Trips
How Hallucinogens Work in Your Brain
$53.46
- Paperback
262 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2011
Summary
Trips shows, using color illustrations, the latest research, and bleeding-edge cultural analogies, how the still-mysterious hallucinogens may work in the still-mysterious brain. Written in language a general audience can understand, the book’s tone is light and irreverent, yet at the same time deals with the drug culture in a serious way.Trips offers readers a rare look at the social, cultural, historical, and scientific phenomenon of psychedelics-through the eyes of artists who’ve grown up w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781888363340 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1888363347 |
| Author: | Cheryl Pellerin, Ellen R. Crumb, Robert R. Crumb |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 262 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 630g |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 177mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“Laced with humor and wit but never short on scientific facts, Cheryl Pellerin’s Trips is a much-needed antidote to the inane discourse of the drug war.” –Martin A. Lee, co-author with Bruce Schlain of Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion
“A fine source of responsible information about how the verboten and vilified but perennially popular hallucinogenic drugs go about their nefarious business… . [Pellerin’s] book is fresh, reasonable, and very engaging.” –Booklist
About The Author
Cheryl Pellerin
CHERYL PELLERIN is an independent science writer for broadcast and print. Her work appears regularly on the Discovery Channel and The Learning Channel.
R. CRUMB is an underground cartoonist and an American national treasure. He is the author of Robert Crumb’s Genesis, a fully illustrated edition of the first book of the Bible, and many legendary underground comics besides.
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