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According to the book, the assortment of ingredients in Haitian zombie powder include puffer fish, matter from a corpse (specifically to Davis' adventure in Haiti, the bokor, a Haitian shaman, crushed the skull of a deceased infant that had been dead for a month or two, and added it to the poison), freshly killed blue lizards, a large dried ...
1998, Vintage Books, Random House, UK [citation needed] The book was also published in France (Editions Heloise d'Ormesson), Germany (Droemer-Knaur), Greece, Israel, and Spain (Editions Planeta). [citation needed] The subtitle, "A Novel of Love and Addiction", was only used in the American edition; elsewhere the book is only called Candy. There ...
This 'n That was published after her daughter B. D. Hyman's memoir My Mother's Keeper (1985), in which Hyman depicted Davis as an alcoholic, overbearing shrew. Davis referred to Hyman in her book with pride and affection throughout, with the bulk of it having been written prior to the publication of Hyman's memoir; however, a final chapter was in the form of a letter addressed "Dear Hyman," in ...
Edmund Wade Davis CM (born December 14, 1953) is a Canadian cultural anthropologist, ethnobotanist, photographer, and writer.. Davis came to prominence with his 1985 best-selling book The Serpent and the Rainbow about the zombies of Haiti.
The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (first published in 1988, with three subsequent editions, the last being a 20th anniversary edition in 2008) is a self-help book by poet Ellen Bass and Laura Davis that focuses on recovery from child sexual abuse and has been called "controversial and polarizing".
The film contained messages such as "marijuana has similar properties to amphetamines" and "the Soviet Union was pushing drugs in America". [1] The film follows William B. McKesson (to become Los Angeles County District Attorney in 1956) who interviews a young woman about her use of marijuana as a gateway drug to intravenous use of heroin. [2]
Walk This Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmith (ISBN 0-380-97594-7) is a book by Stephen Davis, published by HarperCollins and released in October 1997. It was cowritten with the members of Aerosmith. The biography contains the lives, legends, women, drugs and partying that nearly killed the Toxic Twins and split the band.
It revolves mostly around the lives of Gary McCullough, a drug addict, his ex-wife Francine "Fran" Boyd, also an addict, and their older son DeAndre McCullough, a high school student who begins to sell drugs. The book is a look at the effects of drug addiction, the drug trade, and the war on drugs on an urban neighborhood, as well as an ...