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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Explores the discovery, invention, science, and people behind today's major psychotropic drugs, from the earliest, Thorazine and Lithium, through Prozac and Ecstasy, to today's most cutting-edge memory drugs and neural implants.
Author
Series
Colección popular volume 154
Publisher
Fondo de Cultura Económica
Pub. Date
c1987
Language
Español
Author
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant and brave investigation by Michael Pollan, author of five New York Times best sellers, into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions...
Publisher
Xlrator Media
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The story centers on a young, female journalist who follows the mysterious trail of a missing friend that had been experimenting with mind-altering chemicals developed in secret government drug tests. A rogue counter-culture novelist with a penchant for substance abuse and firearms leads the journalist into the mystery of dangerous chemical research. Based on real documents, actual test subject testimony, and uncovered secrets about covert programs...
Author
Publisher
Ulysses Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Todo lo que necesitas saber sobre las drogas psicodélicas populares. Entrar en el mundo de las drogas psicodélicas puede ser un desafío y muchos no están seguros de por dónde empezar. A medida que la investigación continúa expandiéndose y la legalización de los psicodélicos como la psilocibina se vislumbra en el horizonte, es posible que necesite una guía para comprender qué son los psicodélicos, cómo funcionan y sus posibles beneficios...
9) Easy rider
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Two young men on a motorcycle trip to New Orleans encounter hippies, drugs, rednecks and prostitutes along the way.
Author
Publisher
Jeremy Tarcher/Penguin
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Language
English
Description
Draws on cosmological phenomena of the modern world as well as the author's own research into shamanic and metaphysical belief systems to support the Mayan theory about an unprecedented global shift predicted for the year 2012.
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"Getting 'high' can be an unquenchable desire-- one that impacts the human body of the first-time recreational user and severe addict alike. National Geographic goes beneath the skin to reveal how our bodies react to three common drugs: marijuana, cocaine and ecstasy"-- Container.
Author
Publisher
Debate
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Cuando Michael Pollan se propuso investigar por qué el LSD y la psilocibina (el componente activo de las setas alucinógenas) proporcionan un enorme alivio a personas que padecen condiciones de difícil tratamiento como el trastorno por estrés postraumático, la depresión o la adicción, no tenía la intención de escribir lo qe es sin lugar a dudas su libro más personal. Pero al descubrir cómo estas notables sustancias mejoran la vida no solo...
13) Aldous Huxley's hands: his quest for perception and the origin and return of psychedelic science
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Psychedelics, neuroscience, and historical biography come together when a journalist finds a lost photograph of Aldous Huxley and uncovers a hidden side of the celebrated author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception. Allene Symons had no inkling that Aldous Huxley was once a friend of her father's until the summer of 2001 when she discovered a box of her dad's old photographs. For years in the 1940s and '50s, her father had meticulously...
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