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Cooked - A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan
30.00 NZD
Category: Cooking | Reading Level: very good
Michael Pollan, the bestselling author of The Omnivore's Dilemma, Food Rules, and How to Change Your Mind, explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen in Cooked. Now a docu-series streaming on Netflix, starring Pollan as he explores how cooking transforms food and shapes our world. ...Show more
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual by Michael Pollan
21.00 NZD
Category: Health & Nutrition
#1 New York Times Bestseller A definitive compendium of food wisdom Eating doesn't have to be so complicated. In this age of ever-more elaborate diets and conflicting health advice, Food Rules brings welcome simplicity to our daily decisions about food. Written with clarity, concision, and wit that ...Show more
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual (Penguin Green Ideas series) by Michael Pollan
13.00 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much. Using those seven words as his guide, Michael Pollan offers this indispensable handbook for anyone concerned about health and food. Simple, sensible and easy to use, Food Rules is a set of memorable adages or 'personal policies' for eating wisely, gathered from a w ...Show more
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics by Michael Pollan
30.00 NZD
Category: Science
Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most revered writers takes us on a mind-altering journey to the frontiers of human consciousness. 'It's as if we made entering gothic cathedrals illegal, or museums, or sunsets!' When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it seemed to resea ...Show more
In Defense of Food - An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
36.00 NZD
Category: Health & Nutrition | Reading Level: very good
#1 "New York Times "Bestseller Food. There's plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend it? Because in the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion--most of what we're consuming today is longer the product of nat ...Show more
Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World by Michael Pollan
30.00 NZD
Category: Health & Nutrition
What shall we have for dinner? Such a simple question has grown to have a very complicated answer. We can eat almost anything nature has to offer, but deciding what we should eat stirs anxiety. Should we choose the organic apple or the conventional? If organic, local or imported? Wild fish or farmed? Lo ...Show more
The Botany of Desire - A plant's-eye view of the world by Michael Pollan
30.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
A fascinating journey into the art of botany that combines the narrative of The Tulip with the science writing of Genome. A farmer cultivates genetically modified potatoes so that a customer at Mcdonald's half a world away can enjoy a long, golden french fry. A gardener plants tulip bulbs in the autumn ...Show more
This Is Your Mind On Plants: Opium-Caffeine-Mescaline by Michael Pollan
26.00 NZD
Category: Science
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. ...Show more
This Is Your Mind On Plants: Opium-Caffeine-Mescaline by Michael Pollan
40.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
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 ...Show more
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