Download or read book Chasing the Dragon written by Jackie Pullinger and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until it was pulled down, the Walled City was Hong Kong's most foreboding territory. It was a lawless place, dominated by the Triads, and which the police hesitated to enter. Strangers were unwelcome. Drug smuggling and heroin addiction flourished, as did prostitution and pornography, extortion and fear. When Jackie Pullinger set sail from England in 1966 she had no idea that God was calling her to the Walled City. Yet, as she spoke of Jesus Christ, brutal Triad gangsters were converted, prostitutes quit, and Jackie discovered a new treatment for drug addiction: baptism in the Holy Spirit.
Download or read book Chasing the Dragon written by Christopher R. Cox and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chasing the Dragon is the story of a Boston Herald reporter's journey into Burma/Myanmar to interview the mysterious drug lord, Khun Sa. The features desk of an American newspaper may seem an unlikely launchpad for a journey into one of the world's most remote and dangerous regions, but for journalist Christopher Cox, it was where the story began. It would end nearly three years later in the almost inaccessible mountain fastnesses of Shan State, Burma, as Cox brought off a journalistic coup even hard-bitten foreign correspondents might envy: a rare personal audience with General Khun Sa, the man U.S. law enforcement dubbed "The Prince of Death," the man thought to control a third of the world's supply of heroin. Accompanied by an obsessed Vietnam vet who had given up everything in his single-minded search for American POWs left behind in Southeast Asia and an eccentric expat with close personal ties to the general, Cox was going to cross forbidden borders to enter a region long off-limits to Westerners. And armed with little more than a backpack stuffed with vodka, porno tapes, and cigarettes, he was going to succeed. His journey would take him deep into the Golden Triangle, a shadowy zone of banditry, drug smuggling, and the ghost armies of past wars. He would begin in the red-light district of Bangkok, with its sex bars and soaring HIV rates, then head up into northern borderlands newly discovers by package-tour groups, and finally cross a jungled no-man's-land into the world of the Shan, where tough tribesmen trade opium and precious gemstones for the arms they need to fight the Burmese.
Download or read book Chasing Dragons written by Kyle Grayson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-04-12 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chasing Dragons reconsiders the meaning of security. Additionally, it discusses avenues for resisting the insecurity produced by liberal states in the post-9/11 world. This critical approach reveals the pervasiveness of power in contemporary Canadian society, how this power is hidden, and the consequences for progressive social politics. Canada has received significant attention of late for initiating a government-sponsored medical marijuana program and for its flirtation with marijuana decriminalization. At best, these initiatives have contributed to Canada being seen as a reluctant ally by Washington, and, at worst, as a potential threat. The result of this impression is increasing American pressure to adopt more robust domestic security policies. At the same time, the Canadian public sees itself as holding unique values that differ from those held by its neighbour to the south. Supposedly these values are best reflected by a distinctive security outlook which produces reasonable responses to potential threats, a sharp contrast to the manic actions of the United States. Chasing Dragons challenges these presumptions of difference and exposes the security politics and policy that they make possible. Focusing on the issues surrounding illicit drugs, Kyle Grayson examines how discourses and practices of security policy actually contribute to the construction of Canadian national and cultural identity. This analysis is also relevant beyond Canada. Crucially, this book identifies the dangers of underestimating the centrality of race and geopolitics to civic conceptions of nationality in liberal societies. Chasing Dragons reconsiders the meaning of security. Additionally, it discusses avenues for resisting the insecurity produced by liberal states in the post-9/11 world. This critical approach reveals the pervasiveness of power in contemporary Canadian society, how this power is hidden, and the consequences for progressive social politics.
Download or read book Chasing the Dragon s Tail written by Yoshio Manaka and published by Paradigm Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text introduces Dr Manaka's major clinical and theoretical accomplishments by describing how the 'X-signal system' is the foundation of human topography, function, and response. In essence, the X-signal system defines qi, yin-yang, and the five phases as clinical events, rather than as abstract theories. The text gives Western readers the first complete description of this treatment system.
Download or read book Chasing Dragons written by David West and published by Harvard Common Press. This book was released on 2006-10-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From post-World War Two Japan, to contemporary Hong Kong, the martial arts film remains one of cinema's most enduring and popular genres. 'Chasing Dragons' traces the form's origins and shows how the genre has adapted to changing social and political climates to satisfy the demands of an increasingly international audience.
Download or read book Chasing Dragons written by Tami Veldura and published by Tami Veldura. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gwen is a jumper, able to move spaceships through giant wyrmholes left in space. Her captain is obsessed with finding a space wyrm. But jumping is hard work and Gwen's captain pushes her to the brink.
Download or read book Chasing the Dragons written by Mike Mulloy and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dealing with Dragons written by Patricia C. Wrede and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first two volumes of Patricia C. Wrede's beloved, bestselling Enchanted Forest Chronicles!
Download or read book Chasing the Dragon written by Denton J Tipton and published by Magma. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Chasing the Dragon, New York Times Bestselling writer Denton J. Tipton explores a dark fantasy world ravaged by the rampant abuse of a drug made from the blood of dragons. For fans of The Witcher and Breaking Bad. In Chasing the Dragon, New York Times Bestselling writer Denton J. Tipton and celebrated painter menton3explore a dark fantasy world ravaged by the rampant abuse of a drug made from the blood of dragons. When two young slaves discover a terrible secret that could change the course of the world, will a meek alchemist’s apprentice and a drug-addled concubine survive long outside their cages? For fans of The Witcher and Breaking Bad.
Download or read book Dragon Chaser written by Mark Lloyd and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When nineteen-year-old Mark Lloyd entered the US Army in Seattle, Washington, in 1968, he thought he was invulnerable. His induction that year marked the beginning of a long career in public service. In Dragon Chaser, he recounts his journeyentering the army, earning a green beret, serving in Vietnam, working as a police officer on the streets of south central Los Angeles, and joining the DEA. In this memoir, Lloyd tells how he became an undercover narcotics agent and served in the worlds illegal drug hot spotschasing the dragon of illicit heroin in Los Angeles, Guam, and Thailand. Dragon Chaser narrates how he led teams of DEA agents raiding jungle cocaine laboratories and ambushing clandestine airstrips in Peru, how he helped solve DEAs worst case of corruption in Los Angeles, and how he managed some of DEAs foreign operations while assigned to DEA headquarters. The stories include Lloyds deployment on a special mission to war-scarred Bosnia, and how he successfully handled a difficult narcotics case involving a DEA employee falsely imprisoned by the recalcitrant Pakistani government. A remarkable memoir of a baby boomers adventures in public service, Dragon Chaser recounts Lloyds participation and observations in some of Americas actions, both major and minor, throughout the last four decades.
Download or read book Killing Dragons written by Fergus Fleming and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “dramatic and masterful” account of early alpine explorers and the challenges they faced to scale the summits (Anthony Brandt, National Geographic Adventure). In a riveting narrative of daredevils and eccentrics, Fergus Fleming gives us the breathtaking story of some of history’s greatest explorers as they conquer the soaring peaks of the Alps. Fleming recounts the incredible exploits of the men whose centuries-old fear of the mountain range turned quickly to curiosity, then to obsession, as they explored Europe’s frozen wilderness. In the late eighteenth century, French and Swiss scientists became interested in the Alps as a research destination, but in the 1850s the focus changed: the icy mountains now offered an all-out competition for British climbers who wanted to conquer ever higher and more impossible heights, and explorers fought each other on the peaks and in the press, entertaining a vast public smitten with their bravery, delighted by their personal animosities, and horrified by the disasters that befell them. “Fleming attacks his theme with verve, mining entertainment from eccentric Alpinists, sensational ascents and grisly accidents.” —Food and Travel Magazine
Download or read book Chasing Dragons written by Kyle Grayson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada has received significant attention of late for initiating a government-sponsored medical marijuana program and for its flirtation with marijuana decriminalization. At best, these initiatives have contributed to Canada being seen as a reluctant ally by Washington, and, at worst, as a potential threat. The result of this impression is increasing American pressure to adopt more robust domestic security policies. At the same time, the Canadian public sees itself as holding unique values that differ from those held by its neighbour to the south. Supposedly these values are best reflected by a distinctive security outlook which produces reasonable responses to potential threats, a sharp contrast to the manic actions of the United States. Chasing Dragons challenges these presumptions of difference and exposes the security politics and policy that they make possible. Focusing on the issues surrounding illicit drugs, Kyle Grayson examines how discourses and practices of security policy actually contribute to the construction of Canadian national and cultural identity. This analysis is also relevant beyond Canada. Crucially, this book identifies the dangers of underestimating the centrality of race and geopolitics to civic conceptions of nationality in liberal societies. Chasing Dragons reconsiders the meaning of security. Additionally, it discusses avenues for resisting the insecurity produced by liberal states in the post-9/11 world. This critical approach reveals the pervasiveness of power in contemporary Canadian society, how this power is hidden, and the consequences for progressive social politics.
Download or read book The Dragon s Tooth written by Nathan D. Wilson and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When their parents' seedy old motel burns down on the same night they are visited by a strange man covered in skeleton tattoos, Cyrus, Antigone, and their brother Daniel are introduced to an ancient secret society, and discover that they have an important role in keeping it alive.
Download or read book King Jack and the Dragon written by Peter Bently and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Night is falling, bedtime is looming and playtime is nearly over . . . but brave King Jack is more than a match for dragons and terrible beasties. This magical make-believe adventure, illustrated by picture book star Helen Oxenbury, is the perfect bedtime tale for little boys and brave children everywhere.
Download or read book Facing the Dragon written by David Parnell and published by Health Communications, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After more than 23 years addicted to methamphetamine and other drugs, Parnell put an SKS assault rifle under his chin and pulled the trigger. Here he chronicles how that desperate act pulled him out of his personal hell.
Download or read book Chasing the Dragon s Tail written by Craig Fullerton and published by Atmosphere Press. This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing from diverse fields of applied neuroscience and cognitive psychology, in Chasing the Dragon's Tail, Craig crosses the traditional boundaries and theories that have separated scientific thinking and human experience in the past. In doing so he opens the door to a bold new paradigm of self-discovery and empowerment." Dr. Justin James Kennedy, Professor of Neuroscience, Executive Coach, Psychologist We chase the "dream: " promotions, goals, sometimes achieving it only to discover we are not happy. But we can't quite work out why. It's all about how we feel, NOT what we think, that makes all the difference. Drawing on current neurological research to embrace behavioural change, Chasing the Dragon's Tail aims to inspire and light your Dragon's Fire from within. What is directing you? What is your flame? How to keep it burning? The only time a Dragon stops Chasing its Tail is when it knows its Heart and it follows its Heart. And as soon as you put this book down you will feel empowered to achieve whatever you want. Craig Fullerton is an inspirational thought leader in integral education, an engaging storyteller, author, Coach, and international TED and keynote speaker, committed to sharing his research for innovation in education. Craig holds advanced degrees in Educational Leadership and Management; is a certified NLP Master Coach and Trainer, Global Leaders of the Future 360 Assessor, and a Certified Executive Coach with Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching. You can connect with him via [email protected] and his website, www.craigfullerton.com.au.
Download or read book There s No Such Thing as a Dragon written by Jack Kent and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy Bixbee's mother won't admit that dragons exist until it is nearly too late.
