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The Cactus Family
This long-awaited, monumental work covers the Cactaceae in an encyclopedic manner, addressing 125 genera and 1810 species. The most comprehensive single resource on the subject available today, it includes more than 1000 color photographs in addition to other illustrations.
Peyote
Medicine of God, Peyote: for some people, to use it is to hear colors and see sounds. For many Native Americans, it brings an ability to reach out of their physical lives, to communicate with the spirits, and to "become complete." What is it in peyote that causes such unusual effects? Can modern medical science learn anything from Native Americans' use of peyote in curing a wide variety of ailments? What is the Native American Church, and how do its members use peyote? Does anyone have the legal right to use drugs or controlled substances in religious ceremonies? Within this volume are answers to these and dozens of other questions surrounding the controversial and remarkable cactus. Greatly expanded and brought up-to-date from the 1980 edition, these pages describe peyote ceremonies and the users' experiences, and also cover the many scientific and legal aspects of using the plant.
Thieves Like Us
When three small-time country gangsters break jail, they return to the only life they know-small-town bank robbing. When Bowie, the youngest of them, falls in love wit Keechie, one of the older gangster's cousins, it becomes a classic tale of love with nowhere to hide and no hope of reprieve. Originally published in 1937.
Rough and Rowdy Ways
Times were tough in the thirties, and tough guys chronicled the era in newspapers, short stories, and novels in prose that was terse, hard-boiled, bleak. One such writer was a Texan named Edward Anderson. Rough and Rowdy Ways is the story of Edward Anderson, primarily in what were, ironically, his golden years—the Great Depression. The laconic loner hopped freights, wrote two proletarian novels of the social underclass, looked for inspiration in a shot glass, and mixed with Hollywood celebrities while employed as a screenwriter for Paramount Pictures and Warner Brothers. When the thirties ended, the hard-times storytelling that was Anderson's genius went out of style, and his family suffered the effects of his rejection slips, unemployment, and alcoholism. Attracted to theoretical aspects of fascism, anti-Semitism, and Swedenborgianism, Anderson became an eccentric unpopular among intellectuals as well as the poor folk whose plight he had sketched too well in prose. He died in Brownsville, Texas, in 1969, leaving a legacy of shattered relationships and two whole, well-crafted novels of a distinctive literary genre and historical era
Threatened Cacti of Mexico
Extensively illustrated in colour, this is an account of 52 taxa of Mexican cacti under threat. Habit and habitats are described and threats analysed together with possible action. A chapter on propagation as a means of safeguarding wild populations is included.
Peyote
El peyote, el cactus divino de los nativos mesoamericanos del norte, se localiza en los alrededores de Real de Catorce, en el Estado de San Luis de Potosí (México). Los huicholes de la Sierra Madre Occidental (hoy en los Estados de Nayarit y parte de Jalisco) realizan cada año y desde tiempos inmemoriales peregrinaciones a esta zona, a la que llaman "Wirikuta" para recolectar esta planta. El peyote, de alrededor de 5 cm. de diámetro y que apenas sobresale del suelo, es redondo, de color verdiazul, con una leve depresión en el centro, de la que radian nueve surcos; estas nervaduras, entre los surcos, tienen pequeños racimos de los que crecen pelos, pero no espinas. Su mayor parte perman...
