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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 Beware Euphoria written by George Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book seeks the moral roots of America's antidrug regime and debunks claims early antidrug laws arose from racial animus. The moral roots trace to early Christian sexual strictures. Augustine condemned sex as indulging beastly appetites and suspending Godlike reason. The demands of procreation excuse indulgence but only as necessary. Puritans similarly condemned drunkenness as suspending reason and rendering persons bestial. Yet alcohol too was deemed necessary-as a foodstuff, sanitary beverage, and pain and cold remedy. One could use alcohol as necessary, never to intoxicate. Saint Thomas Aquinas defined temperance, drinking in moderation, as a moral safe harbor. These principles largely defined temperance debates in England and America, helping make and unmake England's eighteenth-century gin ban and American national prohibition. The regime that followed embraced alcohol's social necessity, permitting drinking in moderation. Other drugs can't easily strike this moral balance. Nineteenth-century Chinese opium dens served no apparent need and seemed to allow no subintoxicating use. Worse opium was thought a sexual stimulant, ruining respectable young women. Hence lawmakers banned opium dens and later cocaine and cannabis. Lawmakers distinguished necessary medical use from recreational abuse by criminalizing sales unless prescribed. Early antidrug laws rarely rose from racial strife. They sprang from the traditional moral censure of intoxication and perceived threats to respectable white women and youth. Today's drug war's racial dynamic differs greatly. As harsher penalties swell prisons with mostly nonwhite dealers, antidrug laws suffer attack as tools of racial oppression, helping tip public opinion toward legalizing marijuana"--
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.
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.
Book Synopsis Boom, Crisis, and Adjustment by : Ian Malcolm David Little
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.
Book Synopsis The Last Hack by : Christopher Brookmyre
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 White Out written by Ashley W. Doane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be white? This remains the question at large in the continued effort to examine how white racial identity is constructed and how systems of white privilege operate in everyday life. White Out brings together the original work of leading scholars across the disciplines of sociology, philosophy, history, and anthropology to give readers an important and cutting-edge study of "whiteness".
Book Synopsis Bioterrorism and Infectious Agents by : I.W. Fong
Download or read book Bioterrorism and Infectious Agents written by I.W. Fong and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-03-18 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled by two leading experts in the field, this volume provides a concise, timely, and authoritative review of some of the most problematic infections of the new century. It presents issues and new ideas for preventing and controlling infectious diseases.
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 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the last eight years in particular have shown us that our democracy has largely evaporated, leaving behind only an exoskeleton that was once its original vertebrae of ends and principles. It is critical to our form of democracy in the U.S. that citizens become active participants.
Book Synopsis China Tripping by : Jeremy A. Murray
Download or read book China Tripping written by Jeremy A. Murray and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-02-08 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book is the first to bring together a group of leading China experts to reflect on their cultural and social encounters while travelling and living in the PRC. Covering nearly a half-century, these stories open a vivid window on a rapidly evolving country and on the zigzag learning curve of the China trippers themselves.
Download or read book The National Advocate written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Selected Ideas by : Takis S. Hasapis
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 168 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 children’s 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.
Book Synopsis 400 Ways to Stop Stress Now...and Forever! by : G. Gaynor McTigue
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 Evidence written by George Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Inspired by problems that spring from real life, this casebook presents the intricacies of evidentiary law in a way that law students will find both intellectually compelling and enjoyable. Many of the problems are based on facts taken from cases or news articles, complete with citations, and this fact-based approach piques student interest. This fact-based approach piques student interest, causing them to ask, "How would a good lawyer attack this problem?" rather than "What is the professor driving at?" Based on the belief that students typically prefer to look at the courtroom through the criminal law lens, the casebook emphasizes the criminal context, while using civil cases when illustrating rules that apply mainly in the civil context."--Publisher's Website.
Download or read book Measles written by Mark K. Lewis and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Measles is an infectious rash that killed millions of people every year before a vaccine was created in 1963. Read this book to learn more about the history of this infectious disease.
