From the time of the gold rush to the election of the first woman to the U.S. Congress, Wanton West brings to life the women of the West's wildest region: Montana, famous for its lawlessness, boomtowns, and America's largest red-light districts. Prostitutes and entrepreneurs--like Chicago Joe, Madame Mustache, and Highkicker—flocked to Montana to make their own money, gamble, drink, and raise hell just like men. Moralists wrote them off as “soiled doves,” yet a surprising number prospered, flaunting their freedom and banking ten times more than their “respectable” sisters. A lively read providing new insights into women's struggle for equality, Wanton West is a refreshingly objective exploration of a freewheeling society and a re-creation of an unforgettable era in history.

East and West have always had vast differences in culture and religion, but events in the past ten years have sparked fury on both sides that has ignited into war. Islam and the West: The Conflict Between Islamism and Secularism explores these differences in words we can understand.The book deals with the conflict between Islamist radicals and secular nations. It is divided into 12 chapters, starting with the definitions of terrorist ideology rooted in Islam and it tells of popular misconceptions.Says author Mushtaq K. Lodi, I explain the rationale behind the objections of the fundamentalists to my views, and explain how their objection are more damaging to Islamic society and to Islam itself, and therefore why my definitions are more appropriate and justified. I differentiate between Islam the faith, and Islamism the political ideology, based in Islam and introduce my term for referring to the Jihadists as Islamist-terrorists and not Islamic terrorists as is popularly understood.Islam and the West describes the fascinating background of Islam's link with politics; the history of Islamic civilization; the impact of Fundamentalist interpretations on Islamic society, with its effects on education and the status of women; the rise of Islamophobia; the war on terror in Afghanistan; and finally, how Islamic society could move forward to live in peace with the rest of the world.

This book explores the role and influence of drink and drugs (primarily opium) in the Old West, which for this book is considered to be America west of the Mississippi from the California gold rush of the 1840s to the closing of the Western Frontier in roughly 1900. This period was the first time in American history that heavy drinking and drug abuse became a major social concern. Drinking was considered to be an accepted pursuit for men at the time. Smoking opium was considered to be deviant and associated with groups on the fringes of mainstream society, but opium use and addiction by women was commonplace. This book presents the background of both substances and how their use spread across the West, at first for medicinal purposes--but how overuse and abuse led to the Temperance Movement and eventually to National Prohibition. This book reports the historical reality of alcohol and opium use in the Old West without bias.