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Author : Eric Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Black Opium written by Eric Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald Wigal
Publisher : Parkstone International
ISBN 13 : 1783104902
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)
Download or read book Opium. The Flowers of Evil written by Donald Wigal and published by Parkstone International. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opium, once used for ritual purposes, is a substance which dulls pain and offers access to an artificial world, and has long been idealized by artists and markets. Baudelaire, Picasso, and Dickens were all inspired to create by the blue clouds of smoke. Known as either a sacred drug or the worst of poisons, opium rapidly became popular in Great Britain and a source of commerce with Imperial China. This illustrated work presents the history and quasi-religious rites of opium’s use.
Author : Claude Farrere
Publisher : Ronin Publishing (CA)
ISBN 13 : 9781579512163
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Black Opium written by Claude Farrere and published by Ronin Publishing (CA). This book was released on 2016-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in heroin is surging back after years of dormancy. Why? Supply and demand! Drug cartels have increased the supply of heroin, so that it is cheaper and purer than ever before. Secondly, the Federal government's recent crack down on popular prescription opiates like OxcyContin, Percocet, and Vicodin so they are increasingly hard and costly to obtain on the black market. A recent study reveals that people who had recently abused prescription opiates are 19 times more likely to try heroin. Fueled by a boom in supply and a decline in cost, heroin use is up around the nation and spreading to segments of the population once considered unlikely users. "Cool people are doing it!" Remember the old slogan: "Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n Roll"? Heroin has a sexy side--very sexy.Black Opium: Ecstasy of the Forbidden brings heroin's sexy visions to life. The world of black opium is a forbidden world where human bodies find themselves possessed and driven by desires which consume them in the flames of hot-blooded ecstasy,Black Opium describes every aspect of an opium smoker's life in lurid detail. Often compared to James Joyces'Dubliners, Farrère'sBlack Opium consists of seventeen compelling tales delineating six periods in the history and use of opium. This edition ofBlack Opium is a reissue of And/Or Press' 1974 Fitz Hugh Ludlow edition, which features salacious illustrations by Alexander King, and the addition of a foreword by Dr. Moraes.
Author : Martin Booth
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1466853972
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Opium written by Martin Booth and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known to mankind since prehistoric times, opium is arguably the oldest and most widely used narcotic. Opium: A History traces the drug's astounding impact on world culture--from its religious use by prehistoric peoples to its influence on the imaginations of the Romantic writers; from the earliest medical science to the Sino-British opium wars. And, in the present day, as the addict population rises and penetrates every walk of life, Opium shows how the international multibillion-dollar heroin industry operates with terrifying efficiency and forms an integral part of the world's money markets. In this first full-length history of opium, acclaimed author Martin Booth uncovers the multifaceted nature of this remarkable narcotic and the bittersweet effects of a simple poppy with a deadly legacy.
Author : Francis Moraes
Publisher : Ronin Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780914171836
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (718 download)
Download or read book Opium written by Francis Moraes and published by Ronin Publishing. This book was released on 2003-07-07 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discourse, beginning with the history of early use; covering opium's effects along with its complicated chemical structure and numerous derivatives.
Author : Steven Martin
Publisher : Villard
ISBN 13 : 0345517857
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)
Download or read book Opium Fiend written by Steven Martin and published by Villard. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A renowned authority on the secret world of opium recounts his descent into ruinous obsession with one of the world’s oldest and most seductive drugs, in this harrowing memoir of addiction and recovery. A natural-born collector with a nose for exotic adventure, San Diego–born Steven Martin followed his bliss to Southeast Asia, where he found work as a freelance journalist. While researching an article about the vanishing culture of opium smoking, he was inspired to begin collecting rare nineteenth-century opium-smoking equipment. Over time, he amassed a valuable assortment of exquisite pipes, antique lamps, and other opium-related accessories—and began putting it all to use by smoking an extremely potent form of the drug called chandu. But what started out as recreational use grew into a thirty-pipe-a-day habit that consumed Martin’s every waking hour, left him incapable of work, and exacted a frightful physical and financial toll. In passages that will send a chill up the spine of anyone who has ever lived in the shadow of substance abuse, Martin chronicles his efforts to control and then conquer his addiction—from quitting cold turkey to taking “the cure” at a Buddhist monastery in the Thai countryside. At once a powerful personal story and a fascinating historical survey, Opium Fiend brims with anecdotes and lore surrounding the drug that some have called the methamphetamine of the nineteenth-century. It recalls the heyday of opium smoking in the United States and Europe and takes us inside the befogged opium dens of China, Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos. The drug’s beguiling effects are described in vivid detail—as are the excruciating pains of withdrawal—and there are intoxicating tales of pipes shared with an eclectic collection of opium aficionados, from Dutch dilettantes to hard-core addicts to world-weary foreign correspondents. A compelling tale of one man’s transformation from respected scholar to hapless drug slave, Opium Fiend puts us under opium’s spell alongside its protagonist, allowing contemporary readers to experience anew the insidious allure of a diabolical vice that the world has all but forgotten.
Author : Peter Lee
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN 13 : 9781594770753
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Opium Culture written by Peter Lee and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Opium Culture," Peter Lee presents a fascinating narrative that covers every aspect of the art and craft of opium use. The text is studded with gems of long forgotten opium arcana, dispelling many of the persistent myths about opium and its users, and includes information on the suppression of opium by the modern pharmaceutical industry.
Author : Claude Farrère
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Black Opium written by Claude Farrère and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hans Derks
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004225897
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book History of the Opium Problem written by Hans Derks and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-04-18 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering a period of about four centuries, this book demonstrates the economic and political components of the opium problem. As a mass product, opium was introduced in India and Indonesia by the Dutch in the 17th century. China suffered the most, but was also the first to get rid of the opium problem around 1950.
Author : Donald Wigal
Publisher : Parkstone International
ISBN 13 : 1639198954
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (391 download)
Download or read book The Mystique of Opium written by Donald Wigal and published by Parkstone International. This book was released on 2024-07-06 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opium used to have the same importance in international economy and state-led strategies as petrol has today. It became the basis for trade with isolationist China as soon as the Opium Wars obtained trading rights for Western Companies. International strategies for personal reveries… 19th-century European writers were to begin praising this “midnight fairy”. This book offers a tastefully illustrated history of this toxic substance, its paraphernalia and era.
Author : Steffen Rimner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674976304
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book Opium’s Long Shadow written by Steffen Rimner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The League of Nations Advisory Committee on the Traffic in Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs, created in 1920, culminated almost eight decades of political turmoil over opium trafficking, which was by far the largest state-backed drug trade in the age of empire. Opponents of opium had long struggled to rein in the profitable drug. Opium’s Long Shadow shows how diverse local protests crossed imperial, national, and colonial boundaries to gain traction globally and harness public opinion as a moral deterrent in international politics after World War I. Steffen Rimner traces the far-flung itineraries and trenchant arguments of reformers—significantly, feminists and journalists—who viewed opium addiction as a root cause of poverty, famine, “white slavery,” and moral degradation. These activists targeted the international reputation of drug-trading governments, first and foremost Great Britain, British India, and Japan, becoming pioneers of the global political tactic we today call naming and shaming. But rather than taking sole responsibility for their own behavior, states in turn appropriated anti-drug criticism to shame fellow sovereigns around the globe. Consequently, participation in drug control became a prerequisite for membership in the twentieth-century international community. Rimner relates how an aggressive embrace of anti-drug politics earned China and other Asian states new influence on the world stage. The link between drug control and international legitimacy has endured. Amid fierce contemporary debate over the wisdom of narcotics policies, the 100-year-old moral consensus Rimner describes remains a backbone of the international order.
Author : Eric Lewis
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (718 download)
Download or read book Black Opium written by Eric Lewis and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin Broomhall
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385401410
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)
Download or read book The Truth about Opium-smoking written by Benjamin Broomhall and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-06 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Author : Robert Frazier
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1640824731
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Black Moon written by Robert Frazier and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-08 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For untold millennia, a spiritual being has roamed the face of the earth: seldom revealing its face, but rather inhabiting the bodies of those responsible for some of the most diabolical acts known to man. Its sole purpose is the annihilation of mankind through the obliteration of one of the most preeminent bloodlines in history. The novel, Black Moon, describes the experiences of a homicide detective whose life is impacted by a string of brutal and inexplicable murde
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Total Pages : 870 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Western Druggist written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nithda Horoszko
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429016352
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Understanding the Marketing Exceptionality of Prestige Perfumes written by Nithda Horoszko and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women have an affinity with the brand of perfume they wear. People often hold strong emotional connections to different scents, such as their mother’s perfume or the body spray they wore as a teen. Despite huge marketing budgets, the launches of established brands often fail, despite extensive marketing research and lavish resources. Why is this? This text is a first in the field to recognize that fine fragrance cannot be treated as any other product. With case studies from Jill Sander, Estee Lauder and Dior, this book debunks the classic marketing techniques which often hinder the success of new perfumes. Authored by two leading market researchers, this study analyses the ‘five great brands’ of the perfume industry and demonstrates how to value perfume lines according to ‘brand DNA’. This ground-breaking book will provide students with all the tools of a successful practitioner in the perfume industry. Understanding the Marketing Exceptionality of Prestige Perfumes will prove to be a vital text for any student, specialist or practitioner of luxury marketing looking to understand the fine fragrance market.
Author : James Robert Rush
Publisher : Equinox Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789793780498
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Opium to Java written by James Robert Rush and published by Equinox Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opium smoking was a widespread social custom in nineteenth-century Java, and commercial trade in opium had far-reaching economic and political implications. As in many of the Dutch territories in the Indonesian archipelago, the drug was imported from elsewhere and sold throughout the island under a government monopoly - a system of revenue "farms". These monopoly franchises were regulated by the government and operated by members of Java's Chinese elite, who were frequently also local officials appointed by the Dutch. The farms thus helped support large Chinese patronage networks that vied for control of rural markets throughout Java. James Rush explains the workings of the opium farm system during its mature years by measuring the social, economic, and political reach of these monopolies within the Dutch-dominated colonial society. His analysis of the opium farm incorporates the social history of opium smoking in Java and of the Chinese officer elite that dominated not only the opium farming but also the island's Chinese community and much of its commercial economy. He describes the relations among the various classes of Chinese and Javanese, as well as the relation of the Chinese elite to the Dutch, and he traces the political interplay that smuggling and the black market stimulated among all these elements. An important contribution to the social and political history of Southeast Asia and now brought back to life as a member of Equinox Publishing's Classic Indonesia series, this book gives a new dimension to our knowledge of nineteenth-century Javanese society and the processes of social control and economic dominance during the colonial period. JAMES R. RUSH is a historian of modern Southeast Asia whose other works include The Last Tree: Reclaiming the Environment in Tropical Asia; Java: A Travellers' Anthology; and several volumes of contemporary Asian biography in the Ramon Magsaysay Awards series. His is associate professor of history at Arizona State University.
