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With prescriptions for powerful pain killers skyrocketing, causing overdoses and death, this timely volume shows how big prescription drug abuse is and what is being done about it, revealing the risks
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At a dive bar in San Francisco’s edgy Tenderloin district, drug-hustling Emily Rosario is drinking whiskey and looking for an escape from her desperate lifestyle. When she is approached by a Russian b
In response to the contemporary life stressors and distractions that leave so many suffering depression, anxiety, and exhaustion, best-selling psychotherapist and creativity coach Eric Maisel offers a
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A program to balance digestive health in seven days using traditional quick-and-easy bone broth remediesYour stomach and intestinal tract house a vast ecosystem of bacteria, vital to processing food b
Bruce Jenkins was twelve years old, living in Malibu with his parents, when he heard the original Shop Around” single, by The Miracles featuring Bill Smokey’ Robinson,” the first Billboard No. 1 R&
A highly effective strength-training program using the simplest, most affordable "unstable weights"Simple in design, sandbags are the most challenging and versatile training tool aro
Coding for Beginners in Easy Steps instructs readers how to write code to create their own computer programs. It contains separate chapters demonstrating how to store information in data structures, h
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Covering laptops using the Windows 8 operating system, with the 8.1 update, Laptops for Seniors in Easy Steps, Windows 8.1 Edition begins by looking at some of the ergonomic issues surrounding laptops
Now in its fifth edition, Java in Easy Steps begins by explaining how to download and install the free Java Development Kit (JDK) for the Java SE (Standard Edition) platform. This allows the reader to
Hudl in Easy Steps guides you through setting up and using Tesco's 7-inch Android tablet, including watching TV and movies, reading eBooks, playing games, buying and listening to music, surfing the We
Girl meets boy. Girl loses boy. Boy tries to kill girl . . . Dez Cross has problems. At almost eighteen, she's on the verge of losing her mind thanks to the drug Denazen used to enhance her abilities.
Set in Los Angeles in the early 90s, the novel chronicles the early days of an indie band as they meet, practice, make their first record, and get their first break/big gig. It’s also the story of the
A courageous and evocative memoir from an Afghan Muslim follows his early years fleeing the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, coming of age in a madrassa in Pakistan, fighting the Russians with the muja
With over three million kids playing soccer across the country in the early 1970s, soccer was poised to finally conquer America, and its heartbreaking rise and fall is captured in Gavin Newsham's Once
A forty-year-old man who is separated from his wife tries to believe in the glamour of his life in a New York bachelor apartment amid the freewheeling, high-spirited atmostphere of the early 1970s. Re
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The Standard UAS Operator Log provides record-keeping for flight operations of small and large unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), remote-control aircraft (R/C), remotel
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO JUICING, DIETING, AND CLEANSING USING A SLOW-MASTICATING JUICERThanks to the masticating juicer, which crushes fruits and vegetables into a smooth juice without destroying vital
A bestseller in China with more than 1 million copies sold.Yichang municipality, Hubei province, China, early 1970s. High-school student Jingqiu is one of many educated urban youth sent to the country
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A full-body program featuring step-by-step exercises to sculpt and tone arms, chest, abs, and legs using weighted medicine ballsWhen cavemen lifted and carried heavy boulders, they were not working ou
Using eleven Zen stories as a starting point and diving deep into their mysterious world, he then weaves his magical clarity on many diverse contemporary topics. From the true meaning of happiness to
Moving beyond the usual interpretations of this classic Chinese text — that of using it as an indicator of what to do next or attempting to predict the future — Osho is using the Tao Te Ching as Lao T
Recently discovered and never before published, these two short novels were written in the early 1970s, at the beginning of her career. Rip-off Red reads as a kind of Raymond Chandler for bad girls, a
Using concepts of schizophrenia, R.D. Laing demonstrates that we tend to invalidate the subjective and experiential and accept the proper societal view of what should occur within the family.A psychoa
Of the books authored by Martin R. Delany (1812-1885), The Origin of Races and Color is perhaps the most obscure. Out-of-print until now, it has been available to the public only through select librar
From the dangerous world of the Demon Cycle comes the early adventures of Arlen, Peter V. Brett’s quintessential fantasy hero. These exciting origin tales follow Arlen as he learns to navigate a world
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While physical fitness and good health are important components in self-defense, psychological and emotional readiness are in some respects even more crucial. Being Safe, written by a psychologist wit
Augusta Price (not her real name) is famous in England for playing a slatternly barmaid on a nighttime soap opera and for falling down drunk in public. Now, she has no job, no relationship with her lo
