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AND THE MORAL OF THE STORY IS . . .

I saw a Korean woman walking along the road carrying a bundle of sticks on her back. I thought to myself, "Life is like that." We all carry around bundles of stories starting from our childhoods and going through the rest of our lives. Some of the stories we have forgotten and others we will never forget. Some of these stories have influenced our lives. Others have had little effect on us.

In this book I have pulled from my bundle of stories to share fifty-two of them with an added moral for each one. I have heard many people who would...

" I'm seeing this girl who lives with another bloke, I think she's the love of my life but she's only interested in me every other time we see each other, I'm off my head most weekends, a couple of weeks ago I had a turn. a few weeks before that I ran into a canal because I thought it was a road when I was with Eva, you remember her, the ex, she keeps popping up. " Larson's twenty one and not ready to take on the the world but the world keeps insisting on putting him in the ring and his only defence is to batter his mind with weed, pills and as much booze as he can cope with. This is his...

High Price is the harrowing and inspiring memoir of neuroscientist Carl Hart, a man who grew up in one of Miami's toughest neighborhoods and, determined to make a difference as an adult, tirelessly applies his scientific training to help save real lives.

Young Carl didn't see the value of school, studying just enough to keep him on the basketball team. Today, he is a cutting-edge neuroscientist--Columbia University's first tenured African American professor in the sciences--whose landmark, controversial research is redefining our understanding of addiction.

Examines the relationship between drugs and pleasure, choice, and motivation, both in the brain and in society. This title focuses on common ideas about race, poverty, and drugs and explain why current policies are failing.

This book provides a complete and comprehensive reference/guide to Pyomo (Python Optimization Modeling Objects) for both beginning and advanced modelers, including students at the undergraduate and graduate levels, academic researchers, and practitioners. The text illustrates the breadth of the modeling and analysis capabilities that are supported by the software and support of complex real-world applications. Pyomo is an open source software package for formulating and solving large-scale optimization and operations research problems. The text begins with a tutorial on simple linear and...

This book provides a much-needed account of informal community-based approaches to working with mental distress. It starts from the premise that contemporary mainstream psychiatry and psychology struggle to capture how distress results from complex embodied arrays of social experiences that are embedded within specific historical, cultural, political and economic settings. The authors challenge mainstream understandings of mental health that position a naive public in need of mental health literacy. Instead it is clear that a considerable amount of invaluable mental distress work is...