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Publication Name
This Is Your Mind on Plants
Title
This Is Your Mind on Plants
Contributor
Michael Pollan (Read by)
ISBN-10
0593557050
EAN
9780593557051
ISBN
9780593557051
Release Date
24/08/2021
Release Year
2021
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
149mm
Item Length
129mm
Item Width
28mm
Item Weight
170g
Publication Year
2021
Format
Compact Disc
Language
English
Book Title
This Is Your Mind ON Plants
Author
Michael Pollan
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Genre
Self-Help, Body, Mind & Spirit, Science
Topic
Life Sciences / Ecology, Entheogens & Visionary Substances, Substance Abuse & Addictions / Drugs, General

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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.

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Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0593557050
ISBN-13
9780593557051
eBay Product ID (ePID)
19050080709

Product Key Features

Book Title
This Is Your Mind ON Plants
Author
Michael Pollan
Format
Compact Disc
Language
English
Topic
Life Sciences / Ecology, Entheogens & Visionary Substances, Substance Abuse & Addictions / Drugs, General
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Self-Help, Body, Mind & Spirit, Science

Dimensions

Item Length
5.9in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
6 Oz

Additional Product Features

Edition Description
Unabridged Edition
Reviews
" This Is Your Mind on Plants is an entertaining blend of memoir, history and social commentary that illustrates Pollan's ability to be both scientific and personal. By relying on contextual history and focusing on three popular, if misunderstood, drugs, Pollan challenges common views on what mind-altering drugs are and what they can accomplish." -- BookPage (starred review) "Pollan is a master of breaking down complex science into an engaging story and challenging long-held societal beliefs. His newest offering, which follows his examination of the science of psychedelics in 2018's How to Change Your Mind , aims to unpack our ideas about what constitutes a 'drug' and, fundamentally, why we seek them." --TIME "Building on his lysergically drenched book How to Change Your Mind (2018), Pollan looks at three plant-based drugs and the mental effects they can produce. . . . A lucid (in the sky with diamonds) look at the hows, whys, and occasional demerits of altering one's mind." -- Kirkus (starred review)
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
615.788
Dewey Edition
23

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