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Geoffrey Elborn

From Russia with love, the history of vodka from the 14thc to today.

Dedalus

Dedalus Concept Books

The Dedalus Book of Vodka

Alex Martin

Medlar Lucan

Durian Gray

Jerome Fletcher

A decadent history of sport with an alternative olympic games. From their offices above a boxing gym in Old Havana, Medlar Lucan and Durian Gray have set aside their congenital lethargy to begin a glittering and fantastical new project: The Decadent Sportsman. "We are inspired in part by the magnificent wastefulness of the preparations for the London Olympic Games, exactly the kind of futile extravagance that Caligula or Nero would have adored, and in part by the pungent odours of sweat and bruised leather that waft up through the ventilation grillles in the floorboards from the boxing ring below." This orchid-scented duo bring their wit and monstrous imaginations to play across the entire history of sport, with chapters ranging from the Greek athletic ideal and its perversions to the Nazi Olympics of 1936 and the use of drugs, alcohol and visionary states of being. The book also includes the full text of their proposal to the IOC for a new and more impressive Alternative Olympic Games, with events such as voyeurism, dentistry, Russian roulette, cocktail mixing, posing, couture, hairdressing, mendacity, bohemianism, architectural patisserie, and the roasting and carving of meat.

The Decadent Sportsman

Gary Lachman

Gary Lachman investigates the many links between self-death and the written word

The Dedalus Book of Literary Suicides: Dead Letters

Mike Jay

Updated & revised edition of the history of todays illegals drugs. The text of Emperors of Dreams has been revised, updated and with new material added, it paints a fresh and startling picture both of today's illicit drugs and of the nineteenth century in general. Essential reading for anyone interested in the history of drugs and drugs policy.

Emperors of Dreams: Drugs in the 19th c

Dedalus Concept Books - The book series

Dedalus Concept Books - The book series

Dedalus Concept Books books in order

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