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Phanerothyme: A Western Approach to the Religious Use of Psychochemicals
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLisa Bieberman
Cambridge: Psychedelic Information Center, 1968.An uncommon pamphlet by one of the lesser-known figures in the early psychedelic movement. Lisa Bieberman founded the Psychedelic Information Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was one of relatively few women to publish independently within a scene dominated by male voices: Leary, Alpert, Metzner, and Watts chief among them. While associated with, though not central to, the Harvard psychedelic milieu, she maintained a degree of distance from Leary’s more overtly charismatic and spiritual positioning. Here Bieberman proposes a Western religious and philosophical framework for understanding psychedelic experience, pushing back against the prevailing tendency to graft Eastern mysticism onto what she regarded as a distinct mode of encounter.
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The Production of Entheogenic Communities in the United States
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBrad Stoddard
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.Cambridge Elements: New Religious Movements. “The rise of entheogenic religion – that is, religions that involve the use of psychoactive drugs – has captured the attention of scholars and journalists. These studies tend to advance the interests of practitioners who advocate for the legitimacy of entheogens and of entheogenic religion more broadly. This Element breaks with these approaches as it offers a historical and critical analysis of entheogenic communities. It examines the production of entheogenic groups in the United States and considers the historical factors that have contributed to the rise in psychedelics more broadly. It also explores legal considerations and the impact of the law as a curator of entheogenic communities. This Element recognizes that these communities – like all imagined communities – are culturally conditioned, socially constructed, and historically contingent. By exploring these contingencies, we learn more about the broader sociocultural, historical, and economic frameworks that underlie the burgeoning association of psychoactive substances and religion.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Emperor Romanus Lecapenus and his Reign: A Study of Tenth-Century Byzantium
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSteven Runciman
Cambridge: Cambridge at the University Press, 1929. -
The Indo-Aryan Languages
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCollin P. Masica
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. -
Illustrating Camelot
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBarbara Tepa Lupack; Alan Lupack
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2008. -
Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartElsa von Freytag-Loringhoven; Irene Gammel; Suzanne Zelazo
Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011.The Uncensored Writings of Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven edited by Irene Gammel and Suzanne Zelazo. The first major published poetry collection of German-born artist and poet, active in New York from 1913 to 1923.
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Charles Darwin’s Zoology Notes & Specimen Lists from H.M.S. Beagle
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Darwin; Richard Keynes
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. -
Soma and the Fly-Agaric: Mr. Wasson’s Rejoinder to Professor Brough
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartR. Gordon Wasson
Cambridge: Botanical Museum of Harvard University, 1972.Ethnomycological Studies No. 2. Foreword by Richard Evans Schultes. The rare second part of Wasson’s Ethnomycological Studies. The paper is an answer to Prof. John Brough of Cambridge, who contested Wasson’s hypothesis that the original soma plant must have been Amanita muscaria.
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The Growth and Functioning of Leaves
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. E. Dale; F. L. Milthorpe
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.Proceedings of a Symposium held prior to the Thirteenth International Botanical Congress at the University of Sydney 18-20 August 1981.
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Electronic Revolution, 1970-71
AU$450.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Burroughs
Cambridge: For Henri Chopin .. at the Blackmoor Head Press, 1971.One of the standard edition of 450 numbered copies (of a total edition of 500) with drawings by Brion Gysin. “Bilingual French and English text of a two-part 52-page essay on media and manipulation, about equal parts paranoia and genius, as much of Burroughs’ work tended to be.” SHOAF 23. MAYNARD & MILES A21
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The Myth of the Wrong Body
AU$25.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMiquel Misse
Cambridge: Polity, 2022.“The most popular narrative about transsexuality suggests that some people are born in the wrong body — that their bodies do not correspond to their inner experience and that their bodies should therefore be transformed. But in the view of the sociologist and trans activist Miguel Misse, this narrative is a harmful myth. It is rooted in a medical paradigm that typically leads to medical intervention to the use of hormones and surgical operations. By proposing a particular solution (modifying ones body), doctors and psychiatrists make it difficult for trans people to overcome malaise about their body in other ways and prevent them from recognizing the burden of social norms. Drawing on his own personal experience, Misse makes the case for a different way of thinking about trans embodiment which focuses on gender identity. The trajectory that leads people to become trans is shaped by the rigidity of gender norms, where the only two models available to individuals are the masculine man and the feminine woman. But these are not the only possible choices, and by critically interrogating the rigidity of gender norms, Misse opens up a different way of thinking about being trans, beyond the essentialism of the medical paradigm.” (publisher’s blurb) Translated from Spanish by Frances Riddle.
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LGBTQ Social Movements
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLisa M. Stulberg
Cambridge: Polity, 2018.“In recent years, there has been substantial progress on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights in the United States. We are now, though, in a time of incredible political uncertainty for queer people. LGBTQ Social Movements provides an accessible introduction to mainstream LGBTQ movements in the US, illustrating the many forms that LGBTQ activism has taken since the mid-twentieth century. Covering a range of topics, including the Stonewall uprising and gay liberation, AIDS politics, queer activism, marriage equality fights, youth action, and bisexual and transgender justice, Lisa M. Stulberg explores how marginalized people and communities have used a wide range of political and cultural tools to demand and create change. The five key themes that guide the book are assimilationism and liberationism as complex strategies for equality, the limits and possibilities of legal change, the role of art and popular culture in social change, the interconnectedness of social movements, and the role of privilege in movement organizing. This book is an important tool for understanding current LGBTQ politics and will be essential reading for students and scholars of sexuality, LGBTQ studies, and social movements, as well as anyone new to thinking about these issues. (publisher’s blurb)