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  • The Education-Drug Use Connection

    How Successes and Failures in School Relate to Adolescent Smoking, Drinking, Drug Use, and Delinquency

    Does success in school protect teenagers from drug use? Does drug use impair scholastic success? This book tackles a key issue in adolescent development and health - the education-drug use connection. The authors examine the links and likely causal connections between educational experiences, delinquent behavior, and adolescent use of tobacco, alco ... Read more

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  • Smoking, Drinking, and Drug Use in Young Adulthood

    The Impacts of New Freedoms and New Responsibilities

    Series series Research Monographs in Adolescence Series
    Why do some young adults substantially change their patterns of smoking, drinking, or illicit drug use after graduating from high school? In this book, the authors show that leaving high school and leaving home create new freedoms that are linked to increases in the use of cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine. They also show that marriage, pregnancy, and parenthood create new ... Read more

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  • The Decline of Substance Use in Young Adulthood

    Changes in Social Activities, Roles, and Beliefs

    Series series Research Monographs in Adolescence Series
    This book is intended as a thoughtful extension to Bachman et al.'s well-received monograph Smoking, Drinking, and Drug Use in Young Adulthood. That volume showed that the new freedoms of young adulthood lead to increases in substance use, while the responsibilities of adulthood--marriage, pregnancy, parenthood--contribute to declines in substance use. The Decline of Substance Use in Young ... Read more

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  • The Bells of Nagasaki

    A first-hand account of the catastrophic atomic bombing

    by Takashi Nagai ...
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    ‘A book that everyone should read’ The TimesA harrowing, heart-rending first-hand account of the bombing of Nagasaki – and the acts of human kindness left in its wake.On 9th August 1945, the Japanese city of Nagasaki is hit by an atomic bomb. Forty thousand people are killed instantly. Doctor Takashi Nagai is not one of them.Pulling himself, broken and bloodied, from the wreckage that was once the ... Read more

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  • Facing Infinity

    Black Holes and Our Place on Earth

    by Jonas Enander ...
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    A fresh, fascinating, up-to-the-moment appraisal of black holes—the massive astronomical objects with a gravitational pull so strong that nothing can escape them, not even light—situating them at the center of our understanding of our place on Earth and in the universeHumanity’s relationship with black holes began in 1783 in a small English village, when clergyman John Michell posed a startling ... Read more

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  • Midnight Timetable

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  • Victoria in Love

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    by Fern Riddell ...
    The passionate, provocative story of Queen Victoria's relationship with her servant John Brown that reveals the secrets that royal historians have kept from us.From the moment John Brown arrived as a servant to Queen Victoria's household, he became known across the land as her loyal companion, her fierce protector, and her right-hand man: their friendship immortalized in print and later onscreen. ... Read more

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  • The Book of Guilt

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  • Murder at the Black Cat Café

    Translated by Bryan Karetnyk ...
    Series series Detective Kindaichi Mysteries
    **FROM ONE OF JAPAN'S GREATEST CRIME WRITERS—THE AUTHOR OF THE HONJIN MURDERS: Nothing at The Black Cat Café is as it seems. . .In order to solve this sensational stand-alone murder mystery, scruffy detective Kosuke Kindaichi will have to untangle a complex web of love, jealousy, and betrayal**In post-war Tokyo, still recovering from the devastating wartime bombing raids, a patrolling policeman ... Read more

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  • Murder at Christmas: You Solve the Crime

    A cosy crime mystery in the style of a Choose Your Own Adventure

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    Sharpen your sleuthing skills and have your magnifying glass at the ready for this interactive festive mystery that casts YOU in the role of the detective – perfect for fans of Murdle looking for their next clever crime fix!The year is 1932. You are Dr Kinn Tenor, a Scotland Yard pathologist with a sideline in private detection when the boys in blue are stumped. You’re celebrated in the newspapers ... Read more

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