Product Description: Looks at the issue of performance-enhancing drugs, discussing their use in sports, their legality, and how they can be discovered via tests.

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Product Description: Gene therapy is still largely experimental, very expensive, and, in some instances, extremely risky. Yet it remains the focus of much research and societal debate because it offers great promise for treating and preventing a number of hereditary diseases and conditions.

Product Description: The questions in Do You Mind? supercharge your creativity, helping you to discover amazing insights about everything around you. Whether you are designing your favorite house, writing songs, pondering multiple universes, or just aching for good conversation, Do You Mind? makes learning about the incredible dynamics of your imagination fun...read more

This book analyzes the theme of homelessness in American literature from the Civil War through the depression. Drawing on the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Horatio Alger, Stephen Crane, Jacob Riis, Jack London, Meridel Le Sueur and many others, it reveals how homelessness has been either romanticized or objectified.

Product Description: Thinking Critically: Legalizing Marijuana by John Allen

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Product Description: Bien que d'origine britannique, John Allen vécut en Afrique du Sud de 1954 à 1990, une période de 36 ans pendant laquelle le pays connut ses événements les plus intenses et parfois les plus terribles.S'appuyant sur son expérience personnelle et sa compréhension intime de la situation, l'auteur nous emmène par-delà la frénésie médiatique qui domina tant les télévisions occidentales afin de répondre à certaines des questions capitales se rapportant à l'époque de l'apartheid:Qui était à l'origine du système de gouvernement que le monde finit par tant haïr ?L'Afrique du Sud fut-elle la seule nation à pratiquer l'apartheid ?Les sanctions économiques eurent-elles l'effet désiré ?Comment le programme intérieur de Washington affecta-t-il la politique étrangère des États-Unis ?Pour quelle véritable raison l'Occident voulut-il forcer le pays à genoux ?Pourquoi la libération de prison de Nelson Mandela aggrava-t-elle la violence au lieu de la diminuer ?L'Afrique du Sud sous l'Apartheid traite de tous ces sujets-là et de bien d'autres, exposant des faits peu connus concernant certains détails historiques et offrant au lecteur un témoignage oculaire de la vie quotidienne dans un des pays les plus dangereux au monde...read more