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Buzzed: The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy, Third Edition (Buzzed)
: :The third edition of the essential, accessible source for understanding how drugs work and their effects on body and behavior.Together, the first two editions of Buzzed have sold over 120,000 copies—and now the authors have revised and updated the book to include the most recent discoveries about drugs, including new information on the energy drinks craze, prescription drugs such as OxyContin and Ambien, and the date-rape drug GHB. Scientifically accurate and easy to read, this no-nonsense handbook gives the most balanced, objective information available on the most often used and ...
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Frontiers in the Neurobiology of Addiction (Frontiers in Neuroscience)
: :Featuring contributions from leading experts, this book presents an excellent overview of the available and emerging approaches used to investigate the biologic mechanisms of drug addiction. Discussion includes the behavioral strategies and characteristics of addiction as well as the mechanistic approaches to understanding the underlying neurobiology. The authors provide information from mathematical models, model organisms, and traditional, well-characterized animal models, and experiments conducted in humans. They deliver a comprehensive introduction to the methodologies of the field for students and beginning researchers and an essential reference source for established investigators.
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Just Say Know: Talking with Kids about Drugs and Alcohol
: :From the authors of 'Buzzed' and 'Pumped', 'Just Say Know' aims to give parents, teachers and health professionals powerful tools to talk with children about how alcohol and other drugs interact with their minds and bodies. It presents an informative guide to teaching children about staying healthy and making the right decisions when faced with the attractions of drugs and alcohol.
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Pumped: Straight Facts for Athletes about Drugs, Supplements, and Training
: :Steroids, stimulants, supplements: today's athlete is offered an array of drugs and dietary enhancements to solve every problem from weight to speed. What's safe? What works? What's a waste of money? 'Pumped' offers research-based information. It explains the body basics that every athlete must know for optimum performance. It also offers the reader straight information about drugs and supplements for weight control, muscle building, and endurance training. What an athlete uses in the off-training time is important too, and this text covers recreational drugs - from alcohol to speed - ...
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Styling Texts: Dress and Fashion in Literature
from: Cambria Press
: :Covering a variety of genres and periods from medieval epic to contemporary speculative fiction, Styling Texts explores the fascinating ways in which dress performs in literature. Numerous authors have made powerful-even radical-use of clothing and its implications, and the essays collected here demonstrate how scholarly attention to literary fashioning can contribute to a deeper understanding of texts, their contexts, and their innovations. These generative and engaging discussions focus on issues such as fashion and anti-fashion; clothing reform; transvestism; sartorial economics; style and the gaze; transgressive modes; and class, gender, or ...
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From Eulogy to Joy: A Heartfelt Anthology (Capital Cares)
: :'From Eulogy to Joy' is a unique anthology of thought-provoking personal stories shared from the hearts of people who are 'experts' on bereavement - because they have experienced grief firsthand. Through the words of 130 people the book reveals that, contrary to popular belief, we never 'get over' the death of someone and actually never should. Rather, death is a life-transforming experience to 'get through' and eventually 'grow through' to a place of inner peace and renewed joy. Among the contributors are Neale Donald Walsch, Judy Belushi, Dr. Rabbi Earl ...
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Como hablar con tus hijos de las drogas y el alcohol (Guias Para Padres Paidos)
: :'From Eulogy to Joy' is a unique anthology of thought-provoking personal stories shared from the hearts of people who are 'experts' on bereavement - because they have experienced grief firsthand. Through the words of 130 people the book reveals that, contrary to popular belief, we never 'get over' the death of someone and actually never should. Rather, death is a life-transforming experience to 'get through' and eventually 'grow through' to a place of inner peace and renewed joy. Among the contributors are Neale Donald Walsch, Judy Belushi, Dr. Rabbi Earl ...
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Discover the past: A tale of Cincinnati's living history
: :'From Eulogy to Joy' is a unique anthology of thought-provoking personal stories shared from the hearts of people who are 'experts' on bereavement - because they have experienced grief firsthand. Through the words of 130 people the book reveals that, contrary to popular belief, we never 'get over' the death of someone and actually never should. Rather, death is a life-transforming experience to 'get through' and eventually 'grow through' to a place of inner peace and renewed joy. Among the contributors are Neale Donald Walsch, Judy Belushi, Dr. Rabbi Earl ...
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From Eulogy to Joy
from: Xlibris Corporation
: :From Eulogy To Joy is a unique, autobiographical anthology. These moving and thought-provoking personal stories are shared from the heart and contain the words of people who are 'experts' by virtue of having experienced grief firsthand in myriad situations: loss of children, siblings, parents, mates, relatives and friends through accidents, illness, suicide, murder and natural death. From Eulogy to Joy provides comfort and reassurance that grief is intensely individual and, as such, all responses are appropriate. This book unveils the revolutionary fact that, contrary to common belief, we never 'get ...
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From Eulogy to Joy : A Heartfelt Anthology
: :From Eulogy To Joy is a unique, autobiographical anthology. These moving and thought-provoking personal stories are shared from the heart and contain the words of people who are 'experts' by virtue of having experienced grief firsthand in myriad situations: loss of children, siblings, parents, mates, relatives and friends through accidents, illness, suicide, murder and natural death. From Eulogy to Joy provides comfort and reassurance that grief is intensely individual and, as such, all responses are appropriate. This book unveils the revolutionary fact that, contrary to common belief, we never 'get ...
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