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In fact, they say that adults and the rest of the world should embrace ADHD and that its medications will transform their lives.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"In this powerful, necessary book, Alan Schwarz exposes the dirty secrets of the growing ADHD epidemic\" (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review), including how the father of ADHD, Dr. Keith Conners, spent fifty years advocating drugs like Ritalin before realizing his role in what he now calls \"a national disaster of dangerous proportions\"; a troubled young girl and a studious teenage boy get entangled in the growing ADHD machine and take medications that backfire horribly; and big Pharma egregiously over-promotes the disorder and earns billions from the mishandling of children (and now adults).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e While demonstrating that ADHD is real and can be medicated when appropriate, Schwarz sounds a long-overdue alarm and urges America to address this growing national health crisis. \"\u003ci\u003eADHD Nation\u003c\/i\u003e is a necessary book. Schwarz has done a fine job on a maddening topic, and everyone who's interested in hyperactivity, attention spans, stimulants, and the current state of American health care should grab a copy\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e magazine).","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49552615145745,"sku":"GOR013602823","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49851767718161,"sku":"CIN1501105922G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52415487934737,"sku":"CIN1501105922VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53449286189329,"sku":"CIN1501105922A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1501105922.jpg?v=1779443489"},{"product_id":"numbers-game-book-alan-schwarz-9780312322236","title":"The Numbers Game","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Numbers Game\u003c\/i\u003e is the first-ever history of baseball statistics - the keeping of them, the study of them, the people who devised them, the cultural phenomenon of them, from 1845 until today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Most baseball fans, players and even team executives assume that the National Pastime's infatuation with statistics is simply a byproduct of the information age, a phenomenon that blossomed only after the arrival of Bill James and computers in the 1980s. 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He tells the history of this obsession through the lives of the people who felt it most: Henry Chadwick, the 19th-century writer who invented the first box score and harped endlessly about which statistics mattered and which did not; Allan Roth, Branch Rickey's right-hand numbers man with the late-1940s Brooklyn Dodgers; Earnshaw Cook, a scientist and Manhattan Project veteran who retired to pursue inventing the perfect baseball statistic; John Dewan, a former Strat-O-Matic maven who built STATS Inc. into a multimillion-dollar powerhouse for statistics over the Internet; and dozens more.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Almost every baseball fan for 150 years has been drawn to the game by its statistics, whether through newspaper box scores, the backs of Topps baseball cards, \u003ci\u003eThe Baseball Encyclopedia\u003c\/i\u003e, or fantasy leagues. Today's most ardent stat scientists, known as \"sabermetricians,\" spend hundreds of hours coming up with new ways to capture the game in numbers, and engage in holy wars over which statistics are best. Some of these men--and women --are even being hired by major league teams to bring an understanding of statistics to a sport that for so long shunned it.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Taken together, Schwarz paints a history not just of baseball statistics, but of the soul of the sport itself. \u003ci\u003eThe Numbers Game\u003c\/i\u003e will be an invaluable part of any fan's library and go down as one of the sport's classic books.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49635186147601,"sku":"GOR004702789","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49639555793169,"sku":"GOR003361104","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49779731890449,"sku":"CIN0312322232A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50468920361233,"sku":"CIN0312322232G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51000838521105,"sku":"NIN9780312322236","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51415668293905,"sku":"CIN0312322232VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0312322232.jpg?v=1750908742"},{"product_id":"once-upon-a-game-book-alan-schwarz-9780618731275","title":"Once Upon a Game","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49779988365585,"sku":"CIN061873127XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/061873127X.jpg?v=1750977340"},{"product_id":"adhd-nation-book-alan-schwarz-9781501105913","title":"ADHD Nation","description":"\u003cb\u003eA\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e Best Nonfiction Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe groundbreaking and definitive account of the widespread misdiagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder--and how its unchecked growth over half a century has made ADHD one of the most controversial conditions in medicine, with serious effects on children, adults, and society. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMore than 1 in 7 American children get diagnosed with ADHD--three times what experts have said is appropriate--meaning that millions of kids are misdiagnosed and taking medications such as Adderall or Concerta for a psychiatric condition they probably do not have. 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