Ronin Publishing

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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 Principia Discordia, with altered text, so as to allow them to copyright the work. This action caused concern among fans of the work.[8]

Leary library

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

References

  1. "The next generation." Publishers Weekly 18 Nov. 1996: 36. Literature Resource Center. Web. 29 Sep. 2012.
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  3. Farmanfarmaian, Roxane. "For publishers, Leary lives on." Publishers Weekly 5 May 1997: 26. Academic OneFile. Web. 29 Sep. 2012.
  4. "Beyond the Fringe." Publishers Weekly 14 Aug. 2000: 285. Academic OneFile. Web. 29 Sep. 2012.
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