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Describes the psychoactive constituents of cannabis and the effects
on potency of growth conditions, genetics, harvesting techniques,
and processing. Includes variations in THC and CBD content, species
differentiation, seeds, grafting, cloning, bonsai marijuana,
growing techniques, extraction of THC, preparation of hashish and
hash oil, smoking vs eating, testing for THC and CBD, as well as
legal concerns. Illustrated.
From the very beginning, filmmakers have struggled to free
themselves from censorship and manipulation by special-interest
groups, and this struggle is clearly evident in the history of drug
films. "Cocaine Fiends and Reefer Madness" is an exhaustive
exploration of the history of the depiction of psychoactive drugs
in motion pictures from Thomas Edison's "Opium Smoker" (1894) to
"Cocaine Cowboys" (1978), Included are over 400 silent and 1,000
sound films as well as nearly 500 drug-abuse films, 85 experimental
films, and 135 television programs. More than 150 stills, most
never before published and many extremely rare, illustrate the
text. Arranged chronologically as well as by drug type and often by
country, this book shows that, far from being a recent phenomenon,
drug films were made in nearly every country and period that
produced a significant body of films.
Visit Edison's first film studio, reflect on the filmic
consequences of Cocteau's opium addiction with Kenneth Anger's
early experiences with magic mushrooms, see Charles Laughton
smuggling cocaine inside a statute of the Buddha, and watch Douglas
Fairbanks, Sr., consuming vast quantities of opium and cocaine in a
World War I "Sherlock Holmes" parody.
Between 2008 and 2012 the UK plans to turn off its conventional
analogue terrestrial television and switch fully to digital TV.
This is part of a trend across all the technologically advanced
nations of the world. The city of Berlin led the way in 2003. The
Netherlands became the first country to switch fully in 2006.
Digital television was launched in the UK in 1998. Its growth has
been dramatic and by no means smooth. The decision to switch fully
is, at its heart, a political one: governments and regulators
manage terrestrial spectrum and are ultimately responsible for
switchover policy. Switching off the conventional analogue
television signals to which consumers (and voters) have been
accustomed for most of their lives poses a tricky political
challenge. It cannot be accomplished by government diktat.
Switching to Digital Television shows how, for success, public
policy needs to work in conjunction with both competitive market
forces and with organised broadcasting industry collaboration.
Switching to Digital Television is an authoritative study of the
policy of digital switchover. It is based primarily on UK
experience but includes comparative studies spanning the United
States, Japan and the leading countries of western Europe.
Ravenna has eight World Heritages sites--churches, baptisteries,
chapels and monuments dating from the fifth and sixth centuries AD
which are renowned especially for exquisite mosaics portraying
biblical scenes and figures. They were designed, constructed and
decorated over decades during the era of the fall of the western
Roman empire, against a tide of invasion, regime change, conflict
and a destructive Italian civil war. How did Ravenna achieve such
architectural and artistic glory in this era? The book recounts the
city's unique experience as the capital both of the late western
Roman empire and of its successor Gothic kingdoms. It shows the
central role played by its bishops as the early Christian Church
detached itself from the crumbling imperial government. It brings
out the important cultural contribution of the kingdom of Italy
headed by Theodoric the Ostrogoth and the strong links between
Ravenna and the emerging Byzantine empire of the eastern emperor
Justinian.
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Welcome to Hell on Earth - Artificial Intelligence, Babies, Bitcoin, Cartels, China, Democracy, Diversity, Dysgenics, Equality, Hackers, Human Rights, Islam, Liberalism, Prosperity, The Web (Paperback)
Michael Starks
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Remarks on Impossibility, Incompleteness, Paraconsistency, Undecidability, Randomness, Computability, Paradox, and Uncertainty - in Chaitin, Wittgenstein, Hofstadter, Wolpert, Doria, da Costa, Godel, Searle, Rodych, Berto, Floyd, Moyal-Sharrock and Yanofsky (Paperback)
Michael Starks
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