Okrent explores the origins, implementation, and failure of that great American delusion known as Prohibition. "Last Call" explains how Prohibition happened, what life under it was like, and what it did to the country.

"Are you ready to take your power back from alcohol? Whether you're looking to go booze free or want to make informed adjustments to your drinking habits, this inclusive and non-judgemental guide gives you the scientifically backed tools you need to create a relationship with alcohol that works for you, from cold exposure therapy to sound healing and beyond. You will explore the roots of your drinking behaviours and triggers, hear from leading industry...

Hannah Luckraft finds an escape from her sales job, her strained relations with her younger brother, and her lonely and difficult life in her growing relationship with alcoholic Robert, as she looks to find happiness in an ultimate altered state.

All kinds of foods and beverages are laid out in these pages, along with picnics and banquets, intimate suppers and quiet dinners, noisy parties and public celebrations - in poems. Eating and drinking and the rituals that go with them are at least as important as loving in most people's lives, yet for every hundred anthologies of poems about love, hardly one is devoted to the pleasures of the table. This book abundantly remedies this deficiency.

"This is the second edition of a book written by a psychologist with many years' experience in counseling patients with alcohol problems. The author dispenses practical advice for those wanting help in moderating their drinking or in learning how to abstain permanently. The second edition has two new chapters, and the other chapters are updated with new self-diagnostic questionnaires and summaries of recent research into substance abuse." --