Download or read book Beware Euphoria written by George Fisher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Fisher seeks the moral roots of America's antidrug regime and challenges claims that early antidrug laws arose from racial animus. Those moral roots trace to early Christian sexual strictures, which later influenced Puritan condemnations of drunkenness, and ultimately shaped the early American drug war. Early laws against opium dens, cocaine, and cannabis rarely rose from racial strife, but sprang from the traditional moral censure of intoxication and perceived threats to respectable white women and youth. The book closes with an examination of cannabis legalization, driven in part by the movement for racial justice.
Download or read book Want You Gone written by Chris Brookmyre and published by Little, Brown Book Group. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighth book in the Jack Parlabane series, from author Christopher Brookmyre. The award-winning, million-selling author of Black Widow brings a twist-filled story of secrets and lies. What if your deepest secret was revealed? Sam Morpeth is growing up way too fast, left to fend for a younger sister when their mother goes to prison and watching her dreams of university evaporate. But Sam learns what it is to be truly powerless when a stranger begins to blackmail her. Who would you turn to? Meanwhile, reporter Jack Parlabane has finally got his career back on track, but his success has left him indebted to a volatile, criminal source. Now that debt is being called in, and it could cost him everything. What would you be capable of? Thrown together by a vindictive and mysterious mutual enemy, Sam and Jack are about to discover they might be each other's only hope.
Download or read book So Shall We Reap written by Colin Tudge and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-08-26 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A work that focuses on the relentless drive for maximum food production at rock-bottom cost. As health scares spiral, rural workers are driven off the land and poor nations are forced to export their goods in a cut-throat marketplace. Colin Trudge proposes an alternative, looking at the global food industry and showing how - without resorting to GM crops - corporate barons can be stripped of control, the world can be fed and humanity can survive.
Download or read book Boom Crisis and Adjustment written by Ian Malcolm David Little and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1993 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boom, Crisis, and Adjustment reviews the macroeconomic experiences of eighteen developing countries from 1974 to 1989. The authors address why the experiences and policy reactions have differed among the countries, and how their individual growth rates were affected by these policy reactions.
Download or read book The Last Hack written by Christopher Brookmyre and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scottish crime master dishes out “equal parts adrenaline and empathy” in a thriller featuring a woman hacker and online intrigue (Diana Gabaldon). Sam Morpeth has had to grow up way too fast. Left to fend for a younger sister with learning difficulties when their mother goes to prison, she is forced to watch her dreams of university evaporate. But Sam learns what it is to be truly powerless when a stranger begins to blackmail her online. Meanwhile, reporter Jack Parlabane seems to have finally gotten his career back on track with a job at a flashy online news start-up, but his success has left him indebted to a volatile source on the wrong side of the law. Now that debt is being called in, and it could cost him everything. Thrown together by a common enemy, Sam and Jack are about to discover they have more in common than they realize—and might be each other’s only hope. (Published in the UK as Want You Gone) “Pure literary dynamite.” —Lorenzo Carcaterra, New York Times–bestselling author of Sleepers “Tremendous fun, with superb characterization, gripping moral complexity, and no shortage of clever villainy.” —Chris Pavone, New York Times–bestselling author of The Paris Diversion “A revelation . . . The computer is the scariest tool since the invention of the buzzsaw.” —Thomas Perry, New York Times–bestselling author of The Bomb Maker “Works exceptionally well as cybercrime fiction, but it’s the human element that makes it tick.” —Kirkus Reviews
Download or read book Democracy Gone written by Robert P. Abele and published by Hamilton Books. This book was released on 2009-08-16 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Democracy Gone, Abele argues that the last eight years in particular have shown us that our democracy has largely disintegrated, leaving behind only an exoskeleton that was once its original vertebrae of ends and principles. This book questions whether or not the American democratic experiment has run out of steam and if, through our inattention, we have replaced our democracy with politicians lustful for power and central authority that is out of touch with the needs of common people. The essays included in Democracy Gone focus specifically on two questions. First, how true are we staying to our founding values in our national actions and dialogues? Second, how consistent and universal is our application of the principles and standards we claim to hold dear? The underlying call is that it is critical to our form of democracy in the United States that citizens once again become active participants in the issues of the day: nothing less than the reclamation of our democracy is at stake.
Download or read book Beware of God written by Shalom Auslander and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violent rabbis, lovelorn wives, a busy Grim Reaper, shame-filled simians, and one seriously angry deity populate this humorous and disquieting collection. Shalom Auslander's stories in Beware of God have the mysterious punch of a dream. They are wide ranging and inventive: A young Jewish man's inexplicable transformation into a very large, blond, tattooed goy ends with a Talmudic argument over whether or not his father can beat his unclean son with a copy of the Talmud. A pious man having a near-death experience discovers that God is actually a chicken, and he's forced to reconsider his life -- and his diet. At God's insistence, Leo Schwartzman searches Home Depot for supplies for an ark. And a young boy mistakes Holocaust Remembrance Day as emergency preparedness training for the future. Auslander draws upon his upbringing in an Orthodox Jewish community in New York State to craft stories that are filled with shame, sex, God, and death, but also manage to be wickedly funny and poignant.
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Download or read book Selected Ideas written by Takis S. Hasapis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains many things for many people. Also there is a number of practical remedies from the medical files of Edgar Cayce, The Great American Prophet and Psychic. His predictions about the coming major earthquakes that will affect greatly the cities of San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Japan, The Mediterranean and other parts of the world are most revealing. The reader will find quotes, aphorisms, maxims and apophthegmata from the most advanced minds of the world. This book is not a fiction and it can not be read as fiction. It is not a biographical, historical, narrative, a childrens book, or religious. Within it, there is wisdom, knowledge, and information on a variety of subjects, rarely found in a single book. "Thank your inclusion of Edgar Cayce to such an honorable compilation of thinking minds. I am sure wherever you intend to promote your manuscripts, it will be received in the spirit you have intended with common binding thread of a greater power driving all forces to a grand appreciation of being. Much appreciation for your dedication to compiling this work of philosophical and spiritual ideas from the minds of extra-ordinary men." Claire Garnener, Archivist The Edgar Cayce Foundation
Download or read book No solution written by Stuart C. Aveyard and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-22 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilising a wide range of archival correspondence and diaries, this monograph reconstructs the 1974-79 Labour government's policies in Northern Ireland. It covers the collapse of power-sharing in May 1974, the secret dialogue with the Provisional IRA during the 1975 ceasefire, the acquiescence of Labour ministers in continuing indefinite direct rule from Westminster, efforts to mitigate conflict through industrial investment, a major shift in security policy emphasizing the police over the army, the adaptation of republicans to the threat of these new measures and their own adoption of a 'Long War' strategy. In so doing, it sheds light on the challenges faced by British ministers, civil servants, soldiers and policemen and the reasons why the conflict lasted so long. It will be a key text for researchers and students of both British and Northern Irish politics.
Download or read book 400 Ways to Stop Stress Now and Forever written by G. Gaynor McTigue and published by . This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Problems of Literary History written by International Comparative Literature Association. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book THE REST OF THE TRUTH written by Pamela Harrelson and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seasoned personal trainer Pamela Harrelson offers readers much-needed inspiration and up-to-date information. This is NOT a diet book! Unique and original to other health and fitness books, The Rest of the Truth focuses, with great passion and academic facts, on what it takes to maintain weight loss after a dramatic drop, whether from a surgical procedure or otherwise, and how to reverse self-destructive eating behaviors in order to take control of your body, brain, and your life. After studying at the LSU Medical School, she would later complete a comprehensive study on metabolism and genetics, which she includes in her book.. As a result of 23 years of personal training she gives insights into moderate, results oriented exercise. Also there is an interesting informative chapter on How To Find a Personal Trainer, which she felt compelled to write after years in the business. Because of her overall surgery experience, Harrelson is neither for nor against Bariatric procedures. Presently, a substantial number of five and ten year post-op patients have re-gained much of their weight loss, which truly ignites her passion to help them and others. Second Edition: Many Revisions Since 2009.
Download or read book Two Weeks in Another Town written by Irwin Shaw and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA struggling actor’s last chance becomes an unforgettable Roman holiday/divDIV World War II derailed John Andrus’s acting career. Marred by a facial scar and burdened by a new family, Andrus works for NATO in Paris. A producer from his past shows up with an attractive acting job—involving two weeks in Rome and a hefty salary. How can he pass it up?/divDIV /divDIVIn Rome, Andrus quickly realizes that the job is not at all what he expected. Bounced between movie sets, directors, producers, and women, he grows more uncertain of his future with each passing day. /divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Irwin Shaw including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate./div
Download or read book Taboo Tabernacle written by A.W. Archer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the day, Taboo Tabernacle isnt just about taboo topics like sex, drugs, rock n roll, religion, politics, faith, witchcraft, and cannabis. It isnt even about science, math, history, medicine, justice or apologetics; although, there is much of that in it. Its about connecting people to Christ in a way that can not only surprise them, but can electrify them. From the depths of space to the lowest sub-atomic particle in the human body, the sustainers fingerprint is everywhere. I want to help people get so excited about Gods amazing love that they cant stop talking about it. From the balanced believer to the super secularist, I believe that all people suffer from false presuppositions about life and the way things are at one point or another. Whether its from the way we were raised, something traumatic that happened to us growing up, or perhaps it is simply the default consensus opinion of the culture we are currently in; we all have presuppositions, some true and some false. I would like all of us to start breaking down the man made walls of false presupposition that separate us today, and replace them with bridges of truth and understanding from a biblical worldview that makes sense in both the physical world and spiritual realm. Get ready to look at life through a whole new lens.
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nightcap at Dawn written by J. B. Walker and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of U.S. soldiers emailed their observations and experiences from Iraq and their candid opinions on fighting an insurgency. This book is the result. This startling collection of emails is a thoughtful and compelling narrative that carries the reader from the alleys and city streets to the homes of long-suffering Iraqis, and from the soldiers’ concrete bunkers to the “majestic” army base. Along the way, the reader is asked to consider the puzzles posed for a disciplined army engaged with an enemy that hides amid—and indeed, targets—a civilian population.
