Neuroscience of alcohol: mechanisms and treatment
"Hitler bedeutet Krieg"--Das erkannten anfangs nur wenige, doch bald nach 1933 setzte die zunehmende Aufrüstung ein. Damit ging zwar die Arbeitslosigkeit zurück, aber das bessere Leben, das Angehörigen der "Volksgemeinschaft" versprochen wurde, blieb mit wenigen Ausnahmen wie de…
"This book maps changing patterns of drinking. Emphasis is laid on the connected histories of different regions and populations across the globe regarding consumption patterns, government policies, economics and representations of alcohol and drinking. Its transnational perspect…
Reasonable Risk examines the concept of risk as it applies to everyday life in general and to alcohol consumption specifically. The book addresses how we assess risks (and benefits), and the strategies we use to manage them. It examines the elements that shape our perceptions of…
Examines the concept of risk as it applies to everyday life in general and to alcohol consumption specifically. The book addresses how we assess risks (and benefits), and the strategies we use to manage them. It examines the elements that shape our perceptions of risk-cultural i…
Zusammenfassung: "In Drunk on Genocide, Edward B. Westermann reveals how, over the course of the Third Reich, scenes involving alcohol consumption and revelry among the SS and police became a routine part of rituals of humiliation in the camps, ghettos, and killing fields of Eas…
"Unique political history of Russia through the lens of alcohol. Filled with colorful stories of how rulers from Peter the Great to Stalin used alcohol to control their courts. Utilizes archival evidence from entire spectrum of Russian history, from the Tsars to Putin. Closes wi…
Overview: Russia is famous for its vodka, and its culture of extreme intoxication. But just as vodka is central to the lives of many Russians, it is also central to understanding Russian history and politics. In Vodka Politics, Mark Lawrence Schrad argues that debilitating socie…
"This is a study of six beach resort communities on the U.S. South's Atlantic and Gulf coasts: Galveston, Biloxi, Panama City, St. Augustine, Myrtle Beach, and Virginia Beach. As these cities became leisure destinations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Antho…
