Crusaders Against Opium: Protestant Missionaries in China, 1874-1917 By Kathleen L. Lodwick
1995 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 0813119243 | PDF | 19 MB
Opium addiction in China during the closing decades of the Ch'ing dynasty afflicted all segments of society. From government officials to farmers, the population fell prey to the effects of the drug. Some provinces reported addiction rates as high as eighty percent.With the birth of Chinese nationalism, reformers -- missionaries who had witnessed the effects of opium on Chinese society, students who had studied abroad and returned to their native land with broader perspectives, families who had lost all through the addiction of a loved one, doctors who had firsthand knowledge that opium use led only to death -- cried out against the drug.Even though many were convinced that opium use had sapped the strength of China, ending the use of the drug was a complicated problem. Opium trade financed the colonial government of India, and imports amounted to many tons annually. Domestic poppies were also cultivated as source of income.Kathleen Lodwick examines the intersecting efforts of Protestant missionaries, particularly medical doctors, who had long denounced opium use, the British Royal Commission on Opium, which was decidedly pro-opium, the U.S. Philippine Commission, which denounced not only the trade but the Chinese people, and the British officials who finally undertook the task of ending the importation of opium to China.China kept few records on the amount of drug use or its effects. Missionary medical doctors conducted the first scientific survey on the effects of the drug, and their findings provided clear evidence of its perniciousness. Such evidence could not be ignored, whatever the fortunes involved, and missionaries conducted a campaign of education and awareness in China and abroad. As a result of their efforts, China and Britain entered into a treaty that called for all opium trade to cease by 1917, and both governments as well as the missionaries become immediately active toward that end. The suppression campaign was among the most successful of the late Ch'ing reforms.Lodwick tells a fascinating story of imperial exploitation and of a strain of honest crusaders who sought to right some of the wrongs their own nation was perpetrating. This book represents a strong argument against legalization of addictive drugs, a topic being discussed today in the United States as a solution to the societal problems our own drug use has caused.

English | February 08, 2021 | ASIN: B08VTLR8CG |MP3|M4B | 8h 3m | 439 MB
Author and Narrator: Michelle Tea
The PEN Award-winning essay collection about queer lives: "Gorgeously punk-rock rebellious." (The A.V. Club)

Social Movements against Wind Power in Canada and Germany - Energy Policy and Contention
pdf | 24.18 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 0367439557 | Author: Andrea Bues | Year: 2020

Andrea Bues, "Social Movements against Wind Power in Canada and Germany: Energy Policy and Contention "
English | ISBN: 0367439557 | 2020 | 226 pages | PDF | 24 MB
Taking a comparative case study approach between Canada and Germany, this book investigates the contrasting response of governments to anti-wind movements.

Globalization and Its Impact on Violence Against Vulnerable Groups
by Milica S. Boskovic
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1522596275 | 340 Pages | PDF | 3.6 MB

English | March 15, 2013 | ASIN: B00BUINPGM |MP3|M4B | 20h 38m | 563 MB
Author: Thomas Dormandy | Narrator: Derek Perkins
This riveting audiobook takes the listener around the globe and through the centuries to discover how different cultures have sought to combat and treat physical pain. With colorful stories and sometimes frightening anecdotes, Dr. Thomas Dormandy describes a checkered progression of breakthroughs, haphazard experiments, ignorant attitudes, and surprising developments in human efforts to control pain.

Muslims Against Partition - Revisiting the Legacy of Allah Bakhsh and Other Patriotic Muslims By Dr. Shamsul-Islam
2015 | 216 Pages | ISBN: 8172210671 | PDF | 94 MB
This important study on the Partition of India, based on contemporary original sources, suggests that in 1940-2 there was more support among Muslims for an undivided India than for the Pakistan option. The failure to remember voices, such as that of Allah Bakhsh, who opposed two-nation theory vehemently and paid with his life, has helped the Hindutva camp to divert attention from its own commitment to the two-nation theory.

In Silico Modeling of Drugs Against Coronaviruses
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1071613650 | 792 Pages | PDF | 27 MB
This essential volume explores a variety of tools and protocols of structure-based (homology modeling, molecular docking, molecular dynamics, protein-protein interaction network) and ligand-based (pharmacophore mapping, quantitative structure-activity relationships or QSARs) drug design for ranking and prioritization of candidate molecules in search of effective treatment strategy against coronaviruses. Beginning with an introductory section that discusses coronavirus interactions with humanity and COVID-19 in particular, the book then continues with sections on tools and methodologies, literature reports and case studies, as well as online tools and databases that can be used for computational anti-coronavirus drug research. Written for the Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology series, chapters include the kind of practical detail and implementation advice that ensures high quality results in the lab.

English | 2021 | ASIN : B09BNMDL35 | 22 pages | PDF, AZW3, EPUB, MOBI | 0.83 MB
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This amazing book (Delta Variant: knowing how to win against this virus) by Dr. Michael Jonathan, came timely at a time such as this that this Virus is ravaging Nations, and with endless lives being lost every day.

The Economic War Against Cuba: A Historical and Legal Perspective on the U.S. Blockade by Salim Lamrani
English | March 1, 2013 | ISBN: 1583673415, 1583673407 | EPUB | 144 pages | 2.2 MB
It is impossible to fully understand Cuba today without also understanding the economic sanctions levied against it by the United States. For over fifty years, these sanctions have been upheld by every presidential administration, and at times intensified by individual presidents and acts of Congress. They are a key part ofthe U.S. government's ongoing campaign to undermine the Cuban Revolution, and stand in egregious violation of international law. Most importantly, the sanctions are cruelly designed for their harmful impact on the Cuban people.