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Brian Blomerth’s Lilly Wave
AU$70.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBrian Blomerth
New York: Anthology Editions, 2024.“In the third entry in his ongoing series, Blomerth opens a porthole on the life, experiments, & addictions of John C. Lilly – the man whose development of the isolation tank and ketamine-fueled dives into the nature of consciousness made him perhaps the most notorious researcher of the psychedelic era. Featuring alien visitations, interspecies encounters, and no shortage of concerned onlookers, this is a story that’s equal parts cosmic & paranoid, transcendent & tragic.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Cobweb of Trips: A Literary History of Psychedelics
AU$55.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Dickins
Vale of Pewsey: Psychedelic Press, 2024.“Cobweb of Trips is a literary history of psychedelics that catches a sublime aesthetic weaving its way through mid-twentieth century Britain and beyond – one which asks how early experimenters sought to find a role for psychedelics in society. Spinning a psychospiritual thread from literature and the history of medicine, this story brings to light how the question of psychedelics, and the trips people had, were animated by the era’s cultural transformations. From spiritual reimaginings and scientific novelty, to political agitation and the counterculture of the 1960s, Cobweb of Trips is a poetic thread emerging when the psychedelic experience alighted in modern history.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Collation, Reference Notation & Statement of Signing: A Workbook
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCarlo Dumontet
Canberra: The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 2024.“This workbook discusses the various techniques which can be employed in book collation writing in order to provide readers with the capacity to construct collations and to interpret published ones. W.W. Greg’s and Fredson Bowers’s approach is discussed in depth, together with Thomas Tanselle’s view on how to handle inserted leaves. Upon this Greg-Bowers-Tanselle bedrock other possible solutions are also discussed. The exposition relies on a large number of examples and also on some exercises in order to render this workbook as practical a tool as possible. This workbook will be an invaluable guide for students of bibliography, early printed books cataloguers, and booksellers, but it is hoped that all those engaged in collation-writing may find it a useful reference tool.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Teddy Candoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art
AU$115.00 Read MoreAdd to cartC. Ondine Chavoya; David Evans Frantz
Los Angeles, New York, Monterey Park & Williamstown: Inventory Press, Independent Curators International, Vincent Price Art Museum & Williams College Museum of Art, 2024.“Accompanying the artist’s first retrospective, this title examines the work of artist Teddy Sandoval. A central figure in Los Angeles’s queer and Chicanx artistic circles, for 25 years Sandoval produced subversive and playful artworks in a range of mediums that explored the codes of gender and sexuality, particularly transforming conceptions of masculinity.” (publisher’s blurb)
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South Eastern Australian Field Mushrooms: A Glimpse at Agaricus
AU$18.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTeresa Lebel; Amelia-Grace Boxshall; Sapphire McMullan-Fisher
Caloundra: Queensland Mycological Society, 2024.“This guide illustrates a small portion of the known diversity of native and exotic-introduced species, important characters, and sporophore (fruitbody) forms in the genus Agaricus L. in temperate to tropical eastern and southern Australia.” (from rear cover)
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Out There: A Potted History of a Revolution Called Nimbin
AU$120.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGoffin Marion; Quentin Merlaud
Nimbin: Out There Publishing, 2024.39 Spoken Stories Told by Locals: An Antidote to Conventional Thinking.
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Global Ayahuasca: Wondrous Visions and Modern Worlds
AU$55.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlex K. Gearin
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2024.“Ceremonies of drinking the psychoactive brew ayahuasca have flourished across the planet in recent decades. Emerging from Indigenous roots in the Amazon rainforest, the brew is now envisaged by many as the spiritual gateway to archaic and primordial worlds, with reports of healing, spiritual insight, and awe-inspiring visions placing ayahuasca among the burgeoning field of psychedelic medicines. Astonished and allured by descriptions of ayahuasca experiences, researchers in psychology, anthropology, and philosophy have attempted to define the shared properties of the visions. In this book, Alex Gearin challenges this simplified obsession with universal truth and explores the embodied practices of contemporary ayahuasca drinkers to reveal how the brew has conjured contradictory experiences across the globe. These range from urban disenchantment and capitalist mastery to competitive sorcery and ecological harmony, wherein the plant-induced visions embody different attitudes towards capitalist modernity. Based upon ethnographic research among Shipibo healers in remote Peru, alternative medicine groups in urban Australia, and entrepreneurs and corporate managers in mainland China, Global Ayahuasca examines how the wondrous visions of ayahuasca are entangled within the social and economic realities that they illuminate, revealing different tensions, fears, and hopes of everyday modern life.” (publisher’s blurb)