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A Secret History of Coffee, Coca & Cola
Ricardo Cortés
Akashic Books
Hardcover
9781617751349
2012
$17.95
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Sea Creatures from the Sky
Ricardo Cortés
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Go the F**k to Sleep
Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortés
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Drugs
Storming Heaven: Lsd and the American Dream
Jay Stevens
$14.00
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Ecstasy: The Mdma Story
Bruce Eisner
$19.95
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Tihkal: The Continuation
Alexander Shulgin
$30.00
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The Birth of Heroin and the Demonization of the Dope Fiend
Thom Metzger
$15.00
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Hep-Cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams: A History of America's Romance With Illegal Drugs
Jill Jonnes
$25.00
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Orgies of the Hemp Eaters: Cuisine, Slang, Literature & Ritual Of Cannabis Culture
Abel Zug, Hakim Bey, and Peter Lamborn Wilson
$26.95
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Gourmet Cannabis Cookery: The High Art of Marijuana Cuisine
Dan D. Lyon
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The Dream Drugstore: Chemically Altered States of Consciousness
J. Allan Hobson
$27.00
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The Marijuana Question and Science's Search for an Answer
Helen C. Jones and Paul W. Lovinger
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The Little Box of Drugs: Herion, Ecstasy, Cocaine, Cannabis: Provides the hard facts, supported by interviews with experts, users and pushers
Nick Brownlee, Nick Constable, Gareth Thomas, and Robert Ashton
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Pills a Go Go: Fiendish Investigation into Pill Marketing, Art, History, and Consumption
Jim Hogshire
$16.95
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Busted!: Drug War Survival Skills
M. Chris Fabricant and Robert Crumb
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On Hashish
Walter Benjamin, Howard Eiland, and Marcus Boon
$30.00
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Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story
Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin
$30.00
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Drug Smugglers on Drug Smuggling: Lessons from the Inside
Scott H. Decker and Margaret Townsend Chapman
$26.00
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Buzzed: The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy (Third Edition)
Cynthia Kuhn Ph.D., Scott Swartzwelder, and Wilkie Wilson Ph.D.
$18.95
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Leary on Drugs: New Material from the Archives! Advice, Humor and Wisdom from the Godfather of Psychedelia
Timothy Leary
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Speed-Speed-Speedfreak: A Fast History of Amphetamine
Mick Farren
$12.95
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Under The Influence: The Disinformation Guide to Drugs
Preston Peet
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The Acid Diaries: A Psychonauts Guide to the History and Use of LSD
Christopher Gray
$16.95
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White Hand Society: The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg
Peter Conners
$16.95
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Growing Marijuana: How to Plant, Cultivate, and Harvest Your Own Weed
Tommy McCarthy
$14.95
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Dealing Death and Drugs: The Big Business of Dope in the U.S. and Mexico (Cinco Puntos Checkpoint Series)
Beto O'Rourke and Susie Byrd
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High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society
Carl Hart (Author)
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Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers
Anabel Hernández
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Leaf of Allah: Khat & Agricultural Transformation in Harerge, Ethiopia, 1875-1991.
Ezekiel Gebissa
$44.95
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Leaf of Allah: Khat & Agricultural Transformation in Harerge, Ethiopia, 1875-1991
$18.00
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Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana - Medical, Recreational and Scientific
Martin A. Lee
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Smack: Heroin and the American City
Eric C. Schneider
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Marijuana Nation: One Man's Chronicle of America Getting High: From Vietnam to Legalization
Roger Roffman
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Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade
Robert Sabbag
$16.00
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Timothy Leary: A Biography
Robert Greenfield
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Drug War Capitalism
Dawn Paley
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Acid Test: LSD, Ecstasy, and the Power to Heal
Tom Shroder
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Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
Johann Hari (Author)
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The Age of Anxiety: A History of America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers
Andrea Tone
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The Marijuana Chronicles
Jonathan Santlofer
$15.95
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Dealers
Peter Madsen
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Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel
Tom Wainwright
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Dmt: The Spirit Molecule : A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experience
Rick Strassman
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The Pot Book: A Complete Guide to Cannabis
Julie Holland
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Too High To Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution
Doug Fine
$28.00
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Psychedelic Medicine: The Healing Powers of LSD, MDMA, Psilocybin, and Ayahuasca
Richard Louis Miller
$16.95
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Hashish
Oscar Schmitz
$15.95
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The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star: Tenth Anniversary Edition
Nikki Sixx and Ian Gittins
$22.00
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Dreamseller: An Addiction Memoir
Brandon Novak and Joe Frantz
$15.00
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Containing Addiction: The Federal Bureau of Narcotics and the Origins of America's Global Drug War
Matthew R. Pembleton (Author)
$37.00
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Breaking the Cycle of Opioid Addiction: Supplement Your Pain Management With Cannabis
Uwe Blesching
$15.95
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Snow on the Atlantic: How Cocaine Came to Europe
Nacho Carretero
$19.95
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When the Servant Becomes the Master: A Comprehensive Addiction Guide for Those Who Suffer from the Disease, the Love Ones Affected by It, and the Professionals Who Assist Them
Jason Powers
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Proceso
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Straight Edge: A Clear-Headed Hardcore Punk History
Tony Rettman
$29.95
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The War on Drugs and the Global Colour Line
Kojo Koram
$29.95
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OD
Nancy D. Campbell
$35.00
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Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear
Carl L. Hart
$17.00
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Divine Rascal: On the Trail of LSD's Cosmic Courier, Michael Hollingshead
Andy Roberts
$21.95
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Weed Journal
Vreni Stolleberger
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Acid Trips and Chemistry
Dan Joy and Cam Cloud
$16.95
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The Golden Triangle: inside Southeast Asia's drug trade
Ko-lin Chin
$37.95
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High Weirdness
Erik Davis
$24.95
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Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change
Tao Lin
$18.00
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Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain
$18.00
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Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press
Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair
$34.95
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The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America's War on Drugs
Douglas Valentine
$17.95
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The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail
Oscar Martinez
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Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge : a Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution
Terence K. McKenna
$20.00
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Books on Coffee
Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival
Daniel Jaffee
$32.00
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Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Fair Trade, Sustainable Livelihoods and Ecosystems in Mexico and Central America (Food, Health, and the Environment)
Christopher M. Bacon, V. Ernesto Méndez, Stephen R. Gliessman, David Goodman, and Jonathan A. Fox
$34.00
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The Coffee Book: Anatomy of an Industry from Crop to the Last Drop
Gregory Dicum and Nina Luttinger
$18.95
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Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress
Candacy A. Taylor
$19.95
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The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse
Professor Brian Cowan
$40.00
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Javatrekker: Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee
Dean Cycon
$19.95
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The Broken Village: Coffee, Migration, and Globalization in Honduras
Daniel Ross Reichman
$22.95
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In Pursuit of Justice: Just Us! Coffee Roasters Co-Op and the Fair Trade Movement
Stacey Byrne and Errol Sharpe
$19.95
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Coffee: The Epic of a Commodity
Heinrich Edouard Jacob
$16.99
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Wrestling with Starbucks: Conscience, Capital, Cappuccino
Kim Fellner
$24.95
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Fair Trade Rebels: Coffee Production and Struggles for Autonomy in Chiapas
Lindsay Naylor
$27.00
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Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America
Jeffery M. Paige
$38.00
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