Product Description

-- Peter K. Manning, Contemporary Sociology

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #187028 in Books
• Published on: 1993-09-15
• Released on: 1993-09-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 220 pages

Review
"A persuasive, credible, and imaginative analysis of a rather unusual and fascinating segment of social life... The very modest tone, scope, and aim of this tightly argued ethnographic work belies its profound and penetrating analysis of the drift of American life." -- Peter K. Manning, Contemporary Sociology

About the Author

Patricia A. Adler is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Customer Reviews

LIVIN' LIFE IN THE FAST LANE
For all the questions you've ever had about high level drug smuggling but were deathly afraid to ask anybody...this book is for you! Adler chronicles how smugglers and dealers first entered the drug world, and how they rose to the top, and I do mean top rung of the drug dealing/smuggling community. An excellent study that doesn't read like academia.

Wheeling and Dealing
I thought the book to be very beneficial for a person just wandering what it is all about this book was not a ah lets go out and write a book and comsume some drugs along the way this was a study in the sociology of these people.

reads like a text book
Not a story, reads like a school book, with the author backing up her research with "shout-outs", such as (Blake 1967). Boring read, pass this up. Read "snow blind" by robert sabbag, best book ever on the subject.