Los Angeles Under the Influence
Author: Doublewide Press
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780971198616
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Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780971198616
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: National Research Council/Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1994-02-01
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 0309048850
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Drug use in the workplace, its effect on performance and safety, and the role of workplace drug testing has received much attention in the popular press. But what do we actually know about this troubling issue? With an extensive and readable overview of the literature, the committee presents what we do know by examining the major issues: The extent and severity of drug use on and off the job. The strengths and weaknesses of methods for detecting drug use through standard drug tests. The effect of drug use on behavior, including the results of both laboratory and field studies that have examined work-related behavior and worker productivity. The effectiveness of interventions to deal with drug use, such as employee assistance programs, health promotion programs, and treatment programs for substance abuse. This volume will be of practical interest to human resource and employee assistance program managers, policymakers, and investigators.
Author: Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2024-08-13
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 1452971390
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A cultural history of the enduring relationship between film spectatorship and intoxicating substances Movies under the Influence charts the entangled histories of moviegoing and mind-altering substances from early cinema through the psychedelic 1970s. Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece examines how the parallel trajectories of these two enduring aspects of American culture, linked by their ability to influence individual and collective consciousness, resulted in them being treated and regulated in similar ways. Rather than looking at representations of drug use within film, she regards cinema and intoxicants as kindred experiences of immersion that have been subject to corresponding forces of ideology and power. Exploring the effects of intoxicants such as caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, marijuana, and psychedelics on film spectatorship, Szczepaniak-Gillece demonstrates how American movie theaters sought to cultivate a dual identity, presenting themselves as both a place of wholesome entertainment and a shadowy zone of illicit behavior. Movies under the Influence highlights the various legislative, legal, and corporate powers that held sway over the darkened anonymity of theaters, locating the convergence of moviegoing and drug use as a site of mediation and social control in America. As much as substances and cinema are points where power intervenes, they are also settings of potential transcendence, and Movies under the Influence maintains this paradox as a necessary component of American film history. Recontextualizing a wide range of films, from Hollywood to the avant-garde, this book examines the implicit relationship intoxicants suggest between mass media, spectatorship, and governmental regulation and provides a new angle from which to understand cinema’s lasting role in evolving American culture.
Author: United States. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 96
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Roger Sherman
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780816649471
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the American city, property rights involve not one but numerous stakeholders, some connected to the parcel by title and others through less formal arrangements, whether political, economic, or cultural. Negotiations between these stakeholders over the use of property are frequently complicated, even convoluted. In L.A. under the Influence, Roger Sherman contends that it is these negotiations, rather than more commonly accepted factors like history, symbolism, and planning, that not only shape a city but also influence the development of its smallest common increment: the individual parcel. Through a series of case studies in Los Angeles, Sherman applies game theory to scrutinize the behavior of these intersecting private and public interests, revealing an alternative logic of architectural composition. Making extensive use of diagrams, photographs, and a range of negotiation models employed within game theory, including pecking order, negotiated access, multilateral exchange, and tit for tat, he identifies the characteristic features and behaviors of this new spatial logic. For Sherman, these models offer an exciting new role for architecture in urban planning and design. Sherman urges architects to utilize design strategy as a means of mediating between the various stakeholders involved in a project, identifying and creating affiliations between otherwise conflicting interests. The architect's willingness to engage with these negotiations, he argues, has the potential to produce formally and spatially audacious projects as well as recover the social and political relevance of architecture itself.Roger Sherman is director of Roger Sherman Architecture and Urban Design and adjunct associate professor of architecture and urban design at UCLA, where he also is codirector of cityLAB, a think tank studying contemporary urbanism and its implications for architecture.
Author: National Clearinghouse for Alcohol Information
Publisher:
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 88
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Publisher:
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 2616
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Monica Ganas
Publisher: Brazos Press
Published: 2010-06
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1587431793
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An insider to California culture wittily examines the downside to our national obsessions with celebrity and appearance and shows how Christians can respond.
Author: United States. National Transportation Safety Board
Publisher:
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 3098
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