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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 ...

Un libro provocador que cambiará la percepción que tenemos de las drogas, las plantas psicoactivas y todo los tabúes que las rodean. «Maravilloso. Derrumba las diferencias entre legal e ilegal, médico y recreativo, exótico y cotidiano, apelando al principio que une a todo ello: las afinidades entre la bioquímica vegetal y la mente humana».—The New York Review of Books   Usamos las plantas a diario para alterar nuestra conciencia. Nos relajamos...

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 pla...

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 pla...

The instant New York Times bestseller"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 ...

The instant New York Times bestseller"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 tabo...

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 powerfu...

Drei psychoaktive Pflanzen - Kaffee, Schlafmohn und Peyote-Kaktus -, die uns beleben, beruhigen oder unser Bewusstsein verändern, erkundet Michael Pollan in diesem spannenden Buch: ihre Kultur, ihre Wirkung und die Tabus, mit denen sie behaftet sind. Von allem, was Pflanzen den Menschen zur Verfügung stellen - Nahrung, Medizin, Duft, Geschmack, Schönheit -, ist sicher das Kurioseste, dass wir sie nutzen, um unser Bewusstsein zu verändern: es a...

It's a trip - engrossing, eye-opening, mind altering' New Statesman 'Fascinating. Pollan is the perfect guide ... curious, careful, open minded' The Guardian From the international bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind comes a ground-breaking exploration of our relationship with natural drugs 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 comp...

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 tha...

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From number one 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, t...

From number one 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, t...

In twenty short books, Penguin Classics brings you the ideas that have changed the way we think and talk about the living Earth. Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades, becoming the classics of a ...

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In den 1950er- und 1960er-Jahren erforschten Wissenschaftler die Wirkweise psychedelischer Substanzen. Psychiater betrachteten sie gar als Wundermittel zur Behandlung psychischer Erkrankungen. Bald lösten Stoffe wie LSD und Psilocybin jedoch moralische Panik aus. Psychedelika wurden verboten, die Forschung eingestellt. Seit zehn Jahren wird allerdings wieder geforscht. Michael Pollan greift die aktuellen Erkenntnisse auf und zeigt, wie Erkrank...

New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018A New York Times Notable Book The #1 New York Times bestseller.A brilliant and brave investigation into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to ...

Uno de los 10 mejores libros del 2018 según en New York Times. En la lista de los mejores libros de Publishers Weekly del 2018 Una brillante y valiente investigación de Michael Pollan, autor de cinco best sellersde The New York Times, sobre la revolución médica y científica en torno a las drogas psicodélicas, y la fascinante historia de sus propias experiencias psicodélicas que le cambiaron la vida. Cuando Michael Pollan se propuso inves...

Second Nature is the story of one man's education in the garden. But this is much more than a book about gardening. Michael Pollan masterfully promotes the garden as the most appropriate site to rethink our relationship to nature and to begin to put it on a saner footing. One of the best reasons to garden today, Pollan believes, is to put yourself on intimate terms with one samall corner of the universe.