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Hurts So Good

The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose

By: Leigh Cowart

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Hurts So Good

The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose

By: Leigh Cowart

An exploration of why people all over the world love to engage in pain on purpose--from dominatrices, religious ascetics, and ultramarathoners to ballerinas, icy ocean bathers, and sideshow performers Masochism is sexy, human, reviled, worshipped, and can be delightfully bizarre. Deliberate and consensual pain has been with us for millennia, encompassing everyone from Black Plague flagellants to ballerinas dancing on broken bones to competitive eaters choking down hot peppers while they cry. Masochism is a part of us. It lives inside workaholics, tattoo enthusiasts, and all manner of garden variety pain-seekers. At its core, masochism is about feeling bad, then better—a phenomenon that is long overdue for a heartfelt and hilarious investigation. And Leigh Cowart would know: they are not just a researcher and science writer—they’re an inveterate, high-sensation seeking masochist. And they have a few questions: Why do people engage in masochism? What are the benefits and the costs? And what does masochism have to say about the human experience? By participating in many of these activities themselves, and through conversations with psychologists, fellow scientists, and people who seek pain for pleasure, Cowart unveils how our minds and bodies find meaning and relief in pain—a quirk in our programming that drives discipline and innovation even as it threatens to swallow us whole.

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Hurts So Good

The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose

By: Leigh Cowart

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The Power Company

Plays Hardball and Gets Nailed!

By: A. Leigh Baier

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The Power Company

Plays Hardball and Gets Nailed!

By: A. Leigh Baier

The Power Company Plays Hardball and Gets Nailed! is about a southern city going through a period of changing business and political protocols and the process by which the new protocols were developed and put in place. During the same period, southern cities were also going through a period of changing protocols for racial integration, women's rights, as well as the social integration of the southern cities due to the influx of residents from the north. The Power Company Plays Hardball and Gets Nailed! is about the roll a young attorney from the north who had grown up with Mafia and CIA mentoring and learned how to win battles by giving colonoscopies to opponents.

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Page Publishing, Inc

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1646285808

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Sacrifices for Patriotism

A Korean Pow Remembers the Forgotten War

By: Helen Greene Leigh

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Sacrifices for Patriotism

A Korean Pow Remembers the Forgotten War

By: Helen Greene Leigh

Sacrifices for PatriotismA Korean POW Remembers the Forgotten War is a narrative nonfiction recollection of the thirty-seven months Pharis Greene spent in captivity during the Korean War. His story includes his childhood memories and continues to his life today. In Korea, Pharis experienced horrific events. He witnessed his new commander, Colonel Martin, being cut in half by a Russian tank after engaging in a street fight with only a bazooka to defend himself. Less than forty yards separated Pharis from his higher-ranking officer, Second Lieutenant Thornton, when a North Korean madman dubbed The Tiger shot him in the back of the head on the infamous Death March. On numerous occasions, Pharis feared his life was over, including the three times he stood in front of a firing squad. Some fellow POWs have been quoted in Remembered Prisoners of a Forgotten War by Lewis H. Carlson and In Mortal Combat by John Toland. In contrast, Pharis shares his personal experiences from the beginning to the end of the Korean War and recalls how he endured the challenges and miraculously survived.

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240

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BalboaPress

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1452556040

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Reclaiming the Atmospheric Commons

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and a New Model of Emissions Trading

By: Leigh Raymond

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Reclaiming the Atmospheric Commons

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and a New Model of Emissions Trading

By: Leigh Raymond

How the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative created a new paradigm in climate policy by requiring polluters to pay for their emissions for the first time. In 2008, a group of states in the northeast United States launched an emissions trading program, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). With RGGI, these states—Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont—achieved what had been considered politically impossible: they forced polluters to pay the public for their emissions. The states accomplished this by conducting auctions of emissions “allowances”; by 2014, they had raised more than $2.2 billion in revenues. In this first in-depth examination of RGGI, Leigh Raymond describes this revolutionary and influential policy model and explains the practical and theoretical implications for climate policy. Other cap-and-trade schemes had been criticized for providing private profits rather than public benefits, allowing private firms to make money by buying and selling valuable “rights to pollute.” RGGI, by contrast, directed virtually all emissions auction revenues to programs benefiting the public at large. By reframing the issue in terms of public benefits, environmental advocates emphasized the public ownership of the atmospheric commons and private corporations' responsibility to pay for their use of it. Raymond argues that this kind of “normative reframing” is significant not only for environmental policy making but also for theories of the policy process, helping to explain and predict sudden policy change.

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MIT Press

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0262529300

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Decriminalizing Domestic Violence

A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence

By: Leigh Goodmark

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Decriminalizing Domestic Violence

A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence

By: Leigh Goodmark

Decriminalizing Domestic Violence asks the crucial, yet often overlooked, question of why and how the criminal legal system became the primary response to intimate partner violence in the United States. It introduces readers, both new and well versed in the subject, to the ways in which the criminal legal system harms rather than helps those who are subjected to abuse and violence in their homes and communities, and shares how it drives, rather than deters, intimate partner violence. The book examines how social, legal, and financial resources are diverted into a criminal legal apparatus that is often unable to deliver justice or safety to victims or to prevent intimate partner violence in the first place. Envisioned for both courses and research topics in domestic violence, family violence, gender and law, and sociology of law, the book challenges readers to understand intimate partner violence not solely, or even primarily, as a criminal law concern but as an economic, public health, community, and human rights problem. It also argues that only by viewing intimate partner violence through these lenses can we develop a balanced policy agenda for addressing it. At a moment when we are examining our national addiction to punishment, Decriminalizing Domestic Violence offers a thoughtful, pragmatic roadmap to real reform.

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345

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Univ of California Press

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0520968298

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9780520968295

Buzzed

The Straight Facts about the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy

By: Cynthia Kuhn,Scott Swartzwelder,Wilkie Wilson,Leigh Heather Wilson,Jeremy Foster

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The Straight Facts about the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy

By: Cynthia Kuhn,Scott Swartzwelder,Wilkie Wilson,Leigh Heather Wilson,Jeremy Foster

The third edition of the essential, accessible source for understanding how drugs work and their effects on body and behavior.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393329852

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Hurts So Good

Hurts So Good

Hurts So Good

Hurts So Good

The Power Company

The Power Company

Sacrifices for Patriotism

Sacrifices for Patriotism

Reclaiming the Atmospheric Commons

Reclaiming the Atmospheric Commons

Decriminalizing Domestic Violence

Decriminalizing Domestic Violence

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