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LIST PRICE $30.00 Save 97%
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Format: Hardcover ISBN-10: 0684196700 ISBN-13: 9780684196701 Jun 1996 Publisher: Simon & Schuster 510 pages Language: English |
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Details

| Size | | Length: | 510 pages | | Height: | 9.8 in | | Width: | 6.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.5 in | | Weight: | 28.8 oz |
Industry Reviews "This is a lively, well-researched book, strengthened by Jonnes' eye for detail and sense of illustrative anecdote." Philadelphia Inquirer - Tim Warren (08/18/1996)
"Jonnes is addicted to intriguing etymological and historical tidbits; "dope" comes from doop, Dutch for "sauce," an apt term for the sticky stuff prepared in opium dens. (Booth reports that the world "hip" has an opium-den association; "Its root lay in the fact that addicts gained sore hips from reclining on their sides on hard, opium den bed-boards.")" Carson
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