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Since 1975, Robert Julien's" A Primer of Drug Action" has been the definitive guide to the effects of psychoactive drugs on the brain and on behavior. Now fully updated, this popular guide continues to lead the way through a rapidly changing field, providing readers with a clear, contemporary, and objective look at every drug and medication that either positively or adversely affects brain function. This edition includes important new informat...

It would be a challenge enough for perpetual list-maker Molly West, the director of a meal-delivery program in southern Ohio, to plan an ordinary wedding for her daughter. But this is no ordinary wedding. Molly's daughter wants the ceremony to be a costumed Civil War reenactment - and the date is only two months away. To complicate matters, Sheriff Matins warns Molly that an escaped convict is on his way to their Appalachian county, intent on ...

The wide open spaces of Connemara are lost to Esther Doyle when she is impregnated and betrayed by her lover. She is sent to join the 'fallen women' of the Holy Saints Convent in Dublin. Learning through the experiences and the mistakes of the other 'Maggies, ' she begins to recognize her own determination to survive.

In this book that revolutionizes the way employers see their employees, Willingham shows how to boost productivity and increase a company's bottom line.

<" A brilliant tale of triumph and tragedy. It brings the Jacksons' poignant love story to life against the backdrop of antebellum America's bustling expansion and political intrigue--and it demonstrates once again that Patricia Brady is a historian who writes beautifully." -- Jon Kukla, author of Mr. Jefferson's Women and A Wilderness So Immense

Praise for "Sisters"Sisters"'s strength is Fialka's ability to put flesh and blood into the accounts of the lives and work of sisters and to show through these lives the immense contribution to American society."---"National Catholic Reporter"Fialka tells (the nuns') story passionately, analyzing their remarkable contributions to education, health care, social reform, and civil rights."---"San Francisco Chronicle"Fialka is bent on recovering t...

In a mountain village in Lesotho, the beautiful Dikosha lives for, setting herself apart from her fellow villagers. Her brother, Radisene, struggles amid political upheaval to find a life for himself. As the years pass, Radisene's fortunes rise and fall in the city, while Dikosha remains in the village, never leaving and never aging.

Imagine a world of gods and demons, where men are warriors, women are beautiful, life is a fantastic adventure, and the fate of kingdoms balances on the bloody blade of a fabulous hero: Conan of the iron thews, the blue-eyed barbarian giant who towers above the savage Hyborian world. For the very first time in trade, this is the work that relaunched Conan in both the 1970s and 80s, back in print after more than a decade. Come live the adve...

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Co-owner of a small Colorado newspaper, reporter Maxey Burnell is taking a well-deserved vacation - her first in years. While visiting her only relatives, Aunt Janet and Cousin Curtis, she makes a startling discovery. Not only is her father still alive, but Janet saw him leaving the scene of Maxey's mother's murder ten years ago. Determined to prove that no father of hers could be a killer, Maxey sets out to clear his name, even though it turn...

Homeopathic Guide to Stress is a book by Miranda Castro. Topics include Anxiety, guilt, depression, loss, illness and injury, negative effects of the environment, children's concerns and much more!

In the distant future, society has crumbled. Determined to regain their freedom, a small band of humans plans to overthrow an army of thousands . . . with the help of one incredible weapon.

THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE AND AUTHORITATIVE RESOURCE AVAILABLE TODAY FOR ANYONE RAISING A CHILD WITH FOOD ALLERGIESWhether you are the parent, relative, caregiver, or teacher of a food-allergic child, you know how challenging it is to keep that child safe, healthy, happy, and well fed. But now, help is at hand. The team of authors behind this invaluable book -- the mother of a food-allergic child, a board-certified allergist, and a psychologist -...

A dozen of today's leading science fiction writers provide an inside look at how their craft is accomplished. An invaluable and delightful tool for anyone who writes, "Paragons" includes advice from Kim Stanley Robinson, Bruce Sterling, James Patrick Kelly, Karen Joy Fowler, Greg Bear, and seven others.

Peter Bruegel's paintings---a peasant wedding in a barn, hunters in the snow, a rollicking street festival, and many others---have long defined our idea of everyday life in sixteenth- century Europe. They are classic icons of a time and place in much the same way as Norman Rockwell's depictions of twentieth-century America. We know relatively little about Bruegel, but after years of research, novelist Rudy Rucker has built upon the what is kno...

Each of the novels in Robinson's "Three Californias" trilogy uses the same setting--Orange County in Southern California--but each envisions a radically different future. Pacific Edge shows readers a place transformed by the "green" politics of environmental awareness--"a bittersweet utopia that may shame you into entertaining new hope for the future" (New York Times Book Review).

Hermogenes, although descended from a race of heroes, is content to run his business and leave valor to the legends. But when his father is killed, the young Greek is stirred to seek retribution. In Rome, corruption and prejudice are far easier found than justice. Hermogenes may be a citizen in name, but he is branded a barbarian by those who are Roman by birth--and the man who owes him money is a respected member of the city's government. As ...

A tailored plan developed especially for 8-to-12-year-olds offers guidance to developing the essential skills needed to resolve daily conflicts and to think for themselves.

Poisonously funny." - The New York Times

During one week in August 1862, in response to government lies and broken treaties, the previously peaceful Sioux rampaged throughout Minnesota leaving hundreds of settlers dead or homeless. With well-researched and insightful narrative, Schultz recounts one of America's most violent events.