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BOURGOIS, PHILIPPE. In Search Of Respect: Selling Crack In El Barrio.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 1999. 0521574609 / 9780521574600 Reprint Edition. s Softcover. Very good condition.
For the first time, an anthropologist has managed to gain the confianza and long-term friendship of street-level drug dealers in one of the roughest ghetto neighborhoods in the United States - East Harlem. For four years, the author had completely free rein to observe, tape-record, and photograph every facet of the lives of some two dozen Puerto Rican crack dealers. By presenting their crack-house conversations in context, he conveys in their own words the most intimate and taboo details of their personal lives: from violent crime and gang rape, to tender friendships and childhood dreams of glory and dignity. Documents the full range of human experience and emotion in the struggle for survival and dignity on the street. Includes an Index.
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34.95 USD
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DE QUINCEY, THOMAS. Confessions Of An English Opium Eater.
Dover Publications, Inc., New York: 1995. 0486287424 / 9780486287423 Dover Thrift Editions. s Softcover. Good condition.
First published in installments in the London Magazine in 1821, the work recounts De Quincey's early years as a precocious student of Greek, his flight from grammar school and subsequent adventures among the outcasts and prostitutes of London, studies at Oxford University and his introduction to opium in 1804 (he hoped that taking the drug would relieve a severe headache). It was the beginning of a long-term addiction to opium, whose effects on his mind are revealed in remarkably vivid descriptions of the dreams and visions he experienced while under its influence.
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3.15 USD
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EBIN, DAVID (EDITOR). The Drug Experience. First-person Accounts Of Addicts, Writers, Scientists And Others.
The Orion Press,New York: 1961. First Printing. h Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. Slight chips and tears to DJ.
Writers describe their experience with virtually every drug that was available in 1961, including hashish, heroin, opium, mescaline, peyote, LSD, morphine, marijuana, mushrooms and others.
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125.00 USD
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INFANTE, G. CABRERA. Holy Smoke.
Faber and Faber, London: 1985. 0571145949 / 9780571145942 First paperback edition - 1986. s Softcover. Reading copy.
An outrageous and informative account of the amazing story of the cigar, from the early beginnings of 1492 to the sophisticated Cohibas of today.
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14.15 USD
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JIMENEZ, ANTONIO NUNEZ; CONSTANTINO, GIANNI (PHOTOGRAPHY). The Journey Of The Havana Cigar.
T. F. H. Publications, Inc., Neptune City: 1988. 0793805929 / 9780793805921 First Edition (Unstated). h Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition.
Take the most important export from Cuba, its unique cigars, have Cuba's greatest living writer describe the cigar's unique position in both Cuba and the world, use photographs by Cuba's most imp[=ortant photographer, get the approval of the official Cuban tobacco group, Cubatabaco, and you have the makings of the bewst book possible. The author and photographer take the reader through the history of tobacco, starting with Christopher Columbus, and then through the hundreds of steps in the growing and manufacture of the Havana cigars, finally disclosing the secrets by which cigars are graded. Simply put, this is the most authoritative book on the Havana cigar. It is also a very beautiful book and one that will be of interest to every enlightened cigar smoker.
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28.70 USD
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KLUGER, RICHARD. Ashes To Ashes: America's Hundred-year Cigarette War, The Public Health, And The Unabashed Triumph Of Philip Morris.
The Easton Press, Norwalk: 1997. h Hardcover, no dustjacket. Very good condition. Full forest green leather, with elaborate gilt-stamped decorations framed with ornate gilt borders on the covers. Gold moire end papers and a bound-in silk book mark.
No book before this one has rendered the story of cigarettes -- mankinds most common self-destructive instrument and its most profitable consumer product -- with such sweep and enlivening detail. Here for the first time, in a story full of the complexities and contradictions of human nature, all the strands of the historical process -- financial, social, psychological, medical, political, and legal -- are woven together in a riveting narrative. The key characters are the top corporate executives, public health investigators, and antismoking activists who have clashed ever more stridently as Americans debate whether smoking should be closely regulated as a major health menace. Includes an Index.
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148.00 USD
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SCHWARTZ, HOWARD(RETOLD BY). Next Year In Jerusalem: 3000 Years Of Jewish Stories.
Viking, New York: 1996. 0670861103 / 9780670861101 h Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. Ex Library with last page torn from book.
Collected to celebrate the 3,000th anniversary of the founding of Jerusalem, this book showcases 11 stories about the city. Folk tales, fairy tales, Rabbinic and Hasidic legends, and a 2,000-year-old vampire story are enhanced by sidebars containing historical facts and background, Jewish stories set in Jerusalem, adapted from the Talmud and Midrash, Hasidic sources, and oral tradition, with origins in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Spain, Italy, and Greece.
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14.00 USD
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SHANKEN, MARVIN R. (EDITOR). Cigar Aficionado's World Of Cigars.
Running Press, Philadelphia and London: 1996. 1561388009 / 9781561388004 Fourth Printing. Courage Books Edition. h Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition.
Cigar Aficionado - the world's first consumer magazine devoted to cigars - single-handedly inspired a boom in the cigar market and a renaissance in cigar smoking. This book brings you three years of the magazine's coverage of the people, places, and accessories that have contributed to modern cigar culture.
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10.75 USD
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WILLIAMS, TERRY. Crackhouse: Notes From The End Of The Line.
Penguin Books, New York: 1993. 0140232516 / 9780140232516 Reprint Edition. s Softcover. Very good condition.
In this vivid, terrifying, and uncompromisingly human book, the respected ethnographer Terry Williams penetrates the shuttered world of a New York crackhouse and gives voices to the men and women who live there in an arrangement that suugests both a family and an aboriginal urban tribe. He deciphers their jargon and documents their rituals, from obsesive "missions" for the next high to the risky sex that accompanies - and often pays for - it. "Fresh and jargon-free" - The New York Review of Books
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11.10 USD
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