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Cocaine's Son
Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 24.00With sharp wit, self-deprecating humor, and penetrating honesty, New York Times journalist Dave Itzkoff turns a keen eye on his life with the mysterious, maddening, much-loved man of whom he writes, ?for the first eight years of my life I seem to have believed he was the product of my imagination.? Itzkoff?s father was the man who lumbered home... more...
Vulnerable India
SAGE India 2010; US$ 49.95This book de-myths the oft repeated claim of natural disaster and puts forward socio-economic factors as the cause for the recurrence of disasters. With this framework, the author examines the popular notion of the Vulnerable India in psycho-geographical terms and unmasks the dimensions of vulnerability itself. In doing so the author foregrounds... more...
Clubland
St. Martin's Press 2003; US$ 6.99In 1995, journalist Frank Owen began researching a story on "Special K," a new designer drug that fueled the after-midnight club scene. He went to buy and sample the drug at the internationally-notorious Limelight, a decrepit church converted into a Manhattan disco, where pulse-pounding music, gender-bending dancers, and uninhibited sideshows attracted... more...
Les Flambeurs
Les Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa 2004; US$ 14.99Cet ouvrage est consacré au parcours de vie des usagers réguliers et fréquents de cocaïne. Plus spécifiquement, les auteurs se sont fixés deux objectifs. Un premier consiste à mieux comprendre la trajectoire des consommateurs coutumiers de cocaïne en analysant les dynamiques qui sous-tendent ce processus. Ceci fait, il est alors possible d?approfondir... more...
American Desperado
Crown Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.00In 2008 veteran journalist Evan Wright, acclaimed for his New York Times bestselling book Generation Kill and co-writer of the Emmy-winning HBO series it spawned , began a series of conversations with super-criminal Jon Roberts, star of the fabulously successful documentary Cocaine Cowboys. Those conversations would last three years, during... more...
Drugs and Culture
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 119.95Drugs and Culture presents alternative perspectives on psychoactive drugs, highlighting the socio-cultural features of drug use and regulation in modern societies. It examines the cultural dimensions of drugs and their regulation, with special attention to questions of how consumption of specific psychoactive substances becomes associated with particular... more...
Cultural Encyclopedia of LSD
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 55.00Albert Hoffman first synthesized LSD on November 16, 1938. When he accidentally absorbed a small quantity through his fingertips in 1943, he began a wave of experimentation that would reach its cultural heights in the academic and political mischief of Timothy Leary, the "acid tests" of the Merry Pranksters, and the musical experimentation... more...
The Romantic
The Text Publishing Company 2010; US$ 24.95Kate Holden's bestselling memoir In My Skin told the gripping story of her slide into heroin addiction and prostitution, and her gruelling recovery. When Kate decides to leave her past behind in Melbourne, it is the beginning of a new journey. Sexy, dark, and intoxicating, The Romantic is Kate's search for a new truth. more...
The Mammoth Book of Drug Barons
Constable & Robinson 2010; US$ 11.65The rise - and fall - of the outlaw lords of the drug world, from the Cali Cartel, the richest, most powerful crime syndicate in history, to Britain's biggest drug baron, Curtis 'Cocky' Warren and the 'Essex Triple Murders'. From freewheeling cannabis operations to the lethal 'heaviness' of organized crime, the doings of the dealers, bouncers, bagmen... more...
A Million Little Pieces
John Murray 2009; US$ 22.64James Frey wakes up on a plane, with no memory of the preceding two weeks. His face is cut and his body is covered with bruises. He has no wallet and no idea of his destination. He has abused alcohol and every drug he can lay his hands on for a decade ? and he is aged only twenty-three. What happens next is one of the most powerful and extreme stories... more...









