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‎Progress Report of an Ad Hoc Panel on Drug Abuse. - [SCARCE REPORT FROM THE WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE, 1962-63]‎

‎Washington, The White House, 1962. Lex8vo. Typewritten manuscript with blue wrappers. Leaves stapled in left margin. A bit of sunning, mostly to wrappers. 59 pp.‎

‎Original White House Report on a various number of different drugs and their effect, usage and addictability. The report was created by the request of President John F. Kennedy and was meant to support the President's Advisory Commission on Narcotics and Drug Abuse.""Public concern over the problem of drug abuse, which had been relatively dormant during the 1940s and 1950s, flared again during the 1960s. The intensification of national concern resulted in increasing pressure for federal initiatives in the area. In response to this development, a White House Conference on Narcotics and Drug Abuse was convened in 1962, which resulted in the establishment of the President's Advisory Commission on Narcotics and Drug Abuse on January 15, 1963."" (Abadinsky. Drug use and abuse, p 65.)""The President released a document entitled ""Progress Report"" [The present report] which had been produced by eight doctors (three M.D.'s, four Ph.D.'s, and one who held both degrees) designated as an Ad Hoc Panel on Drug Abuse to confer with the White House Science Advisor and give advice on what should be done. The members of this panel could not be faulted for their collective eminence, but none of them had theretofore been closely identified with drug-abuse problems, so their findings were developed from what might be termed a slightly fresh viewpoint. They started from the hypothesis that nearly all compulsive drug abusers could be rehabilitated, by which they meant withdrawn from drugs and re-established in society, since they found drug abuse was inevitably a manifestation of some underlying psychological or physiological disorder.Accordingly they rejected proposals for imposing long prison sentences on drug offenders, on the one hand, and for placing addicts on any kind of maintenance regime, on the other. Instead they urged lengthy and extensive parole supervision in all cases, following the pattern that had been developed (not surprisingly) in California."" (King, The Drug Hang Up, p. 232).The report drew several conclusions regarding why people use drugs, one of them being: ""Growth of ""long-hair"" and beatnik cults which experiment with the use of psychotic drugs to achieve group cohesiveness and personal nirvana."" (p. 14).‎

‎V.Bogolyubov and I. Chekin. The White House. (What they were silent about). Soci‎

‎V.Bogolyubov and I. Chekin. The White House. (What they were silent about). Social drama of the White Guards in 3 acts 5 pictures. 1928. M. Tekino Print Central type. NKVM shooting range 3000 56 pages 15x22 cm./V.Bogolyubov i I. Chekin. BELYY DOM. (O chem oni molchali). Sotsial'naya drama belogvardeytsev v 3 deystviyakh 5 kartinakh.1928. M. Teakinopechat' Tsentral'naya tip. NKVM tir. 3000 56 str. 15x22 sm Short description: V.Bogolyubov and I. Chekin. The White House. (What they were silent about). Social drama of the White Guards in 3 acts 5 pictures. 1928. M. Tekino Print Central type. NKVM shooting range 3000 56 pages 15x22 cm. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUbd-2ced3c8b8d1a3779‎

‎Two Essays: One upon Single Vision with Two Eyes" the Other on Dew. A Letter to the Right Hon. Lloyd, Lord Kenyon and an Account of a Female of the White Race of Mankind, Part of whose Skin Resembles that of a Negro (+) An Account of a Female of the W... - [THE FIRST RECOGNIZABLE STATEMENT OF THE THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION]‎

‎London, Archibald Constable and Co, 1818. 8vo. Bound uncut in a nice recent half calf binding with five raised bands with gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. A very nice and clean copy. (6), (I)-LXXIV, (2), 439, (1) pp. ‎

‎First appearance of Well's important work, which constitutes the first clear pioneering statement about natural selection. He applied the idea to the origin of different skin colours in human races, but from the context it seems he thought it might be applied more widely. Charles Darwin said: ""[Wells] distinctly recognises the principle of natural selection, and this is the first recognition which has been indicated"". (Darwin, Charles 1866. The origin of species by means of natural selection. 4th and subsequent editions, in the preliminary 'Historical sketch')In 1813, Wells read a paper to the Royal Society of London, occasioned by a white female patient with splotches of dark skin. In his paper, Wells speculated about the origin of skin color variations in humans. He suggested that long ago, there might have arisen in equatorial regions a variety of humans that were better able to resist diseases such as malaria, perhaps aided by darker skin, and they survived where other variations perished. Similarly, lighter-skinned humans might have been variations that were better able to survive in temperate and arctic regions.""Wells' paper was not printed in the Philosophical Transactions, but after he died in 1817, two of his treatises, ""On Single vision with Two Eyes,"" and ""On Dew"", were published posthumously, and Wells' brief ""Account of a white female, part of whose skin resembles that of a negro"" was added on at the very end. No one noticed, certainly not Charles Darwin, who was 9 years old at the time.Time went by, Darwin discovered natural selection on his own in the late 1830s, and he sprang it on the world in On the Origin of Species in 1859. During the year after publication, various readers noticed that certain aspects of Darwinian evolution had been anticipated by such naturalists as Étienne Geoffroy St. Hilaire, Patrick Matthew, and the anonymous author of the Vestiges. So in 1861, for the third edition of the Origin, Darwin added an ""Historical Sketch"" in which he discussed his precursors and to what extent they anticipated his own work (third image). Geoffroy St. Hilaire, Matthew, and the Vestiges all merited a paragraph in the ""Historical Sketch."" But there was still no mention of William Wells.Then, sometime before 1866, an American, Robert Rowley, drew the attention of an Englishman, Charles Loring Brace, to Wells' paper, and Rowley conveyed the information to Darwin. Darwin was apparently impressed. For the fifth edition of the Origin, he revised the ""Historical Sketch"", and he added a paragraph about Wells, in which he commented: ""In this paper he [Wells] distinctly recognises the principle of natural selection, and this is the first recognition which has been indicated."" Darwin also pointed out, quite correctly, that Wells used natural selection only to account for human races, not to explain the origin of species. But still, Wells was the only precursor of natural selection that Darwin took seriously.""( William B. Ashworth, Linda Hall Library)‎

‎Carl Joubert. The White Hand (Baylaya Ruka). In English (ask us if in doubt)/Car‎

‎"Carl Joubert. The White Hand (Baylaya Ruka). In English (ask us if in doubt)/Carl Joubert. The White Hand (Baylaya Ruka). In English. London. Hurst and Blackett. 1906. It is my object in the following pages to give a true honest account of the present state of the Russian Empire. That many books have been published on the same subject within the last few years I am aware. Volume after volume describing social and even political life in Russia has made its appearance; but all are written from the print of view either of the traveller or of the alien politician who seeks to demonstrate the effects of Russian expansion on the policy of his own particular country We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalba9027463b69576be"‎

‎Breakthrough by the 33rd Kuban Division of the defensive strip of the White Pole‎

‎"Breakthrough by the 33rd Kuban Division of the defensive strip of the White Poles (July 4-7, 1920) Text.-Moscow: Voinizdat, 1939 (Leningrad) -88 p., 5 incl.: diagrams; 20.5x13 cm./Proryv 33-y Kubanskoy diviziey oboronitel'noy polosy belopolyakov (4-7 iyulya 1920 g.) Tekst.-Moskva: Voenizdat, 1939 (Leningrad).-88 s., 5 vkl. l. skhem.: skhem.; 20,5x13 sm. Short description: Breakthrough by the 33rd Kuban Division of the defensive strip of the White Poles (July 4-7, 1920) Text.-Moscow: Voinizdat, 1939 (Leningrad) -88 p., 5 incl.: diagrams; 20.5x13 cm. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUbd-88f17aa1563a874c"‎