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Author : Irving Stone
Release : 1941
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Clarence Darrow for the Defense by : Irving Stone
Download or read book Clarence Darrow for the Defense written by Irving Stone. This book was released on 1941. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life of the great criminal lawyer.
Author : Dennis McKenna
Release : 2023-02-21
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Book Synopsis Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss by : Dennis McKenna
Download or read book Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss written by Dennis McKenna. This book was released on 2023-02-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss: My Life with Terence McKenna, is an autobiographical account of renowned ethnobotanist Dennis McKenna's childhood, his relationship with his brother, and the author's experiences with and reflections on psychedelics, philosophy, and scientific innovation. Chronicling the McKenna brothers' childhood in western Colorado during the 1950s and 1960s, Dennis writes of his adolescent adventures including his first encounters with alcohol and drugs (many of which were facilitated by Terence), and the people and ideas that shaped them both. Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss weaves personal narrative through philosophical ideas and tales of psychedelic experimentation. In this book, Dennis describes these inquiries with the wisdom of perspective. In his account of what has become known as "The Experiment at La Chorrera"-- which Terence documented in his own 1989 book, True Hallucinations -- Dennis describes how he had visions of merging mushroom and human DNA, the brothers' predictions for the future, and their evolving ideas about society and consciousness. He also offers an intellectual understanding of the hallucinogenic effects of high-dose psychedelic mushrooms and other psychedelic substances. Dennis, now world-renowned for this ethnobotanical work, describes in Brotherhood his early interests in cosmology and astrology, his sometimes rocky relationship with his older brother and how their paths diverged later in their lives. Dennis describes his academic career in between touching accounts of both his mother's and Terence's battles with cancer. In the 10th Anniversary edition of Brotherhood, Dennis reflects on scientific revelations, climate change, and the social and political crises of our time. The new edition also features both the original foreword by Luis Eduardo Luna and a new foreword by Dr. Bruce Damer. Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss is a story about brotherhood, psychedelic experimentation, and the intertwining nature of science and myth.
Author : Ed Vulliamy
Release : 2010-10-26
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 027/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Amexica by : Ed Vulliamy
Download or read book Amexica written by Ed Vulliamy. This book was released on 2010-10-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amexica is the harrowing story of the extraordinary terror unfolding along the U.S.-Mexico border—"a country in its own right, which belongs to both the United States and Mexico, yet neither"—as the narco-war escalates to a fever pitch there. In 2009, after reporting from the border for many years, Ed Vulliamy traveled the frontier from the Pacific coast to the Gulf of Mexico, from Tijuana to Matamoros, a journey through a kaleidoscopic landscape of corruption and all-out civil war, but also of beauty and joy and resilience. He describes in revelatory detail how the narco gangs work; the smuggling of people, weapons, and drugs back and forth across the border; middle-class flight from Mexico and an American celebrity culture that is feeding the violence; the interrelated economies of drugs and the maquiladora factories; the ruthless, systematic murder of young women in Ciudad Juarez. Heroes, villains, and victims—the brave and rogue police, priests, women, and journalists fighting the violence; the gangs and their freelance killers; the dead and the devastated—all come to life in this singular book. Amexica takes us far beyond today's headlines. It is a street-level portrait, by turns horrific and sublime, of a place and people in a time of war as much as of the war itself.
Author : Natalie Wexler
Release : 2007-01-28
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 161/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A More Obedient Wife by : Natalie Wexler
Download or read book A More Obedient Wife written by Natalie Wexler. This book was released on 2007-01-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A More Obedient Wife blends fact and fiction to tell the story of two women--married to Supreme Court Justices James Iredell and James Wilson--who find themselves swept up in the events of the federal government's turbulent first decade"--P. [4] of cover.
Author : Aaron Sorkin
Release : 2009
Genre : Inventions
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Book Rating : 867/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Farnsworth Invention by : Aaron Sorkin
Download or read book The Farnsworth Invention written by Aaron Sorkin. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's 1929. Two ambitious visionaries race against each other to invent a device called "television." ... Who will unlock the key to the greatest innovation of the 20th century: the ruthless media mogul, or the self-taught Idaho farm boy?"--P. [4] of cover.
