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Forging Glory
A Brief History of Real Madrid told by a soccer-loving philosopher What kind of determination drives Real Madrid to be the best of the best year after year, and to achieve it with unusual frequency? How do you explain that it has been the most successful club on the world for a century and more? Maybe taking prestige so seriously increments the amount of expertise, since one of the substantial advantages of sport over any other competitive activity is that it does not banish the magnetism of war, in fact it is tamed by the rule of fair play. Maybe it's that fair play, combined with an unique idiosyncrasy to understand this sport, which has led the team to be the epitome of football glory. Si...
A Brief History of Drugs
A clear-eyed look at the instrumental role drugs have played in our cultural, social, and spiritual development. • First American publication of the surprising European bestseller. • Examines everything from the ancient use of ergot and datura to the modern phenomenon of "designer" drugs such as Ecstasy and crack cocaine. From remotest antiquity to the present era of designer drugs and interdiction, drugs have played a prominent role in the cultural, spiritual, and social development of civilizations. Antonio Escohotado demonstrates how the history of drugs illuminates the history of humanity as he explores the long relationship between mankind and mind-altering substances. Hemp, for exa...
The Cocaine War in Context
A Spanish journalist reveals what the Drug War really means: the danger it poses to the political stability of weak democracies, human rights and development and its environmental impact. In an important and desperately needed alternative view on the 'war on drugs, ' Boville explores in depth the relationship betweenthe United States and Latin America, explaining the political need of the U.S. government to develop a useful tool to extend American authority after the Cold War. She depicts Andean society and the cocaine culture, with all of the social, political, environmental and economic changes brought about by drug trafficking, and provides essential information on how the Drug War curren...
The Forest Passage
Ernst Jünger's The Forest Passage explores the possibility of resistance: how the independent thinker can withstand and oppose the power of the omnipresent state. No matter how extensive the technologies of surveillance become, the forest can shelter the rebel, and the rebel can strike back against tyranny. Jünger's manifesto is a defense of freedom against the pressure to conform to political manipulation and artificial consensus. A response to the European experience under Nazism, Fascism, and Communism, The Forest Passage has lessons equally relevant for today, wherever an imposed uniformity threatens to stifle liberty.
Sisters of the Extreme
Sisters of the Extreme provides us with the eloquent writings of women who experimented with drugs. Sometimes their quests brought unexpected rewards, sometimes suffering. The selections in this anthology show that the psychedelic experiences of women have been anything but stereotypical.
THE GENERAL HISTORY OF DRUGS VOLUME TWO PART TWO
THE SECOND HALF OF VOLUME TWO OF THE GENERAL HISTORY OF DRUGS BY ANTONIO ESCOHOTADO, TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY G. W. ROBINETTE. THE LATE MIDDLE AGES.
Drugs and Human Behavior
This book presents the main concepts and tools for the adoption of a biopsychosocial approach to psychotropic substances use and abuse management, prevention and treatment. It aims to provide resources for the design and implementation of health strategies and public policies to deal with psychotropic substances use in a way that fully recognizes the complex articulations between its biological, psychological and social aspects, taking these three dimensions into account to develop both health and social care policies and strategies aimed at psychotropic substance users. The book is organized in five parts. Part one presents a historical overview of psychotropic substances use throughout hum...
THE WAR ON COFFEE, Volume One
The prohibitions on coffee in Egypt, Syria, Turkey from the 1500s to the 1700s.
