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Alexander T. Shulgin

A listing of and information on "all drugs which have been involved with the Controlled Substances Act since its enactment ... [and] a history of the U.S. drug laws"--p. v.

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Craig Heron

"Booze runs through Canadian social history like rivers through the land. And like rivers with their currents and rapids. backwaters and shoals. booze mixes elements of danger and pleasure. Craig Heron explores Canadians' varied experiences with and shifting attitudes towards alcohol in this revealing. richly illustrated book. Book jacket."--Jacket.

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Jim Supica and Richard Nahas

"From Schofield Revolvers to M&P AR-15s, for more than 150 years Smith & Wesson has turned out some of the world’s most desirable firearms. Gun Digest is ready to arm shooters with the tools they need to know, appreciate and add more of the iconic guns to their collections. The newly updated Standard Catalog of Smith & Wesson 4th Edition is the industry’s most comprehensive guide to the well-respected manufacturer’s firearms. At the heart of the reference are price listings for nearly 800 models of Smith & Wesson, covering its revolvers, semi-auto pistols, shotguns, rifles, military arms and other collectibles. Author Jim Supica and Richard Nahas have turned to the most trusted sources in the industry to provide the most current and accurate values for each model across 6 condition grades. This is the sort of market advantage that nets collectors the guns of their dreams, while keeping more of their hard-earned cash in their pockets. And with 144 new pages added since the last edition, the book covers even more Smith & Wesson models than ever before. The Standard Catalog of Smith & Wesson 4th Edition is more than a price guide. It is also an unparalleled identification reference. The volume brims with more than 300 detailed, full-color photographs, making figuring out which firearm is which a snap. The images are enhanced by Supica and Nahas’ comprehensive written descriptions, which include vital information about variations to each model, as well as a concise history of the firearm at hand."--Publisher's description.

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Katherine Turk

"In 1964, as part of its landmark Civil Rights Act, Congress outlawed workplace discrimination on the basis of such personal attributes as sex, race, and religion. This provision, known as Title VII, laid a new legal foundation for women's rights at work. Though President Kennedy and other lawmakers expressed high hopes for Title VII, early attempts to enforce it were inconsistent. In the absence of a consensus definition of sex equality in the law or society, Title VII's practical meaning was far from certain. The first history to foreground Title VII's sex provision, Equality on Trial examines how the law's initial promise inspired a generation of Americans to dispatch expansive notions of sex equality. Imagining new solidarities and building a broad class politics, these workers and activists engaged Title VII to generate a pivotal battle over the terms of democracy and the role of the state in all labor relationships. But the law's ambiguity also allowed for narrow conceptions of sex equality to take hold. Conservatives found ways to bend Title VII's possible meanings to their benefit, discovering that a narrow definition of sex equality allowed businesses to comply with the law without transforming basic workplace structures or ceding power to workers. These contests to fix the meaning of sex equality ultimately laid the legal and cultural foundation for the neoliberal work regimes that enabled some women to break the glass ceiling as employers lowered the floor for everyone else. Synthesizing the histories of work, social movements, and civil rights in the postwar United States, Equality on Trial recovers the range of protagonists whose struggles forged the contemporary meanings of feminism, fairness, and labor rights"--Book jacket.