RX Appalachia: Stories of Treatment and Survival in Rural Kentucky 1642591238, 9781642591231

Using the narratives of women who use(d) drugs, this account challenges popular understandings of Appalachia spread by s

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RX Appalachia: Stories of Treatment and Survival in Rural Kentucky
1642591238, 9781642591231

More than evoking chills down the spine and cautious glances over one's shoulder, spooky stories create lasting bon

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Nine scholars consider the impact of social and economic change on rural Appalachia. As the tangle of problems, strains,

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The hidden story of how Russia’s greatest wartime epic was created at the front. Featuring lost work by Vasily Grossma

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A graphic memoir about the treatment of mental illness, treating mental illness as a commodity, and the often unavoidabl

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The history of shipwrecks involves many shocking episodes: from men who saw shipmates eaten by sharks, to castaways who

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Ian Buruma’s spellbinding account of three near-mythic figures—a Dutch fixer, a Manchu princess, and Himmler’s masseur—w

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In this informed and entertaining essay, John H. Ellis describes the efforts of physicians and laymen to keep illness at

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Through narrative nonfiction text, readers hear stories from survivors of the earthquake and tsunami that struck the nor

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