High Society: The Central Role of Mind-Altering Drugs in History, Science and Culture, Paperback - Mike Jay

Reducere. An illustrated cultural history of drug use from its roots in animal intoxication to its future in designer neurochemicals - Featuring artwork from...

Looks at the earliest archaeological evidence of drug use, the botanicals of the classical world, and, the mind-bending self-experiments of early s...

Reducere. There is growing alarm over how drugs empower terrorists, insurgents, militias, and gangs. But by looking back not just years and decades but centu...

Reducere. Alfred Louis Kroeber offers an all-embracing account of human culture, looking at its historical definitions, contemporary definitions, and its rol...

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Reducere. Many species of plant and fungi grow wild across the world, or are cultivated in gardens frequently, with many of the people encountering them comp...

DescriptionStranger Than Fiction brings together, for the first time, Mike Jay's distinctive and immensely readable forays into the twilight zones ...

DescriptionNew edition of a classic work on the history of propaganda. Topical new chapters on the 1991 Gulf War, September 11 and terrorism. An id...

From Native Americans' use of tobacco for solemnizing oaths to the spread of New Age religious beliefs in Haight-Ashbury coffeehouses, drugs have b...

Reducere. In Medication Madness, psychiatrist Peter R. Breggin, M.D., describes how people taking psychiatric medication can experience abnormal behavioral r...

A definitive history of mescaline that explores its mind-altering effects across cultures, from ancient America to Western modernity Mescaline beca...

Reducere. The Masonic Myth by Jay Kinney is an accessible and fascinating history of the Freemasons that sheds new light on this secret fraternity. A nonfict...

Reducere. Mike Doughty first came to prominence as the leader of the band Soul Coughing then did an abrupt sonic left turn, much to the surprise of his audie...

A spiritual study of the role of the Hebrew people in the biography of humanity

This work throws new light on the nature and origins of ideas of racial difference. It reconstructs the evolution of the modern discourse of race a...

Reducere. From the critically acclaimed and award-winning author comes the stunning story of telepathically sensitive Mary and her fight to free herself and ...

From the critically acclaimed and award-winning author comes the stunning story of telepathically sensitive Mary and her fight to free herself and ...

Reducere. The book Warriors of Legend is one of the first of its kind, using a specific Japanese anime/manga series- the megahit Sailor Moon- to teach about ...

Reducere. From the dawn of humanity, the desire to control the thoughts, behaviors, and actions of others has been a pervasive one. From the use of coercive ...

A sumptuous visual feast of society holidaying when foreign travel was the preserve of only the elite

Reducere. The Tsimshians are a Northwest Coast Native people known for their dazzling works of art and rich array of social, religious, and oral traditions t...

DescriptionWhat makes a great team? Author, leadership expert, and corporate consultant looks at how businesses can build trust and achieve high pe...

We live in an age saturated with surveillance. Our personal and public lives are increasingly on display for governments, merchants, employers, hac...

This ambitious volume paints a rich picture of the tools and techniques of printing, publishing, and reading that shaped the ideas and practices th...

Reducere. A compilation of current scientific knowledge about psychoactive herbal drugs.Virtually all cultures consume drugs from psychoactive plants. Caffei...

Reducere. "Capacious and rigorous . . . Blue Dreams, like all good histories of medicine, reveals healing to be art as much as science." --Parul Sehgal, New ...

Reducere. This book provides a detailed history of stellar interferometry as practised at Mount Wilson Observatory. It covers the origin of the field in the ...

Reducere. Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969), known professionally as JAY-Z (formerly stylized as Jay-Z and Jay Z), is an American rapper and busines...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Many of the nearly 70 million Americans with hypertension (high blood pressure) would like to bring it under control through lifestyle changes such...

Reducere. Universe of the Mind A Semiotic Theory of CultureYuri M. LotmanIntroduction by Umberto Eco Translated by Ann ShukmanA major book by one of the init...

Publisher: SAGE Publications IncAuthor(s): David LuddenNumber of pages: 488Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 218 x 281 x 19Cover type: Paperback / ...

Reducere. I have been a Bigfoot researcher in the state of Minnesota for over 30 years, dedicated to the pursuit of a giant hairy upright walking manlike or ...

Addressing every aspect of the early history of Central Europe, this book explores the formation and early centuries of Bohemia, Hungary and Poland...

Reducere. Central Texas is an area as diverse culturally as it is geographically. Bordered by Hill Country in the west, green farmland in the east and Waco a...

A PATTERNIST NOVEL (2): a young woman comes into her own power and challenges the ruthless man who controls her.