The electronic revolution, beyond accidental connections. We started by looking at Pharmacotherapy and Medicinal Chemistry. Then somehow atoms, molecules, and brain circuitry were mapped to Literary Criticism? So now, the unexpected is related. Words trigger chemicals, chemicals trigger muscle movements, movements trigger the click. Electrons flow, and pretty soon you've got FedEx at your door. So do Storage Area Networks follow? Are Qubits inevitable?

Here's the plan .... first some look at some computer technology aspects and e-business resources, then off to Pharmacotherapy and Medicinal Chemistry. Then, hop on the Literary Criticism Train. You might not be aware of it, but its fast becoming the biggest longest moving train in contemporary academic and legal thinking. So you thought it was allabout computers and databases? Well guess what, those only are there to satisfy the urges. What brings the urges on needs to be put in context and literary criticism does just that. So there. Ignore at your own risk!

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E-Business : Roadmap for Success (Addison-Wesley Information Technology Series)
by Ravi Kalakota, Marcia Robinson, Don Tapscott

Rothman reviews: "To the uninitiated, e-business refers solely to the process of buying and selling goods over the Net. In our increasingly interactive age, however, it actually means much more. e-Business: Roadmap for Success, by Ravi Kalakota and Marcia Robinson, defines the term as "the complex fusion of business processes, enterprise applications and organizational structure necessary to create a high-performance business model." Kalakota and Robinson--specialists in the field who serve as founder-CEO and president, respectively, of a company called e-Business Strategies--show how to employ its tenets to compete more effectively in today's brave new world. Aiming at managers who recognize the need to plan and implement just such a course of action, the authors (with help from some pioneers currently practicing these techniques) offer solid advice for designing interrelated strategies focused on customer relationships, resource planning, order management, and supply chains, and on evaluating investments needed to make them a reality. Describing efforts undertaken by successful e-businesses such as Charles Schwab, which adopted a system that provides sales reps with real-time access to information on customers and appropriate new products, the two chart the course that trailblazing companies are following and savvy business people would be wise to emulate."

A reader says "This book really asks and answers fundamental questions, how do you systematically invest in building an integrated e-business infrastructure. What pieces do you invest in and how do you sequence your decisions when each framework (CRM, supply-chain etc.) take 3 years to implement. The key point that I got out of this book is that e-business is a journey that requires tremendous commitment especially in a large firm. Managers who are after e-business better understand what it takes to build rock-solid applications."

Executive's Guide to E-Business : From Tactics to Strategy by Martin Deise

An authoritative guide to becoming an industry leader through e-commerce Between 1993 and 1997, Internet users have soared from three million to more than 100 million. Driven by the Internet, consumers are redefining buying patterns and businesses are analyzing new strategies to leverage the power of the next generation of information technologies. Executive's Guide to E-Commerce shows businesses how to develop new relationships with customers, distributors, resellers/retailers, suppliers, logistics providers, and business partners through electronic commerce. Here, readers will discover how e-commerce can impact a corporation and improve business performance, and learn what can inhibit the growth of e-commerce. This book presents tailored e-commerce strategies for such industries as consumer products, entertainment, media, communications, financial services, the public sector, petroleum, and utilities. PricewaterhouseCoopers is a world-leading professional services organization. With 155,000 people in 150 countries, PricewaterhouseCoopers helps its clients solve complex business problems and measurably enhance their ability to build value, manage risk, and improve performance.

E-Business and ERP: Transforming the Enterprise by Grant Norris

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Dynamic E-Business Implementation Management : How to Effectively Manage E-Business Implementation (E-Business Solutions) by Bennet P. Lientz, Kathryn P. Rea
eCommerce: Formulation of Strategy by Robert T. Plant
Executive's Guide to E-Business : From Tactics to Strategy by Martin Deise(Editor), et alE-business (R)evolution, The by Daniel Amor
Net Success : 24 Leaders in Web Commerce Show You How to Put the Web to Work for Your Business by Christina Ford Haylock, et al
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The Business of E-Commerce : From Corporate Strategy to Technology (Breakthroughs in Application Development) by Paul Richard May
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Digital Transformation: The Essentials of e-Business Leadership by Keyur Patel, et al
Value Nets : Breaking the Supply Chain to Unlock Hidden Profits by David Bovet, et al

             The Britannica says "Some of the greatest recent advances in Pharmacotherapy have been in the treatment of anxiety disorders and depression. The benzodiazepines have been the mainstay of treatment for anxiety disorders since the 1960s, although their prolonged use incurs the risk of mild dependence. The azaspirodecanediones (buspirone) have little potential for producing dependency and are not affected by alcohol intake. Newer and safer medications are also available for treating panic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder"

The title of a key article (by Paul Perry) reads: Pharmacotherapy for Major Depression with Melancholic Features: Relative Efficacy of Tricyclic Versus Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Antidepressants" and concludes that "Comparative HAMD data from six controlled trials leads to the conclusion that tricyclic antidepressants are more effective agents in the treatment of endogenous depression or major depression with melancholic features .... . Despite the wide use of SSRIs in the treatment of depression, it seems reasonable that clinicians subtype their depressed patients and treat melancholic patients first with a course of tricyclic antidepressants. Logically, it would seem that nortriptyline would be the TCA of choice over clomipramine or amitriptyline owing to its lack of adverse effects relative to the other TCAs and its ease of dosing ... Initiating nortriptyline treatment at 1 mg/kg/d and adjusting the dose within the therapeutic range of 50-150 ng/ml seems to most straight forward approach to treatment. For melancholic patients who have not responded to a SSRI, several options can be considered 1) a TCA alone; 2) TCA augmentation of the SSRI or 3) lithium augmentation of the SSRI. "

So whats the leading text?     It turns out to be :

The Pharmacotherapy Handbook by Barbara G. Wells (Editor), Joseph T. Dipiro, Terry . Schwinghammer, Cindy Hamilton

The second edition of the Pharmacotherapy Handbook provides readers with a portable, readable guide that is integral to any clinical setting. Bold-face type highlights drug names when they first appear and in all closing information. The book's bulleted format helps readers find the information they need immediately. This updated book was designed as a companion text for the fourth edition Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach, by DiPiro et al.

so get the Pharmacotherapy Handbook and Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach by Joseph T. Dipiro, et al

Pharmacotherapy Casebook : A Patient-Focused Approach by Terry L. Schwinghammer, et al
Drug Information Handbook; 1999-2000 by Charles F. Lacy, et al
Handbook of Clinical Drug Data, 1999-2000 by Philip O. Anderson(Editor), et al
Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach by Joseph T. Dipiro, et al

Annual Reports in Medicinal Chemistry (Annual Reports in Medicinal Chemistry, Vol 34) by Annette M. Doherty (Editor), James A. Bristol (Editor)

Annual Reports in Medicinal Chemistry continues to strive to provide timely and critical reviews of important topics in medicinal chemistry together with an emphasis on emerging topics in the biological sciences which are expected to provide the basis for entirely new future therapies.

Volume 34 retains the familiar format of previous volumes, this year with 33 chapters. Sections I-IV are disease-oriented and generally report on specific medicinal agents with updates from Volume 33 on antithrombotics, neurokinin receptor antagonists, anticoagualants, and new antibacterials. As in past volumes, annual updates have been limited to only the most active areas of research in favor of specifically focused and mechanistically oriented chapters, where the objective is to provide the reader with the most important new results in a particular field. Sections V and VI continue to emphasize important topics in medicinal chemistry, biology, and drug design as well as the critical interfaces among these disciplines. This volume concludes with To Market, To Market-a chapter on NCE and NBE introductions worldwide in 1998, a chapter on pharmagenomics, and finally one on malaria as a third world disease in need of a first world drug development.

take a serious look at these, if you don't alredy have them in your personal library.

Principles of Medicinal Chemistry by William O. Foye

The Practice of Medicinal Chemistry by Camille Georges Wermuth(Editor), Camile G. Wermuth(Editor

Introduction to Medicinal Chemistry - Drugs : How Drugs Act and Why

now, we'll jump to literary criticism, and then return to medicinal chemistry and pharmacy ... hang on ..

The Britannica (EB) defines Literary Criticism as " a discipline concerned with a range of enquiries about literature that have tended to fall into three broad categories: philosophical, descriptive, and evaluative. Criticism asks what literature is, what it does, and what it is worth." The discipline can be traced as far back as Plato and Aristotle 's Poetics. Recently, says EB, " An early product of this in the English-speaking world was I.A. Richards' Principles of Literary Criticism (1924), which became influential as the basis of "Practical Criticism From this developed the "New Criticism " of the 1940s and '50s, which was associated with such American critics as John Crowe Ransom and Cleanth Brooks . The premise of the New Critics, that a work of literature should be studied as a separate and self-contained entity, set them in opposition both to biographical criticism and to those schools of criticism--Marxist, psychoanalytical, historical, and the like--that had their roots in the 19th century and that set out to examine literature from perspectives external to the text."

The Britannica also mentions that "The late 20th century saw a radical reappraisal of traditional modes of literary criticism. Building on the work of the Russian Formalist critics of the 1920s and the examinations of linguistic structure carried out by the Swiss philologist Ferdinand de Saussure , literary theorists began to question the overriding importance of the concept of "the author" as the source of the text's meaning. Structuralist and poststructuralist critics, such as Roland Barthes
and Jacques Derrida of France, instead directed attention toward the ways in which meaning is created by the determining structures of language and culture."

Later, we'll focus on Terry Eagleton and his works in the area of Literary Theory. The discussion will come in version three In the meanwhile, consider the resources presented below... you can't go wrong. If you are hardy, we'll even get to Edward Sapir "All grammars leak". (How about that?)

... definitely get the classic interpretive masterpiece - LITERARY THEORY by University of Oxford Thomas Warton Professor Terry Eagleton. The book covers the major movements of literary studies of our (just completed) century.

Reviewer: Roger T. Whitson writes "Eagleton gives us, what I believe to be, one of the most simple introductions to the topic of Literary Theory currently availiable"

if you dare tread beyond the summaries ..

The Illusions of Postmodernism by Terry Eagleton

Ideology : An Introduction by Terry Eagleton

and

the Idea of Culture

A Handbook to Literature (Handbook to Literature, 6th Ed)
by William Harmon and C. Hugh Holman

This book continues its fifty-year tradition as an indispensable, dictionary-style supplement for anyone's personal or professional library.

no matter what your inclination is ... these will enrich you total experience and understanding of our times ...

The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory Criticism by Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth --

About this resource Rob Lightner says "An excellent basic reference for undergraduates, graduate students, and beyond, The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism provides 226 entries covering individuals, schools, and topics important to the field in its 775 pages. From Adorno to Zola, with stops including Chomsky, gay theory and criticism, and the Bloomsbury group, the editors have taken great pains to select subjects of broad influence and appeal. Organized alphabetically by topic and extensively cross-referenced, the Guide is at once an informative, easy-to-use text and a fascinating look into the lives of the men and women who shaped our views of literature over the years. The book is physically strong enough to bear the inevitable falls and coffee stains with grace and style; this is important, as owning it is essential for anyone hoping to write or understand literary criticism. "

BOOKLIST describes it "coverage ranging from Plato and Aristotle to Richard Rorty and Edward Said, this work is an overview of major landmarks of criticism from classical antiquity to the present day."

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory : Approaches, Scholars, Terms (Theory/Culture); Irena R. Makaryk(Editor), Ireana R. Makaryk
Critical Terms for Literary Study; Thomas McLaughlin(Editor), Frank Lentricchia (Editor)
A Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory; Michael Payne(Editor)
Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice; Charles E. Bressler
A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory; Raman Selden, Peter Widdowson (Contributor)
The Illusions of Postmodernism; Terry Eagleton

Literary Theory : A Practical Introduction; Michael Ryan

of course if you talk about litcrit - you must consider the origins;

Bakhtin : Essays and Dialogues on His Work by Gary Saul Morson(Editor)

isn't strange that this comes up in the Russian context?

Don't be confused ... it may be the poetry of the day after tomorrow,

but at least the advance prepartion will give you the ultimate upper hand in

the low voices (mandatory in the Large Cathedrals of expression ...). Smile, it can only and will only get better.

An Introduction to the Russian Folktale (The Complete Russian Folktale) by Jack V. Haney

Studies in Classic American Literature by D. H. Lawrence

Ursula K. Le Guin (Modern Critical Views: Contemporary American) by Harold Bloom(Editor)

Bakhtin in Contexts : Across the Disciplines (Rethinking Theory) by Amy Mandelker(Editor).

also check these ..

An Introduction to Literature : Fiction, Poetry, Drama by Sylvan Barnet(Editor), et al
A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature by Wilfred L. Guerin, et al
A Glossary of Literary Terms by M. H. Abrams
The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory by J. A. Cuddon

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If you are determined to explore and understand a variety of aspects related to literary criticism, you might well want to examine the Literary Relativity and Linguistic relativism agendas originally introduced by Benjamin Lee Whorf and aopted as the Sapir-Wharf approach.

Language Diversity and Thought : A Reformulation of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language,)
by John A. Lucy.

Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality by Edward Sapir, David G. Mandelbaum(Editor)
Language : An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir (a reviewer writes of this ... Sapir's 1921 "Language" is one of the finest of many fine works by the distinguished linguist, anthropologist and humanist. With piercing yet accessible insight, he guides the reader through fundamental questions about language: How are culture and language related? How does language work? How do languages vary? Although there are many general introductions to the subject (Bloomfield's and Jesperson's volume come to mind), Sapir's is unmatched for sheer readability in interest. Highly recommended."

Language Thought and Reality : Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf by John B. Carroll(Editor), Benjamin L. Whorf(Editor). this one is just A MUST HAVE BOOK

Rethinking Linguistic Relativity (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language ; No. 17) by John J. Gumperz(Editor), Stephen C. Levinson(Editor).

Explorations in Linguistic Relativity (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 199) by Martin Putz(Editor), Marjolijn Verspoor(Editor).

The Influence of Language on Culture and Thought : Essays in Honor of Joshua A. Fishman's Sixty-Fifth Birthday by Robert L. Cooper, Bernard Spolsky(Editor).

The Language Parallax : Linguistic Relativism and Poetic Indeterminacy (Texas Linguistics Series) by Paul Friedrich.

The Whorf Theory Complex : A Critical Reconstruction (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science, Series Iii: by Penny Lee.

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The Merck Index : An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals (Annual)
by Susan Budavari(Editor), et al
The new edition of this standard reference describes 10,330 significant drugs and pharmaceuticals, common organic chemicals and laboratory reagents, naturally occurring substances and plants, elements and inorganic chemicals, compounds of agricultural interest, and endogenous substances and

Saunders Pharmaceutical Word Book, 2000
by Ellen Drake, Randy Drake
Annual dictionary contains more than 25,000 entries, including hundreds of new drugs recently approved. Also includes more than 1,800 entries on herbal and natural medicines, representing more than 80 different drug classes. Cross-referenced to Drake's Saunders Pharmaceutical Xref Book

Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics
by Louis Sanford Goodman(Editor), et al
For more than fifty years, scientists, clinicians, and students have relied on "Goodman & Gilman for the final word on the pharmacokinetics, mechanisms of action and therapeutic application of drugs. This edition sustains that proud tradition and infuses the latest information on molecular

Basic & Clinical Pharmacology
by Bertram G., Md., Ph.D. Katzung(Editor)
This edition has been updated to include new figures and diagrams, and boxes of highlighted material explaining the "how and why" behind the facts,

Pdr for Herbal Medicines (Physician's Desk Reference for Herbal Medicines, 2nd Ed)
Interest in and usage of herbal preparations as alternatives to pharmaceuticals has exploded in recent years. Having a complete herbal reference on hand is now absolutely necessary for doctors and other healers when a patient wants to add herbs--let's say St. John's wort--to his drug regimen.

Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach
by Joseph T. Dipiro, et al

Drugs in Pregnancy & Lactation: A Reference Guide to Fetal & Neonatal Risk
by Gerald G. Briggs, et al
Since its 1983 birth, this reference for health care providers who counsel pregnant women apparently has been the sole one incorporating the 1980 FDA-mandate for defining pregnancy risk factors for all new prescription drugs in its drug monographs

In Quest of Tomorrow's Medicines
by Jurgen Drews, David Kramer(Translator)
An eminent scientist talks about the pharmaceutical industry, biotechnology and the future of drug research. In the course of our busy, technologically-driven lives, it is taken for granted that we respond to minor fluctuations in our health by taking pills -- pills for headache and for toothache

Pharmacotherapy Handbook
by Barbara G. Wells(Editor), et al
The second edition of the Pharmacotherapy Handbook provides readers with a portable, readable guide that is integral to any clinical setting. Bold-face type highlights drug names when they first appear and in all closing information. The book's bulleted format helps readers find the information

Biochemical Basis of Neuropharmacology
by Jack R. Cooper, et al
Yale University, New Haven, CT. Seventh edition of a text on the biochemistry and physiology of nervous tissue with an emphasis on neurotransmitters. For students and investigators. Previous edition 1991. New chapter on the genetic basis of neurological and psychiatric diseases

Rational Phytotherapy: A Physician's Guide to Herbal Medicine
by Volker Schulz, et al
a practice-oriented introduction into phytotherapy. Methodically classified by organic systems and fields of application, it offers a quick insight into dosage, form of application and effects of the most important herbal remedies.

American Herbal Products Association's Botanical Safety Handbook
by Michael McGuffin, et al
Provides readily accessible safety data for some 600 commonly sold herbs. Plants are listed by genus, with alternate names and common names included. Each entry lists the part of the plant used and what it is commonly used for, its active ingredient(s), its safety classification, and more

Mosby's 1999-2000 Medical Drug Reference
by Allan J. Ellsworth, et al
Univ. of Washington, Seattle. Annual, pocket-sized quick reference to more than 800 drugs. Organized by generic name with trade names noted. Includes: comparative drug data, formulas for calculating dosages, and a therapeutic index to locate drugs for clinical indications.

Physician's Drug Handbook
The eighth edition of this comprehensive resource for physicians offers detailed information on the drugs most often ordered by physicians and other prescribers. Each entry, organized alphabetically for rapid access of more than 1,000 generic and 2,500 brand name drugs

Pills, Potions, and Poisons: How Medicines and Other Drugs Work
by Trevor Stone, et al
Univ. of Glasgow, UK. Provides an account of how medicines and other drugs work in the body. Covers major drugs, with listings of drugs available in the UK and USA. Contains chapters on the drugs used for treating brain disorders and other diseases. A glossary of terms is provided.

Physicians' Desk Reference for Nonprescription Drugs and Dietary Supplements 1999 (Physicians' Desk Reference for Nonprescription Drugs and Dietary su
As more over-the-counter drugs are introduced every year--and more ingredients move from prescription to nonprescription status--it becomes imperative that you stay fully informed about the uses and cautions regarding these readily available medicines. one-volume resource

Applied Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics
by Leon Shargel, Andrew B. C. Yu
textbook for a course covering the two subjects, or a course on either one. Integrates the pharmaceutical sciences with clinical pharmacy practice. Presents the basic principles, and when possible includes questions designed to encourage students to apply the principles in patient care and drug

Human Pharmacology : Molecular to Clinical
by Theodore M. Brody, et al
Michigan State Univ., East Lansing. Textbook on medical pharmacology. Each chapter presents a class of drugs, discusses characteristics and comparing the individual drugs to demonstrate their best use. Multiple-choice review questions. Previous edition: c1994. Soft cover. 72 U.S. contributors. DNLM:...

Good Clinical Practice: Standard Operating Procedures for Clinical Researchers
by Josef Kolman(Editor), et al

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