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An interdisciplinary selection of 23 essays first presented at Breaking Convention 2013, the 2nd conference on psychedelic consciousness, culture and clinical research, held at the University of Greenwich, London.

A bold vision of cosmology mapping how the pole star became associated with political power, religious rapture, and social hierarchies.

A memoir about the recovery from alcoholism, habitual drug use and mental illness, from broadcaster, and co-founder and editor of The Quietus website, John Doran.

A subtle and sometimes disturbing account of how technology has impacted upon human culture.

An anthology of essays drawn from The Wire's monthly Epiphanies column.

Published in a back-to-back double-A-side format are Brian Catling's account of the recovery of the enormous Ahnighito meteorite, from Greenland to New York, by explorer Robert Peary in 1897, and the psychogeology of Iain Sinclair's hunt for meteorites across 21st-century London.

Collected together for the first time, these Trip or Squeek strips offer acerbic, lysergic and razor sharp observations on music, art and life. Featuring extensive notes, a discography and never-before-seen preparatory sketches by Savage Pencil, and an illustrated foreword by artist Gary Panter.

A bold anthology of writing from acclaimed film magazine Electric Sheep.

A stunningly-presented guide to London's past that charts the many roles that diseases, treatments and cures have played in the city's sprawling story—and how London, in turn, has shaped the professions and practices of modern medicine.A unique, stunningly-presented guide to London's past and a treasure trove of information for historians, residents, medical professionals and tourists, Medical London charts the many roles that diseases, treatments and cures have played in the city's sprawling story. It also reveals how London, in turn, has shaped the professions and practices of modern medicine.Medical London comprises three parts:A volume of essays exploring some of the threads that medicine has woven through London life, from its earliest beginnings to the multicultural metropolis of today: its roles in contagion and sanitation, in wealth and its consumption, in empire and immigration, in pleasure and in madness.A definitive guide to London's medical landscape: its museums and hospitals, its grand monuments and secret corners, and the characters and events that lie behind them.Six elegantly designed maps for self-guided walks, from Daniel Defoe's Plague Year wanderings to the druggists of Soho's night haunts, the homeopaths of bohemian Chelsea to the naval surgeons of maritime Greenwich.Published in collaboration with Wellcome Collection.

In the first book of its kind - part history and part how-to guide - the secrets of the crop circle world are revealed by the people behind the modern era's most astounding art practice.