This book offers a new history of drug use in sport. It argues that the idea of taking drugs to enhance performance has not always been the crisis or 'evil' we now think it is. Instead, the...
This study is an outgrowth of our interest in the history of modern chemistry. The paucity of reliable, quantitative knowledge about past science was brought home forcibly to us when we undertook a...
Drug free sport is an unattainable aspiration. In this critical, paradigm-shifting reappraisal of contemporary drug policy in sport, Bob Stewart and Aaron Smith argue that drug use in sport is an...
An Outline of the History of Burma, written by P.C. Williams and originally published in 1876, is a comprehensive historical account of Burma (now known as Myanmar) from ancient times up to the late...
""History Of The Fylde Of Lancashire"" is a book written by John Porter in 1876. The book provides a comprehensive account of the history of the Fylde region in Lancashire, England. The author begins...