Download or read book Intoxicating Manchuria written by Norman Smith and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2012-10-03 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In China, both opium and alcohol were used for centuries in the pursuit of health and leisure while simultaneously linked to personal and social decline. The impact of these substances is undeniable, and the role they have played in Chinese social, cultural, and economic history is extremely complex. In Intoxicating Manchuria, Norman Smith reveals how warlord rule, Japanese occupation, and political conflict affected local intoxicant industries. These industries flourished throughout the early twentieth century, even as a vigorous anti-intoxicant movement raged. Through the lens of popular Chinese media depictions of alcohol and opium, Smith analyzes how intoxicants and addiction were understood in this society, the role the Japanese occupation of Manchuria played in their portrayal, and the efforts made to reduce opium and alcohol consumption. This is the first English-language book-length study to focus on alcohol use in modern China and the first dealing with intoxicant restrictions in the region.
Download or read book Intoxicating Minds written by Ciaran Regan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-17 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do smokers claim that the first cigarette of the day is the best? What is the biological basis behind some heavy drinkers' belief that the "hair-of-the-dog" method alleviates the effects of a hangover? Why does marijuana seem to affect ones problem-solving capacity? Intoxicating Minds is, in the author's words, "a grand excavation of drug myth." Neither extolling nor condemning drug use, it is a story of scientific and artistic achievement, war and greed, empires and religions, and lessons for the future. Ciaran Regan looks at each class of drugs, describing the historical evolution of their use, explaining how they work within the brain's neurophysiology, and outlining the basic pharmacology of those substances. From a consideration of the effect of stimulants, such as caffeine and nicotine, and the reasons and consequences of their sudden popularity in the seventeenth century, the book moves to a discussion of more modern stimulants, such as cocaine and ecstasy. In addition, Regan explains how we process memory, the nature of thought disorders, and therapies for treating depression and schizophrenia. Regan then considers psychedelic drugs and their perceived mystical properties and traces the history of placebos to ancient civilizations. Finally, Intoxicating Minds considers the physical consequences of our co-evolution with drugs—how they have altered our very being—and offers a glimpse of the brave new world of drug therapies.
Download or read book Intoxicating Followership written by Wendy M. Edmonds and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for those who desire to gain insight into the leader/follower dynamic in order to serve others by unmasking the dangers of toxic followership, provide prevention suggestions, and reveal followers’ power, even in desperate situations.
Download or read book The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle written by Neil Blackmore and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: __________________________ 'Seductive, decadent, cruel and utterly thrilling - just like Horace Lavelle himself. This is The Talented Mr Ripley for the twenty-first century.' Emma Flint, author of Little Deaths 'An enjoyable dip into decadence.' Observer __________________________ Brothers Benjamin and Edgar have so far led a quiet life, but change is afoot as they enter a world of glorious sights and People of Quality on their Grand Tour of Europe. But a trunk full of powdered silver wigs and matching suits isn't enough to embed them into high society. As Edgar clings on to conventions, Benjamin pushes against them. And when the charming, seductive Horace Lavelle promises Benjamin a real adventure, it's only a matter of time before chaos and love ensue. __________________________ 'A fizzing, seductive queer romance.' i Paper 'Wildly entertaining and painfully heartbreaking ... Neil Blackmore writes with a fizzy wit that bounds his characters off the page.' Ben Aldridge
Download or read book Intoxicating Shanghai An Urban Montage written by Paul Bevan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Intoxicating Shanghai, Paul Bevan explores the work of a number of Chinese modernist figures in the fields of literature and the visual arts, with an emphasis on the literary group the New-sensationists and its equivalents in the Shanghai art world, examining the work of these figures as it appeared in pictorial magazines. It undertakes a detailed examination into the significance of the pictorial magazine as a medium for the dissemination of literature and art during the 1930s. The research locates the work of these artists and writers within the context of wider literary and art production in Shanghai, focusing on art, literature, cinema, music, and dance hall culture, with a specific emphasis on 1934 – ‘The Year of the Magazine’.
Download or read book Intoxicating Zion written by Haggai Ram and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Masterfully illuminates the social and cultural fissures left by colonialism in the Levant as hashish trade transgressed new national borders.” —Paul Gootenberg, Stony Brook University, author of Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug When European powers carved political borders across the Middle East following World War I, a curious event in the international drug trade occurred: Palestine became the most important hashish waystation in the region and a thriving market for consumption. British and French colonial authorities utterly failed to control the illicit trade, raising questions about the legitimacy of their mandatory regimes. The creation of the Israeli state, too, had little effect to curb illicit trade. By the 1960s, drug trade had become a major point of contention in the Arab-Israeli conflict, and drug use widespread. Intoxicating Zion is the first book to tell the story of hashish in Mandatory Palestine and Israel. Trafficking, use, and regulation; race, gender, and class; colonialism and nation-building all weave together in Haggai Ram's social history of the drug from the 1920s to the aftermath of the 1967 War. The hashish trade encompassed smugglers, international gangs, residents, law enforcers, and political actors, and Ram traces these flows through the interconnected realms of cross-border politics, economics, and culture. Hashish use was and is a marker of belonging and difference, and its history offers readers a unique glimpse into how the modern Middle East was made. “A fascinating and revelatory tale.” —Ted R. Swedenburg, University of Arkansas “[A] singular, original work of research.” —Yossi Melman, Haaretz “Informative, though (pun intended) sobering, this book is suited for academic libraries.” —Hallie Cantor, Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews
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Download or read book Sale of Intoxicating Liquors written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Interstate Shipments of Intoxicating Liquors Into dry Territory written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Laws Relating to Interstate Shipment of Intoxicating Liquors and Prohibition Laws of the District of Columbia Porto Rico and Alaska 19 National Prohibition and Laws Relating to Interstate Shipment of Intoxicating Liquors and Prohibition Laws of the District of Columbia Porto Rico and Alaska written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Amendment to the Constitution Prohibiting Intoxicating Liquors written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Admission of Intoxicating Liquors Into the Virgin Islands for Export written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers (72) S. 5034.
Download or read book Prohibition of the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors Impracticable written by Benjamin Franklin Clark and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book To Regulate Interstate Commerce in Intoxicating Liquors Etc written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
