physiological effect

Discusses various drugs and their dangers and presents survival techniques for existing in a drug-infested neighborhood.

On title page: The Consumers Union Report on narcotics, stimulants, depressants, inhalants, hallucinogens, and marijuana--including caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol.

Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.

Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.

Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.

Explains how the animal and human inhabitants of the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, including a mountain lion, a roadrunner, a coyote, a tortoise, and members of the Papago Indian tribe, adapt to and survive the desert's merciless heat.

Provides information about rattlesnakes, their senses, fangs, and venom, looks at different types of rattlers, and shares stories of people who have had the misfortune to be bitten by a rattlesnake.

Provides information about alcohol, how it acts on the body, the social and medical problems associated with alcohol use, and alcohol use among different populations, looks at controversies associated with alcohol, and includes references and resources for further study.

Looks at the weather phenomena known as a drought, explaining what droughts are, where and why they occur, and what conditions are like during a drought, and discusses how people prepare for and cope with abnormally dry conditions.