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January 8, 2008 |
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B&T CEO Richard Willis Resigns
Citing a desire to spend more time with his family, B&T CEO Richard Willis resigned January 4. Board member Jack Eugster has been named his successor.
Joe Reynolds Named Ingram Library Head
Ingram January 8 announced that Joseph P. Reynolds has been promoted to "president of Ingram Library Services and group managing director of Coutts Information Services," making him head of its combined library businesses.
Times Picayune Ups Book Coverage with The Reading Life
With book reviews a casualty in many newspapers, New Orleans daily The Times Picayune is boosting its own coverage via a new section, The Reading Life, appearing Fridays.
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Wyatt's World: Road Reading: Books Set in Philadelphia
- Inamorata by Joseph Gangemi (Penguin)
- How to Murder a Millionaire by Nancy Martin and the others in the Blackbird Sisters mysteries (Signet)
- Leaving Cecil Street by Diane McKinney-Whetstone (HarperCollins)
- Everywhere That Mary Went by Lisa Scottoline and the others in the Rosato and Associates series (HarperTorch)
- Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner (Washington Square)
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Design Institute '07 Results
At Going Green, LJ's second Design Institute, architects, librarians, and vendors shared the latest trends in sustainable design and addressed the role libraries can play. The event was hosted by Chicago Public Library, a co-leader with the city on green building. Highlights from the program are available now: photos from the breakout sessions—on specific library's design problems—resources, and more.
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 Barber, Charles.
Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Medicated a Nation.
Pantheon. Feb. 2008. c.304p. index.
ISBN 978-0-375-42399-4. $26. PSYCH
Verdict: A fine, informed writer on cultural history as well as neuroscience, psychotherapy, and economics, Barber convincingly argues against the overprescription of psychiatric drugs in the United States and sums up the history of U.S. psychiatry from the asylum to the community to glitzy but still elementary neuroscience. A blockbuster, essential for all libraries.
Background: U.S. pharmaceutical companies invest more to market than to research and test their medicines, thrilling Wall Street, paralyzing politicians, and unduly influencing medical organizations, doctors, and insurance companies. Psychiatry, for its part, sold its soul to overtreat everyday angst medically while ignoring 80 percent of the serious mentally
ill. So argues Barber, who wrote of his work with the homeless mentally ill in Songs from the Black Chair. To improve the situation, he explains alternative programs that make sense but not dollars for ethical practitioners: cognitive therapy, stages of change, and Nobelist Eric Kandel’s research on neuroplasticisy. In Doing Psychiatry Wrong, also suitable for general audiences, R.J. Muller adds excellent independent support to Barber’s critique.
—E. James Lieberman, George Washington Univ. Sch. of Medicine, Washington, DC
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| FICTION |
- You've Been Warned
James Patterson and Howard Roughan
- A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
- The Quickie
James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge
• Full List
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| NONFICTION |
- Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert
- 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life
Don Piper
- Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer
• Full List |
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