The Pursuit Of Oblivion

Author : Richard Davenport-Hines
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1780225423
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pursuit of Oblivion written by Richard Davenport-Hines and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The most important study on this subject in years, perhaps ever' Phillip Knightley, SUNDAY TIMES A history of drug-taking, telling the story across five centuries of addicts and users: monarchs, prime ministers, great writers and composers, wounded soldiers, overworked physicians, oppressed housewives, exhausted labourers, high-powered businessmen, playboys, sex workers, pop stars, seedy losers, stressed adolescents, defiant schoolchildren, the victims of the ghetto, and happy young people on a spree. It is also the history of one bad idea, prohibition. 'You'll find almost everything you ever wanted to know about drugs in this work, except how to get hold of them' Simon Garfield, FINANCIAL TIMES 'Everyone with any influence on government policy should read this book and wake up before it is too late' Phillip Knightley, SUNDAY TIMES

Author : Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780753813713
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pursuit of Oblivion written by Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first ever comprehensive single-volume history of narcotics and illicit stimulants.

Author : Ruby Duvall
Publisher : Ruby Duvall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drawn into Oblivion written by Ruby Duvall and published by Ruby Duvall. This book was released on 2019-01-18 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her head tells her he’s an impudent rake. So why does the rest of her still want him? Mai knows to beware of ever drawing any carnal interest, and has learned to never lower her guard. Despite how isolated her cynical manner has made her within the newly resurrected Dark Court, she cannot imagine letting anyone closer, not while the court is focused on defeating a powerful evil intent on destroying their world. So why do her eyes always turn to the arrogant commander who flirts as much as he breathes, and whose mysterious past makes him her most dangerous ally? Propriety has always attracted him—the stiffer the better. What a contemptible pleasure it would be reducing hers to ash… Rosuke has been drawn to the fiery valor within Mai’s walled-off heart since the moment he met her, but he's held back from melting her icy reserve, all too aware of how unworthy he is of her. But the moment he overhears the reason she keeps her distance—and that she wishes to understand why the pursuit of pleasure can become an obsession—he sets out to fulfill her wish, hoping to atone for his shameful past before time runs out and a hopeless war begins… ♥♥♥ Drawn into Oblivion is a full-length "dark lite" fantasy romance featuring demons, magic powers, and a steamy romance between a 300-plus-year-old reformed rake and the resolute court Elder struggling to resist him. If you like magical battles with demons, two lovers who learn to trust and heal, slow seductions, and happily ever afters, you'll love Drawn into Oblivion. This title was previously published as "Oblivion."

Author : Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pursuit of Oblivion written by Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julie Eshbaugh
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062399330
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crown of Oblivion written by Julie Eshbaugh and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this mesmerizing YA fantasy mash-up of The Road meets The Amazing Race, one girl chooses to risk her life in a cutthroat competition in order to win her freedom. In Lanoria, Outsiders, who don’t have magic, are inferior to Enchanteds, who do. That’s just a fact for Astrid, an Outsider who is indentured to pay off her family’s debts. She serves as the surrogate for the princess—if Renya steps out of line, Astrid is the one who bears the punishment for it. But there is a way out: the life-or-death Race of Oblivion. First, racers are dosed with the drug Oblivion, which wipes their memories. Then, when they awake in the middle of nowhere, only cryptic clues—and a sheer will to live—will lead them through treacherous terrain full of opponents who wouldn’t think twice about killing each other to get ahead. But what throws Astrid the most is what she never expected to encounter in this race. A familiar face she can’t place. Secret powers she shouldn’t have. And a confusing memory of the past that, if real, could mean the undoing of the entire social structure that has kept her a slave her entire life. Competing could mean death…but it could also mean freedom.

Author : Richard Davenport-Hines
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780756781392
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pursuit of Oblivion written by Richard Davenport-Hines and published by . This book was released on 2002-07-30 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this uniquely comprehensive history of drugs and their role in society, award-winning historian Davenport-Hines examines how illicit medicines developed into a huge illegal business. Drawing on evidence from five centuries, "The Pursuit of Oblivion" is considered the standard work on this subject of global importance.

Author : John Doran
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1913689018
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jolly Lad written by John Doran and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir about the recovery from alcoholism, habitual drug use and mental illness, from broadcaster, and co-founder and editor of The Quietus website, John Doran. Jolly Lad is a memoir about the recovery from alcoholism, habitual drug use and mental illness. It is also about the healing power of music, how memory defines us, the redemption offered by fatherhood and what it means to be working class. “This is not a 'my drink and drug hell' kind of book for several reasons—the main one being that I had, for the most part, had a really good time drinking. True, a handful of pretty appalling things have happened to me and some people that I know or used to know over the years. But I have, for the most part, left them out of this book as they are not illuminating, not edifying and in some cases concern other people who aren't here to consent to their appearance. Instead this book concentrates on what you face after the drink and the drugs have gone.” Jolly Lad is about gentrification; being diagnosed bipolar; attending Alcoholics Anonymous; living in a block of flats on a housing estate in London; the psychological damage done by psychedelic drugs; depression; DJing; factory work; friendship; growing old; hallucinations; street violence and obsessive behaviour—especially regarding music and art.

Author : Sarah Van Arsdale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781573225779
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toward Amnesia written by Sarah Van Arsdale and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her lover of five years leaves her for another woman, a young marine biologist is lost and bereft in ways she could never have imagined. Bordering on obsessed and unable to make sense of her solitary life, she heads cross-country without a word, resolved to cultivate a new persona by creating her own kind of amnesia. But as time goes by, she is unable to deny hers truest self. Targeted media.

Author : Jack Tillmany
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738530208
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatres of San Francisco written by Jack Tillmany and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You read the sad stories in the papers: another ornate, 1920s, single-screen theatre closes, to be demolished and replaced by a strip mall. That's progress, and in this 20-screen multiplex world, it's happening more and more. Only a handful of the 100 or so neighborhood theatres that once graced these streets are left in San Francisco, but they live on in the photographs featured in this book. The heyday of such venues as the Clay, Noe, Metro, New Mission, Alexandria, Coronet, Fox, Uptown, Coliseum, Surf, El Rey, and Royal was a time when San Franciscans thronged to the movies and vaudeville shows, dressed to the hilt, to see and be seen in majestic art deco palaces. Unfortunately, this era has passed into history despite the dedicated efforts of many neighborhood preservation groups.

Author : Richard Davenport-Hines
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465060668
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Universal Man written by Richard Davenport-Hines and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) was the twentieth century's most influential economist. His ideas inspired Franklin D. Roosevelt to launch the New Deal and instructed Western nations on how to ward off revolutionary unrest, economic instability, high unemployment, and social dissolution. Keynes was nothing less than the Adam Smith of his time: his The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Moneybecame as important in the twentieth century as Smith's The Wealth of Nations was in the eighteenth. Now, in the long wake of the 2008 global economic collapse, Keynesian economics is once again shaping our world. In Universal Man, acclaimed historian Richard Davenport-Hines offers the first biography of Keynes that reveals the man in full. Like many Englishmen of his class and era, Keynes compartmentalized his life. Accordingly, Davenport-Hines treats Keynes in turn as a youthful prodigy, a powerful government official, an influential public man, a bisexual living in the shadow of Oscar Wilde's persecution, a devotee of the arts, and an international statesman of worldwide renown. Delving into Keynes's experiences and thought, Davenport-Hines shows us a man who was equally at ease socializing with the Bloomsbury Group as he was persuading heads of state to adopt his policies. Through Davenport-Hines' nuanced portrait, we come to understand not just the most enduringly influential economist of the modern era, but one of the most gifted and vital men of our times: a disciplined logician with a capacity for glee who persuaded people, seduced them, subverted old ideas, and installed new ones. Engaging, learned, and sparkling with wit and insight, Universal Man is the perfect match for its brilliant subject.