At fourteen years of age, Constance Barter was admitted as an in-patient to a specialist eating disorders unit where she remained for seven months. This book presents an account of the young woman's struggle with anorexia nervosa, a serious mental illness. ...

This rigorous introduction to an exciting new research domain is aimed at the mathematically minded & requires no knowledge of any physics. In a new & reworked edition, this first volume presents six fundamental models & the techniques to study them. ...

Satirical survival-of-the-fittest teen comedy starring Lindsay Lohan as Cady Heron, a pretty 15-year-old who has spent most of her life in the wilds of Africa being home-schooled by her zoologist parents. Her upbringing has taught her a lot about survival in the wilderness & the subtleties of animal behaviour, but nothing she has learned can prepare her for the unspoken social etiquette of a mid-American high school, where jocks, cheerleaders, stoners & cool kids jostle for popularity, & a clique of rich & popular girls known as 'the Plastics' rule the school. This group of alpha females, led by 'professional life-ruiner' Regina George (Rachel Mc Adams), is initially contemptuous of Cady but then accepts her as a new member. Cady, who in the meantime has become friends with punky misfits Janis & Damian, starts to get close to the 'mean girls', initially out of curiosity
- but it isn't long before she's enjoying the buzz of being one of the most popular girls in the school. However, when she inadvertently crosses the line by going on a date with one of Regina's ex-boyfriends, the gorgeous Aaron (Jonathan Bennett), the Plastics go on the warpath, & Cady must pay for her initiation into their mean Plastic world.
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Double bill of teen comedies. ' Mean Girls' (2004) is a survival-of-the-fittest satire starring Lindsay Lohan as Cady Heron, a pretty 15-year-old who has spent most of her life in the wilds of Africa being home-schooled by her zoologist parents. Her upbringing has taught her a lot about survival in the wilderness & the subtleties of animal behaviour, but nothing she has learned can prepare her for the unspoken social etiquette of a mid-American high school, where jocks, cheerleaders, stoners & cool kids jostle for popularity, & a clique of rich & popular girls known as 'the Plastics' rule the school. This group of alpha females, led by 'professional life-ruiner' Regina George (Rachel Mc Adams), is initially contemptuous of Cady but then accepts her as a new member. Amy Heckerling's hugely successful high school comedy ' Clueless' (1995) is a modern-day version of Jane Austen's ' Emma'. Cher (Alicia Silverstone) is a precocious teenager, acutely aware of her own superior social standing in relation to some of her classmates. She is just as sure of her position of authority at home as well, until her stepbrother arrives to disrupt the status quo. Her poise is somewhat disturbed at school, too, when a new classmate stirs an emotion in her she has never felt before: love... ...

Double bill featuring two satirical comedies. ' Mean Girls' (2004) stars Lindsay Lohan as Cady Heron, a pretty 15-year-old who has spent most of her life in the wilds of Africa being home-schooled by her zoologist parents. Her upbringing has taught her a lot about survival in the wilderness & the subtleties of animal behaviour, but nothing she has learned can prepare her for the unspoken social etiquette of a mid-American high school, where jocks, cheerleaders, stoners & cool kids jostle for popularity, & a clique of rich & popular girls known as 'the Plastics' rule the school. This group of alpha females, led by 'professional life-ruiner' Regina George (Rachel Mc Adams), is initially contemptuous of Cady but then accepts her as a new member. Cady starts to get close to the 'mean girls', initially out of curiosity, but it isn't long before she's enjoying the buzz of being one of the most popular girls in the school. However, when she inadvertently crosses the line by going on a date with one of Regina's ex-boyfriends, the gorgeous Aaron (Jonathan Bennett), the Plastics go on the warpath, & Cady must pay for her initiation into their mean Plastic world. ' Election' (1999) is a sly satire of the American political system which stars Reese Witherspoon as Tracy Flick, a Straight-A pupil who is determined to become student president of Carver High School. Her teacher Jim Mc Allister (Matthew Broderick) feels that democracy would best be served if she faced some opposition, & convinces popular but dumb sporting hero Paul Metzler (Chris Klein) to run against her. However, thanks to this intervention & to Tracy's boundless ambition, the election soon turns into a high school nightmare. ...