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- Eating Animals (258)
- By Jonathan Safran Foer
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- Aspirin (7)
- By Diarmuid Jeffreys
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Finished on Aug 21, 2011
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- Why Does E=mc²? (16)
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- By Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw
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- Racconti del terrore (4992)
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- How Religion Poisons Everything
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Aspirin
Jeffreys digs through the history of the world famous Aspirin pill telling the story of several interesting characters, from a shady archeology trader, to the english Reverend Stone and several business men and chemists before and after the Great War. The book is a very interesting read of the histo ... (continue)
Jeffreys digs through the history of the world famous Aspirin pill telling the story of several interesting characters, from a shady archeology trader, to the english Reverend Stone and several business men and chemists before and after the Great War. The book is a very interesting read of the history of the drug through a series of entertaining facts and anecdotes (which might not be entirely true perhaps, but are excellent material for any dinner with friends), from the original discovery of the drug, to the advertising wars and the trademarking of "Aspirin" by Bayer.
Strongly suggested, if not else just to know a bit more about this wonderful drug. "Aspirin has become a drug for everyman, a treatment so inexpensive and so broadly useful that it is hard to imagine what we should do without it. There are few products of human ingenuity about which that can be said."
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