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Mescaline - A Global History of the First Psychedelic by Mike Jay
44.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A definitive history of mescaline that explores its mind-altering effects across cultures, from ancient America to Western modernity Mescaline became a popular sensation in the mid-twentieth century through Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception, after which the word "psychedelic" was coined to describ ...Show more
Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind by Mike Jay
41.95 AUD
Category: History
A provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took drugs to explore the hidden regions of the mind "Captivating. . . . A welcome reconsideration of the role drugs play in life, medicine, and science."--Publishers Weekly Until the twentieth century, scient ...Show more
The Unfortunate Colonel Despard: And the British Revolution That Never Happened by Mike Jay
24.99 AUD
Category: History
Colonel Despard's execution - he was the last person to be sentenced to hanging, drawing and quartering in Britain - for high treason, having supposedly plotted to kill the king, on 21st February 1803, was witnessed by twenty thousand hushed onlookers. Their silence was ominous, for few believed he was ...Show more
This Way Madness Lies: The Three Ages of the Asylum by Mike Jay
60.00 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Is mental illness - or madness - at root an illness of the body, a disease of the mind, or a sickness of the soul? Should those who suffer from it be secluded from society or integrated more fully into it? This Way Madness Lies explores the meaning of mental illness through the successive incarnations o ...Show more
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