Resultados para "Methan" en Política y ciencias sociales

Food is a conduit for connection; we envision smiling families gathered around a table-eating, happy, content. But what happens when poverty, mental illness, homelessness, and addiction claim a seat at that table? In The Meth Lunches, Kim Foster peers behind the polished visions of perfectly curated dinners and charming families to reveal the complex reality when poverty and food intersect.

Meth alchemists all over the United States tap the occulted potencies of industrial chemical and big pharma products to try to cure the ills of precarious living: underemployment, insecurity, and the feeling of idleness. Meth fires up your attention and makes repetitive tasks pleasurable, whether it’s factory work or tinkering at home. Users are awake for days and feel exuberant and invincible. In one person’s words, they “get more life”.

Author Dirk Eldredge demonstates how the drug war has led only to overcrowded courts and prisons, rising crime, official corruption, eroded civil rights and race relations, and new public-health crises. He makes the case for an alternative strategy: tightly controlled legalization accompanied by expanded drug education, prevention, research, and treatment programs.

Hello, Shadowlands takes a deep plunge into crime rings both large and small. It also examines how China’s rise and America’s decline are creating new opportunities for transnational syndicates to thrive. Focusing on human stories on both sides of this crime wave, the acclaimed Bangkok-based broadcaster and journalist Patrick Winn intimately profiles the men and women of the region who are forced to make agonizing choices in the absence of law.

Wissenschaftlich geprüfter Stoff für alle Serienjunkies: Wie reagiert man nach neusten wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen am besten auf eine Zombie-Epidemie à la Walking Dead? Könnte jeder Chemielehrer einfach so Crystal Meth produzieren wie Walter White in Breaking Bad? Wann ermöglicht die Wissenschaft das Teleportieren wie in Star Trek? Und was für eigentümliche klimatische Bedingungen herrschen eigentlich in Game of Thrones?

Alles über Breaking Bad: hausgemachtes Methamphetamin. Wer ist Heisenberg wirklich? Kann ein kleiner Kristall eine ganze Wohnung in die Luft jagen? 10 Dinge, die man über Breaking Bad wissen sollte.