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Free Download Maziyar Ghiabi, "Power and Illicit Drugs in the Global South " English | ISBN: 0367585189 | 2020 | 200 pages | EPUB | 1280 KB More than a hundred years have passed since the adoption of the first prohibitionist laws on drugs. Increasingly, the edifice of international drug control and laws is vacillating under pressures of reform. Scholarship on drugs history and policy has had a tendency to look at the issue mostly in the Western hemisphere of the globe or to privilege

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Free Download Valencia Fonseca, "Power In Modern Societies" English | ISBN: 0367284073 | 2019 | 328 pages | EPUB | 1258 KB An extensively revised and updated new edition of Olsen's Power in Societies, this book contains carefully selected and edited writings on the exercise of social power in contemporary societies. The essays cover four broad topics: power in social organization, theoretical perspectives on power, national power structures, and power and the state.

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Free Download David L. Harvey, "Poverty, Family, and Kinship in a Heartland Community" English | ISBN: 1138530557 | 2017 | 336 pages | EPUB | 2 MB With a few notable exceptions, sociological studies of poor, native-born, non-ethnic whites in rural areas are rare. This book corrects this oversight with an ethnographic study of a small, poor, white, heartland community that the author calls "Potter Addition." The community consists of some 100 families and is located on the

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