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It's as American as fast foods, ice cream, and candy bars. So why are people saying all those nasty things about soft drinks? The answer is simple: All those terrible things are true. And while the facts may be hard to swallow, it is high time we look at the damage that has been done by our long-running love affair with the beverage industry. In their new book, Killer Colas, Dr. Nancy Appleton and G.N. Jacobs provide a startling picture of a greedy industry hell-bent on destroying our country's health, no matter what the cost.

Over the last twenty-five...

The Third Edition contains updated and enriched chapters that incorporate new perspectives and evidence-based information important to entry-level practitioners. The Third Edition continues to relate each chapter to the newest ACOTE Standards and is evidence-based, while also addressing the guidelines of practice...

As she arranges her first house exchange vacation, Minnesota nurse Ellen Merchant thinks she's snared the free holiday of a lifetime- she manages to trade her modest home for a mansion overlooking San Francisco Bay.

Art dealer Art Carmody, whose wealthy wife Jane owns this Bayside residence, has both serious gambling debts and a troubled marriage. He figures murdering Jane while giving himself an unshakable alibi wll solve both problems.

Con artist Sid Balzarian thinks he's discovered the perfect get-rich-quick scheme- kidnapping Jane Carmody for ransom. As these three stories...

Feminist Legal Theory is a groundbreaking collection of feminist work proceeding from the core assumption that the differences among women are essential to feminist analysis. Rather than presenting feminist legal theory sequentially, with -African American feminism- or -critical race feminism- added on at the end, the volume thoroughly integrates key readings from non-white, non-middle class, and non-mainstream writers throughout.

The volume explores the intersections of race, class, and gender in such areas as theory, family, work and economic issues, and violence against...

• Provides an invaluable reference resource to all interested in the cultural structures and processes that animate contemporary life
  
• Contains 27 essays on the most important issues comprising the sociology of culture, including art, science, religions, race, class, gender, collective memory, institutions, and citizenship
  
• Reflects and analyzes the "cultural turn" that has transformed...

Featuring a cast of leading scholars working at the intersection of political science and American history, The Unsustainable American State is a historically informed account of the American state's development from the nineteenth century to the present. It focuses in particular on the...