This definitive autobiography of one of the most luminous minds of our time chronicles the story behind how the most ambitious environmental experiment ever undertaken, Biosphere 2, came to be. Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of photos, this Whitmanesque memoir is a passionate call to reawaken to the beauty of our peerless home, Earth.

Forthcoming: Birth of a Psychedelic Culture -- Conversations about Leary, the Harvard Experiments, Millbrook and the Sixties, by Ram Dass and Ralph Metzner with Gary Bravo. Foreword by John Perry Barlow. Available September 2009.

A landmark book in biosphere science written over sixty years ago by Russian scientist Vladimir Vernadsky. Renowned also as a philosopher and educator, Vernadsky wrote the first scientific theory about the "biosphere," the life zone of the Earth, and in the process prepared the ground for planetary thinking.

Planet in a bottle. From its half-acre farm to its coral reef to its emerald forest -- this unique research facility has proven itself a marvel of human engineering and a testament to the human imagination. For two years, four men and four women lived and worked inside the structure, recycling their air, water, food and wastes and setting a world record for living in an isolated environment. Here is the fascinating story of living under glass told by members of the crew.

An exceptional photographic essay accompanied by detailed descriptions of the Amazon Indians' use of medicinal and other sacred plant substances. Over 160 documentary photos take the reader on a journey where healing with plants is the norm, and ritual and magic play an essential role in everyday life.

Ayahuasca is a sacred drink used for millennia by numerous indigenous groups primarily in the Upper Amazon and Orinoco basins for divination, healing, and other cosmogonic/shamanic purposes. The Reader is a panorama of texts translated from nearly a dozen languages on the ayahuasca experience.

A complete anthro-pological overview of the Amazon rainforest ecosystem, containing chapters on rivers, ethnic groups, cultural activities, rubber and coca plants,drugs and medicines, and others. Beautiful photographs taken by Dr. Schultes during the '40s and '50s are accompanied by explanatory text.

At the height of the rubber boom in the early years of ths century, a young American, John Yungjohann, struggled for survival as a rubber cutter. Edited by Sir Prance, leading expert on the rainforest, who enhances the text with his own contemporary photographs and identifies the fungi, plants and animals mentioned in the pages of the diary.

The re-issue of this book, first published in 1873, remains the best classical treatise on the subject ever written. Includes nine engravings of Chinese landscapes by nineteenth century artist, Thomas Allom.

An inspiring story of the power of courage and hope -- the story of refugees who arrived destitute at the frontiers of Indian and Nepal, yet a mere fifty years later, have managed to rebuild the essential patterns of Tibetan culture in exile as a legacy of the future.

First novel in the TRILOGY A novel of passion, youth and energy exploring the power of the world, what it means to act and influence the course of history.

Second novel in the TRILOGY exploring the patterns behind cultures and new forms emerging in the late '60s from the Magic Room of Tangier, Tombs of Knowledge in Egypt, the cruel realities of Vietnam, to the Real Cafe in New York.

In this last novel in the "Trilogy of the Sixties," Joe Madison goes straight to the heart of the phenomenon in Haight-Ashbury from 1967-68.

Collection of poems from 1989 to 2000. This guy lives life, travels everywhere, does everything and transforms his adventures, thoughts, and dreams into living poetry.

A superb reading of his work in his own voice, sliding easily from outrageous tales to mordant satire, to ironically homespun philosophical reflection and back again.

The most comprehensive publication of poetry by the legendary poet/photographer, Ira Cohen.

An account of Wilson's apprenticeship under the master shamanic practitioner, Brion Gysin. The book details the psychic "Third Mind" effects known as "the Process."

A retrospective on the British expressionist artist.

First book of poetry from one of Santa Fe's most outstanding poets.

In the '30s,'40s,'50s, Poetry London as the leading forum for artists and poets such as T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Lawrence Durrell and George Orwell, among many. This is the last edition of Poerty London made by the magazines founder and editor, the legendary Tambimuttu.

Collection of poetry, aphorisms, and short stories spring from the author's love of the wild found in Nature, Space, and Man himself.

Poems written between 1946 and 1986 chronicling both a personal and social history of the essence of America.

Reading by the author from his poetry and prose at the Caravan of Dreams, Fort Worth, Texas.

Gilgamesh, Marouf the Cobbler, Faust Part One

Billy the Kid, Metal Woman, Tin Can Man

Proceedings from the 1980 Planet Earth Conference.

Stories about individuals who helped create American sensibility from 1965-1985.