Cocaine: From Coca Fields to the Streets

Coca Exotica. The illustrated story of cocaine

A large-format, coffee-table book on the history of cocaine is peculiarly appropriate to modem times. The drug is said to be booming in chic circles yet holds "recurrent bogeyman" status in the more puritan salons. It gets up both sides' noses, so to speak. And this dichotomy seems to have informed Kennedy's work; his labour of love lacks the detail of serious history yet misses the effervescen...

Coca and Cocaine in the United States

The coca leaf and cocaine papers

RICHARD DEACON, Matthew Hopkins; Witch Finder General, London, Frederick Muller, 1976, 8vo, pp. 223, illus., £6.50. The current interest in witchcraft and the occult continues unabated, and no doubt this book is intended for this insatiable appetite. In addition, however, the author, who is a professional writer, claims the relevance of historical witchcraft to similar practices today, which is...

The children of mama coca: coca, cocaine and the fate of harm reduction in South America.

The paper reviews the main findings from substance misuse research carried out over the last two decades in South America looking at the main initiatives aimed at reducing drug related harm and curbing the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted and blood-borne diseases. The current challenges faced by harm reduction in the region are analysed from the perspective of the history of co...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...