RYO Magazine's Buyer's Guide Book Selections

Don Oakley $15.95 Click Book To Buy It Now at Amazon.com	Slow Burn is a highly personal but thoroughly documented journey by the author, Don Oakley, to find out the truth behind the supposed medical facts undergirding the nation's three-decades-long crusade against smoking. He begins with a searching critique of the 1964 surgeon general's report, which set the crusade into motion, and details the reservations of the surgeon general's advisory committee regarding the seven weak studies which formed the basis for the famous warning that "Cigarette smoking is a health hazard of sufficent importance in the United States to warrant appropriate remedial action." Weak research and worse interpretations and greedy lawyers - the definitive "so-what-else-is-new" look at the war on tobacco. Highly Recommended.
Sheldon Norberg $15.95 Click Book To Buy It Now at Amazon.com	Confessions of a Dope Dealer - For all who spent the 60s and 70s wrapped in a haze of social pot smoking and never really considered where all of that stuff came from and for all who question the relevancy of drugs, including tobacco, in our society, take a journey into what the future holds for a world that might make tobaco as illegal as marijuana. The epitome of the psychology of the underground cultivation of substances whose usage is a matter of choice, effectively becomes an indictment of the dangers of the over-regulation of personal behavior. An interesting read that should give pause over the potentially apocalyptic nature of not dealing with the reality of accurate information.
James P. Hogan $6.29 Click Book To Buy It Now at Amazon.com	Cradle of Saturn - Among the Saturnian moons, farsighted individuals, working without help or permission from any government, have established a colony. They call themselves the Kronians, after the Greek name for Saturn. Operating without the complacent and mediocrity driven restrictions of bureaucratic Earth, the colony attracts the best and brightest of the home world, and has been making important new discoveries. But one of their claims -- that they have found proof that the Solar System has undergone repeated cataclysms, one as recently as a few thousand years ago -- flies in the resentful face of the reigning dogmatic scientific power structure of Earth. Suddenly, the planet Jupiter emits a white-hot protoplanet as large as the Earth, which is hurtling sunwards like a gigantic comet that could obliterate our civilization....as it may have once before.
Tom Clancy $4.79 Click Book To Buy It Now at Amazon.com	Bio-Strike - The most dangerous man of this century has employed the most dangerous weapon yet. Criminal mastermind Harlan DeVane has developed -- and spread -- a deadly, genetically engineered "superbug" resistant to all known cures. A microscopic time bomb, it will lie dormant inside its human hosts until detonated by specific biochemical triggers. This book keeps one's interest as it, in typical Clancy style, constantly begs the question of who is really in control of our so called civilization and what that kind of power insinuates. Don't look now but this book could be tomorrow's guide for survival in a world preoccupied with the minutia of daily existence and the acquistion of wealth, power, and SAFETY!
Patrick Lynch $6.29 Click Book To Buy It Now at Amazon.com	Patrick Lynch's "Carriers" is unrelentingly seductive. Its chapter by chapter cliffhanging style kept me up all night, literally unable to sleep until I finished it. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the precarious relationship we have with our primitive ecosystems or who is fascinated with that voracious, world class monster that is the virus. This is a truly frightening book, that brings home the personal nature of a pandemic event coupled with just a hint as to its ultimate secret, carefully dangled in the context of a seemingly trivial encounter. Everyone I've shown this book to, after reading only a few pages, has gone out and bought the paperback for themselves. I eagerly await Lynch's next foray into the cardiac wild.
Marcus Pfister $39.96 Click Book To Buy It Now at Amazon.com	Rainbow Fish - For a real change of pace, Marcus Pfister's series of books about Rainbow Fish and his friends which have sold nearly 11 million copies around the world in 35 languages are perfect for reading to preschoolers, The Rainbow Fish, The Rainbow Fish to the Rescue, and The Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale, are favorites for parents and grandparents alike with uncanny visual effects for the little ones...and some insights for us big-uns. HINT: To maximize the reading experience, get your little ones a small flashlight that they can shine on the pictures as your read the story to them. The effect is dazzling! Now all three titles in the series are available in a handsome foil-stamped slipcase. The Adventures of Rainbow Fish makes a splendid gift for that special child, one that will be treasured for years to come. A beautiful set that will be see a lot of use.

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