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Michael Pollan

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA BARACK OBAMA 2026 SUMMER READING LIST PICK'Big, generous, illuminating and beautifully written' John Banville, Financial TimesFrom the best-selling author of How to Change Your Mind, a pioneering search for consciousness in the brain and beyondA World Appears is the story of the quest to solve the greatest mystery in na...

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Michael Pollan

THE NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Reminds us that the mind is the greatest mystery in the universe' Yuval Noah Harari, Guardian, Books of the YearCould psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most admired writers takes us on a mind-altering journey to the frontiers of human consciousnessWhen LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it seemed to researchers, scientists and doctors as if the world mi...

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**The Instant New York Times Bestseller • One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of the Summer • Finalist for the Kirkus Prize"Pollan’s real genius—the word is not too strong—remains intact. That is his uncanny ability to scent the direction in which the culture is headed. He did it with food and psychedelics, and now, though A World Appears focuses on AI only intermittently, he has done it again." —Charles Finch, The AtlanticFrom the #1 New Yor...

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Michael Pollan

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 wide variety of sources: mothers, grandmothers, nutritionists, anthropologists and ancient cultures among them.Whether at the supermarket, a restauran...

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Michael Pollan

"One of the distinguished gardening books of our time," from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Omnivore's Dilemma ( USA Today).Chosen by the American Horticultural Society as one of the 75 greatest books ever written about gardeningAfter Michael Pollan bought an old Connecticut dairy farm, he planted a garden and attempted to follow Thoreau's example: do not impose your will upon the wilder...

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Michael Pollan

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR NEW NETFLIX SERIES, HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND'It's a trip - engrossing, eye-opening, mind altering' New Statesman'Fascinating. Pollan is the perfect guide ... curious, careful, open minded' The GuardianOf 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...

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Michael Pollan

'A must-read ... satisfying, rich ... loaded with flavour' Sunday TelegraphThis book is a celebration of food. By food, Michael Pollan means real, proper, simple food - not the kind that comes in a packet, or has lists of unpronounceable ingredients, or that makes nutritional claims about how healthy it is. More like the kind of food your great-grandmother would recognize.In Defence of Food is a simple invitation to junk the science, ditch...

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Michael Pollan

'The foundational text that allowed us to re-understand food' Chris van TullekenEat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.Michael Pollan devised his famous seven-word philosophy for healthy eating after the remarkable success of The Omnivore's Dilemma. Twenty years later, his investigation of the journey that food takes – from the soil to the plate – remains as urgent and topical as ever. This is the classic work that kick-sta...

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Michael Pollan

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX SERIES'It's not often that a life-changing book falls into one's lap ... Yet Michael Pollan's Cooked is one of them.' SundayTelegraph'This is a love song to old, slow kitchen skills at their delicious best' Kathryn Huges, GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEARThe New York Times Top Five Bestseller - Michae...

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Are plants intelligent? Can they solve problems, communicate, and navigate their surroundings? Or are they passive, incapable of independent action or social behavior? Philosophers and scientists have pondered these questions since ancient Greece, most often concluding that plants are unthinking and inert: they are too silent, too sedentary -- just too different from us. Yet discoveries over the past fifty years have challenged these ideas, shedding new light on the extraordinary capabilit...

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Michael Pollan

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? Low-carb or low-cal? As the American culture of fast food and unlimited choice invades the world, Pollan follows his next meal from land to table, tracing the origin of every...

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The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of Cooked and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in AmericaIn 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once again the mecca for people who care passionately about one particular plant—though this time the obsessions revolves ...