{"id":1519,"date":"2019-09-01T22:05:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T22:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2019-10-15T22:08:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T22:08:52","slug":"september-2019-good-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/2019\/09\/01\/september-2019-good-to-read\/","title":{"rendered":"september 2019 \u2013 good to read"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Peyote Effect. From the Inquisition to the War on Drugs<\/h3>\t\t\t

Alexander S, Dawson<\/strong>
\nWhile some have attempted to explain the cultural and religious significance peyote, Alexander S. Dawson offers a completely new way of understanding the place of ths special cactus in history, arguing that it has marked the boundary between the Indian and the West since the Spanish Inquisition outlawed it in 1620. For nearly four centuries ecclesiastical, legal, scientific, and scholarly authorities have tried (unsuccessfully) to police that boundary to ensure that, while indigenous subjects might consume peyote, others could not.\u00a0The Peyote Effect\u00a0<\/em>explores how battles over who might enjoy a right to consume peyote have unfolded in both hemispheres, and how these conflicts have produced the systems that characterises modern drug regimes
\nUniversity of California Press, September 2018<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Brian Blomerth\u2019s Bicycle Day<\/h3>\t\t\t

Brian Blomerth<\/strong>
\nBrooklyn illustrator, musician and self-described \u00abcomic stripper\u00bb Brian Blomerth has spent years combining classic underground art styles with his bitingly irreverent visual wit in zines, comics, and album covers.\u00a0With Brian Blomerth\u2019s Bicycle Day<\/em>, the artist has produced his most ambitious work to date: a historical account of the events of April 19, 1943, when Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann ingested an experimental dose of a new compound known as lysergic acid diethylamide and embarked on the world\u2019s first acid trip. Combining an extraordinary true story told in journalistic detail with the artist\u2019s gritty, timelessly Technicolor comics style,\u00a0Brian Blomerth\u2019s Bicycle Day<\/em>\u00a0is a testament to mind expansion and a stunningly original visual history.
\nAnthology, June 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence<\/h3>\t\t\t

James Lovelock with Bryan Appleyard<\/strong>
\nNew beings will emerge from existing artificial intelligence systems. They will think 10,000 times faster than we do and they will regard us as we now regard plants \u2013 as desperately slow acting and thinking creatures. But this will not be the cruel, violent machine takeover of the planet imagined by sci-fi writers and film-makers. These hyper-intelligent beings will be as dependent on the health of the planet as we are. They will need the planetary cooling system of Gaia to defend them from the increasing heat of the sun as much as we do. And Gaia depends on organic life. We will be partners in this project. This is how James Lovelock, father of the Gaia Theory, sees our future.
\nThe MIT Press, July 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The Last Ocean. A Journey Through Memory and Forgetting<\/h3>\t\t\t

Nicci Gerrard<\/strong>
\nAfter a diagnosis of dementia, Nicci Gerrard\u2019s father, John, continued to live life on his own terms, alongside the disease. But when an isolating hospital stay precipitated a dramatic turn for the worse, Gerrard, an award-winning journalist and author, recognised that it was not just the disease, but misguided protocol and harmful practices that cause such pain at the end of life. Gerrard was inspired to seek a better course for all who suffer because of the disease. She examines the philosophy of what it means to have a self, as well as how we can offer dignity and peace to those who suffer with this terrible disease. Not only will it aid those walking with dementia patients,\u00a0The Last Ocean<\/em>\u00a0will prompt all of us to think on the nature of a life well lived.
\nPenguinRandom House, August 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The Testaments<\/h3>\t\t\t

Margaret Atwood<\/strong>
\nWhen the van door slammed on Offred\u2019s future at the end of\u00a0The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em>, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her \u2013 freedom, prison or death.\u00a0With The Testaments<\/em>, the wait is over. Margaret Atwood\u2019s sequel picks up the story 15 years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead. \u00abDear Readers: Everything you\u2019ve ever asked me about Gilead and its inner workings is the inspiration for this book. Well, almost everything! The other inspiration is the world we\u2019ve been living in.\u00bb More acclaim for Margaret Atwood to follow.
\nRandom House UK, September 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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