Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...
  • Wastewater Analysis for Substance Abuse Monitoring and Policy Development

    This book addresses how to estimate substance use and thereby evaluate policies intended to reduce the harms caused by drugs and other substances. Wastewater analysis (WWA) can provide efficient, affordable, fine-grained and objective data on population substance use trends on a very large scale.The authors discuss the potential implications of WWA as a new method for understanding substance use ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • My Town is on Fire

    Answers & Solutions

    by S. Wayne Hall ...
    Tom Beckway is retired. In his younger years, he had a brief but extremely successful career in law enforcement. Because small-town police departments could not afford to pay their officers very well and because he had a young family, Tom made the decision to leave law enforcement. He took one manufacturing job after another, raised and educated his children, and now at the age of sixty, is ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Rethinking Cognitive Enhancement

    There has been much recent excitement amongst neuroscientists and ethicists about the possibility of using drugs, as well as other technologies, to enhance cognition in healthy individuals. This excitement has arisen from recent advances in neuroscientific technologies such as drugs that increase alertness and wakefulness in healthy individuals or technologies that can stimulate activity in ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Design and Manufacture of Fibre-Reinforced Composites

    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    This book presents an introduction to the design and manufacture of fibre-reinforced composites. The mechanical properties of unidirectional composites are considered in a structural design context. The use of woven and random fibres is also addressed. The accuracy of design estimates for unidirectional composites is benchmarked against test data, and the relevance of a factor of safety (FoS) is ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Addiction Neuroethics

    The Promises and Perils of Neuroscience Research on Addiction

    Series series International Research Monographs in the Addictions
    Addiction is a significant health and social problem and one of the largest preventable causes of disease globally. Neuroscience promises to revolutionise our ability to treat addiction, lead to recognition of addiction as a 'real' disorder in need of medical treatment and thereby reduce stigma and discrimination. However, neuroscience raises numerous social and ethical challenges: • If addicted ... Read more

    $78.79 USD

  • Addictions

    Series series Clinical Psychology: A Modular Course
    The first edition of Addictions established itself as a valuable resource for students and professionals alike. This authoritative new edition builds on the success of the previous book, incorporating advances in research and practice over the last ten years.The book includes material on:the nature of addiction and who becomes addictedhealth consequences of alcohol and other drug ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Addiction Neuroethics

    The Ethics of Addiction Neuroscience Research and Treatment

    Research increasingly suggests that addiction has a genetic and neurobiological basis, but efforts to translate research into effective clinical treatments and social policy needs to be informed by careful ethical analyses of the personal and social implications. Scientists and policy makers alike must consider possible unintended negative consequences of neuroscience research so that the promise ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • E-Cigarettes and the Comparative Politics of Harm Reduction

    History, Evidence, and Policy

    Series series History (R0)
    This open access book offers the first in-depth study of the history and current debates surrounding electronic cigarettes comparing the UK, US and Australia. Since their introduction, e-cigarettes have been the subject of much public, media and regulatory attention, with discussion centring on whether these devices encourage or discourage smoking. This study delves into the history of ... Read more

    Free

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Invisible Women

    Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

    The landmark, prize-winning, international bestselling examination of how a gender gap in data perpetuates bias and disadvantages women.#1 International Bestseller * Winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award * Winner of the Royal Society Science Book PrizeData is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development to health care to education and public ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Matters of Life and Death

    Public Health Issues in Canada

    by André Picard ...
    Health issues have long occupied top headlines in Canadian media, and no journalist has written on public health with more authority or for as many years as André Picard. Matters of Life and Death collects Picard's most compelling columns, covering a broad range of topics including Canada's right-to-die law, the true risks of the Zika virus, the financial challenges of a publicly funded health ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Drugs without the hot air

    Making sense of legal and illegal drugs

    by David Nutt ...
    Series series without the hot air
    The dangers of illegal drugs are well known and rarely disputed, but how harmful are alcohol and tobacco by comparison?The issue of what a drug is and how we should live with them affects us all: parents, teachers, users – anyone who has taken a painkiller or drunk a glass of wine. Written by renowned psychiatrist, Professor David Nutt, Drugs without the hot air casts a refreshingly honest light ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Health Law

    Frameworks and Context

    Drawing upon a range of disciplinary perspectives, Health Law: Frameworks and Context adopts a theoretically informed and principles-based approach to examining health law. Appealing to students and academic scholars alike, the text moves beyond traditional medical law frameworks to provide a broader contextual understanding of the way in which law intersects with health. A clear and accessible ... Read more

    $133.69 USD