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 Used: $10.95 Trade Paper List Price $20.00 
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The Illuminatus! Trilogy
by Robert Anton Wilson  
Powells.com Staff Pick I had grown bored with reading, until I found this book. Anything and everything can be found here: conspiracies, drugs, sex, talking gorillas, dolphins with scuba gear, a yellow submarine, undead Nazi soldiers, rock 'n' roll, ritual magic, quantum...
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
by Brian Greene
Powells.com Staff Pick "Brian Greene presents the bizarre world of quantum mechanics and string theory using language accessible to all while taking the reader on an exciting journey through a truly unusual universe." Blane, Powells...
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Valis
by Philip K Dick
Powells.com Staff Pick How would you react to having a pink laser beam information directly into your brain and having the experience of simultaneously living in the present and the time of the Christian apostles? A writer of science fiction, Philip K. Dick used...
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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
by Terence Mckenna
Powells.com Staff Pick McKenna starts his radical revision of human evolution by positing the theory that we evolved from apes to humans because of brain changes brought about by ingesting psilocybin-containing mushrooms. This was, in his opinion, the birth of...
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Primate's Memoir (01 Edition)
by Robert M. Sapolsky
Powells.com Staff Pick I never imagined that a book written by a primate behaviorologist would make me laugh out loud. Sapolsky is a born storyteller, and I found his experiences of twenty years in Africa studying baboons absolutely fascinating. You get to know the...
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Used: $3.95 Trade Paper List Price $12.00
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Arcadia
by Tom Stoppard
Powells.com Staff Pick Now this is important theatre. Yes, a play, and I recommend seeing it performed if you ever get the chance to, but read it beforehand if you want to have a chance of understanding it. I actually played Valentine in a production of Arcadia (I...
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Promethea: Volume 1
by Alan Moore
Powells.com Staff Pick What mad genius hides behind the moniker Alan Moore? For those unfamiliar with his work, Alan Moore made comic books "respectable" in the mid-80's with his landmark graphic novel Watchmen, introducing dark themes and intellectualism to a medium...
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Undoing Yourself: With Energized Meditation and Other Devices
by Christopher S. Hyatt
Powells.com Staff Pick I never had much success with meditation until I chanced upon the system of energized meditation. The very first session broke up areas of body tension and granted me a peaceful "at-one-ness" with the world around me. I would recommend it to anyone...
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Chaos & cyber culture
by Timothy Leary
Powells.com Staff Pick Most modern philosophers wail on about the horrors of living today. Reading Leary, I find myself overwhelmed with the glittering optimism he has for the possibilities of modern society. Published just as the Internet explosion was happening in...
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Breaking Open the Head
by Pinchbeck Daniel
Powells.com Staff Pick "Wins my vote for good book of the year [2002] for unflinchingly looking at a topic that frequently gets brushed aside as childish, dangerous, or unnecessary — psychedelic drugs as religious sacraments." Orin Holland, Powells...
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Palm Reader Ebooks: $8.83 Electronic List Price $9.95
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Valis
by Philip K. Dick
Powells.com Staff Pick How would you react to having a pink laser beam information directly into your brain and having the experience of simultaneously living in the present and the time of the Christian apostles? A writer of science fiction, Philip K. Dick used...
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| Used: $9.95 Hardcover List Price $25.00
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A Primate's Memoir
by Robert M Sapolsky
Powells.com Staff Pick I never imagined that a book written by a primate behaviorologist would make me laugh out loud. Sapolsky is a born storyteller, and I found his experiences of twenty years in Africa studying baboons absolutely fascinating. You get to know the...
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