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Albion Dreaming

Author : Andy Roberts
Publisher : Cyan Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Albion Dreaming written by Andy Roberts and published by Cyan Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to popular belief, LSD is much more connected to Britain than it is to the USA. This engaging book looks at the use of LSD in British society, from its arrival in 1952 to the present day. It provides a hidden history of a controversial drug and how it permeated British culture. The author explores LSD's use by the medical profession in treating a variety of psychological and mental problems. At the same time, The Ministry of Defence believed they were on the brink of harnessing LSD as a battlefield incapacitation drug which would enable wars to be won without loss of life. But LSD's popularity rose with its use among the British counterculture, from the 1950s beatniks through to the late 80s acid house parties. At its height, when it was legal, LSD affected the lives and philosophies of significant individuals (politicians, scientists, writers, educators, entertainers, artists, journalists) as well as ordinary people for good and bad. This book is the first to explore LSD's amazing influence on British culture and society.

THE EARTH IS DREAMING Pagan Poetry - UFO Sightings and Metaphysical Experiences

Author : Salena Shakti Radford
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244497834
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (444 download)

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Download or read book THE EARTH IS DREAMING Pagan Poetry - UFO Sightings and Metaphysical Experiences written by Salena Shakti Radford and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first part of this book contains a selection of my poetry and prose reflecting upon nature and the mystical aspects of existence whilst the latter part of this book is centered upon some of my metaphysical experiences along with some accounts of my experiences ufological, that which pertains to experiences with UFO's (unidentified flying objects). Within these full colour glossy pages you will also find references to mythology and folklore as well as some of my photography.

Expanding Mindscapes

Author : Erika Dyck
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262376903
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Expanding Mindscapes written by Erika Dyck and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of its kind to explore the diverse and global history of psychedelics as they appealed to several generations of researchers and thinkers. Expanding Mindscapes offers a fascinatingly fluid and diverse history of psychedelics that stretches around the globe. While much of the literature to date has focused on the history of these drugs in the United States and Canada, editors Erika Dyck and Chris Elcock deliberately move away from these places in this collection to reveal a longer and more global history of psychedelics, which chronicles their discovery, use, and cultural impact in the twentieth century. The authors in this collection explore everything from LSD psychotherapy in communist Czechoslovakia to the first applications of LSD-25 in South America to the intersection of modernism and ayahuasca in China. Along the way, they also consider how psychedelic experiments generated their own cultural expressions, where the specter of the United States may have loomed large and where colonial empires exerted influence on the local reception of psychedelics in botanical and pharmaceutical pursuits. Breaking new ground by adopting perspectives that are currently lacking in the historiography of psychedelics, this collection adds to the burgeoning field by offering important discussions on underexplored topics such as gender, agriculture, parapsychology, anarchism, and technological innovations.

The hippie trail

Author : Sharif Gemie
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526114631
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The hippie trail written by Sharif Gemie and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first history of the Hippie Trail. It records the joys and pains of budget travel to Kathmandu, India, Afghanistan and other ‘points east’ in the 1960s and 1970s. Written in a clear, simple style, it provides detailed analysis of the motivations and the experiences of hundreds of thousands of hippies who travelled eastwards. The book is structured around four key debates: were the travellers simply motivated by a search for drugs? Did they encounter love or sexual freedom on the road? Were they basically just tourists? Did they resemble pilgrims? It also considers how the travellers have been represented in films, novels and autobiographical accounts, and will appeal to those interested in the Trail or the 1960s counterculture, as well as students taking courses relating to the 1960s.

Drug smuggler nation

Author : Stephen Snelders
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526151383
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Drug smuggler nation written by Stephen Snelders and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did the international drug regulatory regime of the twentieth century fail to stop an explosive increase in trade and consumption of illegal drugs? This study investigates the histories of smugglers and criminal entrepreneurs in the Netherlands who succeeded in turning the country into the so-called ‘Colombia of Europe’ or, ‘the international drug supermarket’. Increasing state regulations and interventions led to the proliferation of a ‘hydra’ of small, anarchic groups and networks ideally suited to circumvent the enforcement of regulation. Networks of smugglers and suppliers of heroin, cocaine, cannabis, XTC, and other drugs were organized without a strict formal hierarchy and based on personal relations and cultural affinities rather than on institutional arrangements. These networks created a thriving underground industry of illegal synthetic drug laboratories and indoor cannabis cultivation in the Netherlands itself. Their operations were made possible and developed because of the deep historical social and cultural ‘embeddedness’ of criminal anarchy in Dutch society. Using examples from the rich history of drug smuggling, Drug smuggler nation investigates the deeper and hidden grounds of the illegal drug trade, and its effects on our drug policies.

Organiz'd Innocence

Author : Rudd E. Margaret
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317381254
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Organiz'd Innocence written by Rudd E. Margaret and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-14 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1956, this book has been described by the author as something of a biographical novel, somewhere between formal scholarly criticism and a more creative form of writing. It looks at the meaning of Blake’s visions and how the troubles of his life affected his poems known as the prophetic books. It focuses on the story of the universal human spirit that these books present.

Albion

Author : Alan Moore
Publisher : Wildstorm
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Albion written by Alan Moore and published by Wildstorm. This book was released on 2007 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For 25 years The Spider, Grimly Feendish, The Steel Claw, Robot Archie, and scores of other bizarre creations from the hallowed IPC vaults have been missing. Where have they been? And why, after all this time have they suddenly reappeared?"-- p. [4] of cover.

High Culture

Author : Christopher Hugh Partridge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190459115
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book High Culture written by Christopher Hugh Partridge and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le site de l'éditeur indique : "Throughout history, humans have always been fascinated by drugs and altered states. Despite the risk of addiction, many have used drugs as technologies to induce moments of meaning-making transcendence. This book traces the quest for transcendence and meaning through drugs in the modern West. Starting with the Romantic fascination with opium, it goes on to chronicle the discovery of anesthetics, psychiatric and religious interest in hashish, the bewitching power of mescaline and hallucinogenic fungi, as well as the more recent uses of LSD. It fills a major gap in our understanding of contemporary alternative and in the study of countercultures and popular culture. Today we are seeing increased social and scientific attention to both the positive and the negative effects of psychoactive drugs, particularly following the legalization of marijuana for medicinal and/or recreational use in some US states, as well as court cases involving the sacramental use of drugs. This fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of the controversial relationship between drugs and spirituality could not be more timely."

The Routledge Handbook of Pink Floyd

Author : Chris Hart
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000649563
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Pink Floyd written by Chris Hart and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Pink Floyd is intended for scholars and researchers of popular music, as well as music industry professionals and fans of the band. It brings together international researchers to assess, evaluate and reformulate approaches to the critical study and interpretation of one of the world’s most important and successful bands. For the first time, this Handbook will ‘tear down the wall,’ examining the band’s collective artistic creations and the influence of social, technological, commercial and political environments over several decades on their work. Divided into five parts, the book provides a thoroughly contextualised overview of the musical works of Pink Floyd, including coverage of performance and sound; media, reception and fandom; genre; periods of Pink Floyd’s work; and aesthetics and subjectivity. Drawing on art, design, performance, culture and counterculture, emergent theoretical resources and analytical frames are evaluated and discussed from across the social sciences, humanities and creative arts. The Handbook is intended for scholars and researchers of popular music, as well as music industry professionals. It will appeal across a range of related subjects from music production to cultural studies and media/communication studies.

Albion's Dream

Author : Roger Norman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571165070
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Albion's Dream written by Roger Norman and published by . This book was released on 1990-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Divine Rascal

Author : Andy Roberts
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1907222782
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Divine Rascal written by Andy Roberts and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of a key figure in psychedelic history: the man who turned Timothy Leary on to LSD. Of all the figures associated with the history of LSD there is none more enigmatic than Michael Hollingshead. Appearing as if from nowhere, he turned Timothy Leary on to LSD in 1962, and was influential in Leary's years at Harvard, Millbrook, and beyond. A Zelig-like character, Hollingshead was a key player in London's early LSD scene. In 1965 he went to London to establish a cultural beachhead for Leary's LSD philosophy at the World Psychedelic Centre in Chelsea. Following a spell in prison, where he dosed KGB spy George Blake, he continued to pursue adventures with the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, established a psychedelic commune, created the first electronic I Ching installation, published an underground magazine, and spent time in Nepal, before dying a mysterious death in Bolivia in the 1980s. Psychedelic trickster guru, or conman and charlatan? Exactly who Hollingshead was and what his motives were remain unclear. Some believed he was working for the secret services, others that he was just a Leary wannabe, his aspirations destroyed by his deviant personality and addiction to alcohol and opiates. Divine Rascal is the first reliable biography of one of psychedelia's key figures, without whom the trajectory of LSD in the world would have been radically different.

Divine Rascal

Author : Andy Roberts
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1907222979
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Divine Rascal written by Andy Roberts and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of a key figure in psychedelic history: the man who turned Timothy Leary on to LSD. Of all the figures associated with the history of LSD there is none more enigmatic than Michael Hollingshead. Appearing as if from nowhere, he turned Timothy Leary on to LSD in 1962, and was influential in Leary's years at Harvard, Millbrook, and beyond. A Zelig-like character, Hollingshead was a key player in London's early LSD scene. In 1965 he went to London to establish a cultural beachhead for Leary's LSD philosophy at the World Psychedelic Centre in Chelsea. Following a spell in prison, where he dosed KGB spy George Blake, he continued to pursue adventures with the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, established a psychedelic commune, created the first electronic I Ching installation, published an underground magazine, and spent time in Nepal, before dying a mysterious death in Bolivia in the 1980s. Psychedelic trickster guru, or conman and charlatan? Exactly who Hollingshead was and what his motives were remain unclear. Some believed he was working for the secret services, others that he was just a Leary wannabe, his aspirations destroyed by his deviant personality and addiction to alcohol and opiates. Divine Rascal is the first reliable biography of one of psychedelia's key figures, without whom the trajectory of LSD in the world would have been radically different.

Every Molecule Tells a Story

Author : Simon Cotton
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1439807736
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Every Molecule Tells a Story written by Simon Cotton and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From cooking to medicine, from engineering to art, chemistry—the science of molecules—is everywhere. A celebration of the molecules of chemistry, Every Molecule Tells a Story celebrates the molecules responsible for the experiences of everyday life: the air we breathe; the water we drink; the chemicals that fuel our living; the steroids that give us sex; the colours of the seasons; the drugs that heal us; and the scented molecules that enrich our diet and our encounters with each other. You can’t see them, but you know that they are there. Unveiling the structures of poisonous "natural" substances and beneficial man-made molecules, this book brushes away any preconceived notions about chemistry to demonstrate why and how molecules matter.

Molecules That Amaze Us

Author : Paul May
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1466589604
Total Pages : 746 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (665 download)

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Download or read book Molecules That Amaze Us written by Paul May and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This new book is by two knowledgeable and expert popularizers of chemistry and deals exclusively with molecules and compounds rather than with the simpler atoms and elements. It is based on the very successful ‘Molecule of the Month’ website that was begun by Paul May fifteen years ago and to which his co-author Simon Cotton has been a frequent contributor. ... The authors ... strike an excellent balance between introducing the novice to the world of molecules while also keeping the expert chemist interested. ... I highly recommend this book to all readers. It will vastly expand your knowledge and horizons of chemistry and the human ingenuity that surrounds it." —From the Foreword by Dr. Eric Scerri, UCLA, Los Angeles, website: www.ericscerri.com, Author of ‘The Periodic Table, Its Story and Its Significance’ and several other books on the elements and the periodic table. The world is composed of molecules. Some are synthetic while many others are products of nature. Molecules That Amaze Us presents the stories behind many of the most famous and infamous molecules that make up our modern world. Examples include the molecule responsible for the spicy heat in chilies (capsaicin), the world’s first synthetic painkiller (aspirin), the pigment responsible for the color of autumn leaves (carotene), the explosive in dynamite (nitroglycerine), the antimalarial drug (quinine), the drug known as "speed" (methamphetamine), and many others. Other molecules discussed include caffeine, adrenaline, cholesterol, cocaine, digitalis, dopamine, glucose, insulin, methane, nicotine, oxytocin, penicillin, carbon dioxide, limonene, and testosterone. In all, the book includes 67 sections, each describing a different molecule, what it does, how it is made, and why it is so interesting. Written by experts in the field, the book is accessible and easy to read. It includes amusing anecdotes, historical curiosities, and entertaining facts about each molecule, thereby balancing educational content with entertainment. The book is heavily illustrated with relevant photographs, images, and cartoons—the aim being both to educate and entertain.

Heads

Author : Jesse Jarnow
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306822555
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Heads written by Jesse Jarnow and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sweeping untold history of the American psychedelic underground, the Grateful Dead, and beyond... With 32 pages of photos

Alcohol and Drugs in North America [2 volumes]

Author : David M. Fahey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 968 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Alcohol and Drugs in North America [2 volumes] written by David M. Fahey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alcohol and drugs play a significant role in society, regardless of socioeconomic class. This encyclopedia looks at the history of all drugs in North America, including alcohol, tobacco, prescription drugs, cannabis, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and even chocolate and caffeinated drinks. This two-volume encyclopedia provides accessibly written coverage on a wide range of topics, covering substances ranging from whiskey to peyote as well as related topics such as Mexican drug trafficking and societal effects caused by specific drugs. The entries also supply an excellent overview of the history of temperance movements in Canada and the United States; trends in alcohol consumption, its production, and its role in the economy; as well as alcohol's and drugs' roles in shaping national discourse, the creation of organizations for treatment and study, and legal responses. This resource includes primary documents and a bibliography offering important books, articles, and Internet sources related to the topic.

Seasons They Change

Author : Jeanette Leech
Publisher : Jawbone Press
ISBN 13 : 1906002320
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Seasons They Change written by Jeanette Leech and published by Jawbone Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the careers of the original wave of artists and their contemporary equivalents, Leech tells the story of acid and psychedelic folk recording artists from the 1960s to the present day.