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Cocaine
"Arguing that the underground drug culture had origins other than in federal prohibition, he concludes with some thoughts on what our early experience with legalization and prohibition can tell us as we face questions about drug policy today."--BOOK JACKET.
International Business Geography
Written by eminent scholars who are well known within their fields across Europe, this book explores changes in the international economic environment, their impacts on the strategy of firms and the spatial consequences of these changes in strategy.The economic environment in which major companies operate is subject to rapid and important changes.
Creating the American Junkie
Heroin was only one drug among many that worried Progressive Era anti-vice reformers, but by the mid-twentieth century, heroin addiction came to symbolize irredeemable deviance. Creating the American Junkie examines how psychiatrists and psychologists produced a construction of opiate addicts as deviants with inherently flawed personalities caught in the grip of a dependency from which few would ever escape. Their portrayal of the tough urban addict helped bolster the federal government's policy of drug prohibition and created a social context that made the life of the American heroin addict, or junkie, more, not less, precarious in the wake of Progressive Era reforms. Weaving together the a...
Distilling Democracy
Zimmerman (educational history, New York U.) examines the history of Scientific Temperance Instruction, a curriculum on the evils of alcohol which was originally developed and advocated by a grassroots movement, and ultimately was mandated in all American schools for a time. He traces today's debate on drug and alcohol education to issues raised in this seminal episode. The debate over STI, claims Zimmerman, was really about the balance between expertise and populist desire in determining what should be taught to America's children. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Essential Forensic Biology
Essential Forensic Biology is an introduction to theapplication of the science of biology in legal investigations.Focusing on the legal system in the UK, the book provides adetailed description of the decay process, and discusses the roleof forensic indicators - human fluids and tissues, including bloodcells, bloodstain pattern analysis, hair, teeth, bones and wounds.It also considers the role microorganisms, invertebrates and plantsplay within forensic investigations before considering futuredirections in forensic science. The book examines the study offorensic biology in cases of suspicious death, and also exploresthe organisms used in a range of legal investigations; from humanand animal ...
Current Catalog
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Benjamin Britten, His Life and Operas
This new edition has been thoroughly revised and edited by John Evans (research scholar to the Britten Estate) who has updated the chronological list of published works and included in the bibliography the many books that have been written about the composer since his death in 1976. Although, as the title suggests, this book concentrates on Britten's operatic output, Mr White's account offers insights into the whole range of this prodigious composer's music. The text is lavishly illustrated with plates that reveal both the diversity of his operatic development and comprise a distinctive pictorial bibliography.
Drugs in America
Outlines the history of the use and the development of American society's image of such drugs as opium, marihuana, cocaine, and LSD.
A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Seventh Edition
Dewey. Bellow. Strauss. Friedman. The University of Chicago has been the home of some of the most important thinkers of the modern age. But perhaps no name has been spoken with more respect than Turabian. The dissertation secretary at Chicago for decades, Kate Turabian literally wrote the book on the successful completion and submission of the student paper. Her Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, created from her years of experience with research projects across all fields, has sold more than seven million copies since it was first published in 1937. Now, with this seventh edition, Turabian’s Manual has undergone its most extensive revision, ensuring that it ...
