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Teens are often taught to rely on others to improve their physical, mental, and spiritual health. If you asked them if they would like to make a change in their health, most would answer "yes" At Last Here is a program that teaches teens to take charge of their health. They will quickly learn the definition of health and survey their own health strengths and weaknesses. They'll learn to maintain a balanced and healthy lifestyle while using the strategies and tools offered in Contract For A Healthy Life. Many students using this program have improved their grades, diet,...

Not many women can claim to have changed history, but Nafis Sadik set that goal in her youth, and change the world she did. Champion of Choice tells the remarkable story of how Sadik, born into a prominent Indian family in 1929, came to be the world s foremost advocate for women s health and reproductive rights, the first female director of a United Nations agency, and one of the most powerful women in the world (London Times).

An obstetrician, wife, mother, and devout Muslim, Sadik has been a courageous and tireless advocate for women, insisting on discussing the...

Isabelle and Annie are two self-professed middle-school drama geeks who have no idea how to flirt with boys--successfully. Their sweet, awkward, and painful attempts at romance are getting them nowhere, so they start Flirt Club, an after-school support group for similarly afflicted friends who decide to take decisive and strategic action. Told entirely through notes passed in school, diary entries, and the occasional e-mail, Flirt Club is a hilarious and touching tween novel about love and lust with a heart, a brain, and a whole lot more.

Can the law promote moral values even in pluralistic societies such as the United States? Drawing upon important federal legislation such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, legal scholar and moral theologian Cathleen Kaveny argues that it can. In conversation with thinkers as diverse as Thomas Aquinas, Pope John Paul II, and Joseph Raz, she argues that the law rightly promotes the values of autonomy and solidarity. At the same time, she cautions that wise lawmakers will not enact mandates that are too far out of step with the lived moral values of the actual community....