The Curious World Of Drugs And Their Friends

Author : Ingo Niermann
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780452289918
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends written by Ingo Niermann and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-08-26 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wacky but well-researched, unbiased and shameless, this informational book about drugs dares to take readers on a long, strange trivia trip. Following in the tradition of The Ultimate Book of Useless Information, The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends is a wry potpourri of interesting information about every conceivable kind of drug. Readers can feed their heads with anecdotes, facts, lists, statistics, and illustrations, including: • The test results of animals on LSD—cats lose their fear of dogs, and goats walk in geometric patterns • Drugs found in nature, from magic mushrooms to St. John’s wort to beaver secretions • Celebrities who overdosed at age 27—Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Brian Jones, and Jean Michel-Basquiat • Imaginary drugs in literature and film, from spice the mélange in Dune to Moloko plus in A Clockwork Orange • Nicknames for a joint—from doobie to giggly stick to Mr. Boom Bizzle • The global percentages of adults who have used cannabis—.004 percent in Singapore and 12.6 percent in the United States • The uses of opium in ancient Rome—from treatments for insomnia and epilepsy to colic and deafness • The most glamorous rehab clinics and their celebrity alumni • Mini-biographies of the biggest drug kingpins around the world

Author : Ingo Niermann
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440651183
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends written by Ingo Niermann and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-08-26 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wacky but well-researched, unbiased and shameless, this informational book about drugs dares to take readers on a long, strange trivia trip. Following in the tradition of The Ultimate Book of Useless Information, The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends is a wry potpourri of interesting information about every conceivable kind of drug. Readers can feed their heads with anecdotes, facts, lists, statistics, and illustrations, including: • The test results of animals on LSD—cats lose their fear of dogs, and goats walk in geometric patterns • Drugs found in nature, from magic mushrooms to St. John’s wort to beaver secretions • Celebrities who overdosed at age 27—Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Brian Jones, and Jean Michel-Basquiat • Imaginary drugs in literature and film, from spice the mélange in Dune to Moloko plus in A Clockwork Orange • Nicknames for a joint—from doobie to giggly stick to Mr. Boom Bizzle • The global percentages of adults who have used cannabis—.004 percent in Singapore and 12.6 percent in the United States • The uses of opium in ancient Rome—from treatments for insomnia and epilepsy to colic and deafness • The most glamorous rehab clinics and their celebrity alumni • Mini-biographies of the biggest drug kingpins around the world

Author : Aiano Sack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781440651144
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends written by Aiano Sack and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read Adriano Sack's posts on the Penguin Blog. "Curiouser and curiouser" 'fun and fascinating facts from the world of drugs. Following in the tradition of The Ultimate Book of Useless Information, The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends is a wry potpourri of interesting information about every conceivable kind of drug. Readers can feed their heads with anecdotes, facts, lists, statistics, and illustrations, including: The test results of animals on LSD'cats lose their fear of dogs, and goats walk in geometric patterns Drugs found in nature, from magic mushrooms to St. John's wort to beaver secretions Celebrities who overdosed at age 27'Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Brian Jones, and Jean Michel-Basquiat Imaginary drugs in literature and film, from spice the melange in Dune to Moloko plus in A Clockwork Orange Nicknames for a joint'from doobie to giggly stick to Mr. Boom Bizzle The global percentages of adults who have used cannabis'.004 percent in Singapore and 12.6 percent in the United States The uses of opium in ancient Rome'from treatments for insomnia and epilepsy to colic and deafness The most glamorous rehab clinics and their celebrity alumni Mini-biographies of the biggest drug kingpins around the world Wacky but well-researched, unbiased and shameless, The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends dares to take readers on a long, strange trivia trip.

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Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Author : Rose Andersen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 163557515X
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Heart and Other Monsters written by Rose Andersen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Impossible to put down. It haunts me still.” -Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, author of The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir A riveting, deeply personal exploration of the opioid crisis-an empathic memoir infused with hints of true crime. In November 2013, Rose Andersen's younger sister Sarah died of an overdose in the bathroom of her boyfriend's home in a small town with one of the highest rates of opioid use in the state. Like too many of her generation, she had become addicted to heroin. Sarah was 24 years old. To imagine her way into Sarah's life, Rose revisits their volatile childhood, marked by their stepfather's omnipresent rage and their father's pathological lying. As the dysfunction comes into focus, so does a broader picture of the opioid crisis and the drug rehabilitation industry in small towns across America. And when Rose learns from the coroner that Sarah's cause of death was a methamphetamine overdose, the story takes a wildly unexpected turn. As Andersen sifts through her sister's last days, we come to recognize the contours of grief and its aftermath: the psychic shattering which can turn to anger, the pursuit of an ever-elusive verdict, and the intensely personal rites of imagination and art needed to actually move on. Reminiscent of Alex Marzano-Lesnevich's The Fact of a Body, Maggie Nelson's Jane: A Murder, and Lacy M. Johnson's The Other Side, Andersen's debut is a potent, profoundly original journey into and out of loss.

Author : Dana Ferguson
Publisher : Book Review Index Cumulation
ISBN 13 : 9781414419121
Total Pages : 1304 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Book Review Index - 2009 Cumulation written by Dana Ferguson and published by Book Review Index Cumulation. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 1304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Review Index provides quick access to reviews of books, periodicals, books on tape and electronic media representing a wide range of popular, academic and professional interests. The up-to-date coverage, wide scope and inclusion of citations for both newly published and older materials make Book Review Index an exceptionally useful reference tool. More than 600 publications are indexed, including journals and national general interest publications and newspapers. Book Review Index is available in a three-issue subscription covering the current year or as an annual cumulation covering the past year.

Author : Melvin Burgess
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408118319
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Junk written by Melvin Burgess and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tar loves Gemma, but Gemma doesn't want to be tied down - not to anyone or anything. Gemma wants to fly. But no one can fly forever. One day, somehow, finally you have to come down. Commissioned and produced by Oxford Stage Company, Junk premiered at The Castle, Wellingborough, in January 1998 and went on to tour throughout the UK in 1998 and 1999. "John Retallack's excellent adaptation of Melvin Burgess's controversial Carnegie Medal winning novel is splendidly unpatronising...a truly cautionary tale" (Independent)

Author : Kate Messner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1681194317
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Seventh Wish written by Kate Messner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Charlie Brennan goes ice fishing on her town's frozen lake, she's hoping the fish she reels in will help pay for her dream: a fancy Irish dancing dress for her upcoming competition. But when Charlie's first catch of the day happens to be a talking fish offering her a wish in exchange for its freedom, her world quickly turns upside down, as her wishes go terribly and hilariously wrong. Just as Charlie is finally getting the hang of communicating with a magical wishing fish, a family crisis with her older sister brings reality into sharp focus. Charlie quickly learns that the real world doesn't always keep fairy-tale promises and life's toughest challenges can't be fixed by a simple wish . . . Acclaimed author Kate Messner expertly weaves fantasy into the ordinary, in an important story of self-reliance and hope that will open readers' eyes to the wonders and challenges of their world.

Author : Niko Vorobyov
Publisher : Hodder Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9781529378030
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dopeworld written by Niko Vorobyov and published by Hodder Paperbacks. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The police had already taken away the body, but the blood was still fresh on the sidewalk.' Look below the surface of every society, and you'll find somebody selling, buying, and taking drugs. It happens all around us. Even if we don't realise it. In this ground-breaking book, former drug-dealer Niko Vorobyov travels the world attempting to shine a light on the global drug trade. From cocaine farms in South America to the forests of Russia, he speaks to people making the machine work. He meets drug lords, cartel leaders, street dealers and government officials exposing the true scope of the drug industry. Dopeworld is an addictive and intoxicating trip deep into the world of drugs, tracing their emergence and our relationship with them. This is the story of the drug trade as you've never seen before.

Author : Ray Shell
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1838859977
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iced written by Ray Shell and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cornelius Washington is brimming with ambition and talent before his life is torn apart by a crack addiction. Taking the form of a diary and written in an arresting stream-of-consciousness style, Iced ponders the gritty realities of Cornelius's present and past upheavals that have led him here. Iced paints a portrait of being Black in America and the ways marginalised communities suffer the consequences of shortsighted political policies. First published in 1993, in the wake of the crack epidemic, Iced mixes the syncopated language of the streets with poetry from the heart to take the reader deep into the horrifying world of addiction.