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Why There's Antifreeze in Your Toothpaste: The Chemistry of Household Ingredients
by Simon Field  Publisher Comments Explaining why antifreeze is a component of toothpaste and how salt works in shampoo, this fascinating handbook delves into the chemistry of everyday household products. Decoding more than 150 cryptic ingredients, the guide explains each component...
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Long Time Gone: Sixties America Then and Now (Viewpoints on American Culture)
by Alexander Bloom Publisher Comments With remarkable speed, the Sixties have gone from lived history to mythology. They remain alive in our culture in a manner different from any previous era. At the dawn of a new century, we are still debating the issues that emerged during that decade...
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Ashes to ashes :America's hundred-year cigarette war, the public health, and the unabashed triumph of Philip Morris
by Richard Kluger Publisher Comments No book before this one has rendered the story of cigarettes -- mankind's most common self-destructive instrument and its most profitable consumer product -- with such sweep and enlivening detail. Here for the first time, in a story full of the...
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Overdose: How Excessive Government Regulation Stifles Pharmaceutical Innovation
by Richard A Epstein Publisher Comments This book is the first to offer a comprehensive examination of the pharmaceutical industry by following the tortuous course of a new drug as it progresses from early development to final delivery. Richard A. Epstein looks closely at the regulatory...
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The Cult of Pharmacology: How America Became the World's Most Troubled Drug Culture
by Richard Degrandpre Publisher Comments America had a radically different relationship with drugs a century ago. Drug prohibitions were few, and while alcohol was considered a menace, the public regularly consumed substances that are widely demonized today. Heroin was marketed by Bayer...
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Pot Planet: Adventures in Global Marijuana Culture
by Brian Preston Review "...Among the most fascinating aspects of his book, which is a mix of travelog, cultural history, and screed, are his investigations of the arcana of marijuana culture,...."Library Journal...
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Junkie Business: The Evolution and Operation of a Heroin Dealing Network (Case Studies on Contemporary Social Issues)
by Lee D. Hoffer Publisher Comments JUNKIE BUSINESS is the result of an intensive three-year ethnographic study of the formation and eventual demise of a heroin dealing network in Denver. While earlier books have dealt with marijuana dealers and cocaine dealers, this will be the first...
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The High Times Reader
by Annie Nocenti Publisher Comments Launched in 1974, "High Times" magazine has served as a preeminent showcase of the American counterculture. This collection offers a unique historical perspective on the current tendencies toward suppressing American civil liberties....
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Snowblind
by Robert Sabbag Publisher Comments New edition of Robert Sabbag's entertaining account of the exploits of cocaine smuggler, Zachary Swan, which has now sold over 30,000 copies in its first edition....
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The Smoke of the Gods: A Social History of Tobacco
by Eric Burns Publisher Comments Although tobacco use is controversial in the U.S. today, that this was not always the case. For centuries tobacco was generally thought to have medicinal and even spiritual value. Ranging from ancient times to the present day, this text is a history of...
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Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol
by Iain Gately Publisher Comments In the tradition of wildly popular histories such as Salt, an intoxicating tour of "the cause ofand solution toall of life's problems": alcohol. Alcohol is a fundamental part of western culture and an essential element of Christianity. It is the most...
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Poisoned for Pennies: The Economics of Toxics and Precaution
by Frank Ackerman Publisher Comments “Cost-benefit analysis” is a term that is used so frequently we rarely stop to think about it. But relying on it can lead to some dubious conclusions, as Frank Ackerman points out in this eye-opening book. For example, some economists have...
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The Fugitive Philosopher (Leary, Timothy)
by Timothy Leary Publisher Comments Busted for pot in 1965, Timothy Leary was sentenced to 25 years in prison. He escaped, and thus began an almost farcical odyssey: the former West Point student and Harvard professor was now an acid-tripping fugitive. In this delightfully irreverent...
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Drug Wars
by Margaret O Hyde Publisher Comments -- New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age, 1992 "A sane and well-focused overview of the major problem drugs". -- SLJ. "A worthy, much-needed volume on a subject of increasing relevance". -- KR. V. 1990....
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The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground
by Ron Jacobs Publisher Comments "You don't need a Weaterman to know which way the wind blows". Bob Dylan. In its first comprehensive history author Ron Jacobs chronicles the origins, development and ultimate demise of the 1960's radical organization Weatherman. Jacobs fuses the...
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Cigarettes: Anatomy of an Industry from Seed to Smoke
by Tara Parker Pope Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-172) and index....
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Drug Crazy: How We Got Into This Mess and How We Can Get Out
by Mike Gray Publisher Comments Over the last fifteen years, American taxpayers have spent over $300 billion to wage the war on drugs--three times what it cost to put a man on the moon. In Drug Crazy, journalist Mike Gray offers a scathing indictment of this financial fiasco...
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Timothy Leary: A Biography
by Robert Greenfield Publisher Comments To a generation in full revolt against any form of authority, "Tune in, turn on, drop out" became a mantra, and its popularizer, Dr. Timothy Leary, a guru. A charismatic and brilliant psychologist, Leary became first intrigued and then obsessed by the...
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Mother Earth and Uncle Sam: How Pollution and Hollow Government Hurt Our Kids
by Rena I Steinzor Publisher Comments In this compelling study, Rena Steinzor highlights the ways in which the government, over the past twenty years, has failed to protect children from harm caused by toxic chemicals. She believes these failures--under-funding, excessive and misguided use...
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Timothy Leary: A Biography
by Robert Greenfield Publisher Comments To a generation in full revolt against any form of authority, "Tune in, turn on, drop out" became a mantra, and its popularizer, Dr. Timothy Leary, a guru. A charismatic and brilliant psychologist, Leary became first intrigued and then obsessed by the...
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