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UNINA9910451113703321 |
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Grahl Gary A |
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Titolo |
Skinny boy [[electronic resource] ] : a young man's battle and triumph over anorexia / / by Gary A. Grahl |
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Clearfield, Utah, : American Legacy Media, 2007 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (256 p.) |
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616.85/2620092 B |
616.852620092 |
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Anorexia nervosa |
Eating disorders |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Introduction; 1. Sign of the Obsession; 2. Helpless; 3. The Ride; 4. And Your Name is...?; 5. The Iron Giant; 6. The Fifty Cent Tour; 7. Chandra; 8. Group Therapy; 9. Atalanta The Private Investigator; 10. O. T.; 11. Scrabble; 12. The Doctor is In(sane); 13. Send the Alternate; 14. The Battle of O. T., 1986; 15. What about Bob?; 16. My Free Get-Out-of-Prom Card; 17. Chandra's Discharge; 18. My Post-Prom; 19. Let's Play Hide the Tunafish--Twice; 20. D-Day; 21. Illusion Theories for All Occasions; 22. The Letter; 23. Bacon Anyone?; 24. And the Award For Best Actor Goes To... |
25. Am I Ever Glad To Smell You26. One Sharp Package?; 27. Back So Soon?; 28. Dr. Buckmier's Warning; 29. Wet Dream; 30. Can't You See the "No Trespassing" Sign?; 31. The Power of YOU; 32. An Idol Visit; 33. The Warning; 34. The Infatuation Begins; 35. Busted; 36. Ariel's Lessons: Girls 101; 37. The Elevator Ride to Heaven; 38. Bad News; 39. Musical Toast; 40. The Session; 41. Courage; 42. Trash IT; Epilogue; Acknowledgement |
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Gary Grahl was both handsome and popular, a boy whose athletic abilities attracted the attention of the big leagues . . . until ""IT,"" a shaming inner-voice that convinced him to be ever thinner. His out-of-control compulsion to exercise and starve himself led to multiple |
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hospitalizations, and a life and death battle to win control over the pervasive and dangerous ""IT.""Skinny Boy is a powerful story showing how anyone can win the internal battle between mind and body, and triumph over the out-of-control thoughts and feelings common to many mental disorders. Sk |
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UNINA9910790284003321 |
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Autore |
McWhiney Grady |
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Cracker Culture [[electronic resource] ] : Celtic Ways in the Old South |
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Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (336 p.) |
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305.5690975 |
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975/.03 |
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Southern States -- Civilization -- 1775-1865 |
Southern States -- Civilization -- Celtic influences |
United States -- Southern states -- Poor white persons -- Social conditions, 1865-1970 |
Regions & Countries - Americas |
History & Archaeology |
United States Local History |
Southern States Civilization Celtic influences |
Southern States Civilization 1775-1865 |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Prologue; I. Settlement; II. Heritage; III. Herding; IV. Hospitality; V. Pleasures; VI. Violence; VII. Morals; VIII. Education; IX. Progress; X. Worth; XI. Collision; Appendix; Index |
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Cracker Culture is a provocative study of social life in the Old South that probes the origin of cultural differences between the South and the North throughout American history. Among Scotch-Irish settlers the |
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term "Cracker" initially designated a person who boasted, but in American usage the word has come to designate poor whites. McWhiney uses the term to define culture rather than to signify an economic condition. Although all poor whites were Crackers, not all Crackers were poor whites; both, however, were Southerners. The author insists that Southerners and North |
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