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The best cozy debut I've read this year. An engaging heroine, a college setting that will have you aching to go back to school, and a puzzler of a mystery make this a must-read for cozy lovers." - Laura DiSilverio, National Bestselling Author of the Readaholics Book Club Mysteries "A pitch-perfect portrayal of academic life with a beguiling cast of anxious newbies, tweedy old troublemakers and scholars as sharp as they're wise. Lila's Stonedal...

Esteroides, estimulantes, suplementos: el deportista de nuestros días tiene a sus disposición una amplia y seductora variedad de drogas y suplementos dietéticos. ¿Qué se puede considerar seguro? ¿Qué es lo que funciona? ¿Qué es un gasto inútil? Este libro proporciona información científica fidedigna de forma clara y accesible.¿ Todo lo que necesita saber sobre "andro" y otros esteriodes.¿ Por qué el clenbuterol aumenta el tamaño de los músculo...

Una guía imprescindible para comprender cómo funcionan las drogas y sus efectos sobre el organismo y el comportamiento.Las drogas han acompañado al ser humano desde sus orígenes como parte de rituales, tratamientos medicinales o con fines recreativos, y a pesar de ello, la discusión actual en torno a estas sustancias se encuentra simplificada y polarizada entre grupos que pretenden su prohibición frente a aquellos defienden el consumo libre y ...

This collection examines how Chuck Palahniuk pushes through a variety of boundaries to shape fiction and to interrogate American cultures in powerful and important ways. His innovative stylistic accomplishments and notoriously disturbing subject matters invite close analysis, and these new essays insightfully discuss Palahniuk's texts, contexts, contributions, and controversies. Addressing novels from Fight Club through Snuff, as well as his n...

This study examines the associations between dressing and storytelling in Margaret Atwood's fiction. As cultural representations operating within a network of codes, clothed bodies are often discussed by theorists as constructed performances or as fabricated texts, inextricably bound up with ideology and power. The clothed body often becomes a battleground in Atwood's fiction as female protagonists respond to divisive cultural scripts through ...

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 - how t...

The best cozy debut I've read this year. An engaging heroine, a college setting that will have you aching to go back to school, and a puzzler of a mystery make this a must-read for cozy lovers." - Laura DiSilverio, National Bestselling Author of the Readaholics Book Club Mysteries "A pitch-perfect portrayal of academic life with a beguiling cast of anxious newbies, tweedy old troublemakers and scholars as sharp as they're wise. Lila's Stonedal...

This collection examines how Chuck Palahniuk pushes through a variety of boundaries to shape fiction and to interrogate American cultures in powerful and important ways. His innovative stylistic accomplishments and notoriously disturbing subject matters invite close analysis, and these new essays insightfully discuss Palahniuk's texts, contexts, contributions, and controversies. Addressing novels from Fight Club through Snuff, as well as his n...

A unique and heartfelt anthology of inspirational essays by those grieving over the deaths of parents, partners, friends, children, even enemies and pets, to provide comfort to others facing loss.

All of our children deserve the chance to be as bright, successful, and healthy as they can be. But our kids are threatened by the wide availability of alcohol and other drugs in our society. Everyone agrees that the best protection is education, but exactly what do you say? Just Say Know gives parents, educators, and health professionals powerful tools to talk with kids about how alcohol and other drugs interact with their minds and bodies. I...