1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779624103321

Titolo

Smoking [[electronic resource] ] : health effects, psychological aspects and cessation / / Itsuki Hayashi, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hauppauge, N.Y., : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., c2012

ISBN

1-61470-760-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (165 p.)

Collana

Public health in the 21st century

Altri autori (Persone)

HayashiItsuki

Disciplina

613.85

Soggetti

Tobacco - Toxicology

Smoking - Health aspects

Tobacco - Physiological effect

Tobacco - Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Vascular Morphological Smoking-Related Changes : From Bench to Bedside / R. Rezzani and L. F. Rodella -- Tabaquism : From Laboratory to Society / M. C. Talío, M. O. Luconiand L. P. Fernández -- Physiological Consequences of Smoking Cessation Benefits for Respiratory and Cardiovascular System / Christina Gratziou and N.Rovina -- Does Weather Affect Health Behaviors? Evidence from Temperature and Cigarette Smoking / Feng Liu and Xuan Yin -- Teenage Smoking : What are the Main Issues? / Said Shahtahmasebi -- Predictors of Smoking Cessation in a Population of Pregnant Smokers in a National Database from 2004 to 2006 / Anne-Laurence Le Faou, Monique Baha and Nicolas Rodon.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789371903321

Autore

Shumate David

Titolo

High water mark : prose poems / / David Shumate

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [2004]

©2004

ISBN

0-8229-8014-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (81 p.)

Collana

Pitt poetry series

Disciplina

811/.6

Soggetti

Prose poems, American

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""A Saint for You""""The Shape of the Human Soul""; ""Infant""; ""Teaching a Child the Art of Confession""; ""The Machinery of the Soul""; ""Martyr""; ""The Wasted Day""; ""On Finding a Landscape I Painted as a Child""; ""The Buddha of Arithmetic""; ""IV""; ""Country Music""; ""Passing Through a Small Town""; ""Tornado""; ""The American Dream""; ""Bomb Shelter""; ""Shooting the Horse""; ""Tabloid Headlines""; ""Critic""; ""A Thousand Miles from Nowhere""; ""Reading to the Blind Man""; ""May I Interest You?""; ""Accordion Lessons""; ""The Id""; ""Testicles""; ""V""; ""Afternoon Nap""

""Visitation""""Graveyard""; ""The Ambassador of the Dead""; ""The Art of Forgetting""; ""Poems That Can Only Be Written at Night""; ""The Slaves of My Ancestors""; ""Armor""; ""The Funeral of the Moon""; ""Warehouse""; ""Old Age""; ""Mushrooms""; ""High Water Mark""; ""The Immortal""; ""Acknowledgments""

Sommario/riassunto

Everyday mindreading, a house full of Buddhas, and the papaya scent of the soul. An interview with Custer at a place of his choosing, "probably a steakhouse." The ability of dogs to smell the uncool.Hitler's barber imagines what might have been if only he'd leaned his weight into the razor. An oblivious Coronado narrowly avoids an ambush on the American plains. Freud lecherously lifts the skirt of a Mexican housekeeper who has far too much work to be bothered by "a pillar of modern thought. Or just some dirty old man."In lesser hands such disparate elements might fly wildly out of control. But