The Book of Cannabis: The History and Future of the Plant and the Drug
Jeremy Narby
Do you know how many millions of years Cannabis has been around? When it began to be cultivated for its medicinal properties? Why the Assassins were not likely to have smoked hashish? Why the members of the Club des Haschischins in Paris got higher than we ever did, and how come Baudelaire hated Cannabis? We know about the prohibition, but do we know when the demonisation of a weed called hemp (and later many other names) started? How the growth boom of the eighties evolved, and with which players? No matter the field, Jeremy Narby approaches marijuana and hashish from a pragmatic angle. Meticulously researched. (SGS)
St. Martin’s Press
A World Appears
Michael Pollan
The early 1990s marked the birth of a new science of consciousness, based on the assumption that the phenomenon could be explained in terms of brain activity, but that effort is faltering, and wilder ideas, such as panpsychism, are now getting a hearing. Indeed, there is now reason to doubt that ‘objective science’ as we have known it since Galileo has the right tools to plumb first-person experience. A story that begins in a brain lab in Seattle ends, of all places, in a cave in the mountains of New Mexico.
Penguin Books
Invoking the Wild Soul of Music
Hélène Grimaud
Internationally acclaimed piano virtuoso and founder of the Wolf Conservation Center, Hélène Grimaud shares her musical life’s journey and inspiring insights on the connections between music, nature, and spirituality. Invoking the Wild Soul of Music reveals paths to rebirth, spiritual growth, and the re-enchantment of life. This memoir shows how to honour the call of the wild even in the heart of civilised modernity.
Inner Traditions
Manual for the Awakening Warrior. The Special Forces Secret Mind-Body-Spirit Training Program
Joel & Michelle Levy
Designed for elite soldiers, the practices in this training are valuable for everyone aiming to heighten focus, deploy ethical discernment, and cultivate responsive awareness and “kindfulness.” Learn how to befriend your inner enemies, avoid self-sabotage and ambush by distractions, and respond skillfully to challenges with deeper courage and compassion. With these teachings, readers can awaken the strength to transform the battlefield of daily life into a zone of peace and navigate these uncertain times with grace, wisdom, and courage.
Destiny Books
Now I Surrender
Álvaro Enrigue
Orchestrated with a stunningly imagined cast of characters, both historical and purely fictional, Now I Surrender radically recasts the story of how the West was “won.” Part epic, part alt-Western, it is Álvaro Enrigue’s most expansive and impassioned novel yet. In the contested borderlands between Mexico and the United States, a woman flees into the desert after a devastating raid on her dead husband’s ranch. A lieutenant colonel in service to the fledgling Republic, sent in pursuit of cattle rustlers, discovers he’s on the trail of a more dramatic abduction…
Riverhead Books