Download or read book Cocaine Train written by Stephen Smith and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2012-09-07 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most violent countries on earth, where the cause of death is regularly 'massacre', drink drivers play chicken and kidnap stories pass for dinner party conversation; nine times more dangerous than the United States, Columbia is no place for the nervous traveller. So it is much against his better judgement that, in the summer of 1998, coinciding with a World Cup and a general election, journalist Stephen Smith finds himself boarding the Cocaine Train out of Cali, home of Columbia's infamous drugs cartel. Its passengers prey to theives, extortionists and a dozen different varieties of paramilitary, the Cocaine Train is one of the last remnants of a once great railway system, and Smith is riding in it in search of a grandfather he barely knew: Fred Leslie Frost, pioneering railwayman, upright citizen and diplomat, with a Columbian mistress and an illegitimate son. As remote from his suburban British origins as it is possible to imagine.
Download or read book Cocaine written by Paul Gootenberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cocaine examines the rise and fall of this notorious substance from its legitimate use by scientists and medics in the nineteenth century to the international prohibitionist regimes and drug gangs of today. Themes explored include: * Amsterdam's complex cocaine culture * the manufacture, sale and control of cocaine in the United States * Japan and the Southeast Asian cocaine industry * export of cocaine prohibitions to Peru * sex, drugs and race in early modern London Cocaine unveils new primary sources and covert social, cultural and political transformations to shed light on cocaine's hidden history.
Download or read book The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends written by Ingo Niermann and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-08-26 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wacky but well-researched, unbiased and shameless, this informational book about drugs dares to take readers on a long, strange trivia trip. Following in the tradition of The Ultimate Book of Useless Information, The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends is a wry potpourri of interesting information about every conceivable kind of drug. Readers can feed their heads with anecdotes, facts, lists, statistics, and illustrations, including: • The test results of animals on LSD—cats lose their fear of dogs, and goats walk in geometric patterns • Drugs found in nature, from magic mushrooms to St. John’s wort to beaver secretions • Celebrities who overdosed at age 27—Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Brian Jones, and Jean Michel-Basquiat • Imaginary drugs in literature and film, from spice the mélange in Dune to Moloko plus in A Clockwork Orange • Nicknames for a joint—from doobie to giggly stick to Mr. Boom Bizzle • The global percentages of adults who have used cannabis—.004 percent in Singapore and 12.6 percent in the United States • The uses of opium in ancient Rome—from treatments for insomnia and epilepsy to colic and deafness • The most glamorous rehab clinics and their celebrity alumni • Mini-biographies of the biggest drug kingpins around the world
Download or read book Falsification of Drug Testing Results written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Hazardous Materials and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cooktown Grave written by Carney Vaughan and published by Book Venture Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In adulthood Danny and his boss, Jim Mitchell are both murdered for asking the wrong questions and David, blamed for his brother’s manslaughter, is gaoled but escapes Known only as Mac, a pseudodrunken bum and loner, David becomes hidden in the North Queensland fishing fleet without incident for the next ten years. But on a pub-crawl in Cairns one evening he is the victim of a vicious assault and is admitted—a comatose John Doe—to Cairns Base Hospital. Upon waking, David feigns amnesia to avoid too close scrutiny by police. Nevertheless, in an attempt to identify him, he is photographed by the police roundsman from the Cairns Sentinel. David’s photo crosses the desks of two who seek his recapture. Detective Sergeant Russell Byers wants him back in gaol to serve his remaining term. Phillip Benson, a drug baron and engineer of Danny’s murder, wants him dead, he sends two men on a mission to kill. One a psychopath, the other a neurotic coward. Along the way they account for many innocent victims in their relentless, and ultimately successful, hunt for their quarry. David and the two killers square off on a muddy river bank in the far north of Cape York Peninsula.
Download or read book Taboo Tunes written by Peter Blecha and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this extensively researched ode to scandal, historian and musician Blecha recounts the travails of the musicians and songs that have dared to push the hot-button topics that polite society has deemed unacceptable.
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Download or read book The Destroyer written by Deborah Eden and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-05-09 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time.
Download or read book Showboat written by Roland Lazenby and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive portrait of Kobe Bryant, from the author of Michael Jordan. "Lazenby's detailed research and fantastic writing paint a complex, engaging picture of one of the NBA's greats" (Kurt Helin, NBC Sports). Eighteen-time All-Star, scorer of 81 points in a single game, MVP, and one of the best shooting guards in NBA league history: Kobe Bryant is among basketball's absolute greatest players, and his importance to the sport is undeniable. Third on the NBA career scoring list and owner of five championship rings, he is an undisputed all-time great, one deserving of this deep and definitive biography. Even within the flashiest franchise in all of sports -- the Los Angeles Lakers, where he played his entire career -- Bryant always took center stage, and his final game captivated the basketball world, indeed the country. Roland Lazenby delves deep to look behind this public image, using classic basketball reporting and dozens of new interviews to reveal the whole picture, from Bryant's childhood through his playing years. Showboatis filled with large personalities and provocative stories, including details of Bryant's complicated personal life and explosive relationships on the court, and is a riveting and essential read for every hoops fan.
Download or read book Commodifying Violence in Literature and on Screen written by Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traverses the cultural landscape of Colombia through in-depth analyses of displacement, local and global cultures, human rights abuses, and literary and media production. Through an exploration of the cultural processes that perpetuate the "darker side" of Latin America for global consumption, it investigates the "condition" that has led writers, filmmakers, and artists to embrace (purposefully or not) the incessant violence in Colombian society as the object of their own creative endeavors. In this examination of mass-marketed cultural products such as narco-stories, captivity memoirs, gritty travel narratives, and films, Herrero-Olaizola seeks to offer a hemispheric approach to the role played by Colombia in cultural production across the continent where the illicit drug trade has made significant inroads. To this end, he identifies the "Colombian condition" within the parameters of the global economy while concentrating on the commodification of Latin America’s violence for cultural consumption. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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Download or read book Problems of Drug Dependence 1984 written by Committee on Problems of Drug Dependence (U.S.). Scientific Meeting and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this monograph were presented or read by title at the 46th annual scientific meeting of the Committee on Problems of Drug Dependence, Inc., in St. Louis, Missouri, June 4-6, 1984. The CPDD, an independent, nonprofit organization, conducts drug testing and evaluations for academic institutions, government, and industry. Louis S. Harris, the editor of the monograph, is chairman of the Department of Pharmacology, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
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