Chemical Cowboys

Author : Lisa Sweetingham
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-22
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780345521156

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Chemical Cowboys by Lisa Sweetingham Pdf

In 1995, after receiving a tip from an informant that a new drug called Ecstasy was being pushed in Manhattan’s nightclubs, DEA agent Robert Gagne embarked on a mission to unravel one of the world’s most lucrative drug-trafficking networks. Chemical Cowboys tracks Gagne as he infiltrates New York’s club scene, uncovering a multimillion-dollar criminal empire that spans continents. At its helm is Oded “Fat Man” Tuito, an Israeli fugitive and elusive drug kingpin who combines Wall Street business savvy with old-fashioned street smarts and a taste for violence. A taut behind-the-scenes glimpse into an international criminal enterprise, Chemical Cowboys is a riveting tale of one man’s obsessive pursuit of justice—and the personal cost of that obsession.

Author : David A. Koplow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000261813

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By Fire and Ice by David A. Koplow Pdf

This book, first published in 1997, examines the forced merger between national security interests and environmental policy makers arising from the Chemical Weapons Convention and its requirement to safely dismantle the world’s chemical weapons stockpiles. The two groups had to find a way to intersect and work together, and this book analyses the problems and politics involved.

Author : Rachel Nuwer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781635579581

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I Feel Love by Rachel Nuwer Pdf

"Riveting."--Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score The unlikely story of how the psychedelic drug MDMA emerged from the shadows to the forefront of a medical revolution--and the potential it may hold to help us thrive. Few drugs in history have generated as much controversy as MDMA--or held as much promise. Once vilified as a Schedule I substance that would supposedly eat holes in users' brains, MDMA (also known as Molly or Ecstasy) is now being hailed as a therapeutic agent that could transform the field of mental health and outpace psilocybin and ketamine as the first psychedelic approved for widespread clinical use. In I Feel Love, science journalist Rachel Nuwer separates fact from fantasy, hope from hype, in the drug's contested history and still-evolving future. Evidence from scientific trials suggests MDMA, properly administered, can be startlingly effective at relieving the effects of trauma. Results from other studies point to its usefulness for individual and couples therapy; for treating depression, alcohol addiction, and eating disorders; and for cultivating personal growth. Yet scientists are still racing to discover how MDMA achieves these outcomes, a mystery that is taking them into the inner recesses of the brain and the deep history of evolution. With its power to dismantle psychological defenses and induce feelings of empathy, self-compassion, and love, MDMA may answer profound questions about how we became human, and how to heal our broken social bonds. From cutting-edge labs to pulsing club floors to the intimacy of the therapist's couch, Nuwer guides readers through a cultural and scientific upheaval that is rewriting our understanding of our brains, our selves, and the space between.

Author : Jakub Kowalewski
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000779875

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The Environmental Apocalypse by Jakub Kowalewski Pdf

This volume brings together scholars working in diverse traditions of the humanities in order to offer a comprehensive analysis of the environmental catastrophe as the modern-day apocalypse. Drawing on philosophy, theology, history, literature, art history, psychoanalysis, as well as queer and decolonial theories, the authors included in this book expound the meaning of the climate apocalypse, reveal its presence in our everyday experiences, and examine its impact on our intellectual, imaginative, and moral practices. Importantly, the chapters show that eco-apocalypticism can inform progressively transformative discourses about climate change. In so doing, they demonstrate the fruitfulness of understanding the environmental catastrophe from within an apocalyptic framework, carving a much-needed path between two unsatisfactory approaches to the climate disaster: first, the conservative impulse to preserve the status quo responsible for today’s crisis, and second, the reckless acceptance of the destructive effects of climate change. This book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars interested in the contributions of both apocalypticism and the humanities to contemporary ecological debates.

Author : Sam Kean
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780316381635

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Caesar's Last Breath by Sam Kean Pdf

The Guardian's Best Science Book of 2017: the fascinating science and history of the air we breathe. It's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell. In Caesar's Last Breath, New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic table, around the globe, and across time to tell the story of the air we breathe, which, it turns out, is also the story of earth and our existence on it. With every breath, you literally inhale the history of the world. On the ides of March, 44 BC, Julius Caesar died of stab wounds on the Senate floor, but the story of his last breath is still unfolding; in fact, you're probably inhaling some of it now. Of the sextillions of molecules entering or leaving your lungs at this moment, some might well bear traces of Cleopatra's perfumes, German mustard gas, particles exhaled by dinosaurs or emitted by atomic bombs, even remnants of stardust from the universe's creation. Tracing the origins and ingredients of our atmosphere, Kean reveals how the alchemy of air reshaped our continents, steered human progress, powered revolutions, and continues to influence everything we do. Along the way, we'll swim with radioactive pigs, witness the most important chemical reactions humans have discovered, and join the crowd at the Moulin Rouge for some of the crudest performance art of all time. Lively, witty, and filled with the astounding science of ordinary life, Caesar's Last Breath illuminates the science stories swirling around us every second.

Author : Philippa LeVine
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781491758830

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Tweeker Parade by Philippa LeVine Pdf

This wickedly funny non-fiction book spans the 30-year career of (retired) DEA Special Agent Philippa LeVine. She spent the bulk of her early years in a clandestine lab group chasing methamphetamine cooks and tweekers. In salty sarcastic cop-speak, she provides a unique insight into investigating meth labs in San Diego, California during the 1980’s biker heyday. Follow her through the investigation of a chemical supplier involving murder for hire, buried treasure, and of course, meth labs. Later she rises to the pinnacle of mid level bureaucracy taking us deep into DEA Headquarters for a look into one of the scariest places of all. You will laugh out loud as you learn the truth about meth, the pharmaceutical companies and federal drug law enforcement.

Author : Richard J. Heggen
Publisher : Richard Heggen
Page : 1552 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Underground Rivers by Richard J. Heggen Pdf

Underground rivers in science, history, the arts and any number of sightings elsewhere

Author : Barak D. Richman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674977273

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Stateless Commerce by Barak D. Richman Pdf

How does Manhattan’s 47th Street diamond district thrive as an ethnic marketplace without lawyers, courts, and state coercion? Barak Richman draws on insider interviews to show why relational exchange based on familiarity, trust, and community enforcement succeeds and what it reveals about the modern state’s limitations in governing the economy.

Author : Jeffrey Kershaw
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524683146

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An Unbelievable Hoot by Jeffrey Kershaw Pdf

An Unbelievable Hoot is a funny, risqu novel about a lawyer who owns land formerly used as an industrial chemical factory but is now occupied by Dakers Diggers, a plant hire company. In digging next to their showroom to put in foundations for an extension, they unwittingly release gases from chemicals previously buried that have a strange effect on passersby. A magistrate unknowingly breathes in the gases before entering Do-It-All, a hardware superstore. He is compelled to grab and squeeze the bottom of a lady who turns out to be an off-duty policewoman. She immediately arrests him. Others are similarly affected with riotous results.

Author : William T. Vollmann
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 1361 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780525558507

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No Good Alternative by William T. Vollmann Pdf

“The most honest book about climate change yet.” —The Atlantic “The Infinite Jest of climate books.” —The Baffler An eye-opening look at the consequences of coal mining and oil and natural gas production—the second of a two volume work by award-winning author William T. Vollmann on the ideologies of energy production and the causes of climate change The second volume of William T. Vollmann's epic book about the factors and human actions that have led to global warming begins in the coal fields of West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky, where "America's best friend" is not merely a fuel, but a "heritage." Over the course of four years Vollmann finds hollowed out towns with coal-polluted streams and acidified drinking water; makes covert visits to mountaintop removal mines; and offers documented accounts of unpaid fines for federal health and safety violations and of miners who died because their bosses cut corners to make more money. To write about natural gas, Vollmann journeys to Greeley, Colorado, where he interviews anti-fracking activists, a city planner, and a homeowner with serious health issues from fracking. Turning to oil production, he speaks with, among others, the former CEO of Conoco and a vice president of the Bank of Oklahoma in charge of energy loans, and conducts furtive roadside interviews of guest workers performing oil-related contract labor in the United Arab Emirates. As with its predecessor, No Immediate Danger, this volume seeks to understand and listen, not to lay blame--except in a few corporate and political cases where outrage is clearly due. Vollmann is a carbon burner just like the rest of us; he describes and quantifies his own power use, then looks around him, trying to explain to the future why it was that we went against scientific consensus, continually increasing the demand for electric power and insisting that we had no good alternative.

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 1355 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular 21St-century American Musicians by Wikipedia contributors Pdf

Author : Petra Molthan-Hill,Heather Luna,Tony Wall,Helen Puntha,Denise Baden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000763218

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Storytelling for Sustainability in Higher Education by Petra Molthan-Hill,Heather Luna,Tony Wall,Helen Puntha,Denise Baden Pdf

To be a storyteller is an incredible position from which to influence hearts and minds, and each one of us has the capacity to utilise storytelling for a sustainable future. This book offers unique and powerful insights into how stories and storytelling can be utilised within higher education to support sustainability literacy. Stories can shape our perspective of the world around us and how we interact with it, and this is where storytelling becomes a useful tool for facilitating understanding of sustainability concepts which tend to be complex and multifaceted. The craft of storytelling is as old as time and has influenced human experience throughout the ages. The conscious use of storytelling in higher education is likewise not new, although less prevalent in certain academic disciplines; what this book offers is the opportunity to delve into the concept of storytelling as an educational tool regardless of and beyond the boundaries of subject area. Written by academics and storytellers, the book is based on the authors’ own experiences of using stories within teaching, from a story of “the Ecology of Law” to the exploration of sustainability in accounting and finance via contemporary cinema. Practical advice in each chapter ensures that ideas may be put into practice with ease. In addition to examples from the classroom, the book also explores wider uses of storytelling for communication and sense-making and ways of assessing student storytelling work. It also offers fascinating research insights, for example in addressing the question of whether positive utopian stories relating to climate change will have a stronger impact on changing the behaviour of readers than will dystopian stories. Everyone working as an educator should fi nd some inspiration here for their own practice; on using storytelling and stories to co-design positive futures together with our students.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : LOC:00095091489

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H.R. 525, the Preparedness Against Domestic Terrorism Act by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : IND:30000117320881

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Down to Earth by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stephen Spender,Irving Kristol,Melvin J. Lasky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : NWU:35556027101757

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Encounter by Stephen Spender,Irving Kristol,Melvin J. Lasky Pdf