Allan M. Brandt: Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America

Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America


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From agriculture to big business, from medicine to politics, The Cigarette Century is the definitive account of how smoking came to be so deeply implicated in our culture, science, policy, and law. No product has been so heavily promoted or has become so deeply entrenched in American consciousness. The Cigarette Century shows in striking detail how one ephemeral (and largely useless) product came to play such a dominant role in so many aspects of our lives--and deaths.

MUST-SEE ATTRACTIONS from Tangier to Essaouira Few books have had a more profound impact on human history than the Qur'an. It shapes the beliefs, lives and behaviour of over 1.5 billion Muslims, who regard it as the Word of God, revealed to the Prophet Muhammad. Speaking directly to Muslims, it has been the basic source of law, morality and politics for over 1,400 years. Almost everything that happens in a Muslim society is a direct or indirect product of what the Qur'an says. But what does the Qur'an really say? How should it be read and interpreted? What is the significance of its teachings, if any, for the 21st century? In this enlightening and highly readable book, Ziauddin Sardar, one of the foremost Muslim intellectuals of our time, offers a refreshingly new interpretation of the Qur'an. Emphasising plurality and inclusiveness, Sardar demonstrates the importance of reading the verses of the Qur'an in the context in which they were revealed, and highlights the relevance of its teachings for today. Sardar reads the Qur'an from several perspectives.He Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America free ebook begins with the traditional, verse-by-verse interpretations and subsequently shows how the multilayered verses and stories of the Sacred Text are open to a number of different and more enlightening interpretations.


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Author: Allan M. Brandt
Number of Pages: 640 pages
Published Date: 05 Mar 2009
Publisher: The Perseus Books Group
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780465070480
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