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The Magic of Mushrooms: Fungi in Folklore, Superstition and Traditional Medicine
AU$33.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSandra Lawrence
London and Sydney: Welbeck, 2022.“Explore the wonderful world of some of the most incredible natural forms on our planet fungi. At the centre of countless superstitions, folkloric tales and magical beliefs, as well as appearing in recipes and medicines both traditional and modern, mushrooms have incredible powers. Featuring images of over 100 fascinating species, sourced from the archives at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, The Magic of Mushrooms shows that from saving lives to expanding the mind, the potential of these fascinating organisms should not be underestimated.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Allure of Fungi
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlison Pouliot
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2022.“Although relatively little known, fungi provide the links between the various organisms and ecosystems that underpin our functioning planet. The Allure of Fungi presents fungi through multiple perspectives those of mycologists and ecologists, foragers and forayers, naturalists and farmers, aesthetes and artists, philosophers and Traditional Owners. It explores how a history of entrenched fears and misconceptions about fungi has led to their near absence in Australian ecological consciousness and biodiversity conservation. Through the combination of engaging text and stunning photography, the author reflects on how aesthetic, sensate experience deepened by scientific knowledge offers the best chance for understanding fungi, the forest and human interactions with them.”
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Allies for Awakening: Guidelines for Productive and Safe Experiences with Entheogens
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRalph Metzner
El Verano: Four Trees Press, 2022.“This monograph is based on 50 years of experience as a participant-observer in the international underground sub-culture involved with entheogenic, consciousness-expanding substances. The author discusses the uses and values of such substances when the explicit intention or purpose is for spiritual awakening, psychotherapy, healing, increased understanding and the enhancement of creativity. The intent of this documentation is not to prove or promote any particular method or treatment of any condition. The evaluation of entheogens needs to be in terms of how productive these experiences are of healthier approaches to the issues of living in these times, in this world.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Psychedelic Integration: Psychotherapy for Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarc B. Aixala
Santa Fe & London: Synergetic Press, 2022.History and guide to the application of psychedelics in therapy from the sixties to today.
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The Drug Users Bible: Harm Reduction, Risk Mitigation, Personal Safety: An Antidote to the War on Drugs
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDominic Milton Trott
: MxZero Publishing, 2022.The complete and final version of the Drug Users Bible. People are dying because of ignorance. They are dying because unremitting propaganda is denying them vital safety information. They are dying because legislators and the media are censoring the science, and are ruthlessly pushing an ideological agenda instead. They are dying because the first casualty of war is truth, and the war on drugs is no different. This book makes a significant contribution in confronting this harrowing and tragic narrative. Over a 12 year period the author of this book self-administered over 180 psychoactive substances; both chemicals and plants. For each he recorded the life-sensitive safety data, including the anticipated onset times, the common threshold doses, the routes of administration, and the expected duration of the experience. In addition, for every compound he also produced a trip report, detailing the qualitative experience itself. This delivered another invaluable insight, enabling, for example, an objective assessment of the extent of any loss of judgement and self-control. This is a substantial body of work, embracing a wealth of direct support material, including addiction/overdose advice, relative harm tables, and legal briefings. Its contents also extend to cover aspects such as drug tourism, psychedelic exploration and drug related culture. It is crammed with detailed reference data, and even includes its own drug dictionary.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Etching Past & Present: Paul Bong, Yidinji Artist
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPaul Bong
Brisbane: AndAlso Books, 2022.“Paul uses traditional European printmaking techniques, such as intaglio etching and mezzotint, to create modern artworks that are derived from his personal interpretation of countless centuries of Yidinji history and storytelling. Meticulous attention to detail and hard physical work combine to give physical form to Paul’s cultural vision, which is both delicate and strong, contemporary and timeless.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed by the artist.
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Awakening a Curate’s Library: The Rev. William Arderne Shoults (1839-1887): His Life, His Book Collection, and his Legacy to New Zealand
AU$65.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDonald Jackson Kerr
: The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 2022.“This book is the first to provide an account of the life of Rev. William Arderne Shoults (1839-1887) and his book collecting. It is also the first detailed examination of a true survivor, his book collection of some 5600 items, including medieval manuscripts, incunables, books on ecclesiastical history and primitive church rites and rituals, philology, bibliography, science, travel, and Arabic and Persian texts. The contents cover Shoults’s early years at St. John’s College, Cambridge University, his work in some of the poorer ritualistic parishes of London, his association with the Rev. Joseph Leycester Lyne (1837-1908), the controversial, enthusiastic, revivalist known as ‘Father Ignatius’, his work on Latin hymns, his marriage, and his travel overseas, which included visiting the Vatican Library. After Shoults’s death at 48, his collection was gifted to Selwyn College, Dunedin, arriving in New Zealand in 1893. The survival of this collection is remarkable and it exists as a fine example of what a nineteenth-century curate could collect.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Yves Klein: Dreaming in the Dream of Others
AU$125.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeorges Petitjean
Milan: Mousse Publishing, 2022.This volume presents works by 13 Aboriginal artists alongside pieces by the influential French artist Yves Klein (1928-62), whose early childhood art and writings reflect an interest in prehistorical Aboriginal motifs. Artists include: Angkaliya Curtis, Bardayal Lofty Nadjamerrek, Bil Whiskey Tjapaltjarri, Danie Mellor, Dhambit Mununggurr, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Ignatia Djanghara, Waigan Djanghara, Judy Watson, Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, Paddy Nyunkuny Bedford, Paji Honeychild Yankarr, and Wattie Karruwara.
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Terra Australis: An English Teenage Migrant’s Experiences in Australia, 1926-1929
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartP. Prideaux
Mackay: Nindaroo Publishing Australia, 2022.A snapshot of daily life on outback properties in New South Wales and Queensland, 1925-29 told through a young man’s letters to his mother.
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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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Kirrenderri: Heart of the Channel Country
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael C. Westaway; Mandana Mapar; Tracey Hough; Shawnee Gorringe; Geoff Ginn
Brisbane: The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum, 2022.“The project was developed in partnership between the Anthropology Museum, Mithaka Aboriginal Corporation and researchers from The University of Queensland. This publication contains 14 essays by 22 contributors and explores the pre-colonial history of the Channel Country, to the early years of European settlement and through to the more recent history, now being shaped by the academic researchers that have come to study the distant past of the land and the people who have always been part of this story. But this is not just about the past – it continues into the present. Central to this story is the involvement of the Aboriginal people who have never ceased their connection to the Channel Country.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Into Your Hands: Essays Inspired by Mystic, Prophet, and Activist Michael Bernard Kelly
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAndrew Brown
Melbourne: Clouds of Magellan Press, 2022.Academic and personal tributes to the life and work of leading Australian gay activist and religious commentator Michael Bernard Kelly.
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I Know Who Killed Betty Shanks
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTed Duhs
Brisbane: Boolarong Press, 2022.Queensland’s oldest cold case. The third edition reveals Betty’s secret life as documented in an ASIO file.
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Queering Psychedelics: From Oppression to Liberation in Psychedelic Medicine
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlex Belser; Clancy Cavnar; Beatriz C. Labate
Santa Fe & London: Synergetic Press, 2022.“As psychedelic-assisted therapy gains traction in popular culture and through policy reforms, Queering Psychedelics: From Oppression to Liberation in Psychedelic Medicine aims to foster accessibility and diversity in psychedelic science, practice, and discourse… Queering Psychedelics integrates indigenous outlooks on psychedelics, gender roles, and identity while aligning them with those of other marginalized groups: women, people of color, the disabled, the impoverished. This book interrogates the continuing radical potential of queer psychedelia in today’s era of assimilation, paving the way for an inclusive and intersectional world.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRalph Metzner
Santa Fe & London: Synergetic Press, 2022.Psychotherapist and researcher Ralph Metzner employs academic and spiritual knowledge to investigate human growth and transformation.
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Dian Hanson’s: The History of Men’s Magazines (6 Volumes)
AU$750.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDian Hanson
Koln: Taschen, 2022.Complete set of Dian Hanson’s history of 20th century men’s magazines,
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Dian Hanson’s: The History of Men’s Magazines (Volume 5): 1970s at the Newsstand
AU$125.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDian Hanson
Koln: Taschen, 2022.“1967 was the year men’s magazines became pornography. Prior, there were pinup magazines and adventure magazines, art-photo magazines, nudist magazines, girlie titles and risque titles, over-the-counter and under-the-counter, top shelf and bottom shelf, spicy, saucy, sparkling and seedy titles. But the day Berth Milton Sr. walked into a session of Swedish Parliament with photos of actual sexual intercourse and announced he was going to publish them in his magazine Private, pornography was born.” (from introduction)
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Dian Hanson’s: The History of Men’s Magazines (Volume 4): 1960s Under the Counter
AU$125.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDian Hanson
Koln: Taschen, 2022.“The new publishing companies started in Hollywood then expanded into the San Fernando Valley, the first settlers in what would become the world capitol of porn production. American Art Agency, commonly called Parliament, was the leader, but Art Enterprises, Comet, Dominion, Marquis, Marst, Orbit, Pendulum, Press Arts, Rilgac, Sari, Spice, Tri-S, Tower, Utopia and many others contributed memorable magazines. The East Coast got into the game late with Sampson and Delilah Publishing, Health Knowledge, and Lenny Burtman’s Selbee Associates out of New York, and the distinctive Tudor House/Central Sales from Baltimore, but overall, California ruled.” (from introduction)
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Dian Hanson’s: The History of Men’s Magazines (Volume 3): 1960s at the Newsstand
AU$125.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDian Hanson
Koln: Taschen, 2022.“Around 1960 Hugh Hefner began exporting Playboy. It was an immediate success overseas and by mid-decade most of Europe had adopted the Playboy blueprint for its own men’s magazines. From France came Lui, from Italy Playmen. England made King, Germany Eden. The only serious challenge to Playboy’s dominance came when Penthouse from newly hip London in 1965, taking the grittier stance of the Rolling Stones to Playboy’s Beatles. From 1966 on Penthouse was copied regularly as Playboy, resulting in English Mayfair and Men Only and Italian Excelsior, Men, 10 and numerous others. Italy was especially taken with the Penthouse model, since publisher Bob Guccione was a paisano himself, but even Germany’s most venerable men’s magazine, Er, eventually restyled in Penthouse hipster mode. Soon these “lifestyle” men’s magazines, those that covered fashion, food, travel and entertainment as well as sex, were the only titles available on European newsstands. Playboy’s overseas influence was a stunning victory for Hefner, but it came at the expense of the more culturally distinctive magazines made in France, Germany and England prior to 1960.” (from introduction)