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In her 2014 book, Lives in Ruins, Johnson “captures the vivid and quirky characters drawn to archaeology.” [17] She writes about contemporary archaeologists in the context of their work in the field in the Caribbean, the Mediterranean, Machu Picchu, Australia, Asia, the U.K., Africa, the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, and multiple other ...
The book received generally positive reviews from critics. On The Omnivore , an aggregator of British press, the book received an "omniscore" of four out of five. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] According to Book Marks , from American press, the book received a "rave" consensus, based on twelve critics: eight "rave" and four "positive". [ 4 ]
Alcohol acts as a general central nervous system depressant, but it also affects some specific areas of the brain to a greater extent than others. Memory impairment caused by alcohol has been linked to the disruption of hippocampal function—particularly affecting gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) and N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) neurotransmission which negatively impacts long-term potentiation ...
“Given that alcohol is a central nervous system depressant and has a half-life of anywhere from six hours or longer depending on type of alcohol and volume consumed, you want to drink it at ...
Americans’ relationship with alcohol and their perception of how healthy it is may be changing — with younger people drinking a lot less, and many people in general reevaluating whether even ...
The Natural History of Alcoholism Revisited (1995) is a book by psychiatrist George E. Vaillant that describes two multi-decade studies of the lives of 600 American males, non-alcoholics at the outset, focusing on their lifelong drinking behaviours.
Madeline [5] and two of Dorris' biological daughters made allegations of abuse against him. [4] In March 1997, Dorris made a suicide attempt. [18] On April 10, 1997, he used a combination of suffocation, drugs, and alcohol to end his life in the Brick Tower Motor Inn in Concord, New Hampshire.
1989 — the year of big hair. The first season of "The Simpsons" and the fall of the Berlin Wall. It’s also the last time the US government updated the health warning labels on alcohol. "The ...