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9781464404498 | Enslow Pub Inc, September 1, 2014, cover price $12.88 | About this edition: Straightforward information about alcohol, from the physical effects it has on someone's body to reasons why people drink, underage drinking, alcohol's effects on the body, and its influence on behavior and mental health.
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9780766042537 | Enslow Pub Inc, September 1, 2014, cover price $33.27 | About this edition: Straightforward information about alcohol, from the physical effects it has on someone's body to reasons why people drink, underage drinking, alcohol's effects on the body, and its influence on behavior and mental health.
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9781627124089 | Cavendish Square, January 1, 2014, cover price $17.64 | About this edition: A look at the various issues surrounding alcohol.
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9781627124072 | 1 edition (Cavendish Square, January 1, 2014), cover price $34.21 | About this edition: A look at the various issues surrounding alcohol.
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9780415892490 | Routledge, January 7, 2013, cover price $145.00
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9780415892506 | Routledge, January 7, 2013, cover price $29.95
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9780520253797 | Univ of California Pr, October 30, 2009, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: In a lively tour around the world and through the millennia, Uncorking the Past tells the compelling story of humanity's ingenious, intoxicating quest for the perfect drink.
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9780976093794 | Jared m Brown, June 30, 2009, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: What role did Scotch whisky play in the development of the steam engine?
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9780415311519 | 1 edition (Routledge, August 4, 2012), cover price $115.00
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9780415311526 | 1 edition (Routledge, August 3, 2012), cover price $34.95
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9781551096520 | Nimbus Pub Ltd, July 30, 2008, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A "spirited" look at the history of drinking in Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Drink-o-pedia is a collection of anecdotes, bits of trivia, and stories.
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9780802715524 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, May 10, 2006, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: An offbeat history of the world traces the story of humankind from the Stone Age to the twenty-first century from the perspective of six different drinks--beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and cola--describing their pervasive influence during pivotal eras of world history, from humankind's adoption of agriculture to the advent of globalization.
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9781845201654 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, June 12, 2006, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: This book examines our relationship with alcohol and examines how drink has evolved in its functions and uses from the late Middle Ages to the present day in the West.
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9781845201661 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 2, 2006, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: This book examines our relationship with alcohol and examines how drink has evolved in its functions and uses from the late Middle Ages to the present day in the West.
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9780802714473 | Walker & Co, May 30, 2005, cover price $25.00
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9780820467931 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, March 1, 2004, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Religion and Alcohol: Sobering Thoughts is an intriguing and thought-provoking collection of ten essays divided into two main parts.
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9780312283872 | 1 edition (Thomas Dunne Books, March 1, 2002), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A history of alcohol examines its many forms, including cocktails, medicine, and as a religious symbol, revealing a liquid that has the power to either provide supreme pleasure or utter destruction.
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9780312302368 | Reprint edition (Griffin, December 1, 2003), cover price $18.99 | About this edition: A history of alcohol examines its many forms, including cocktails, medicine, and as a religious symbol, revealing a liquid that has the power to either provide supreme pleasure or utter destruction.
9780140266665 | Penguin USA, January 1, 2000, cover price $22.01 | About this edition: Griffith Edwards's survey deploys history and science to explore the whole issue of alcohol.
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9780521623001 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 1999, cover price $114.99
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9780521644693 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $49.99
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9780520056534 | Univ of California Pr, March 1, 1991, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: A collection of essays examine the social histories of drinking in Europe, America, and Africa
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9780520070851 | Univ of California Pr, April 1, 1991, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays examine the social histories of drinking in Europe, America, and Africa
Product Description: From Roy Porter's introduction: `Professor Sournia's history of alcoholism is particularly to be welcomed. It constitutes the first full-documented, cross-cultural account, published in English, of one major facet of the history of drinking: the story of alcohol abuse; and it examines that topic with all the skill one has come to expect from a leading French historian of medicine ...read more
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9780631160267 | Blackwell Pub, September 1, 1990, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: From Roy Porter's introduction: `Professor Sournia's history of alcoholism is particularly to be welcomed.
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