Learn about the renowned author, Michael Pollan. Explore who Michael Pollan is as a food advocate through his biography, education, and a summary...
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Isaacson, who has also written biographies about Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin, clearly knows how to delve into the complexities of the genius mind. Unfortunately, the picture he paints of Steve Jobs, the man who helped revolutionize personal computing, animated movies, music, phones, tablet...
With Me or Without Meby Domenica Ruta. The list of memoirs written by women raised by crazy, abusive, or just downright difficult mothers grows and grows, but this book stands out to me above many of the others. Ruta, a writer with an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the U...
The Overstory, by Richard Powers A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, by Adam Rutherford How to Change Your Mind, by Michael Pollan The Need, by Helen Phillips Know My Name, by Chanel Miller 2018 Winners Fiction: Circe, by Madeline Miller Nonfiction: Prairie Fires, by Caroline Frase...
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals– This book by Michael Pollan tells about the food we eat, where it comes from, and how we can deepen our religious appreciation of the sacred connections involved. Quantum Theology: Spiritual Implications of the New Physics– Diarmuid ...
by Michael Pollan, 2006 The book that changed the way people who care about food think about food. Pollan has brought his blend of reporting, history, and memoir to psychedelics (How to Change Your Mind), plants (The Botany of Desire), and now psychedelic plants (This Is Your Mind on ...
Firstly, Michael Pollan discusses the history of psychedelics. How LSD was synthesized in a lab. How magic mushrooms were discovered in Mexico. How they went on to become synonymous with the 1960’s countercultural movement and subsequently listed as controlled substances even though they showed pro...
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (human knowledge) Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell (success factors) The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan (eating in America) Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (the fates of human societies) Into Thin Air by ...
I first met Mr. Salatin through Michael Pollan’sThe Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, and as I was looking for a low-cost option to start raising my own food and possibly food for other people, I looked into this book. I have 106 highlights scattered throughout th...