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Absinthe, LSD, Speed and anti-cancer drugs - these three entertaining stories explore how drugs, both legal and otherwise, can affect the lives of those who make them and those who use them. The author, a former professor of chemistry, has previously written three popular science books: Murder, Magic and Medicine, the Elusive Magic Bullet and Chasms of Delight (also published by Memoirs). This is his first work of fiction.
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This family register commences in Germany, with Hans Mann's son, George Bernard Mann (1701-1769), who journeyed to the New World in 1732, and eventually settled in Virginia. The patriarch of the Miami Valley (Ohio) Mann family was Colonel John Mann Jr. He and his brother Jacob settled in the valley in the 1790s. Today, numerous Mann descendants are scattered literally from coast to coast. The primary states of residence noted are Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Iowa, Missouri, Oregon, and Washington, but some descendants settled as far south as Texas. In our country's early years there were two Mann families settled within five miles of each other in Virginia. One line was ...
People have always been curious about the plants and animals with which they coexist. Primitive cultures identified edible and poisonous plants largely by trial and error, and then used them for hunting, executions, euthanasia, and magico-religious rites, as well as for their medicinalproperties. In this fascinating book, John Mann investigates the evolution of modern medicine from its roots in folk medicine, and reveals the continuing importance of natural plant and animal products, many of which remain undiscovered but under threat by the wholesale destruction of the Earth'swild places. In this new edition, he has updated the material to include discussion of the background to some of the ...
A collection of original research articles relating to Roman historical and epigraphic studies presented in honor of Professor John Mann. Supported by the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies.