Monday Evening Book Reviews

It can’t be any surprise that books on healthcare and its reform are beginning to roll off the presses.  Look - here’s one now: T.R. Reid gives us a comparison overview on socialized medicine in THE HEALING OF AMERICA: A GLOBAL QUEST FOR BETTER, CHEAPER, AND FAIRER HEALTH CARE.

The Princeton Review makes a list of THE BEST 371 COLLEGES.

Publishers Weekly has a new crop of fiction reviews to make the week go faster (or slower, if you like.)

As academic hoaxes go, Jan Hendrik Schön’s is legendary.  His story is told full in Eugenie Samuel Reich’sPLASTIC FANTASTIC: HOW THE BIGGEST FRAUD IN PHYSICS SHOOK THE SCIENTIFIC WORLD.

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