Iain Gately
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Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol
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2008
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12 editions
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Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization
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2001
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18 editions
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Rush Hour
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2014
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7 editions
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The Secret Surfer
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Planet Party : A World of Celebration
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The Assessor
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1996
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2 editions
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Rush Hour: How 500 Million Commuters Survive the Daily Journey to Work
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2015
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2 editions
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Drink, a Cultural History of Alcohol
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Heathcliff Home-Can: Out on Limb-Cn
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La Diva Nicotina. El Precio Es En Dolares
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“Eagerness in drinking is a practice injurious to the partaker. Do not haste to mischief, my friend. Your drink is not being taken from you. It is given you, and waits you.”
― Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol
― Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol
“If an Aztec and a Roman were transported to the twenty-first century the Aztec might be the less mystified. He would know why people were smoking.”
― Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization
― Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization
“Their compliments were almost universal, their warnings few, if dire. Wine was a force for good, a substance that enabled people to relax while simultaneously elevating their minds, inspiring drinkers to “laughter and wisdom and prudence and learning.”
― Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol
― Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol
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