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A Los Angeles Times BestsellerOne of The New Yorker's best books of 2024A bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, illuminating how a culture of experimental drugs shaped the Cold War and the birth of Silicon Valley."It was... Read More about Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science

A Los Angeles Times BestsellerOne of The New Yorker's best books of 2024A bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, illuminating how a culture of experimental drugs shaped the Cold War and the birth of Silicon Valley."It was... Read More about Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science

Eating the flesh of an Egyptian mummy prevents the plague. Distilled poppies reduce melancholy. A Turkish drink called coffee increases alertness. Tobacco cures cancer. Such beliefs circulated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, an era when the term "drug" encompassed everything from herbs ... Read More about The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade (Early Modern Americas)

Eating the flesh of an Egyptian mummy prevents the plague. Distilled poppies reduce melancholy. A Turkish drink called coffee increases alertness. Tobacco cures cancer. Such beliefs circulated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, an era when the term "drug" encompassed everything from herbs ... Read More about The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade (Early Modern Americas)

Eating the flesh of an Egyptian mummy prevents the plague. Distilled poppies reduce melancholy. A Turkish drink called coffee increases alertness. Tobacco cures cancer. Such beliefs circulated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, an era when the term drug encompassed everything from herbs an... Read More about The Age of Intoxication Lib/E: Origins of the Global Drug Trade

Eating the flesh of an Egyptian mummy prevents the plague. Distilled poppies reduce melancholy. A Turkish drink called coffee increases alertness. Tobacco cures cancer. Such beliefs circulated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, an era when the term drug encompassed everything from herbs an... Read More about The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade