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Drugs, Intoxication and Society

By: Angus Bancroft

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Drugs, Intoxication and Society

By: Angus Bancroft

Drugs and intoxication have been facts of human life for millennia. Across the world, many people use illicit drugs, smoke, and drink alcohol. Yet very little has been written about their experiences. Academics, politicians and media reporting on the topic tend only to consider intoxication when it manifests as a social problem. This book takes a more nuanced view, and examines drug and alcohol use from a wider number of perspectives. It discusses issues such as the history of drug and alcohol use, the attractions of intoxication to individuals, and the control and regulation of drugs and their users. It also examines evidence for the rise of the so-called 'pharmaceutical society', and asks whether society is on the cusp of a revolution in psychoactive substance use." --Book Jacket.

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0745635334

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Dead White Men and Other Important People

By: Angus Bancroft,Ralph Fevre

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Dead White Men and Other Important People

By: Angus Bancroft,Ralph Fevre

This is a textbook with a twist. Written as a novel, from the perspective of Mila, a student new to sociology, it is a brilliantly engaging introduction to the discipline and to the fundamental questions that have exercised the minds of the most important sociological thinkers. It offers refreshingly clear explanations of the most important aspects of sociology and exposes students to social theory and how it relates to our everyday experiences. Students are encouraged to engage critically and personally with sociological ideas, and in the process learn how to interpret, use and reshape them. This revised second edition offers an ideal alternative to traditional texts for introductory sociology modules. It is also highly valuable for modules on sociological and social theory. New to this Edition: - Improved narrative structure with enhanced focus on sociological ideas - Includes new pedagogical features such as Mila's end-of-chapter doodles and a glossary of key terms - Accompanied by a new companion website with a Guide and Videos for lecturers, and a flashcard glossary anda Sociology timeline for students

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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113746786X

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9781137467867

The Darknet and Smarter Crime

Methods for Investigating Criminal Entrepreneurs and the Illicit Drug Economy

By: Angus Bancroft

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The Darknet and Smarter Crime

Methods for Investigating Criminal Entrepreneurs and the Illicit Drug Economy

By: Angus Bancroft

This book draws on research into darknet cryptomarkets to examine themes of cybercrime, cybersecurity, illicit markets and drug use. Cybersecurity is increasingly seen as essential yet it is also a point of contention between citizens, states, non-governmental organisations and private corporations as each grapples with existing and developing technologies. The increased importance of privacy online has sparked concerns about the loss of confidentiality and autonomy in the face of state and corporate surveillance on one hand, and the creation of ungovernable spaces and the facilitation of terrorism and harassment on the other. These differences and disputes highlight the dual nature of the internet: allowing counter-publics to emerge and providing opportunities for state and corporate domination through control of the data infrastructure. The Darknet and Smarter Crime argues that, far from being a dangerous anarchist haven, the darknet and the technologies used within it could have benefits and significance for everyone online. This book engages with a number of debates about the internet and new communication technologies, including: surveillance and social control, anonymity and privacy, the uses and abuses of data encryption technologies and cyber-cultures and collective online identities

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Springer Nature

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3030265129

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9783030265120

Drugs, Intoxication and Society

By: Angus Bancroft

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British Lend-Lease Warships 1940–45

The Royal Navy's American-built destroyers and frigates

By: Angus Konstam

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British Lend-Lease Warships 1940–45

The Royal Navy's American-built destroyers and frigates

By: Angus Konstam

An illustrated history of the American-built destroyers and frigates supplied to the Royal Navy under Lend-Lease, which played a crucial role in Britain's war in the Atlantic. As U-boat attacks on Britain's vital sea lanes increased in ferocity, and Royal Navy warship losses mounted, the United States passed the Lend-Lease Act, the cornerstone of America's wartime role as armourer to the Allies. Naval historian Angus Konstam here offers an account of the Royal Navy's Lend-Lease destroyers and escorts. The first batch were 50 World War I-era 'four-stacker' destroyers, in a deal sealed by the transfer of several global British bases to the USA. These warships were immediately recrewed, refitted and pressed into service in the Battle of the Atlantic. These ageing destroyers were followed by over a hundred more Lend-Lease warships, many of which were built especially for British service in American shipyards. Their arrival helped tip the balance in the hard-fought war against the U-boats, while others were used to fulfil other crucial wartime missions. With detailed ship profiles of the major classes, a cutaway of HMS Campbeltown (of Saint-Nazaire raid fame) as it appeared in 1941, and superb battlescene artwork, this is a comprehensive look at a crucial aspect of the Battle of the Atlantic.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472861256

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9781472861252

Dead White Men and Other Important People

By: Angus Bancroft,Ralph Fevre

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By: Angus Bancroft,Ralph Fevre

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The Worlds of Renaissance Melancholy

Robert Burton in Context

By: Angus Gowland

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The Worlds of Renaissance Melancholy

Robert Burton in Context

By: Angus Gowland

Angus Gowland investigates the theory of melancholy and its many applications in the Renaissance by means of a wide-ranging contextual analysis of Robert Burton's encyclopaedic Anatomy of Melancholy (first published in 1621). Approaching the Anatomy as the culmination of early modern medical, philosophical and spiritual inquiry about melancholy, Gowland examines the ways in which Burton exploited the moral psychology central to the Renaissance understanding of the condition to construct a critical vision of his intellectual and political environment. In the first sustained analysis of the evolving relationship of the Anatomy (in the various versions issued between 1621 and 1651) to late Renaissance humanist learning and early seventeenth-century England and Europe, Gowland corrects the prevailing view of the work as an unreflective digest of other authors' opinions, and reveals the Anatomy's character as a polemical literary engagement with the live intellectual, religious and political issues of its day.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107321085

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Canadian Bolsheviks

The Early Years of the Communist Party of Canada

By: Ian Angus

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Canadian Bolsheviks

The Early Years of the Communist Party of Canada

By: Ian Angus

Canadian communism did not spring out of the ground suddenly at the end of World War I, and it was not smuggled into the country by Russian agents. The men and women who built the new movement were long-time socialist and labour militants in Canada. Inspired by the Russian Revolution and by their own experiences as leaders of the post-war labour revolt in Canada, they set about to create a new kind of party, one that could lead the fight for workers' power. The new Communist Party, formed between 1919 and 1921, quickly became the largest party on the left, with strong roots and influence in the unions and basic industry. Its members led heroic strikes. They fought for labor unity, and engaged in united electoral activity with other currents in the workers movement. They were in the forefront of the struggle for democratic rights.

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Trafford Publishing

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1412038081

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9781412038089

St. Lawrence County

By: Christopher Angus,Susan H. Wood

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St. Lawrence County

By: Christopher Angus,Susan H. Wood

Since the days of the pioneers, St. Lawrence County's diverse waterways, fertile soils, and dense forests have drawn a rich cultural mix of peoples. These early settlers built the colorful barns, mills, and lighthouses of a working community. Over time, the area was transformed by one of the world's busiest shipping lanes, the St. Lawrence Seaway; by the great educational institutions of the valley; and by modern industries like Corning, the high-tech creator of windows for the space shuttle.St. Lawrence County is bracketed by two great vacation meccas, the Thousand Islands and the Adirondack Park. Artist Frederick Remington's island retreat at Ingleneuk and Henry Rushton's Canton boat works are no longer with us, but the port of Ogdensburg still boasts elegant nineteenth-century homes. Rushton's crafts can still be found at exhibitions at Paul Smith's College or gracing Lake Flower in the village of Saranac Lake. Daily life in hamlets such as Star Lake, North Creek, and Blue Mountain Lake can still evoke a simpler time.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738509345

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9780738509341

Stuart England

By: Angus Stroud

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Stuart England

By: Angus Stroud

Stuart England is an invaluable introduction to the political, religious and social history of seventeenth-century England. It provides a wide-ranging and lively account of core events, drawing on both contemporary sources and the latest interpretations by modern historians. Starting with the legacy of Elizabeth I, and ending with the reign of William III and Mary. Stuart England covers all aspects of the monarchy, high and low politics and the culture of the people. Key topics include: * English society and religion * ideas of monarchy and government * finance and parliament * foreign policy With comprehensive questions and analysis, exercises, diagrams and maps,Stuart England provides an excellent and indispensable guide to English history of the seventeenth century.

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Routledge

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1134624654

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Polko

By: Angus Harrison

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Polko

By: Angus Harrison

I like this car. It's sort of horrible but I like it. It's a good place for something bad like a breakdown or - As teenagers, Emma, Joe and Polko thought they'd never grow apart. When Emma returns to the suburb of their childhood ten years later, she discovers that nothing, and everything, has changed. Joe is stuck, living with his mum while working part-time in a hotel; Polko has vanished, leaving a cloud of stories and misremembered nights in his wake. Set in the front seats of a parked car, Polko is a modern memory play about the places we call home, and the people we leave behind. Angus Harrison's play opened at the Paines Plough Roundabout at Summerhall, Edinburgh, in August 2023.

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Faber & Faber

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0571387713

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9780571387717

Christine de Pizan

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By: Angus J. Kennedy

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Christine de Pizan

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By: Angus J. Kennedy

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

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DS Brewer

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0729301788

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9780729301787

An African Odyssey

By: Angus Hyslop

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An African Odyssey

By: Angus Hyslop

EXCITING ADVENTURE... HUNTED BY POACHERS... CAPTURED BY ARMED REBELS... RAPE... REVENGE... SLAVERY... SUSPENSE... MURDER... WHEN A YOUNG COUPLE TRAVEL OVERLAND ACROSS AFRICA TO ENGLAND. A STORY BASED ON ACTUAL EVENTS THAT YOU WILL NEVER EVER FORGET.

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Lulu.com

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1847533981

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Camera Geologica

An Elemental History of Photography

By: Siobhan Angus

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Camera Geologica

An Elemental History of Photography

By: Siobhan Angus

In Camera Geologica Siobhan Angus tells the history of photography through the minerals upon which the medium depends. Challenging the emphasis on immateriality in discourses on photography, Angus focuses on the inextricable links between image-making and resource extraction, revealing how the mining of bitumen, silver, platinum, iron, uranium, and rare earth elements is a precondition of photography. Photography, Angus contends, begins underground and, in photographs of mines and mining, frequently returns there. Through a materials-driven analysis of visual culture, she illustrates histories of colonization, labor, and environmental degradation to expose the ways in which photography is enmeshed within and enables global extractive capitalism. Angus places nineteenth-century photography in dialogue with digital photography and its own entangled economies of extraction, demonstrating the importance of understanding photography’s complicity in the economic, geopolitical, and social systems that order the world.

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Duke University Press

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1478059176

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Book's by Angus Bancroft

Drugs, Intoxication and Society

Drugs, Intoxication and Society

Dead White Men and Other Important People

Dead White Men and Other Important People

The Darknet and Smarter Crime

The Darknet and Smarter Crime

Drugs, Intoxication and Society

Drugs, Intoxication and Society

British Lend-Lease Warships 1940–45

British Lend-Lease Warships 1940–45

Dead White Men and Other Important People

Dead White Men and Other Important People

The Worlds of Renaissance Melancholy

The Worlds of Renaissance Melancholy

Canadian Bolsheviks

Canadian Bolsheviks

St. Lawrence County

St. Lawrence County

Stuart England

Stuart England

Polko

Polko

Christine de Pizan

Christine de Pizan

An African Odyssey

An African Odyssey

Camera Geologica

Camera Geologica

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