This is an updated account of new developments in sports nutrition for teachers, coaches, officials and competitors taking into account new developments. It contains information on digestion, energy systems and exercise metabolism and looks at food supplementation, vitamin therapy and special diets. As well as reviewing drug abuse in sport it also gives advice on ergogenic aids and training methods used by top class performers.
Living with a Parent Who Takes Drugs
by Judith S Seixas and Judith S Sexias
case reports and explanatory text introduce the warning signs and possible manifestations of drug abuse by a parent and ways of coping with such a problem.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (Penguin Great Ideas) (Revolution & Romanticism S., 1789-1834)
by Thomas de Quincey
With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury. In the first part of this famous work, published in 1821 but then revised and expanded in 1856, De Quincey vividly describes a number of experiences during his boyhood which he implies laid the foundations for his later life of helpless drug addiction. The second part consists of his remarkable account of the pleasures and pains of opium, ostensibly offered as a muted apology for the course his life had taken bu...
Leads the way to feeling great and living well--without alcohol.
Sparks of Sound
Toward the Prevention of Alcohol Problems; Government, Business, and Community Action
by Dean R Gerstein
Part memoir and part inspirational reader, 'It's Never Too Late' details William Moss's journey from small-town Texas to a stint in Hollywood and onward to the height of business successes in Texas and New York, and at the centre of political power in Washington, DC. Late in life, however, the endless martinis in exclusive clubs come to feel empty, and the author begins to align his life closer to God, culminating in finding the love partner of his life and later realising, at the age of 85, tha...
