A Professor, a President, and a Meteor: The Birth of American Science Review

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(More customer reviews)A classic story in time for the classic holiday. We often think of the Manhattan Project as heralding the age of American scientific supremacy, but Prince demonstrates how that was much more the piece de resistance for our scientific enterprise than it was the opening trumpet. In an age of polemicized and politicized science, a study of how science became foundational in our society is not only enthralling, but vital. This book contributes to that project; how something we might call the scientific spirit--not unlike, or indeed any different from, the creative spirit--drove, not only discoveries, but the evolving American discourse, is a task uniquely suited for the journalistic enterprise. In that charge, Prince excels. An academic survey of the development of the scientific modernity this is not, but that's no weakness; it instead limns the zeitgeist, and the impact (to excuse the pun) one man's calling had on a society still wresting itself from the ancien. Glenn Beck, eat your heart out.

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Field Surgeon at Gettysburg: A Memorial Account of the Medical Unit of the Thirty-Second Massachusetts Regiment Review

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(More customer reviews)An excellent novel of a surgeon who signs up to serve in the Union army during the Civil War. Written by a modern surgeon, Kernek obviously had researched his predecessors well. It might be a bit detailed for the squeamish, but for those who want a good "feel" for what a surgeon went through during the Civil War, I highly recommend it. It is a relatively short read, and the story line carries one right on through. This book belongs in every Civil War buff's collection, because it tells about an often overlooked part of the war and tells it very well. At this price, one can't afford not to buy it!

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Unhealthy Charities: Hazardous to Your Health and Wealth Review

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(More customer reviews)"Unhealthy Charities: Hazardous to Your Health and Wealth" is a damning indictment on America's most "prestigious" health charities. While these charities are quick to award themselves with glowing accolades, the authors document numerous examples of inefficiency, inappropriate and improper spending, suppressing or ignoring promising research into "unconventional" modes of disease treatment, and an incestuous, tightly-knit network of executives and researchers who direct funds towards research and projects that support the charities' own preconceived ideologies and goals.
The book focuses on the "Big Three" charities--the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society and the American Lung Association. It describes how these and other health charities spend much time and money on things that have nothing to do with research and aid to disease victims--like crying poor and pleading for donations when they are in fact hoarding hundreds of millions in money, real estate, cars, stocks & bonds, paying their top staff 6-figure salaries, holding 'conferences' at luxurious hotels, exaggerating the benefits of their programs, exaggerating the amount spent on research and public education, enlisting government support to drive out smaller competing charities, using donations to fund further education for medical professionals even though they are amongst the highest income earners in the US and are more than capable of funding their own further eduction (as most other professions must do)--and on and on.
The only flaw is that the authors seriously seem to believe that all these flaws occur despite charities having the "best of intentions". The very real possibilty that these charities are just another arm of our corrupt, profit-obsessed, drug-centered sickness industry does not seem to occur to them.
Nonetheless, it still reveals much that health charities would prefer we did not know...

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