Since the Stone Age, drugs have been sniffed to induce sleep, mixed to cure ills, swallowed to stimulate creativity, snorted to increase sexuality, popped for the hell of it & smoked to see God. Natural or synthesized, they have been smuggled for all kinds of reasons from saving the world to becoming stinking rich. Blamed for deaths, wars, suicides, collapses of governments, multiple crashes, individual crises, anarchy & chaos, they have also been praised for opening minds & expanding consciousness. Worshipped & demonised, venerated & chastised, force-fed & forbidden. Every society has had its intoxicant, be it sacrament or scourge. They have also become irreversibly interwoven with politics, sex, business, religion, & rock & roll, providing writers, whether emerging from the ancient classical world or the street laboratory of today, with both inspiration & challenge. ...

Since the Stone Age, drugs have been sniffed to induce sleep, mixed to cure ills, swallowed to stimulate creativity, snorted to increase sexuality, popped for the hell of it & smoked to see God. Natural or synthesized, they have been smuggled for all kinds of reasons from saving the world to becoming stinking rich. Blamed for deaths, wars, suicides, collapses of governments, multiple crashes, individual crises, anarchy & chaos, they have also been praised for opening minds & expanding consciousness. Worshipped & demonised, venerated & chastised, force-fed & forbidden. Every society has had its intoxicant, be it sacrament or scourge. They have also become irreversibly interwoven with politics, sex, business, religion, & rock & roll, providing writers, whether emerging from the ancient classical world or the street laboratory of today, with both inspiration & challenge. ...

A brilliantly inventive, fabulously illustrated addition to the Far-Flung Adventure series from the award-winning, bestselling author & illustrator team, Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell. Set in the same world as Fergus Crane & Corby Flood's stories, this is the tale of a small boy, Hugo Pepper, & his amazing exploits. Raised in the Frozen North by reindeer herders, his parents eaten by polar bears when he was just a baby, Hugo discovers that the sled they arrived in has a very special compass
- one that can be set to ' Home'. & so Hugo arrives in Firefly Square
- to discover a group of very special friends, & a dastardly enemy... With three-toed snowmen, a secret buried treasure & a host of fabulous stories, this is a fantastic new tale in this series.

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Hugo! is the remarkable biography of Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela & leader of the Bolivian Revolution. Ex-paratrooper ...

Human Cargo is a remarkable oral testament. Caroline Moorehead has visited war zones, camps & prisons from Guinea & Afghanistan ...

Human smuggling is now said to have an annual turnover of over $7 billion
- more than revenue from smuggling drugs. Caroline Moorehead's
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