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A great read for seekers and thrill-seekers interested in ayahuasca tourism, entheogens, and counterculture studies, this companion volume to the author's memoir Aya Awakenings collects in-depth inter
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Since the early 1990s, tens of thousands of memoirs by celebrities and unknown people have been published, sold, and read by millions of American readers. The memoir boom, as the explosion of memoirs
Rak (English and film studies, U. of Alberta, Canada) presents a diverse set of 13 essays connected by their focus on autobiography and biography narratives in Canadian society and their engagement wi
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From the mantra given to students on the first page ("reality is complex, and complexity is our friend"), to a concluding discussion of herbaceuticals and marijuana, this text on psychotropic drugs fo
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