggie fathers California home for the summer. On the plane ride, she is "rescued by" Ben, a cute (also rich) boy going back home on the west coast. After Anna is invited by him ..
Powerful Medicines : The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs
Profiteeering 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." Avorns gifts as a writer are apparent in the prologue, an edgy account of the mismanaged medications of several stroke patients. He then details the intellectual history of drug assessment and benefits, including the biblical food police in the Book of Daniel, the deer in the headlights Estrogen debacle and the current infatua..
