Harper & Brothers, (1954). First Edition. Hardcover. 79 pages. An autobiographical work by the author of Brave New World. 'A vivid, arresting and first hand description of the effects of mescalin, a little known drug of unusual properties.'--publisher's blurb. This is the book that inspired the name of the 1960s.....
Bantam, 1993. Trade Paperback. A new copy. "Deserves to be the modern classic on mind-altering drugs and hallucinogens."--The Washington Post Ethnobotanist Terence Mckenna, hailed by Tom Robbins as "the most important--and most entertaining--visionary scholar in America," explores humanity's symbiotic relationship with spirits, tobacco, marijuana, opium, psilocybin, and more, from prehistoric.....
Verso, July 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Drugs are ubiquitous in the past and present of capitalist society. What can they tell us about our society and economy? Americans are in the midst of a world-historic drug binge. Opiates.....
Pluto Press (UK), December 2012. Trade Paperback. A paperback copy in very good condition. Cruel Harvest lifts the lid on the reality of Afghanistan's skyrocketing drug trade and the role played by the US military. Conventional accounts blame the Taliban for the expansion of drug production. However, in Cruel Harvest.....
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Drugs take strange journeys from the black market to the doctor's black bag. Changing marijuana laws in the United States and Canada, the opioid crisis, and the rising costs of pharmaceuticals have sharpened the public's.....
Plume Books, July 2025. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A lively, hilarious, and entirely truthful look at the druggie side of history's most famous figures, including Shakespeare, George Washington, the Beatles, and more Did you know that Alexander the Great was a sloppy drunk and William Shakespeare was a stoner.....
Quick American Archives, April 1993. Trade Paperback. A new copy. In the 1970s, two of the most influential thinkers of the psychedelic era gathered what was then known about psilocybin botany and culture and presented it in Psilocybin: Magic Mushroom Grower's Guide. Writing under pseudonyms, the McKenna brothers provided simple.....
The MIT Press, April 2024. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A richly illustrated exploration of the history, art, and design of printed LSD blotter tabs. Blotter is the first comprehensive written account of the history, art, and design of LSD blotter paper, the iconic drug delivery device that will perhaps.....
Harper Paperbacks, October 2008. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. What is the price of brilliance? Why are so many creative geniuses also ruinously self-destructive? From Caravaggio to Jackson Pollack, from Arthur Rimbaud to Jack Kerouac, from Charlie Parker to Janis Joplin, to Kurt Cobain, and on and on, authors.....
Quick American, 2008. Trade Paperback. 172 pages. Illustrated from color photographs. Ninth printing. Very good paperback copy with minor edge wear. Utilizing a handy, field-guide style, this book is divided into five sections by problem type: Pests, Diseases, Environmental Stresses, Nutrient Deficiencies, and Controls. Problems are alphabetized within each section.....
Heyday, June 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A "wildly entertaining" and "masterly" memoir (Times Literary Supplement) now in paperback In The Lives of Michel Foucault, David Macey quotes the iconic French philosopher as speaking "nostalgically...of 'an unforgettable evening on LSD, in carefully prepared doses, in the desert night, with.....
University of California Press, 1996. First Edition. Trade Paperback. First paperback edition (first printing). A near fine copy. Why have our drug wars failed and how might we turn things around? Ask the authors of this hardhitting exposè of U.S. efforts to fight drug trafficking and abuse. In a bold.....
Cornell University Press, February 1976. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). "Ramón Medina Silva, a Huichol Indian shaman priest or mara'akame, instructed me in many of his culture's myths, rituals, and symbols, particularly those pertaining to the sacred untiy of deer, maize, and peyote. The significance of this constellation.....
C. M. I. - Proposition 19 Campaign, 1972. Ephemera. Flier, 8.5 x 11 inches, printed in black on yellow, asking for support for the Proposition 19 campaign to repeal marijuana prohibtion - 'no criminal penalties for possessing, growing, harvesting, or processing of marijuana'. The initiative was defeated. First edition (first.....
Bloomsbury Press, April 2016. Trade Paperback. Winner of the NBCC Award for General Nonfiction Named on Amazon's Best Books of the Year 2015--Michael Botticelli, U.S. Drug Czar (Politico) Favorite Book of the Year--Angus Deaton, Nobel Prize Economics (Bloomberg/WSJ) Best Books of 2015--Matt Bevin, Governor of Kentucky (WSJ) Books of the.....
Pantheon, July 2011. Hardcover. From acclaimed medical historian Howard Markel, author of "When Germs Travel, "the astonishing account of the years-long cocaine use of Sigmund Freud, young, ambitious neurologist, and William Halsted, the equally young, pathfinding surgeon. Markel writes of the physical and emotional damage caused by the then-heralded wonder.....
Mariner Books, April 2004. Trade Paperback. An unforgettable examination of America's black market and its unrelenting grip on society. Eric Schlosser turns his exacting eye on the underbelly of the American marketplace and its far-reaching influence on our society. Exposing three American mainstays--pot, porn, and illegal immigrants--this book shows how.....