Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World, Halpern John, Blistein David

Автор: Halpern, Paul
Название: Battle of the otranto straits
ISBN: 0253343798 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253343796
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Цена: 27450.00 T
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Описание: Called by some a "Mediterranean Jutland," the Battle of the Otranto Straits involved warships from Austria, Germany, Italy, Britain, and France. Although fought by light units with no dreadnoughts involved, Otranto was a battle in three dimensions—engaging surface vessels, aircraft, and subsurface weapons (both submarines and mines). An attempt to halt the movement of submarines into the Adriatic using British drifters armed with nets and mines led to a raid by Austrian light cruisers. The Austrians inflicted heavy damage on the drifters, but Allied naval forces based at Brindisi cut off their withdrawal. The daylight hours saw a running battle, with the Austrians at considerable risk. Heavier Austrian units put out from Cattaro in support, and at the climactic moment the Allied light forces had to turn away, permitting the Austrians to escape. In the end, the Austrians had inflicted more damage than they suffered themselves. The Otranto action shows the difficulties of waging coalition warfare in which diplomatic and national jealousies override military efficiency.

Автор: Halpern Jake
Название: Bad Paper: Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the Underworld
ISBN: 1250076331 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250076335
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
Цена: 11650.00 T
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"The book teems with eccentric characters and scenes that made my skin crawl.... Explained simply, read easily, Bad Paper defies expectations. It should also raise quite a few alarms."-Colin Dwyer, NPR

The Federal Trade Commission receives more complaints about rogue debt collecting than it does about any activity besides identity theft. In Bad Paper, journalist Jake Halpern reveals why. He tells the story of Aaron Siegel, a former banking executive, and Brandon Wilson, a former armed robber, who become partners and go in quest of "paper"-the uncollected debts that are sold off by banks for pennies on the dollar. As Aaron and Brandon learn, the world of consumer debt collection is an unregulated shadowland, where operators often make unwarranted threats and even collect debts that are not theirs.

Introducing an unforgettable cast of characters, Halpern chronicles Aaron and Brandon's lives as they manage high-pressure call centers, hunt for paper in Las Vegas casinos, and meet in parked cars to sell the social security numbers and account information of unsuspecting consumers. The result is a vital expos on the cost of a system that compounds the troubles of hardworking Americans and an astonishing feat of storytelling.

Автор: Halpern John, Blistein David
Название: Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World
ISBN: 1549181939 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781549181931
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 28660.00 T
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Описание: From a psychiatrist on the frontlines of addiction medicine -- the former medical director of the Boston Center for Addiction Treatment and former director of the Laboratory for Integrative Psychiatry at the legendary McLean Hospital -- comes the fascinating history of the flower that helped to build, and now threatens, modern society. In 2017 over 60,000 Americans died as the result of opioid overdoses, more than died annually in this country during the peak of the AIDs epidemic, more than die every year from breast cancer, and more Americans than died in the entire Vietnam War. But even though the overdose crisis ravaging our nation seems impossible to ignore, few understand how it came to be. Opium tells the extraordinary and at times harrowing story of how we arrived at today's crisis -- a story that begins at the dawn of human civilization with enterprising poppy farmers in Mesopotamia, explores how Greek physicians and forgotten chemists discovered opium's effects and refined its power, how colonial powers spirited opium around the world in the interest of building out empires, and finally how international drug companies used the substance as a model for a wave of pills that laid the groundwork for today's raging overdose epidemic. Throughout, the book demonstrates how opium has served to build our modern world, from trade networks to medical protocols to drug enforcement policies. Most important, it reveals how crucial misjudgments and patterns of greed served to spread dangerous uses of the drug, hurtling the world toward crisis -- and how, using the insights of history and the miracles of state-of-the-art science, we can overcome it.

Автор: Blistein, David,Halpern, John H.
Название: Opium
ISBN: 031641767X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780316417679
Издательство: Little Brown
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Цена: 17190.00 T
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Описание: Salt meets Dopesick in this fascinating history of the long path to today`s opioid crisis by an esteemed Harvard-trained psychiatrist, an addiction expert working on the frontlines of the epidemic.

Автор: Blistein David
Название: David`s Inferno: Wisdom from My Journey Through the Dark Woods of Depression
ISBN: 1578264294 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781578264292
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Цена: 10390.00 T
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Описание: David's Inferno combines intensely personal reminiscences of a two-year nervous breakdown with contemporary insights on how manic-depression manifests and how it is diagnosed and treated. Author David Blistein shares his experiences to shed light on the darkness of depression for fellow travelers as well as those who care about them.

Millions of people suffer from major depressive episodes. All of them want relief but, more importantly, most simply want to know that they are not alone. With gentle wry humor and a compassionate tone, David's Inferno offers a tale of realization, acceptance, and hope. It is neither prescriptive nor opinionated, seeing all forms of therapy as potentially beneficial in the continuum of care.

David's Inferno is also an ideal book for friends and family of those suffering from depression, helping them to better understand what their loved ones are experiencing.

Автор: Halpern Justin
Название: Shit My Dad Says
ISBN: 0330533452 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780330533454
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
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Цена: 6920.00 T
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Описание: The international bestseller and Twitter sensation: a brilliant new comic voice, and a 100% real father-son relationship that lies somewhere between Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Wonder Years . . .

Автор: Halpern Julie
Название: Get Well Soon
ISBN: 0312581483 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312581480
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
Цена: 7350.00 T
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"I got a better look at some of my fellow patients in this freak hole, and they all look pretty close to my age. They come up to the check-in desk to get pills. After they take them, the desk people look in their mouths to make sure they've swallowed. It's like something out of The Twilight Zone. Are they going to do that to me?"

Anna Bloom is depressed so depressed that her parents have committed her to a mental hospital with a bunch of other messed-up teens. Here, she meets a roommate with a secret (and a plastic baby), a doctor who focuses way too much on her weight, and a cute, shy boy who just might like her. But wait Being trapped in a loony bin isn't supposed to be about making friends, losing weight, and having a crush, is it?"