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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Breckenridge Public Library | 362.293 ING (Text) | 33500013011812 | Main | Available | - |
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- ISBN: 9781643130552
- ISBN: 1643130552
- Physical Description: xxiv, 440 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : ... Read More
- Edition: First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
- Publisher: New York : Pegasus Books, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary, etc.: | An intelligent and authoritative history of ... Read More |
| Language Note: | Text in English. |
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| Subject: | Opium trade > History. HISTORY / Social History. HISTORY / World. HISTORY / Modern / General. HISTORY / Modern. HISTORY / Social History. HISTORY / World. |
| Genre: | Nonfiction. |
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| 250 | . | ‡aFirst Pegasus Books cloth edition. | |
| 264 | 1. | ‡aNew York : ‡bPegasus Books, ‡c2019. | |
| 264 | 4. | ‡c©2019 | |
| 300 | . | ‡axxiv, 440 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : ‡billustrations (some color), maps ; ‡c24 cm | |
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| 504 | . | ‡aIncludes bibliographical references and index. | |
| 520 | . | ‡aAn intelligent and authoritative history of opium--a drug that has both healed and harmed since the beginning of civilization. Poppy tears, opium, heroin, fentanyl: humankind has been in thrall to the "Milk of Paradise" for millennia. The latex of papaver somniferum is a bringer of sleep, of pleasurable lethargy, of relief from pain--and hugely addictive. A commodity without rival, it is renewable, easy to extract, transport, and refine, and subject to an insatiable global demand. No other substance in the world is as simple to produce or as profitable. It is the basis of a gargantuan industry built upon a shady underworld, but ultimately it is an agricultural product that lives many lives before it reaches the branded blister packet, the intravenous drip, or the scorched and filthy spoon. Many of us will end our lives dependent on it. In Milk of Paradise, acclaimed cultural historian Lucy Inglis takes readers on an epic journey from ancient Mesopotamia to modern America and Afghanistan, from Sanskrit to pop, from poppy tears to smack, from morphine to today's synthetic opiates. It is a tale of addiction, trade, crime, sex, war, literature, medicine, and, above all, money. And, as this ambitious, wide-ranging, and compelling account vividly shows, the history of opium is our history and it speaks to us of who we are. | |
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| 655 | 4. | ‡aNonfiction. | |
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