Posts tagged ‘2009’

PDR for Nonprescription Drugs, Dietary Supplements, and Herbs 2009 (Physicians' Desk Reference (Pdr) for Nonprescription Drugs and Dietary Supplements)

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The essential guide to OTC medications.

The most reliable resource on the safety and efficacy of over-the counter drugs, dietary supplements, and herbal remedies available. Complete descriptions of the most commonly used OTC medications organized alphabetically by manufacturer name. This updated guide provides fast access to information including: * Ingredients, indications, and interactions on hundreds of drugs
* Administration and dosage recommended for symptomatic relief
* Color photos of OTC drugs for quick identification
* NEW-Product comparison tables organized by therapeutic category


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Magellan 2009 One-Time U.S. Map Update for Magellan GPS Navigators (SD Card)

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Refresh your compatible Magellan GPS navigation device with the most current maps and points of interest (POI) information available. The 2009 Spring Map Update includes up-to-date details on: new or changed roadways (including local streets, major roads, freeways, and highways); updates to communities; new or updated details for points of interest (including businesses, restaurants, stores, and more), and so much more.

Refresh your compatible Magellan GPS navigation device with the most current maps and points of interest (POI) information available. Click to enlarge.

2009 Spring Map Update

  • Latest information on freeways, highways, major roads, and local streets
  • Current listing of businesses, restaurants, stores, their addresses, and much more
  • Easy-to-use SD card makes installation easy

SD Card Convenience
The 2009 Spring Map Update comes loaded on an SD card, so it’s simple to install. Turn off your Magellan device, insert the SD card into the slot, turn your unit on and you’re set!

Note: Prior to installing the 2009 Spring Map Update on your compatible Magellan GPS device, make sure that you have a USB cable available and that your device is running the most current software available. Software updates are a free download and ensure that your device runs optimally. To see if an update is available for your device, simply go to www.magellanGPS.com/support and select your model from the drop down menu.

What’s in the Box
SD card with 2009 Spring Map Update.


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The Best American Short Stories 2009

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Edited by critically acclaimed, best-selling author Alice Sebold, the stories in this year’s collection serve as a provacative literary “antenna for what is going on in the world” (Chicago Tribune). The collection boasts great variety from “famous to first-timers, sifted from major magazines and little reviews, grand and little worlds” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), ensuring yet another rewarding, eduring edition of the oldest and best-selling Best American.

About the Author

HEIDI PITLOR is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Her fiction has been published in Ploughshares, and she is the author of the novel The Birthdays.


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The Twilight Saga: New Moon [Blu-ray]

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New Moon, the second in Stephenie Meyer’s blockbuster teen-fiction saga adapted for film, is stronger than its predecessor, Twilight. Director Chris Weitz (The Golden Compass), taking the helm from Catherine Hardwicke, brings a lighter, more assured touch to the sequel, which continues the star-crossed love story of mortal Bella (Kristen Stewart) and vampire Edward (Robert Pattinson). Incidentally, Edward is absent for most of the film; after an accident on Bella’s birthday reminds Edward that her life is always at risk when he’s around, he chooses to abandon her, sending her into a deep depression. The only person who helps her heal her broken heart is her friend Jacob (Taylor Lautner), a member of the Quileute tribe who, as he grows taller, beefier, and more aggressive (with less clothing), comes to realize he’s not entirely human either. But even his love for Bella doesn’t prevent her from throwing herself in the path of danger, because that’s the only time she can see visions of Edward. One such fateful misunderstanding sends Edward into the coven of the Volturi (a sort of vampire Mafia, if you will), where the most dangerous vampires hold both Edward and Bella’s fate in their cold, dark hands. Much of New Moon rests on the shoulders of Lautner, so scrawny in Twilight, who famously packed on the muscle to avoid getting recast. He’s very nearly successful in carrying the load, but the cheese-tastic beefcake scenes disservice him, and Jacob and Bella’s complicated friendship stumbles on its way to any kind of love triangle. Some of that blame lies with Stewart, who understandably holds her emotions close to her chest but reveals much too little (c’mon, even an angsty girl has to be a little joyful in the arms of two different hunks). As is with the book, the film is just a bridge between sagas, so the plot drags and not a lot happens. Fortunately, while Twilight was trapped in its own self-consciousness, the wobbly-legged cast seems to have found stronger footing in New Moon; the jokes come faster, the writing (by Melissa Rosenberg, who also scribed Twilight) is a hair wittier. (Even Pattinson seems more comfortable in Edward’s skin.) The Volturi, highlighted by Michael Sheen’s Aro and Dakota Fanning’s Jane, also make an all-too-brief impression, but at least there’s more to look forward to when Eclipse, the third installment, is released. –Ellen A. Kim


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Zombieland

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If there’s been a zombie apocalypse and you’re road-tripping alone though the wasteland, you could do worse than run into Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), a bourbon-swilling bad-boy butt-kicker with a really cool car. This is where the careful hero of Zombieland, a kid nicknamed Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), finds himself early in the film, and you can hardly blame him for hitching a ride with this swaggering Alpha Male. Still, they have their hands full not only with gibbering zombies but also with two sisters (Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin) who will stop at nothing to reach a Disneyland-like amusement park in L.A. Although Zombieland gets off to a rocky start with Columbus’s overly-cute narration (he’s got a list of rules for surviving in the zombie world), it settles into an amusing comedy, regularly interrupted by bouts of blood-letting. The road-trip stuff is enough fun that when the movie does arrive at its version of Disneyland, the air goes out of it a little; sure, there’s a giant zombie blowout, with entrails flying, but it’s not quite the same. Director Ruben Fleischer keeps the gags coming, although the movie is often funnier in its odd little asides (both Eisenberg and Harrelson are expert at this) than in its official jokes. Comic high point: an interlude at the home of a very famous movie star, who plays himself–and we’ll leave the spoiler unspoiled, in case anybody hasn’t heard about this funny extended cameo. –Robert Horton


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Nerdy college student Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) has survived the plague that has turned mankind into flesh-devouring zombies because he’s scared of just about everything. Gun-toting, Twinkie-loving Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) has no fears. Together, they are about to stare down their most horrifying challenge yet: each other’s company. Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin co-star in this double-hitting, head-smashing comedy.


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