Ronin Publishing
- For the role-playing game book publisher, see Green Ronin Publishing
Ronin Publishing, Inc. is a small press in Berkeley, California, founded in 1983 and incorporated in 1985, which publishes books as tools for personal development, visionary alternatives, and expanded consciousness. In a 1996 Publishers Weekley profile, it describes itself as a "strong player in the hemp and psychedelia market" that has little competition from major publishers.[1] Ronin's catalog includes the Leary Library,[2][3] The Lilly Library, Life Skills with Attitude!, The Fringe Series,[4] The Entheo-Spirituality Series, and various books on Psychedelia. They have been subpoened by the Drug Enforcement Administration to provide names and addresses for people having purchased their books on marijuana horticulture.[5][6][7] A number of their books are reprints of out-of-print works from the 1960s and 1970s on the psychedelic experience and related subjects.
Ronin republished the Discordian religious text Principia Discordia with altered text and a new name, so as to allow them to copyright the work. This action offended many fans of the work.[8]
Leary library[edit]
The Leary library includes the following books by Timothy Leary:
- The Politics of Ecstasy
- High Priest
- Chaos & CyberCulture[9] (Leary's last published work before his death)[10]
- Turn On Tune In Drop Out (1999) ISBN 1579510094
- Psychedelic Prayers
- Politics of Self-Determination
- Your Brain is God
- Politics of PsychoPharmacology
- Change Your Brain
- Start Your Own Religion
- Evolutionary Agents
- Musings on Human Metamorphoses (2003) ISBN 1579510582
- The Fugitive Philosopher
Other books[edit]
- Living Cheaply With Style: Live Better and Spend Less, Ernest Callenbach (1993) ISBN 0-914171-61-5
- A History of Underground Comics, Mark James Estren (1993) ISBN 091417164X (one of the few reference works on underground comix)
- A History of Underground Comics, 20th Anniversary Edition, Mark James Estren (2012) ISBN 978-157951156-2 (includes some updates and some all-new material)
- Overcoming Job Burnout, Beverly A. Potter, PhD (2005) ISBN 978-1579510749
- Question Authority to Think for Yourself, Beverly A. Potter, Ph.D. and Mark J. Estren, Ph.D. (2012) ISBN 978-1579511623
- Managing Yourself for Excellence, Beverly A. Potter, PhD (2009) ISBN 978-1579510893
- Psychedelics, Peter Stafford (2003) ISBN 0-914171-18-6
- Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults, Jacques Vallee (1979) ISBN 0-915904-38-1
- Right Where You Are Sitting Now: Further Tales of the Illuminati, Robert Anton Wilson (1982)
- The Illuminati Papers, Robert Anton Wilson (1980)
- Controlled Substances: Chemical & Legal Guide to Federal Drug Laws, Alexander Shulgin (1988) ISBN 0-914171-50-X.
- The Little Book of Opium, Francis Moraes (2003) ISBN 0914171836
- Ecstasy: The MDMA Story, Bruce Eisner (1989, 1994 revised ed) ISBN 0-914171-68-2
- Tales of Tongue Fu, Paul Krassner (1981) ISBN 1579510809
- Amazing Dope Tales, Stephen Gaskin (1999) ISBN 1579510108
- Dr Atomic's Marijuana Multiplier, Larry Todd (1998 reissue of 1974 title) ISBN 1579510035
- Laughing Gas: Nitrous Oxide, David Wallechinsky, Michael Sheldin and Saunie Salyer (1993 reprint of earlier work)
References[edit]
- ^ "The next generation." Publishers Weekly 18 Nov. 1996: 36. Literature Resource Center. Web. 29 Sep. 2012.
- ^ Laura Mansnerus (November 26, 1995). "Conversations/Timothy Leary;At Death's Door, the Message Is Tune In, Turn On, Drop In - New York Times". New York Times. Retrieved 2012-09-26.
- ^ Farmanfarmaian, Roxane. "For publishers, Leary lives on." Publishers Weekly 5 May 1997: 26. Academic OneFile. Web. 29 Sep. 2012.
- ^ "Beyond the Fringe." Publishers Weekly 14 Aug. 2000: 285. Academic OneFile. Web. 29 Sep. 2012.
- ^ "Marijuana Book Buyers Sought". Lodi News-Sentinel. Oct 29, 1997. Retrieved September 29, 2012.
- ^ "Feds Waiting for Marijuana Book Info". The Sunday Courier. Phoenix, United States. Nov 11, 1997. Retrieved September 29, 2012.
- ^ "DEA SUBPOENAS OUT OF LINE.(Editorial)". Seattle Post-Intelligencer – via HighBeam Research (subscription required). 31 October 1997. Retrieved 26 September 2012.
- ^ Hogan, Ron (2006-11-06). "Free Radical Book Now Under Copyright - GalleyCat". Mediabistro.com. Retrieved 2012-09-26.
- ^ Yoshitake, Dawn (3 June 1996). "LEARY LEAVES TECHNICAL LEGACY". Daily News – via HighBeam Research (subscription required). Retrieved 26 September 2012.
- ^ "Timothy Leary, Pied Piper Of Psychedelic 60's, Dies at 75". New York Times. Retrieved 2012-09-26.
