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Author: Howard Padwa ,
Jacob Cunningham
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint: ABC-CLIO
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 3.00cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 1.021kg
ISBN: 9781598842296
ISBN 10: 1598842293
Pages: 398
Publication Date: 01 January 2010
Recommended Age: From 7 to 17 years
Audience:
General/trade
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Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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General
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
This intelligently written, accesible volume focuses on addiction and its history. - School Library Journal Appropriate for libraries where addictions are studied and where there is an emphasis on the use of primary sources. - Booklist Aimed at a general audience, this handy yet comprehensive reference by Padwa (independent scholar) and Cunningham (history, Hebrew Union College) is divided into three major sections...In this new work the lucid language makes even legal entries easy to comprehend, thereby assisting those addicts who are looking to help themselves as well as those supporters helping friends or relatives overcome their addiction problems. Overall, this book achieves what it sets out to, serving as a handy, go-to reference work. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. - Choice ... recommended for purchase by public and academic libraries. - Catholic Library World
<p>. .. recommended for purchase by public and academic libraries. - <p>Catholic Library World
This intelligently written, accesible volume focuses on addiction and its history. * School Library Journal * Appropriate for libraries where addictions are studied and where there is an emphasis on the use of primary sources. * Booklist * Aimed at a general audience, this handy yet comprehensive reference by Padwa (independent scholar) and Cunningham (history, Hebrew Union College) is divided into three major sections….In this new work the lucid language makes even legal entries easy to comprehend, thereby assisting those addicts who are looking to help themselves as well as those supporters helping friends or relatives overcome their addiction problems. Overall, this book achieves what it sets out to, serving as a handy, go-to reference work. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. * Choice * … recommended for purchase by public and academic libraries. * Catholic Library World *
<p> This intelligently written, accesible volume focuses on addiction and its history. -<p>School Library Journal
Author Information
Howard Padwa, PhD, works as a researcher in Los Angeles. Jacob Cunningham, MA, teaches history at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles, CA.
