1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463413003321

Autore

Cannon Eoin F. <1973->

Titolo

The saloon and the mission : addiction, conversion, and the politics of redemption in American culture / / Eoin F. Cannon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-61376-272-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (342 p.)

Disciplina

362.29/15750973

Soggetti

Alcoholism - Social aspects - United States - History

Alcoholism - Treatment - United States - History

Alcoholics - Rehabilitation - United States - History

Temperance in literature

Alcoholism in literature

Rescue missions (Church work) - United States - History

Recovery movement - United States - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-309) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : addiction recovery and the world as it should be -- The drunkard's conversion and the salvation of the social order -- "What a radical found in Water Street" -- The varieties of conversion polemic -- New Deal individualism and the big book of Alcoholics Anonymous -- Literary realism and the secularization of the drunkard's conversion -- The drinker's epiphany in modernist literature -- The iceman cometh and the drama of disillusion -- Recovery memoir and the crack-up of liberalism -- Conclusion : addiction in a new era of recovery.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910795249103321

Titolo

Biology and management of the German cockroach / / edited by Changlu Wang, Chow-Yang Lee, Michael K. Rust

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Australia : , : CSIRO Publishing, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-4863-1208-X

1-4863-1207-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 pages)

Disciplina

648.7

Soggetti

Household pests - Control

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Sommario/riassunto

Comprehensive reference on the biology, behaviour and management of German cockroaches.