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Oh Excellent Air Bag: Under the Influence of Nitrous Oxide, 1799-1920
AU$25.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAdam Green
Cambridge: PDR Press, 2016.“Collection of surreal and striking first-hand accounts of early “laughing gas” intoxication, and the secondary literature they spawned.” (publisher’s blurb) Includes writings by Humphry Davy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, William James, Theodore Dreiser, and others. Introduction by Mike Jay.
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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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Psychedelics: A Visual Odyssey
AU$65.00 Read MoreAdd to cartErika Dyck
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2024.“A gorgeously illustrated journey through psychedelics and their global history that explores how psychedelic visions have inspired and given meaning to humans throughout time.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGraham St John
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2025.An intellectual biography of one of the most celebrated and yet least understood figures of the late twentieth century, Terence McKenna. A stand-up philosopher who made a unique contribution to science, humanism, and the hidden arts, Terence McKenna (1946-2000) was the twentieth century’s psychedelic Renaissance man. Perfecting his rugged philosophy on the role of psychedelics in evolution, consciousness, and time, McKenna was a riotous charmer who stalked the shadows, but also sought the iridescence. More than twenty years since his untimely passing, McKenna has an enduring magnetism across the virtual pop stream, in pervasive digitization, and within social media networks. In Strange Attractor, the first biography of this enigmatic figure, Graham St John detects the signal behind the noise. This book is an engaging chronicle of the life, works, and legacy of this brazen adventurer of the inner and outer dimensions, whose weird intelligence has affected multitudes and whose spirit continues to haunt the present. It draws on original documents and letters, features fifty two rare photographs and artworks, and shares previously untold stories from over eighty people. Neither glorifying nor disparaging its subject, Strange Attractor will appeal to those interested in the evolution of a psychedelic intellectual, and to those for whom McKenna’s wisdom endures.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy, a signed first printing.
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Blotter: The Untold Story of an Acid Medium
AU$75.00 Read MoreAdd to cartErik Davis
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2024.“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 forever be linked to underground psychedelic culture and contemporary street art. Created in collaboration with Mark McCloud’s Institute of Illegal Images, the world’s largest archive of blotter art, Davis’ boldly illustrated exhibition treats his outsider subject with the serious, art-historical respect it deserves, while also staying true to the sense of play, irreverence, and adventure inherent in psychedelic exploration.” (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 Languages of Australia
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartR. M. W. Dixon
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. -
The Indo-Aryan Languages
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCollin P. Masica
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. -
The Politics of Sex: Prostitution and Pornography in Australia since 1945
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBarbara Sullivan
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. -
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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French Book of Hours: Making an Archive of Prayer, c. 1400-1600
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartVirginia Reinburg
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. -
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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Pleasure Erased: The Clitoris Unthought
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCatherine Malabou
Cambridge: Polity, 2022.“The clitoris was absent in anatomy books, in paintings and sculptures, absent in spirit and even body; it has long been the organ of erased pleasure. We assume that this oversight has been repaired in our times: today, the clitoris is not forgotten but honoured. Conferences, books, manifestos, works of art are all devoted to it. The autonomy of clitoral jouissance is recognized. The boundaries of feminism have also moved: queer, intersex and trans approaches claim that the clitoris is perhaps no longer the exclusive preserve of the woman. And yet, there remains a wounded space. Because genital mutilation is still common practice. Because millions of women are still denied pleasure. The clitoris continues to mark the enigmatic space of the feminine. Constrained by the extreme difficulty and the extreme urgency of returning to this scorched earth, it is time to give voice to an organ of pleasure which has still not become an organ of thought.” (publisher’s blurb) Translated from the French by Carolyn Shread.
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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)
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The Free Fantasia and the Musical Picturesque
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnnette Richards
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.