The Province: Alcohol’s role in communal connection, creativity gets a toast in UBC prof’s new book

This enlightening and scientific book, which explains how alcohol has lubricated innovation and social trust through history, is a breath of unconventionality, and even risk-taking, in a North American society (and academia) that is increasingly fixating on puritanism, “safetyism” and orthodoxy of opinion.
— Douglas Todd
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Sydney Morning Herald: “Slingerland’s compelling arguments – anthropological, archaeological, literary and statistical – make Drunk as seductive as a pina colada on a beach in Tahiti.”

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