Tempting Tropicals: 175 Irresistible Indoor Plants
by: Ellen Zachos
Tempting Tropicals: 175 Irresistible Indoor Plants
By Ellen Zachos
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Number Of Pages: 328
Publication Date: 2005-10-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0881927325
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780881927320
Winter-Flowering Shrubs
by: Michael W. Buffin
Winter-Flowering Shrubs
By Michael W. Buffin
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Number Of Pages: 232
Publication Date: 2005-09-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0881927228
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780881927221
International Research in Healthcare (ULLA Pharmacy Series)
by: Felicity Smith, Sally-anne Francis, Ellen Schafheutle
International Research in Healthcare (ULLA Pharmacy Series)
By Felicity Smith, Sally-anne Francis, Ellen Schafheutle
Publisher: Pharmaceutical Press
Number Of Pages: 164
Publication Date: 2008-07
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0853697507
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780853697503
Product Description:
This book is an essential guide for those thinking of undertaking a multi-centre research project. Research across international boundaries presents challenges with the need to consider relevance of research objectives and feasibility of procedures in different settings whilst maintaining scientific integrity in terms of design, instruments and execution.
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FASTtrack: Pharmaceutics - Dosage Form and Design
By David Jones
Publisher: Pharmaceutical Press
Number Of Pages: 286
Publication Date: 2008-09-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0853697647
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780853697640
Product Description:
This is a revision guide for students giving bullet points of basic information on pharmaceutics - dosage form and design. “FASTtrack” is a new series of indispensable study guides created especially for undergraduate pharmacy students.The content of each title focuses on what pharmacy students really need to know in order to pass exams, providing concise, bulleted information, key points, tips and an all-important self-assessment section which includes MCQs, case studies, sample essay questions and worked examples.This title follows on from the “FASTtrack: Physical Pharmacy” book by David Attwood and Alexander T Florence covering information on the formulation, what components are used and the dosage form. In addition, this title will complement “FASTtrack: Pharmaceutics - Delivery and Taregting” by Yvonne Perrie and Thomas Rades. The “FASTtrack” series provides the ultimate lecture notes and is a must-have for all pharmacy undergraduate students wanting to revise and test themselves for forthcoming exams. A FASTtrack website includes MCQs, sample online content and much more.
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Essentials of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, 3rd edition
by: Donald Cairns
Essentials of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, 3rd Edition
By Donald Cairns
Publisher: Pharmaceutical Press
Number Of Pages: 280
Publication Date: 2008-03
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0853697450
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780853697459
Product Description:
It covers the core information required by pharmacy students to understand the action of modern drugs on the human body.The third edition is larger than the previous edition and includes a new chapter on licensing of drugs and medicines which describes the make up and function of important committees such as the Commission of Human Medicines and the British Pharmacopoeia Commission. This includes material that is within the public domain and explains the process of getting a drug to market.The majority of the chapters include more worked examples/tutorial examples and the chapter on Analytical spectroscopy has been updated to include “qualitative” spectroscopic methods especially NMR, mass spectroscopy and some IR and the chapter on Stability of drugs and medicines has been updated to include a major section on “prodrugs” which are inactive compounds designed to decompose within the body to release the active moiety.
Summary: An Effective Introduction to Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Rating: 4
This is a very well written and organized introduction to pharmaceutical chemistry, and for a non-chemist is reasonably easy to follow, especially with definitions being complete and included when needed. Tutorial examples are very helpful. Overall, the content is instructional and practical. I can recomend this book especially to those not too familiar the subject matter.
Summary: lecturer from Australia
Rating: 5
I have read the book and will recommend it as the textbook for pharmacy students. It covers most relevant chemistry topics for pharmacists and does so in just the right amount of explanatory detail. The selection of topics is very good and the text does not assume that pharmacy undergraduates must learn all the topics which chemistry undergraduates do.
It is truly a well thought out applied chemistry text.
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Potent Natural Medicines: Mother Nature’s Pharmacy (Science & Society)
By J. S. Kidd, Renee A. Kidd
Publisher: Facts on File
Number Of Pages: 212
Publication Date: 2005-12-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0816056072
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780816056071
Product Description:
The impact society has on the progress and acceptance of new science - and vice versa - is greater than most people think. For instance, over the past five years, events indicate that citizens’ views have helped change the focus of the research and development carried out by both the U.S. Department of Agriculture and by the Environmental Protection Agency. Likewise, citizen actions have influenced the direction of the activities of organizations such as the World Bank in their efforts to improve agriculture and living conditions in the developing nations of the world. The new “Science and Society” set not only highlights the “what” of science, but also the “why,” the “how,” and the “who.” Each volume provides an accessible, authoritative view of the history and current state of a particular issue. With a focus on humanizing science, this set brings each subject - from air pollution to nuclear power to natural medicines - to life by showing students all the factors that motivate research and revealing how scientists compete and collaborate with one another. By exploring the connections between science and society, especially in controversial areas, each book illustrates both how society supports science and how science in return supports society. Each volume includes an introduction providing an overview of the topic, complete chapter-by-chapter coverage, dozens of black-and-white photographs and line illustrations, a helpful index and glossary, lists of websites and suggestions for further reading that allow readers quick access to detailed information.
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The Merck Druggernaut: The Inside Story of a Pharmaceutical Giant
By Fran Hawthorne
Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 2003-02-28
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0471228788
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780471228783
Product Description:
An in-depth look at big pharma’s flagship company
The Merck Druggernaut takes readers inside Merck, the world’s second most profitable drug company and maker of the world’s bestselling drug, Prilosec. Consistently named one of Fortune magazine’s Most Admired Companies, Merck struggles to maintain its reputation for being the most ethical of the big drug makers, refusing to slash research and development budgets in the face of declining profits, falling stock market prices, and questionable accounting. Author Fran Hawthorne, one of the leading journalists covering healthcare, has written an excellent examination of a business paragon with much-needed insight on the cutthroat world of pharmaceuticals. It’s a story that will interest the business world as well as consumer and healthcare advocates by detailing the vital issues in medicine and healthcare today. More than just a compelling story of success in a difficult industry, more than simply the biography of one of big business’s most recognizable names, The Merck Druggernaut takes a thoughtful look at some of the major issues of our time and the way those issues intertwine with the world of business.
Fran Hawthorne (New York, NY) is the Assistant Managing Editor at Crain’s New York Business. She has been covering business for more than twenty years for such publications as Fortune, BusinessWeek, and Institutional Investor, with a prevailing interest in healthcare and pharmaceuticals. At Crain’s, she spearheads the publication of two to three special healthcare issues per year.
Summary: good book on how pharmaceutical companies operate.
Rating: 3
the book is an eye opener for those who have no idea of how a pharmaceutical company operates. it is very detailed from the conception of a drug to its marketing. it praises and also hits the pharmaceutical industry.
well written and easy to understand. highly recommended.
Summary: A good reminder that not all pharma is evil
Rating: 5
Merck is one of the most honest drug companies in the world. Given their recent troubles with Vioxx it is good to have a book out there that reminds us of the good things they have done. Hawthorne as always is well written and does a great job of taking us from the founding with George Merck to the present day and the quest to create new drugs. It is an unbiased perspective that may make those who want to blame big Pharma for all of their ills. Highly recommend.
Summary: Pretty interesting book
Rating: 4
This book covers not only Merck, but also big pharma in general. I enjoyed reading the book, too bad that all the events post-Vioxx recall are mentioned only in the Epilogue.
Summary: Delivers the goods.
Rating: 4
This book was everything I hoped. Very well written, researched, and organized. I don’t know what more a reader could have wanted than what Hawthorne hath writ.
Unlike what other critics here seem to have assumed, the book is *not* an expose. In fact, Hawthorne indicates repeatedly that Merck’s employees and alumni are famously a tight-lipped bunch. In light of that, I think she did an outstanding job of lifting the veneer to peek into the company’s ethos, zeitgeist, and birthright.
The book does an admirable job of staying centered on Merck as the subject, rather than shifting to the drug industry as the star of the show and Merck but a player in it. Perhaps a couple of the middle chapters spent more time reversing these roles than I’d have liked, but sometimes that’s necessary when an industry sea change makes the company the object rather than the subject.
In all an excellent read, especially for someone (like me) who is considering a career in the industry.
Randy
Summary: Regurgitation of Merck’s PR handouts
Rating: 1
As an ex-Merck employee who was there during the stellar days of Roy Vagelos and has had to watch Ray Gilmartin and Peter Kim squander the legacy and the public trust of a once distinguished phramaceutical company, I take great exception to this trite, inaccurate “informmercial” of a book. The give away is the opening page - the Merck superman, not above fixing his own plumbing problems. Clark Kent where are you?
This book is pathetic - stealing directly from Merck’s circa 2000 PR materials. No mention of the great pharmacologists and medicinal chemistrs who set the stage for P. Roy’s success - Clem Stone, Karl Beyer, Ralph Hirschmann, Paul Anderson, Brad Clineschimdt - just the story post Roy - with a number of patheric legends in their own minds taking center stage and leading Merck straight into the COX-2 fiasco.
Merck once had great leadership, now it has Gilmartin’s Don Knotts to George Merck’s Andy Griffith.
This book is worthless
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Applied Pharmaceutical Practice
By Christopher A. Langley, Dawn Belcher
Publisher: Pharmaceutical Press
Number Of Pages: 290
Publication Date: 2008-09-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0853697469
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780853697466
Product Description:
This is a comprehensive guide through the main stages of pharmaceutical dispensing.The textbook is designed to guide student pharmacists or pharmacy technicians through the main stages involved in pharmaceutical dispensing. It provides students with a core reference text to accompany the compulsory dispensing course found in all pharmacy undergraduate programmes, highlighting and explaining all key concepts behind the processes involved in pharmaceutical dispensing.
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This is the first book in this age to preach the gospel of the baptism and the blood of Jesus as it is written in the Scriptures. The true gospel clearly tells us that He took away all our sins through His baptism and took over judgment for all our sins on the Cross. I am sure that there is no other book that preaches ‘the gospel of the water and the blood’ more clearly and faithfully than this one. The Samaritan woman who drank from the well of Jacob everyday couldn’t quench her spiritual thirst, but when she drank the water of life from Jesus, she earned salvation and thus, quenched her thirst immediately and forever.
All of humankind must be born again. We have to be born again through our faiths, be redeemed from all our sins and become righteous. For only then can we enter the eternal Kingdom of Heaven. The Bible says, "Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God" (John 3:5). "To be born again of water and the Spirit" is the only way we can enter the eternal Kingdom of God.
What, then, is this ‘water’ and ‘the Spirit’ that allows us to be born again? The ‘water’ in the Bible refers to ‘the baptism of Jesus.’
Why was Jesus, who is God, baptized by John the Baptist? Was it to show His humility? Was it to proclaim Himself the Messiah? No, it wasn’t.
When Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist by means of ‘the laying on of hands’ (Leviticus 16:21), it was ‘one Man’s righteous act’ (Romans 5:18), which took away all the sins of humankind.
In the Old Testament, God gave Israel the merciful law of redemption. This was so that on the Day of Atonement, all the sins of Israel for that year could be expiated through the High Priest, Aaron, by laying his hands on the head of the ‘scapegoat’ and passing all the sins onto that scapegoat.
These were the words of revelation, which foretold the sacrifice of eternal atonement. It revealed the truth that all the sins of humanity would be passed onto Jesus all at once, who came in the flesh of a man, according to the will of the Father. And He was baptized by John the Baptist who was the descendant of Aaron and the representative of all humankind.
When Jesus was baptized, He said to John, "Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness" (Matthew 3:15).
Here, ‘for thus’ means ‘by the laying on of hands,’ in order to pass all the sins of the world onto Jesus, so that all righteousness might be fulfilled for all of us. The word ‘righteousness’ is ‘dikaiosune’ in Greek, and its meaning is "the fairest state" or "to be just in character or deeds with the implication of being righteous or fitting."
Jesus had fulfilled all righteousness for all people through His baptism in a just and fitting manner. Because Jesus took on all the sins of people through His baptism, the next day, John the Baptist testified, "Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!" (John 1:29)
With all the sins of humankind on His shoulders, Jesus walked toward the Cross. He vicariously took the judgment for all the sins He had taken on Himself through His baptism. He died on the Cross, saying, "It is finished" (John 19:30). He took all our sins onto Himself and received the complete judgment for them in our place.
This one book will surely quench your spiritual thirst forever and ever.
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