Michael Pollan

An ecological and anthropological study of eating offers insight into food consumption in the twenty-first century, explaining how an abundance of unlimited food varieties reveals the responsibilities of everyday consumers to protect their health and the environment. By the author of The Botany of Desire. 125,000 first printing.

A Natural History of Four Meals

The Omnivore's Dilemma

Cites the reasons why people have become so confused about their dietary choices and discusses the importance of enjoyable moderate eating of mostly traditional plant foods.

An Eater's Manifesto

In Defense of Food

Focusing on the human relationship with plants, the author of Second Nature uses botany to explore four basic human desires--sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control--through portraits of four plants that embody them: the apple, tulip, marijuana, and potato. 100,000 first printing.

A Plant's-eye View of the World

The Botany of Desire

Caffeine

Presents an investigation into the medical and scientific revolution currently taking place in the field of psychedelic drugs, tracing the criminalization of such substances as LSD and psychedelic mushrooms and how they may offer treatment options for difficult health challenges.

what the new science of psychedelics teaches us about consciousness, dying, addiction, depression, and transcendence

How to change your mind

czego nowe badania nad psychodelikami uczą nas o świadomości, umieraniu, uzależnieniu, depresji i transcendencji

Jak zmienić swój umysł

The instant New York Times bestseller | A Washington Post Notable Book | One of NPR's Best Books of the Year “Expert storytelling . . . [Pollan] masterfully elevates a series of big questions about drugs, plants and humans that are likely to leave readers thinking in new ways.” —New York Times Book Review From #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Pollan, a radical challenge to how we think about drugs, and an exploration into the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants—and the equally powerful taboos. Of all the things humans rely on plants for—sustenance, beauty, medicine, fragrance, flavor, fiber—surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate or calm, fiddle with or completely alter, the qualities of our mental experience. Take coffee and tea: People around the world rely on caffeine to sharpen their minds. But we do not usually think of caffeine as a drug, or our daily use as an addiction, because it is legal and socially acceptable. So, then, what is a “drug”? And why, for example, is making tea from the leaves of a tea plant acceptable, but making tea from a seed head of an opium poppy a federal crime? In This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs—opium, caffeine, and mescaline—and throws the fundamental strangeness, and arbitrariness, of our thinking about them into sharp relief. Exploring and participating in the cultures that have grown up around these drugs while consuming (or, in the case of caffeine, trying not to consume) them, Pollan reckons with the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants. Why do we go to such great lengths to seek these shifts in consciousness, and then why do we fence that universal desire with laws and customs and fraught feelings? In this unique blend of history, science, and memoir, as well as participatory journalism, Pollan examines and experiences these plants from several very different angles and contexts, and shines a fresh light on a subject that is all too often treated reductively—as a drug, whether licit or illicit. But that is one of the least interesting things you can say about these plants, Pollan shows, for when we take them into our bodies and let them change our minds, we are engaging with nature in one of the most profound ways we can. Based in part on an essay published almost twenty-five years ago, this groundbreaking and singular consideration of psychoactive plants, and our attraction to them through time, holds up a mirror to our fundamental human needs and aspirations, the operations of our minds, and our entanglement with the natural world.

This Is Your Mind on Plants

Presents a set of rules for eating wisely in accordance with a variety of ethnic and cultural traditions, sharing guidelines for making grocery choices and dining out.

An Eater's Manual

Food Rules

Of all the many things humans rely on plants for, surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate, calm, or completely alter the qualities of our mental experience. In This Is Your Mind On Plants, Michael Pollan explores three very different drugs - opium, caffeine and mescaline - and throws the fundamental strangeness of our thinking about them into sharp relief. Exploring and participating in the cultures that have grown up around these drugs, while consuming (or in the case of caffeine, trying not to consume) them, Pollan reckons with the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants, and the equally powerful taboos. In a unique blend of history, science, memoir and reportage, Pollan shines a fresh light on a subject that is all too often treated reductively. In doing so, he proves that there is much more to say about these plants than simply debating their regulation, for when we take them into our bodies and let them change our minds, we are engaging with nature in one of the most profound ways we can. This ground-breaking and singular book holds up a mirror to our fundamental human needs and aspirations, the operations of our minds and our entanglement with the natural world.

64 reglas bsicas para aprender a comer bien / 64 Basic Rules to Eat Well

Saber comer / Food Rules

Yeni Psikedelik Bilimi Bilinclilik, Ölme, Bagimlilik, Depresyon ve Askinlik Hakkinda Biz

Zihninizi Nasil Degistirirsiniz S

this is your brain on plants

Per tutti noi l’assunzione quotidiana di caffeina coincide nientemeno che con la «condizione normale della coscienza». Eppure, quell’alcaloide naturale è a tutti gli effetti una droga, come rivela l’«esperimento di privazione» cui Michael Pollan si è sottoposto, trovandosi afflitto via via da mal di testa, letargia e «intensa angoscia». Per cercare di rispondere alla domanda cruciale da cui è partito – che cosa sia esattamente una droga –, Pollan intreccia reportage, «memoir» e saggio scientifico, spaziando attraverso varie discipline e concentrandosi soprattutto su tre molecole psicoattive: oltre alla caffeina, l’oppio, il cui effetto – secondo il poeta vittoriano Robert Bulwer-Lytton – è assimilabile al «sentirsi accarezzare l’anima dalla seta», e la mescalina, la più «sacra», che permise ad Aldous Huxley di vedere il mondo nella sua autentica «bellezza, minuzia, profondità e “quiddità”». Da questo affascinante percorso emerge ogni aspetto di queste sostanze, e in particolare la loro «natura bifronte»: il loro essere cioè «veleni» e «attrattori» al tempo stesso, in grado da un lato di dissuadere gli animali dal mangiare le piante che le producono, dall’altro di spingerli a utilizzarle accrescendo così la loro espansione ecologica: la caffeina contenuta nel nettare di certe piante, per esempio, rende le api impollinatrici «più affidabili, efficienti e industriose». Un’ambiguità che contraddistingue anche il millenario rapporto con le «droghe» degli esseri umani – e spiega come mai, sul piano evolutivo e culturale, «quella che era iniziata come una guerra» nei loro confronti si sia «trasformata in un matrimonio».

Oppio - Caffeina - Mescalina

Piante che cambiano la mente

as 64 regras de ouro

Comer bem

a gardener's education

Second nature

A radical challenge to how we think about drugs, and an exploration into the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants, and the equally powerful taboos.

By the bestselling author of The Omnivore's Dilemma, this is Michael Pollan's ingenious companion book about the surprising and close relationship between people and plants. In this entertaining young readers edition of the environmental studies classic, Michael Pollan demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a reciprocal relationship. He links four fundamental human desires—sweetness, beauty, energy, and control—with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, coffee, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind’s most basic yearnings. And just as we’ve benefited from these plants, we have also helped them to thrive. The Botany of Desire is perfect for STEM-focused young readers who want to learn more about: human history, biology, and environmentalism climate change and its impact on our relationship with plants gardening and the human-plant relationship

Our Surprising Relationship with Plants

The Botany of Desire Young Readers Edition

In this unique blend of history, science and memoir, the author examines and experiences three plant drugs--opium, caffeine and mescaline--from several very different angles and contexts, exploring the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants.

Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only be described as a national eating disorder. Will it be fast food tonight, or something organic? Or perhaps something we grew ourselves? The question of what to have for dinner has confronted us since man discovered fire. But as Michael Pollan explains in this revolutionary book, how we answer it now, at the dawn of the twenty-first century may determine our survival as a species. --From publisher description.

En este revolucionario libro, Michael Pollan, uno de los escritores más brillantes, originales y elocuentes de Estados Unidos, aborda la aparentemente sencilla pregunta de qué deberíamos comer, ofreciéndonos unas respuestas que tienen profundas implicaciones políticas, económicas, psicológicas e incluso morales para todos nosotros. ¿Qué cenaremos hoy? Nos hemos confrontado a esta pregunta desde que el hombre descubrió el fuego, pero para Michael Pollan la manera en que la abordamos hoy en día podría llegar a determinar nuestra supervivencia en cuanto a especie. El hecho de que seamos omnívoros y podamos ingerir todo tipo de alimentos hace que nuestro acto de decidir qué queremos comer se vuelva un dilema, sobre todo ante la abundancia de productos que nos ofrece el desconcertante y traicionero mercado alimenticio. Cuando escogemos nuestro tipo de alimentación, no solamente entra en juego la salud propia o la de nuestros hijos, sino la de todo el medioambiente. Escrito de manera excelente y profusamente argumentado, El dilema del omnívoro promete cambiar nuestra percepción sobre las políticas alimenticias y el placer de la comida.

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