Author: Committee on Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Acute C
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: making, sense, evidence, effects, cardiovascular, smoke, exposure, secondhand
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2010-01-21
List price: $39.00
ISBN-10: 0309138396
ISBN-13: 9780309138390

Book DescriptionData suggest that exposure to secondhand smoke can result in heart disease in nonsmoking adults. Recently, progress has been made in reducing involuntary exposure to secondhand smoke through legislation banning smoking in workplaces, restaurants, and other public places. The effect of legislation to ban smoking and its effects on the cardiovascular health of nonsmoking adults, however, remains a question. Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Cardiovascular Effects reviews available scientific literature to assess the relationship between secondhand smoke exposure and acute coronary e

Author: Patty Friedmann
Publisher: Counterpoint
Keywords: smoke, secondhand
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2002-09
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 1582432171
ISBN-13: 9781582432175

A gorgeous tragicomic novel of working-class New Orleans. Zib and Wilson Bailey--Jerusha’s two grown kids--think the thick cloud of cigarette smoke enveloping their mother is what probably killed their father. Certainly the toxicity of Jerusha Bailey’s dark and cynical attitudes has driven her children far from home. Wilson has escaped to Chicago, married, converted to Judaism, become a professor of Organic Evolution, all of which earns his mother’s scorn. She doesn’t think much of her daughter either: Zib, almost forty, unmarried and directionless, has made it only

Author: Sandra Shea
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Keywords: souls, secondhand, realm
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2000-01-19
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 039583810X
ISBN-13: 9780395838105

The realm of secondhand souls is a place where antique fabrics hold the secrets of their former owners, where found objects uncover lost worlds, and where a uniquely gifted young woman who has lost nearly everything finally finds herself. In her mesmerizing first novel, Sandra Shea recounts the life of Novena, born on a hot summer night surrounded by a circle of aunts, who offer the protection of their unfettered love. But when Novena is orphaned and sent to live with her aunt Elegia and four boy cousins, she retreats from their boisterous clamor into the realm of her imagination. It provides

Author: Karen Tranberg Hansen
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: zambia, clothing, secondhand, world, salaula
Number of Pages: 314
Published: 2000-08-01
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0226315800
ISBN-13: 9780226315805

When we donate our unwanted clothes to charity, we rarely think about what will happen to them: who will sort and sell them, and finally, who will revive and wear them. In this fascinating look at the multibillion dollar secondhand clothing business, Karen Tranberg Hansen takes us around the world from the West, where clothing is donated, through the salvage houses in North America and Europe, where it is sorted and compressed, to Africa, in this case, Zambia. There it enters the dynamic world of Salaula, a Bemba term that means "to rummage through a pile." Essential for the African economy, t

Author: Glenn Packiam
Publisher: David C. Cook
Keywords: firsthand, faith, god, rumors, jesus, trading, secondhand
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2009-06-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 143476639X
ISBN-13: 9781434766397

So often we too easily settle for someone else’s descriptions, the CliffsNotes from another’s spiritual journey. We are content to let "God experts" do the heavy lifting and then give us the bottom line. And after enough times through the grapevine, the truth about God deteriorates until crumbs and rumors are all that remain. But when life derails, when things don’t go as we planned, our thin view of God is challenged. In those critical moments, we can choose to walk away from God ... or let our questions lead us home. When you decide to wrestle with God, to engage

Author: Linda Lael Miller
Publisher: Pocket
Keywords: trilogy, cowboys, mckettrick, bride, secondhand
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2004-11-30
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0743422759
ISBN-13: 9780743422758

Dear Reader:Willow is a novel from early in my career, and it was originally shorter than many of my other historical romances. Now, I’m delighted to be able to share this brand-new edition with you. I’ve taken the opportunity to expand Willow to include the subplots, love scenes, and deeper characterization that are possible with a longer book. I hope you enjoy reading this retelling as much as I have enjoyed visiting these characters and this story once again.In 1883, the railroad had only recently come to Montana Territory, and outlaws still lurked in the hills. Willow Gallagher, who sp