Encyclopaedia Psychoactive Substances

Zusatztext A perfect psychonaut's guide to a strange galaxy ... a brilliant index to the weird and wonderful and a timely reminder that ours is not an unusually reckless age Informationen zum Autor Richard Rudgley has already established himself as an authority in the field of psychoactive substances with his award-winning and critically acclaimed book THE ALCHEMY OF CULTURE: INTOXICANTS IN SOCIETY. He is currently writing a book on shamanism and is a research anthropologist at the university of Oxford. Klappentext An entertaining reference book that covers all kinds of psychoactive substances; from natural ones (caffeine! toad-spittle etc)! to man-made ones (ecstasy for example). It looks at the biology and chemistry of the substances! and explores the influence they have had on society through the ages. *An accessible and vastly entertaining book on drugs from Ecstasy to caffeine via toad-spittle. Zusammenfassung *An accessible and vastly entertaining book on drugs from Ecstasy to caffeine via toad-spittle.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Rudgley, Rudgley Richard
• Publisher: Abacus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.07.1999
• EAN: 9780349111278
• ISBN: 978-0-349-11127-8
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 215 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works; Science: general issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biochemistry, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Reference, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, SCIENCE / Reference, PSYCHOLOGY / Reference, Drug & substance abuse: social aspects, biochemistry, Psychology: states of consciousness, Reference works, Drugs and alcohol: social aspects, Drug-Induced States, Toxicology (non-medical)