Was it fear of setting out any positions that New Labour could one day find embarrassing that made Mr Giddens write such a bad book?
It sounds like a bad self-help book, but what can you do?
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However, Dr. Goldacre takes a slightly different position a bit later in the book (Bad Pharma, p. 243) in a section where he chastises the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK for wasting money by not using generics.
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In a high tech world, the low-tech book seems to get a bad rap all too often.
What do you do when your book gets a bad review?
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Her recipe for hearty beef stew is mouth-watering, but too much of the rest of this book left a bad taste in my mouth.
" Responding to a question about "Twilight" on a Yahoo Answers page, a reader wrote, "I never quit reading a book because I think the style of writing is bad.
Not a bad deal for someone who loves both the book and the poster.
Ben Goldacre is now on a North American tour promoting his book, Bad Pharma, his expose of the pharmaceutical industry.
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She wrote "Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir, " a book about her ancestors' experiences in the Spanish missions.
Though a later Bemelmans book, "Madeline and the Bad Hat, " suggests the girls live next door to the Spanish ambassador in the eighth arrondissement, none of the buildings near there suited.
"It's a bad habit, " Ms. Feldman, 45, joked of the couple's book collecting.
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"There's a dichotomy of 'good mothers breast feed, bad mothers formula feed', " says journalist Madeleine Morris, who is writing a book about the topic.
Over a year ago, more than a dozen former employees gave statements that outlined a scandalous litany of misdeeds--deliberately understating costs, hiding bad debt, backdating contracts to book orders earlier than accounting rules allow.
The book never really made a splash in the U.S., which is too bad.
It is being led by Cass's Professor Chris Brady, known as the 'Footy Prof' after writing a book called "The 90-Minute Manager, " which uses football for examples of good and bad management.
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