Learn how ethnic factors affect tobacco use The addiction to smoking is remarkably resistant to intervention, bringing with it a multitude of health issues among users that can at times co-occur with psychiatric disorders. Ethnicity is increasingly recognized as often playing an important role in the prevalence of tobacco use. Tobacco Use and Ethnicity explores the various factors that impact tobacco use among ethnic groups and provides practical, culturally competent approaches to treatme...

Learn about the latest federally supported research on ethnicity and drug use The National Institute on Drug Abuse has supported professional research into variation among ethnic groups’ use, abuse, and recovery from alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs, as well as research into perceptions of and readiness for treatment. 21st Century Research on Drugs and Ethnicity: Studies Supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse takes a detailed look at the research performed in the last three yea...

This book documents that Mossad and Netanyahu knew about October 7 in advance, let it happen, and stood down the IDF. It provides solid evidence for LIHOP, from Israeli Jewish sources in their own media. The aim of the LIHOP operation was to provide consensus (an excuse) and motivation for pre-planned Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide.Hamas, forfeiting the moral high ground, unwittingly enabled the destruction of Gaza. However, Hamas had been infiltrated by Mossad. This book also solve...

Like a thumbprint, personality type provides an instant snapshot of a person's uniqueness. Drawing on concepts originated by Carl Jung, this book distinguishes four categories of personality styles and shows how these qualities determine the way you perceive the world and come to conclusions about what you've seen. It then explains what they mean for your success in school, at a job, in a career and in your personal relationships.For more than 60 years, the Myers-Briggs Type Indica...

Unlike many other books about the American founding, this new work by two of the most prominent scholars of American political history emphasizes the coherence and intelligibility of the social compact theory. Social compact theory, the idea that government must be based on an agreement between those who govern and those who consent to be governed, was one of the Founders' few unifying philosophical positions, and it transcended the partisan politics of that era. Contributors to this volum...

"The ancient catechism has sustained and nurtured every generation of Christians. The catechism-the Ten Commandments, the Apostles' Creed, and the Lord's Prayer-directs our love, faith, and hope. The Collected Christian Essentials: Catechism opens up the meaning of our faith and gives us words to offer back to God. In addition to featuring guides to the catechism from Ben Myers, Wesley Hill, and Peter J. Leithart, the book includes an order of prayer and twenty-four prayers based on the ca...

Printz Award winner Walter Dean Myers deftly draws a compassionate portrait of a boy's odyssey of self-discovery and the acceptance and empathy for others he learns along the way.David doesn't know what to make of his father, Reuben. His older brother, Tyrone, says Reuben is crazy. But Tyrone is acting like someone David doesn't know anymore.Then David meets Mr. Moses, a mysterious man who tells him that dreams might be the only things we have that are real...

We cannot understand our current political situation and the scholarship used to comprehend our politics without taking full account of the Progressive revolution of a century ago. This fundamental shift in studying the political world relegated the theory and practice of the Founders to an antiquated historical phase. By contrast, our contributors see beyond the horizon of Progressivism to take account of the Founders' moral and political premises. By doing so they make clear the broader ...

For the very first time in his decades-long career writing for teens, acclaimed and beloved author Walter Dean Myers writes with a teen, Ross Workman.Kevin Johnson is thirteen years old. And heading for juvie. He's a good kid, a great friend, and a star striker for his Highland, New Jersey, soccer team. His team is competing for the State Cup, and he wants to prove he has more than just star-player potential. Kevin's never been in any serious trouble . . . until the night he ends u...

High-powered New York litigator, Eva Lampedusa, and her billionaire friends purchased the world’s largest mega yacht and planned to enjoy a years-long pleasure cruise around the globe. But when scandals, affairs, and backstabbing set their vessel on a stormy course, the ship and its passengers seem destined for disaster. With funds running low, their only hope is to get a five-star review from a world renowned hospitality critic. When that person’s secret identity leads the shipmates on a ...

A comic novel of ambition and infidelity in the suburbs by "the funniest serious writer to be found either side of the Atlantic" (Kinglsey Amis).Harking from the golden age of fiction that skewered the middle-class American dream—the school of John Updike and John Cheever—this novel by the author of Slouching Towards Kalamazoo looks with laughter upon the lawns, cocktails, and creature comforts of suburbia, as well as the antics and anxieties that lurk jus...

When the mighty and cruel must be brought low, it's the killers and the schemers who emerge from the shadows. As plans twist and change, and our protagonists are foiled and beaten, one thing remains true: no matter the cost, the king must fall.The King Must Fall is a dark fantasy anthology featuring 19 titans of the dark and grimdark fantasy genres writing about rogues, assassins, mages, blackguards, and warriors on quests to kill their kings, rulers, captains, and leaders....