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Too Much Invested to Quit focuses on the applications of paradigms in the resolution of international relations, taking as backdrop issues in marriage, labor disputes, and price wars. The manuscript first offers information on the dollar auction game, a simple game that can be employed in large groups or in laboratory situations. Studies on economic and interpersonal motives when bidding against a deck of cards; sex differences and effects of team bidding; and effects of experience on the length of auction are discussed. The text also focuses on the stages of escalation and physiological and p

"Blends memoir with literary journalism to examine America's history of mental illness treatments to challenge contemporary narratives about mental health, questioning what it means to be a woman with highly stigmatized disorders and asking why mental illness continues to escalate in the United States despite so many 'cures'"--

Since the 1950s when theevidence on smoking causing serious, fatal diseases began consolidating, hundreds of millions of smokers have quit. Overwhelmingly, the great majorityquit unassisted without any professional or pharmaceutical help. But from thelate 1970s, massive campaigns have urged smokers not to go the cold turkeyroute and instead take nicotine replacement therapy, prescribed drugs and mostrecently, to vape. Simon Chapman is a veteran researcher, a global publichealth advocate and an Australian Skeptic of the Year. In this book he analysesthe relentless push to medicalise and commodif.

Intro -- Praise -- Title Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter I: Africa is not for the faint-hearted -- Chapter II: John Freeman -- Chapter III: Gilbert and Sullivan in the Caribbean -- Chapter IV: 'The sick man of Europe' -- Chapter V: 'A long-standing source of grief' -- Chapter VI: 'Any self-respecting terrorist has an AK-47' -- Chapter VII: 'That little ice-cold bunch of land down there' -- Chapter VIII: 'We have ceased to be a nation in retreat' -- Chapter IX: The 'zero option' -- Chapter X: 'The British government had been made to look impotent' -- Chapter XI: 'Getting our money back' -- Chapter XII: 'We decided to give the go-ahead for the Channel Tunnel' -- Chapter XIII: 'I would be afraid that she might poison me' -- Chapter XIV: Defying Adam Smith -- Chapter XV: 'If you want to get out of a hole, the first thing to do is to stop digging' -- Chapter XVI: 'The whole world will be against you' -- Chapter XVII: A friendship with De Klerk -- Chapter XVIII: 'You can tell your Prime Minister that she will not be disappointed' -- Chapter XIX: The real Mandela -- Chapter XX: 'He is a bigger man than the others and this will show' -- Chapter XXI: 'For a political leader who loses the support of his followers, it remains only to write his memoirs' -- Chapter XXII: 'How do I get her on my side?' -- Chapter XXIII: 'The only alternative to negotiations now is negotiations later' -- Chapter XXIV: 'We can hardly drop them on Lusaka or Soweto' -- Chapter XXV: A specially close relationship -- Chapter XXVI: Getting to know the Clintons -- Chapter XXVII: Towards a peace in Northern Ireland -- Chapter XXVIII: 'We do not have a dog in this fight' -- Chapter XXIX: Fighting with allies -- Chapter XXX: 'Never forget that we are not on your side' -- Chapter XXXI: A parting shot -- Chapter XXXII: When Atlas shrugs -- Chapter XXXIII: Wars of choice

"In this illustrated choose-your-own-ending picture book, Dahabo must decide whether to keep working on her science fair project or quit. Readers make choices for Dahabo and read what happens next, with each story path leading to different consequences. Includes four different endings and discussion questions"--