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Acid Test

Tom Shroder
Acid Test Book PDF

Author : Tom Shroder
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780147516374

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“A book that should start a long-overdue national conversation.” —Dave Barry With the F.D.A. agreeing to new trials to test MDMA (better known as Ecstasy) as a treatment for PTSD—which, if approved, could be available as a drug by 2021—Acid Test is leading the charge in an evolving conversation about psychedelic drugs. Despite their current illegality, many Americans are already familiar with their effects. Yet while LSD and MDMA have proven extraordinarily effective in treating anxiety disorders such as PTSD, they still remain off-limits to the millions who might benefit from them. Through the stories of three very different men, award-winning journalist Tom Shroder covers the drugs’ roller-coaster history from their initial reception in the 1950s to the negative stereotypes that persist today. At a moment when popular opinion is rethinking the potential benefits of some illegal drugs, and with new research coming out every day, Acid Test is a fascinating and informative must-read.

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Tom Wolfe
The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test Book PDF

Author : Tom Wolfe
Publisher : Picador USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250321701

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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe Pdf

"Tom Wolfe's seminal portrait of Ken Kesey, one of the most magnetic figures of the counterculture movement of the 1960s, and his band of Merry Pranksters"--

The Acid Test

Anya Reiss
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Author : Anya Reiss
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781849437554

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This has been the worst day of my life. So can you please get drunk with me? Dana, Ruth and Jess down shots to console the heart-broken, to comfort the anxious and just pass the time. Kicked out from the family home Jess’s dad, Jim, invades the party with just as much recklessness as the girls. As the night passes and vodka bottles are emptied, Friday night in becomes high drama. An unruly new comedy asking if age equals maturity, Acid Test opened at the Royal Court in May 2011.

The Acid Test

Elmer Mendoza
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Author : Elmer Mendoza
Publisher : MacLehose Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681442877

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When the mutilated body of Mayra Cabral de Melo, a well-known stripper, is found by the side of a dusty road, detective Edgar "Lefty" Mendieta has personal reasons for bringing the culprit to justice. Mayra had no shortage of ardent, deluded, and downright dangerous admirers, and Lefty himself is haunted by one steamy night he spent in her generous company. So begins an investigation that will bring him ever closer to the murderous world of the narcos, who are waging a war of bloody attrition against the Mexican state. The country is a powder keg, waiting for a spark, and Mendieta is about to enter the darkest days of his life. Corrupt politicians, failed boxers, and unscrupulous arms dealers all lie in wait along the path to justice. But none of this can prepare him for his run-in with the FBI, when the father of the president of the United States is attacked while on vacation in Mexico. For all these perils it is the weight of his own murky past that Lefty finds hardest to bear. And as he scratches around for clues, faced with a gallery of suspects who all have a motive and none of whom is a stranger to the dark arts of murder, the reappearance of Samantha Valdés, now the boss of the Cartel del Pacífico, adds one more jagged piece to an already unsolvable puzzle.

Acid Test

Ross LaManna
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Author : Ross LaManna
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345439937

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From a veteran Hollywood screenwriter comes this action-adventure that rockets around the globe, offering diabolical medical research and the peril of nuclear warfare for an exciting amalgam of political intrigue and military action.

Acid Test

Christopher Kimball Bigelow
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Author : Christopher Kimball Bigelow
Publisher : Zarahemla Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0999347233

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Acid Test by Christopher Kimball Bigelow Pdf

Growing up Mormon during America's early-1980s satanic panic, Bigelow escapes the religion's bland conformity by playing Dungeons & Dragons. After graduating from high school in 1984, he dives into sex, drugs, and the counterculture via Salt Lake City's punk and new-wave scenes, as echoed from London, New York, and especially Los Angeles. As Bigelow explores the underground, he rejects myths of supernatural good vs. evil, living instead by the D&D concept of chaotic neutrality. During LSD trips, however, he starts sensing an unseen dimension. Then Stephen King's post-apocalyptic novel The Stand gets him reconsidering good vs. evil. After an alarming otherworldly attack, can Bigelow find spiritual protection in Mormonism's processed, regimented, corporate culture?

Acid Dreams

Martin A. Lee,Bruce Shlain
Acid Dreams Book PDF

Author : Martin A. Lee,Bruce Shlain
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0802130623

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Acid Dreams by Martin A. Lee,Bruce Shlain Pdf

Provides a social history of how the CIA used the psychedelic drug LSD as a tool of espionage during the early 1950s and tested it on U.S. citizens before it spread into popular culture, in particular the counterculture as represented by Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, and others who helped spawn political and social upheaval.

The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

Aldous Huxley
The Doors of Perception Heaven and Hell Book PDF

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551997568

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The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley Pdf

Two of the most famous pieces of non-fiction by Aldous Huxley (best known for Brave New World), The Doors of Perception details his experiences on the mind-altering drug mescaline, while Heaven and Hell details the relationships between mysticism, art, and sense perception that these experiences helped Huxley to explore and develop. He analogizes the mental states achievable through the use of mind-altering substances to very forms of religious self-flagellation, and also theorizes that they might be used as a form of treatment for psychological ailments. The two works have been significant influences on thinkers in this field, as well as writers, theologians, and philosophers. Random House of Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in ebook form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.

Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine

Tom Wolfe
Mauve Gloves and Madmen Clutter and Vine Book PDF

Author : Tom Wolfe
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1988-04-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781429961226

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Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine by Tom Wolfe Pdf

"When are the 1970s going to begin?" ran the joke during the Presidential campaign of 1976. With his own patented combination of serious journalism and dazzling comedy, Tom Wolfe met the question head-on in these rollicking essays in Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine -- and even provided the 1970s with its name: "The Me Decade."

I Celebrate Myself

Bill Morgan
I Celebrate Myself Book PDF

Author : Bill Morgan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 014311249X

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I Celebrate Myself by Bill Morgan Pdf

In the first biography of Ginsberg since his death in 1997 and the only one to cover the entire span of his life, Ginsberg's archivist Bill Morgan draws on his deep knowledge of Ginsberg's largely unpublished private journals to give readers an unparalleled and finely detailed portrait of one of America's most famous poets. Morgan sheds new light on some of the pivotal aspects of Ginsberg's life, including the poet's associations with other members of the Beat Generation, his complex relationship with his lifelong partner, Peter Orlovsky, his involvement with Tibetan Buddhism, and above all his genius for living.

Acid Christ

Mark Christensen
Acid Christ Book PDF

Author : Mark Christensen
Publisher : IPG
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781936182084

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Acid Christ by Mark Christensen Pdf

Following the leader of the notorious "Merry Pranksters" from his birth in Colorado to his literary success and the cross-country journey that inspired the "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," this candid biography chronicles the life and times of 1960s cultural icon Ken Kesey. Presenting an incisive analysis of the author who described himself as "too young to be a beatnik, and too old to be a hippie,” this account conducts a mesmerizing journey from author Mark Christensen's point of view, who grew up in Southern California and migrated to Oregon to be part of the Kesey "flock." From interviews with family members and those within his inner circle, this exploration reveals the bestselling author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in his many forms, placing him within the framework of his time, his generation, and the zeitgeist of the psychedelic era.

The Purple Decades

Tom Wolfe
The Purple Decades Book PDF

Author : Tom Wolfe
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1982-10-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781429955003

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The Purple Decades by Tom Wolfe Pdf

Tom Wolfe's The Purple Decades brings together the author's own selections from his list of critically acclaimed publications, including the complete text of Mau-Mauing and the Flak Catchers, his account of the wild games the poverty program encouraged minority groups to play.

The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby

Tom Wolfe
The Kandy Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby Book PDF

Author : Tom Wolfe
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781429961035

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The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby by Tom Wolfe Pdf

"An excellent book by a genius," said Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., of this now classic exploration of the 1960s from the founder of new journalism. "This is a book that will be a sharp pleasure to reread years from now, when it will bring back, like a falcon in the sky of memory, a whole world that is currently jetting and jazzing its way somewhere or other."--Newsweek In his first book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965) Wolfe introduces us to the sixties, to extravagant new styles of life that had nothing to do with the "elite" culture of the past.

Candy Experiments

Loralee Leavitt
Candy Experiments Book PDF

Author : Loralee Leavitt
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781449418373

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Candy Experiments by Loralee Leavitt Pdf

Candy is more than a sugary snack. With candy, you can become a scientific detective. You can test candy for secret ingredients, peel the skin off candy corn, or float an “m” from M&M’s. You can spread candy dyes into rainbows, or pour rainbow layers of colored water. You'll learn how to turn candy into crystals, sink marshmallows, float taffy, or send soda spouting skyward. You can even make your own lightning. Candy Experiments teaches kids a new use for their candy. As children try eye-popping experiments, such as growing enormous gummy worms and turning cotton candy into slime, they’ll also be learning science. Best of all, they’ll willingly pour their candy down the drain. Candy Experiments contains 70 science experiments, 29 of which have never been previously published. Chapter themes include secret ingredients, blow it up, sink and float, squash it, and other fun experiments about color, density, and heat. The book is written for children between the ages of 7 and 10, though older and younger ages will enjoy it as well. Each experiment includes basic explanations of the relevant science, such as how cotton candy sucks up water because of capillary action, how Pixy Stix cool water because of an endothermic reaction, and how gummy worms grow enormous because of the water-entangling properties.

The Acid Test

Clyde Best
The Acid Test Book PDF

Author : Clyde Best
Publisher : Decoubertin Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1909245771

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The Acid Test by Clyde Best Pdf

On a rainy Sunday in August 1968, Clyde Best, arrived in London for the first time. Not long out of school, he had come for a week long trial with West Ham United, the club with which he had fallen in love while watching the FA Cup final four years previously. It was the 17-year-old's first time away from the Caribbean. Alone, lost and depressed had he possessed the return fare he would have own straight back home again. Had that happened, English football would have missed out on one of its most riveting and unlikely stories: how Clyde Best, one of eight children, went on to become English football's first black striking hero. A groundbreaking figure, he battled for recognition despite being regularly targeted in an era when racism was rife on football's terraces. In his autobiography, The Acid Test, Clyde relates how he overcame appalling and violence-tinged discrimination because of the colour of his skin and how that served as an inspiration for dealing with intolerance throughout his career. He describes the culture shock of swapping the Caribbean for London; how West Ham and future England manager Ron Greenwood took him under his wing; how, as a willing listener, the teenager from Bermuda ended up playing in the same team with players - including Geo Hurst and Bobby Moore - who had led England to World Cup glory; and how he developed a special bond with the fans over an eight-year love a air. The Acid Test also follows Clyde to the United States where he joined the likes of Pele, Franz Beckenbauer and Rodney Marsh as one of the first pioneers of the professional game across the Atlantic. It concludes, four decades after boarding that BOAC flight to London as a skinny wannabe, back home in Bermuda where he briefly coached his national team. Candid and searingly honest, The Acid Test tells of the extraordinary ups and downs of one of English football's groundbreaking figures and is the last word from a player that defied many of the game's boundaries.