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23 produkter
Free Radicals
How a Group of Romantic Experimenters Gave Birth to Psychedelic Science
Av Mike Jay
Häftad, 2025
158 kr
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The story of the circle of scientists, poets and dissidents who discovered laughing gas—and forever changed our understanding of the mindAn unlikely circle of doctors, chemists, poets and political radicals formed a group round the maverick physician Thomas Beddoes. In the closing years of the …
Wireheads
An Unnatural History of Technology in the Brain
Av Mike Jay
Inbunden, 2026
251 kr
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The story of the mavericks and scientists, crackpots and artistic visionaries who imagined a future where machines fuse with our mindsAs humanity and technology become ever more tightly interwoven, Wireheads explores the final and most intimate frontier: the brain, and the electronic devices, …
Mescaline
A Global History of the First Psychedelic
Av Mike Jay
Häftad, 2021
158 kr
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A definitive history of mescaline that explores its mind-altering effects across cultures, from ancient America to Western modernityMescaline 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 …
Influencing Machine, Expanded Edition
James Tilly Matthews and The Air Loom
Av Mike Jay, Oliver Sacks
Häftad, 2026
230 kr
Kommande
A gripping true tale of madness, technology, politics, and paranoia in Georgian England. Confined in Bedlam in 1797 as an incurable lunatic, James Tilly Matthews’s case is one of the most bizarre in the annals of psychiatry. He was the first person to insist that his mind was being controlled by a …
Gunpowder Plots
A Celebration of 400 Years of Bonfire Night
Av Antonia Fraser, Brenda Buchanan m. fl.
E-bok, 2005
170 kr
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400 years ago this November the most ambitious and extraordinary plot ever conceived in this country came close to success: the attempt by Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators to destroy in a single, annihilating blast the entire British ruling class and royal family.This book draws on the …
Psychonauts
Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind
Av Mike Jay
Häftad, 2024
146 kr
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“Fascinating.”—Thomas W. Hodgkinson, The Guardian“Richly detailed and frequently illuminating.”—Rhys Blakely, Times (UK) “Excellent.”—Clare Bucknell, New YorkerA New Yorker Best of the Week PickA provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took drugs …
High Society
Mind-Altering Drugs in History and Culture
Av Mike Jay
Häftad, 2024
137 kr
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A global history of intoxication, exploring the international spectrum of drug use in cultures across the world, from prehistory to the present day. Every society is a high society. Every day, people drink coffee on European terraces, chew betel nut in Indonesian markets, take coca leaf on Andean …
This Way Madness Lies
The Asylum and Beyond
Av Mike Jay
Inbunden, 2016
256 kr
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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 …
Harold Jarman
Bristol Rovers Local Hero
Av Mike Jay, Ian Haddrell
Häftad, 2014
129 kr
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Harold Jarman is a Bristol-born sporting legend. A highly talented winger for Bristol Rovers, he made almost 500 League appearances for the club, scoring over a century of goals. Although he has taken on many different roles for clubs in the UK and the United States, his heart has always belonged …
Illicit Affair
The Asian Connection
Av Mike Jay
E-bok, 2006
134 kr
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Intriguing Asian thriller with close interaction between principle characters, Jason and Phoebe. Being caught up in a cunning extradition of deceipt and kidnap amongst Triad and ex-Triad members.
Unfortunate Colonel Despard
And the British Revolution that Never Happened
Av Mike Jay
E-bok, 2019
44 kr
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This is the true story of Colonel Edward Marcus Despard, the character in the fifth series of the BBC''s popular television drama Poldark . Colonel Despard was the last person to be sentenced to hanging, drawing and quartering in Britain - for high treason, an alleged plot to kill the king. His …
Unfortunate Colonel Despard
And the British Revolution that Never Happened
Av Mike Jay
Häftad, 2019
156 kr
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This is the true story of Colonel Edward Marcus Despard, the character in the fifth series of the BBC's popular television drama Poldark. Colonel Despard was the last person to be sentenced to hanging, drawing and quartering in Britain - for high treason, an alleged plot to kill the king. His …
Journey to the West
Av Mike Jay
E-bok, 2025
70 kr
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The world has ended and the devil is riding high into town. Join him on his journey to the west
Evil Rising of Schizophrenia
Av Mike Jay
E-bok, 2025
131 kr
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Zoey fell into a world she knew nothing about and was embarrassed to talk about. No matter who was out there she could feel the claws of something gripping around her and slowly closing around her kneck
Season to Remember 1989/90
Bristol Rovers Champions and Cup Finalists
Av Ian Haddrell, Mike Jay
Häftad, 2012
183 kr
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In the 1989/90 season, Bristol Rovers clinched promotion to the old ‘Second Division’, thanks largely to the tremendous team spirit of a side exiled in Bath, away from its traditional Bristol home. The ‘Ragbag Rovers’, as they became known, set an outstanding club record, remaining undefeated in 41 …
Influencing Machine
James Tilly Matthews and The Air Loom
Av Mike Jay
Häftad, 2012
180 kr
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A revised and updated edition of this weird science classic.
