Michael Pollan
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English
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"From the #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, fragrance, flavor, fiber--surely the most curious is our use of them is to change consciousness: to stimulate or calm, fiddle with or completely alter, the qualities...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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An adaptation of the famous book offers insight into food consumption in the twenty-first century, explaining how an abundance of unlimited food varieties reveals the responsibilities of consumers to protect their health and the environment.
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Publisher
Debate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
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...
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Publisher
Debate
Pub. Date
2018.
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Español
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Presents an investigation into the current medical and scientific revolution in the field of psychedelic drugs, tracing the criminalization of such substances as LSD and psychedelic mushrooms and how they may treat difficult health challenges.