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81) Gemmel & Tim
Publisher
[Passion River]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Award-winning true crime documentary explores the lives and untimely passings of Gemmel Moore and Timothy Dean, two Black gay men who both died from meth overdoses at the home of West Hollywood politico Ed Buck. Powerful and galvanizing, simultaneously investigates the crimes and offers a cautionary tale to keep these events from repeating.
82) Hustlers
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a true story, Hustlers follows Destiny, a young stripper struggling to make ends meet. That is, until she meets Ramona, the club's savvy top earner, who shows her the way toward making big bucks. But when the 2008 economic collapse hits their Wall Street clientèle hard, Destiny and Ramona concoct a plan with their fellow strippers to turn the tables on these greedy power players in this wild, modern-day Robin Hood.
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When he signed up for a psychedelic retreat run by a mysterious Argentine woman deep in Brazil's rainforest in early 2018, Ernesto Londono, a veteran New York Times journalist, was so depressed he had come close to jumping off his terrace weeks earlier.His nine-day visit to Spirit Vine Ayahuasca Retreat Center included four nighttime ceremonies during which participants imbibed a vomit-inducing plant-based brew that contained DMT, a powerful mind-altering...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Go
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"We are on the cusp of a major revolution in psychiatric medicine and neuroscience. After fifty years of prohibition, criminalization and fear, science is finally showing us that psychedelics are not dangerous or harmful. Instead, when used according to tested, safe and ethical guidelines, they are our most powerful newest treatment of mental health conditions, from depression, PTSD, and OCD to disordered eating and even addiction and chronic pain....
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Christof Koch explores the only thing we directly experience: consciousness. At the book's heart is integrated-information theory, the idea that the essence of consciousness is the ability to exert causal power over itself, to be an agent of change. Kochinvestigates the physical origins of consciousness in the brain and how this knowledge can be used to measure consciousness in natural and artificial systems"--
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"Explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness."
In these two classic books, originally published in the 1950s, Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. As a user of mind-altering drugs like mescaline and LSD, he came to believe that they gave users essentially the same experiences that mystics attained through fasting, prayer, and meditation. The books became...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
1953: At the end of the Korean War, Dr. Charles Wilson, an Army bio-weapons scientist, died when he "jumped or fell" from the ninth floor of a Washington hotel. 1975: With the release of the Rockefeller Commission report on illegal CIA activities, LSD is linked to Wilson's death. Wilson's family and the press suspect the CIA of foul play; the White House doesn't want the truth to get out. Agent Jack Gabriel, an old friend of the Wilson family, is...
92) Born to darkness
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Michelle "Mac" Mackenzie, a super-human "Greater-Than" with unique abilities, teams up with a former Navy SEAL Shane Laughlin to stop the spread of a highly addictive drug called Destiny, which gives anyone the same abilities as a "Greater-Than.".
Author
Publisher
Steerforth Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Based on twelve years of correspondence and interviews, an award-winning journalist investigates his father's old high school classmate, Dr. Paul Volkman, who was the central figure in a massive "pill mill" scheme in southern Ohio, which led to the overdose deaths of thirteen patients and at least twenty other deaths.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
""It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents." Far from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the '40s and '50s, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainstream culture, where they were not only legal, but openly celebrated. American physician...
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