physiological effect

Provides students and other readers with the information they need to explore alcohol and think critically about the worldwide implications of the global issue.

Contains photographs and text which provide a record of Hiroshima as it appears nearly a half century after it was decimated by an atomic bomb, and tells the stories of some of the people who survived the World War II attack.

Use of crack, cocaine, alcohol, marijuana, and tobacco by pregnant women can cause serious long term problems for the baby. Drug habits of the father also affect children.

Discusses smoking, the effects of smoking, smoking-related illnesses, chemicals in cigarettes, and helpful ways to quit.

Discusses what it is like to be a teenager who drinks too much, who is likely to become an alcoholic, why teens drink, alcohol's effect on body and mind, drinking and driving, and living with alcoholic parents.

Examines the history, dangers, and increasing appeal of cocaine abuse in America.

Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima by the name of Sadako races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy. After her death, Sadako's classmates campaign to build the Children's Peace Statue in memory of Sadako and the other children who were victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

Discusses the harmful effects of such drugs as cocaine, marijuana, psychedelic hallucinogens, and amphetamines.

Explores whether the MLDA has been effective, efforts to lower the MLDA, impact of MLDA on the safety of women, and legal drinking age outside the US.

Demonstrates how the prevalent problems of obesity, ailing health, and lack of energy can all be easily improved simply by using the power of gravity; based on research into how weightlessness weakens astronauts' muscles, bones, and overall well-being, suggesting ways to incorporate gravity into everyday life, and illustrating how it can increase fitness as well as prevent aging.