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Packed with useful tips and delicious recipes from a slew of experts, Weed covers smoking, cooking, and growing cannabis, as well as proper stoner etiquette and a guide to must-visit destinations around the world. Not too long ago, it might have seemed impossible that cannabis would step out of the shadows into the mainstream. But now, as legalization sweeps the globe, a new weed culture is evolving with its own set of rules--and thousands of new devotees eager to learn them. Journalist Michelle Lhooq lives in Los Angeles and is at the forefront of this revolution. Through her own expertise as well as interviews with stars from the weed scene, she presents a captivating glimpse into the wild...
As one of the flashiest, most captivating rock bands of the 1970s and 1980s, Queen quickly became one of the most beloved rock bands in the world. This biography explores the lesser-known parts of their story, such as their early days as a student band, as well as the formative years leading to their global explosion. Readers will also come to understand the broad and lasting impact of the band, from Freddy Mercury's groundbreaking role as a queer icon to their musical influence on other artists.
She believes werewolves are a myth...until she meets one. Emma Gavin’s popular books about sexy werewolves hit too close to home for the wealthy and powerful Wallace pack of NYC. But pack alpha Aidan Wallace’s surveillance fails to uncover evidence of an informant. Instead, Emma’s attracted a werewolf stalker. Unwilling to trust anyone else, Aidan assigns himself bodyguard duty for her book tour, a risky move since she turns him on. If she discovers who…and what…he is, she’ll be in danger from the same pack he’s sworn to protect. A conservationist, Emma balks when Aidan insists on traveling first class. But eventually hot chemistry melts her resistance to opulence. And her body...
Few crises in modern history have so completely disrupted every aspect of daily life as has the Covid-19 pandemic. What began as a small medical ripple in Wuhan, China, a city many of us had never heard of, quickly erupted into a tsunami of epic proportions. Every market, industry, vertical, profession, service, and category of product was in some way rocked by its impact. And, for the first time in recorded history, every wheel, cog and gear in the global retail industry ground to a virtual halt. From two-time, international best-selling author and futurist Doug Stephens, Resurrecting Retail is not just a riveting story of the unprecedented crash of an industry during this time of crisis but a roadmap for its rebirth. Meticulously researched in real time from inside the crisis, Resurrecting Retail provides a comprehensive and surprising vision of how Covid-19 will reshape every aspect of consumer life, including the very essence of why we shop.
The easy profits from pleasure, addiction and misery may soon end. The global illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol industries are ripe to be radically disrupted by the Internet and the microchip. Narcotech is the simple concept that consumer-centric IT can vastly improve on the unsatisfactory situation of today. Data-empowered citizens can transform their own health, whilst reducing the power of crime. There is neutral ground to be found in the culture war between prohibitionists and liberalisers. Change won’t be immediate, even or universal, but the prospective benefits are enormous. Lives saved and extended, new jobs and services created, civil liberties improved, black markets shrunk, taxes collected, environments respected. These are just a taster of what is possible.
The hidden role of fungi inside and all around us From beneficial yeasts that aid digestion to toxic molds that cause disease, we are constantly navigating a world filled with fungi. Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicines explores the amazing ways fungi interact with our bodies, showing how our health and well-being depend on an immense ecosystem of yeasts and molds inside and all around us. Nicholas Money takes readers on a guided tour of a marvelous unseen realm, describing how our immune systems are engaged in continuous conversation with the teeming mycobiome inside the body, and how we can fall prey to serious and even life-threatening infections when this peaceful coexistence is disturbed. He...
In both clinical and informal settings, psychedelics users often report they have undergone something profound and even life-altering. Yet there persists a confounding inability to articulate just what has been imparted. Informed by multidisciplinary emerging research, this book provides an account of the specifically educational aspects of psychedelics and how they can render us ready to learn. Drawing from indigenous peoples worldwide who typically revere these substances as "plant teachers" and from canonical thinkers in the western tradition such as Plato, Spinoza, Kant, and Heidegger, the author proposes an original set of categories through which to understand the educational capabilities of "entheogens" (psychedelics with visionary qualities). It emerges that entheogens' real power lies not in destabilizing and decentering—"turning on and dropping out"—but as powerful aids in restoring and reenchanting our shared worlds.
The writer of these notes was walking through Leicester Square one sunny afternoon last November, when his attention was particularly taken by an effeminate, but very good-looking young fellow, who was walking in front of him, looking in shop-windows from time to time, and now and then looking round as if to attract my attention. Dressed in tight-fitting clothes, which set off his Adonis-like figure to the best advantage, especially about what snobs call the fork of his trousers, where evidently he was favoured by nature by a very extraordinary development of the male appendages; he had small and elegant feet, set off by pretty patent leather boots, a fresh looking beardless face, with almost feminine features, auburn hair, and sparkling blue eyes, which spoke as plainly as possible to my senses, and told me that the handsome youth must indeed be one of the "Mary-Ann's" of London, who I had heard were often to be seen sauntering in the neighbourhood of Regent Street, or the Haymarket, on fine afternoons or evenings.
In the 1970's, a hippie college student falls in love with a female dolphin.
Dennis, a young homosexual eager to understand the power that the human body has over him, walks the line between death and desire--experiencing pleasure with punk rocker Samson and hustler Julian--in a world plagued by AIDS