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Magic Mushroom Explorer
Psilocybin and the Awakening Earth
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
A visionary guide to safely using psilocybin mushrooms to tap in to the wisdom of Nature and reconnect humanity to the biosphere
• Explores the ecopsychological effects of wild psychedelic mushrooms, including enhanced biophilia, expanded awareness, eco-shamanic encounters, and access to...
Eating Heaven
Spirituality at the Table
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Sitting down at a table to eat is an activity so grounded in the ordinary, so basic to the daily routines of life, we rarely ponder it beyond the simple inquiry, ‘What’s for dinner?’ However, scratch a little deeper and you discover in eating one of the most meaning-laden activities of our lives,...
Architects of Delusion
Europe, America, and the Iraq War
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
The commencement of war in Iraq in 2003 was met with a variety of reactions around the globe. In Architects of Delusion, Simon Serfaty presents a historical analysis of how and why the decision to wage war was endorsed by some of America's main European allies, especially Britain, and opposed by others,...
by Simon Hornblower
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
The Greek World 479-323 BC has been an indispensable guide to classical Greek history since its first publication nearly thirty years ago. Now Simon Hornblower has comprehensively revised and partly rewritten his original text, bringing it up-to-date for yet another generation of readers. In particular,...
天才、瘋子、大字典家：英國百年機密檔案解密，人類文明史上最龐大的英語字典編纂傳奇
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dicti
Language: Chinese
Release Date: December 29, 2017
一本工具書的誕生，打開世界史的一頁，也吹響人類文明的號角
奧立佛‧薩克斯（Oliver Sacks）盛讚：令人著迷又感動，作者以出色文筆重建了不可思議的故事……從本書可以看出，即使患有嚴重、無助的精神病，透過工作與關愛也能找到救贖的可能。
歷史的幽暗處，封存逾百年的機密檔案，即將在世人面前揭開真相！
因戰爭發瘋殺人的軍醫，靠自學成功的天才教授，結下不為人知的奇緣
合作完成人類文明史上最龐大的字典，塑造了現代文學史上最神祕、詭奇與悲慘的軼事
英國《泰晤士報》、美國《紐約時報》暢銷排行榜第一名
《不平靜的太平洋》作者溫契斯特長銷經典之作
原著改編電影即將上映，梅爾吉勃遜監製、主演，首度與西恩潘合作
胡川安（「故事：寫給所有人的歷史」網站主編）專文導讀，張鐵志（政治與文化評論家）、陳光興（《Inter-Asia...
by Simon Lemieux
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Exam board: AQA
Level: A-level
Subject: Politics
First teaching: September 2017
First exams: Summer 2019
Written by experienced teacher Simon Lemieux, this Student Guide for Politics:
-Identifies the key content you need to know with a concise summary of topics examined in the A-level specifications
-Enables...
Dedan Kimathi on Trial
Colonial Justice and Popular Memory in Kenya’s Mau Mau Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Perhaps no figure embodied the ambiguities, colonial fears, and collective imaginations of Kenya’s decolonization era more than Dedan Kimathi, the self-proclaimed field marshal of the rebel forces that took to the forests to fight colonial rule in the 1950s. Kimathi personified many of the contradictions...
Alabama Women
Their Lives and Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Another addition to the Southern Women series, Alabama Women celebrates women’s histories in the Yellowhammer State by highlighting the lives and contributions of women and enriching our understanding of the past and present. Exploring such subjects as politics, arts, and civic organizations, this...
Rise and Shine
The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Journey from Near Death to Full Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
When I was thirty-five, my wife and I were both reported dead by the first paramedics to arrive at the scene of a seventy-five-mile-an-hour hit-and-run. My wife Marcy died instantly that day. With brain damage from a massive stroke and my body broken, I wasn’t expected to survive either.”So begins...
by Edzard Ernst, Simon Singh
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2008
The truth about the potions, lotions, pills and needles, pummelling and energizing that lie beyond the realms of conventional medicine.
Whether you are an ardent believer in alternative medicine, a skeptic, or are simply baffled by the range of services and opinions, this guide lays to rest...
by Simon Hillson
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Human children grow at a uniquely slow pace by comparison with other mammals. When and where did this schedule evolve? Have technological advances, farming and cities had any effect upon it? Addressing these and other key questions in palaeoanthropology and bioarchaeology, Simon Hillson examines the...
Homicide
A Year on the Killing Streets
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
From the creator of HBO's The Wire, the classic book about homicide investigation that became the basis for the hit television show
The scene is Baltimore. Twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed, or bludgeoned to death. At the center of this hurricane of crime is the city's...
The Great Fossil Enigma
The Search for the Conodont Animal
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
A fascinating, comprehensive, accessible account of conodont fossils—one of paleontology’s greatest mysteries: “Deserves to be widely read and enjoyed” (Priscum).
Stephen Jay Gould borrowed from Winston Churchill when he described the eel-like conodont animal as a riddle wrapped in...
The Time Traveler's Guide
Writing time travel stories and historical fiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
The Time Traveler’s Guide examines the writing of time travel stories and historical fiction. Books always transport us to other places, especially stories involving time travel or those set in different historical eras.
The book examines the definition of time travel and historical fiction,...