Working Hard Drinking Hard

Author : Adrienne Pine
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520255449

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Working Hard, Drinking Hard by Adrienne Pine Pdf

"A theoretically cutting edge ethnography of neoliberalism as suffered by most poor people across the globe. Pine creatively links macro-structural forces in Honduras to the everyday life of factory workers, shanty town dwellers, gang kids, alcoholics and crack smokers within the context of globalized consumerism and the history of U.S. domination of Central America."—Philippe Bourgois, author of In Search of Respect "Gutsy fieldwork. A compassionate analysis of the links between work, violence, corporate capitalism, American empire, and self-worth. It will make your blood boil."—Laura Nader, University of California, Berkeley "Using largely the voices of others, Pine's rigorous but sensitive anthropological approach interweaves gangs, work, religion, drink, politics, and even globalization to show clearly how violence pervades the everyday life of many Hondurans. It is a realistic tour de force!"—Dwight B. Heath, Brown University

Author : Adrienne Pine
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520255437

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Working Hard, Drinking Hard by Adrienne Pine Pdf

"A theoretically cutting edge ethnography of neoliberalism as suffered by most poor people across the globe. Pine creatively links macro-structural forces in Honduras to the everyday life of factory workers, shanty town dwellers, gang kids, alcoholics and crack smokers within the context of globalized consumerism and the history of U.S. domination of Central America."—Philippe Bourgois, author of In Search of Respect "Gutsy fieldwork. A compassionate analysis of the links between work, violence, corporate capitalism, American empire, and self-worth. It will make your blood boil."—Laura Nader, University of California, Berkeley "Using largely the voices of others, Pine's rigorous but sensitive anthropological approach interweaves gangs, work, religion, drink, politics, and even globalization to show clearly how violence pervades the everyday life of many Hondurans. It is a realistic tour de force!"—Dwight B. Heath, Brown University

Author : Neil Steinberg
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781440631283

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Drunkard by Neil Steinberg Pdf

"A compelling read, sad and wistful and breathtakingly forthright."—Chicago Magazine Chicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg loved his job, his wife, and his two young sons. But he also loved to drink. Drunkard is an unflinchingly honest account of one man's descent into alcoholism and his ambivalent struggle to embrace sobriety. Sentenced to an outpatient rehab program, Steinberg discovers that twenty-eight days of therapy cannot reverse the toll taken by decades of hard drinking. As Steinberg claws his way through recovery, grieves the loss of the drink, and tries to shore up his faltering marriage, he is confronted by the greatest test he has ever faced, and finds himself in the process. Steinberg's gripping memoir is a frank and often painfully funny account of the stark-yet-common realities of a disease that affects millions.

Author : Thora Hands
Publisher : Springer
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319929644

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Drinking in Victorian and Edwardian Britain by Thora Hands Pdf

This open access book surveys drinking in Britain between the Licensing Act of 1869 and the wartime regulations imposed on alcohol production and consumption after 1914. This was a period marked by the expansion of the drink industry and by increasingly restrictive licensing laws. Politics and commerce co-existed with moral and medical concerns about drunkenness and combined, these factors pushed alcohol consumers into the public spotlight. Through an analysis of public and private records, medical texts and sociological studies, the book investigates the reasons why Victorians and Edwardians consumed alcohol in the ways that they did and explores the ideas about alcohol that circulated in the period. This book shows that they had many reasons for purchasing and consuming alcoholic substances and these were driven by broader social, cultural, medical and commercial factors. Although drunkenness may have been the most visible consequence of alcohol consumption, it was not the only type of drinking behaviour. Alcohol played an important social role in the everyday lives of Victorians and Edwardians where its consumption held many different meanings.

Author : Margaretha Järvinen,Robin Room
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0754649962

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Youth Drinking Cultures by Margaretha Järvinen,Robin Room Pdf

Youth Drinking Cultures offers a comprehensive set of perspectives on adolescent drinking in Europe. In the book, a team of leading researchers provides cross-national comparisons to investigate how drinking behaviour varies, examining factors such as gen

Author : Caroline Knapp
Publisher : Dial Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999-08-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780440334088

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Drinking by Caroline Knapp Pdf

Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Many of them, like Caroline Knapp, started in their early teens and began to use alcohol as "liquid armor," a way to protect themselves against the difficult realities of life. In this extraordinarily candid and revealing memoir, Knapp offers important insights not only about alcoholism, but about life itself and how we learn to cope with it. It was love at first sight. The beads of moisture on a chilled bottle. The way the glasses clinked and the conversation flowed. Then it became obsession. The way she hid her bottles behind her lover's refrigerator. The way she slipped from the dinner table to the bathroom, from work to the bar. And then, like so many love stories, it fell apart. Drinking is Caroline Kapp's harrowing chronicle of her twenty-year love affair with alcohol. Caroline had her first drink at fourteen. She drank through her yeras at an Ivy League college, and through an award-winning career as an editor and columnist. Publicly she was a dutiful daughter, a sophisticated professional. Privately she was drinking herself into oblivion. This startlingly honest memoir lays bare the secrecy, family myths, and destructive relationships that go hand in hand with drinking. And it is, above all, a love story for our times—full of passion and heartbreak, betrayal and desire—a triumph over the pain and deception that mark an alcoholic life. Praise for Drinking “Quietly moving . . . Caroline Knapp dazzles us with her heady description of alcohol's allure and its devastating hold.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “Filled with hard-won wisdom . . . [a] perceptive and revealing book.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Eloquent . . . a remarkable exercise in self-discovery.”—The New York Times “Drinking not only describes triumph; it is one.”—Newsweek

Author : Sacha Z. Scoblic
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806535166

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Unwasted: by Sacha Z. Scoblic Pdf

“Triumphant, moving, and wildly entertaining. This is an unabashed and completely relatable account of getting clean and getting a life.”—Steve Geng, author of Thick as Thieves The single glass of wine with dinner . . . the cold beer on a hot day . . . the champagne flute raised in a toast . . . what I’d drink if Hunter S. Thompson wanted to get wasted with me . . . these are my fantasies lately. Too bad I've gone sober. When Sacha Z. Scoblic was drinking, she was a rock star; the days were rough and the nights filled with laughter and blackouts. Then she gave it up. She had to. Here are her adventures in an utterly and maddeningly sober world—and how she discovered that nothing is as odd and fantastic as life without a drink in hand. . . “A gripping, inspiring tale that picks up where most sobriety memoirs leave off . . . This is a story for anyone trying to enact meaningful change in their lives.”—Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, #1 New York Times-bestselling coauthors of The Nanny Diaries “Hilarious and heartbreaking, Unwasted is a traveler’s guide to the perilous, wondrous land of sobriety. Scoblic’s scorched, sweet prose is the work of a writer at the top of her form.”—Jennifer Finney Boylan, New York Times-bestselling author of She’s Not There “Scoblic’s testament to life on the wagon is pertinent and raffish, marked by considerable candor and humor. A dryly witty, spirited memoir.”—Kirkus Reviews

Author : Melissa Rice
Publisher : September Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781912836697

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Sobering by Melissa Rice Pdf

A RAW, FUNNY, HELPING HAND OF A BOOK, BY THE CO-PRESENTER OF BBC RADIO 5 LIVE'S PODCAST HOOKED: THE UNEXPECTED ADDICTS. 'Unique, honest, witty, occasionally shocking, you need this uplifting, amazing book in your life.' Steve Bland, You, Me and the Big C 'I don't know if I was born with it, caught it or bought it; I just know that, at some point in my life, a line was crossed: I needed a drink to get through life, to calm the nerves and quiet the head, and I became reliant on alcohol to change how I felt.' Sobering is the story of an insecure teenager turned Liverpudlian party girl, schoolteacher turned alcoholic and now recovering alcoholic turned award-winning podcaster. Melissa's story is as dramatic as her unique voice, but her message is universal: mental health issues often drive vulnerable people to addiction and working on mental health and personal development can help recovery. Written with the expert help of rehab and addiction specialists, and with insights from other recovering alcoholics and addicts, Sobering covers everything from denial, isolation and shame to getting help and rebuilding relationships. This is a personal story with a mission: to help anyone worried about their drinking to understand themselves and move forward with wisdom to make that hardest decision of all – to stay sober. 'Melissa's unique combination of authenticity, personal experience and humour makes for an incredibly refreshing take on addiction and recovery. A much-needed book that will help individuals to find hope and society to rethink substance misuse.' Shahroo Izadi, author of The Kindness Method

Author : Thomas Vander Ven
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780814744413

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Getting Wasted by Thomas Vander Ven Pdf

Vander Ven argues that college students rely on "drunk support." Contrary to most accounts of alcohol abuse as being a solitary problem of one person drinking to excess, the college drinking scene is very much a social one where students support one another through nights of drinking games, rituals and rites of passage.

Author : Dr Rae Dufty-Jones,Professor John Connell
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781472403780

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Rural Change in Australia by Dr Rae Dufty-Jones,Professor John Connell Pdf

New twenty-first century economic, social and environmental changes have challenged and reshaped rural Australia. They range from ageing populations, youth out-migration, immigration policies (that seek to place skilled migrants in rural Australia), tree changers, agricultural restructuring and new relationships with indigenous populations. Challenges also exist around the 'patchwork economy' and the wealth that the mining boom offers some areas, while threatening regional economic decline in others. Rural Australia is increasingly not simply a place of production of agriculture and minerals but an idea that individuals seek and are encouraged to consume. The socio-economic implications of drought, water rights and changing farming practices, have prefaced new social, cultural and economic reforms. This book provides a contemporary perspective on rapidly evolving population, economic and environmental changes in 'rural and regional Australia', itself a significant concept. Bringing together a range of empirical studies, the book builds on established rural studies themes such as population change, economic restructuring and globalisation in agriculture but links such changes to environmental change, culture, class, gender, and ethnic diversity. Presenting original and in-depth interventions on these issues and their intersections, this book assembles the best of contemporary research on rural Australia.

Author : Albion W. Tourgée
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124454674

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Hot Plowshares by Albion W. Tourgée Pdf

Author : Yosely Pereira
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496448538

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A Sea between Us by Yosely Pereira Pdf

What could compel the humble son of a carpenter to build a boat, battle the shark-infested waters of the Florida Straits, and leave the only life he’s ever known? A Sea between Us is the harrowing true story of Yosely Pereira, the love of his life, Taire, and their incredible fight to escape the brutal bonds of communist Cuba. Ninety miles lay between their island prison and their dreams. But crossing those miles was only the beginning of this gripping journey. After building a boat and enduring the Florida Straits, Yosely secured his freedom, but his own escape was not enough. Taire and their two young children still needed to be rescued. A story of a harrowing journey fueled by love . . . A Sea between Us celebrates the strength of the human spirit and the transcendent power of love.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Mormon Church
ISBN : WISC:89073243404

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The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles Follen Folsom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Insanity (Law)
ISBN : NYPL:33433011465246

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Mental Diseases by Charles Follen Folsom Pdf

Author : John Coakley Lettsom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1790
Category : Alcohol
ISBN : OCLC:1190945214

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History of Some of the Effects of Hard Drinking by John Coakley Lettsom Pdf