The Influencing Machine: James Tilly Matthews and the Air Loom. by Mike Jay Foreword by Oliver Sacks (Häftad)
avMike Jay
ISBN: 9781907222139 - UTGIVEN: 201206James Tilly Matthews and the Air Loom. London in the 1790s, Europe is in turmoil and war with France is looming. James Matthews, an Welsh tea merchant and anti war advocate who holds covert meeting with both the English and the French leaders. But Matthews believes that his mind is being controlled [...]
The Atmosphere of Heaven (Pocket)
avMike Jay
ISBN: 9780300168914 - UTGIVEN: 2010-11At the Pneumatic Institution in Bristol, England, founded in the closing years of the eighteenth century, dramatic experiments with gases precipitated not only a revolution in scientific medicine but also in the history of ideas. Guided by the energy of maverick doctor Thomas Beddoes, the institutio[...]
High Society (Inbunden)
avMike Jay
ISBN: 9780500251720 - UTGIVEN: 201011"High Society" explores the spectrum of drug use across the globe and throughout history, from its roots in animal intoxication to its future in designer neurochemicals. Designed to accompany the 2010 Wellcome Collection exhibition, and beautifully illustrated with rarely seen material from the muse[...]
High Society (Häftad)
avMike Jay
ISBN: 9780500289105 - UTGIVEN: 201203New in paperback, Mike Jays global history of intoxication looks at the earliest archaeological evidence of drug use, the botanicals of the classical world, the mind-bending self-experiments of early scientists and today's war on drugs. Every society is a high society. Every day, people drink coffee[...]
High Society: The Central Role of Mind-Altering Drugs in History, Science and Culture (Häftad)
avMike Jay
ISBN: 9781594773938 - UTGIVEN: 2010-10An illustrated cultural history of drug use from its roots in animal intoxication to its future in designer neurochemicals
- Featuring artwork from the upcoming High Society exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London, one of the world's greatest medical history collections
- Explores th[...]
Toughness: Developing True Strength on and Off the Court (Inbunden)
avJay Bilas, Mike Krzyzewski
ISBN: 9780451414670 - UTGIVEN: 201303A "NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER
The popular ESPN basketball analyst and former Duke player looks at the true meaning of toughness.
If anyone knows tough, it's Jay Bilas. A four-year starter at Duke, he learned an incomparable work ethic under coach Mike Krzyzewski, battling against the greate[...]
Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany (Häftad)
avCharles Portis, Jay Jennings, Mike Reddy
ISBN: 9781468307399 - UTGIVEN: 2013-08Though Charles Portis is best known for his fiction writing, he is also a prolific essayist, travel writer, and newspaper reporter. Collected here in "Escape Velocity," edited by Jay Jennings, is his "miscellany" -- journalism, short fiction, memoir, and even the play "Delray's New Moon," published [...]
