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Drug Wars

Advantages: Quality of writing, interesting stories, compassion for and engagement with humans at centre
Disadvantages: Grim, ever changing situation means book will probably be out of date fast

More than 38,000 people have been killed in the last 3 years in what Ed Vulliamy argues is an unacknowledged war, on the long border (2,100 miles) between Mexico and the United States. The war is between drug trafficking gangs over control of the ...

elkiedee 18.02.2012 · Read full review
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Review of Amexica: War Along the Borderline - Ed Vulliamy

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How does it feel to be in an A class prison??

Advantages: easy read, well structured
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I bought this book very cheap while studying at university to give me something different to do. I really enjoyed this book and have read it twice over. This is volume 1 of 3 (i think). I have the first 2 and this is the best of them. I don't really know ...

asillars 28.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of A Prison Diary - Jeffrey Archer

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Useful and thoughtful for study

Advantages: Concise, wide-ranging, a good one-volume book on the subject
Disadvantages: Often stops short in the details, requiring further research beyond the text

Mondimore, a practicing psychologist, has attempted to provide a low-cost, accessible, one-volume treatment of the issue of homosexuality on several bases. This is a book used in various courses at my seminary to help with background to address the often ...

frkurt 24.11.2004 · Read full review
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Review of A Natural History of Homosexuality - Francis Mark Mondimore

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