Artificial Paradises: A Drugs Reader

by Mike Jay

Book Overview

Times change--who would have thought that we'd ever see a nonjudgmental mainstream anthology of writings about mind-altering drugs? Editor Mike Jay delivers scores of well-selected hits of wild wisdom... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 014118115X
• ISBN13: 9780141181158
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.3" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

encyclopedic entheogenic

Penguin is so adept at publishing comprehensive, but manageable, collections in forms that are portable, highly readable and easy to reference.This collection is diverse and delves into the scientific, poetic and recreational components with elegance and authority.A completely worthwhile work.

Dazzling survey of drug history, science, art and culture

I expected a handy reference tome and found something else - a breathtaking and compelling end-to-end read. Excerpts are short and threaded together in sections which raise the central questions about the relation of drugs to art, religion, science and society while illustrating them with an incredible range of perspectives from history and different cultures. I find most 'drug literature' rather boring but this anthology opens the subject out into new dimensions.