Michael Pollan

Una brillante y valiente investigación de Michael Pollan, autor de cinco best sellers de The New York Times, sobre la revolución médica y científica en torno a las drogas psicodélicas, y la fascinante historia de sus propias experiencias psicodelicas que le cambiaron la vida. Cuando Michael Pollan se propuso investigar por que el LSD y la psilocibina (el componente activo de las setas alucinogenas) proporcionan un enorme alivio a personas que padecen condiciones de dificil tratamiento como el trastorno por estres postraumatico, la depresion o la adiccion, no tenia la intencion de escribir lo que es sin lugar a dudas su libro mas personal. Pero al descubrir como estas notables sustancias mejoran la vida no solo de pacientes con problemas de salud mental sino tambien de personas que simplemente se enfrentan a los altibajos de la vida cotidiana, decidio explorar la cartografia de la mente tanto en primera como en tercera persona. Asi comenzo una singular aventura que lo llevaria a la experimentacion de la conciencia alterada, a la profunda inmersion en la neurociencia mas pionera y al contacto con una prodigiosa comunidad subterranea de expertos psicodelicos. En esta ejemplar investigacion periodistica, Pollan revisa archivos historicos y documentos cientificos para separar la verdad de los mitos, la propaganda y el panico moral alrededor de estas drogas que se ha ido acumulando desde los años sesenta, cuando un puñado de personajes rebeldes catalizaron una poderosa corriente hacia lo que entonces era un prometedor campo de investigacion. Sugerente, polemico y deslumbrante, una mezcla unica de ciencia, memoria, historia y medicina, este libro es el resultado de un viaje a una nueva, emocionante e inesperada frontera de la percepcion, de nuestra comprension de la mente, del yo y de nuestro lugar en el mundo. El verdadero objeto de este diario de a bordo mental no son solo las drogas psicodelicas, sino el enigma en torno a la conciencia humana y a como deberiamos actuar cuando buscamos encontrar sentido a nuestras vidas en un mundo que nos regala al mismo tiempo momentos de placer y de dolor.Reseñas:La profunda cronica de Pollan iluminara a aquellos que piensan en las drogas psicodelicas como una broma sobre la generacion de Woodstock y animara a aquellos que las ven como un potencial antidoto para nuestras mentes obstinadamente estrechas [...] Atractiva e informativa.The Boston Globe Un viaje alucinante que vale la pena emprender, te abre los ojos.KirkusPollan te mantiene enganchado al libro [...] con los ojos atentos y bien abiertos.The New York Times Conocido por sus escritos sobre plantas y alimentos, Michael Pollan [...] llevatodasu curiosidad y escepticismo hacia un tematotalmente diferente [...] Como cambiar tu mente actualiza y sintetiza maravillosamente la ciencia de los psicodelicos, con un toque personal.Science

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In todays fast-paced world, its tough to find the time to read. But with Joosr guides, you can get the key insights from bestselling non-fiction titles in less than 20 minutes. Whether you want to gain knowledge on the go or find the books youll love, Joosrs brief and accessible eBook summaries fit into your life. Find out more at joosr.com.If we are what we eat, most of us are processed, fake and unhealthy. Follow Michael Pollans food journey to discover the real story behind the packaged food on our supermarket shelves. Food is our most direct connection to the earth, but how much do we really know about what we eat? Most of us dont think too carefully about how our food gets to our table, and if we did know we would probably have a difficult time digesting it. In The Omnivores Dilemma, Michael Pollan explores the various food chains available to us in the West today, and encourages us to ask more questions about where our food comes from. You will learn:· Why the hunter-gatherer lifestyle just isnt a realistic option for most of us· Why organic produce may not be all its cracked up to be· What we can learn from small organic producers.

Come bien sin dejarte engañar por la ciencia y la publicidad. Best seller mundial. Más de 400 000 ejemplares vendidos. Mucho de lo que consumimos hoy en día no es comida y la forma en la cual la consumimos en el coche, delante de la television, y cada vez mas solos no es realmente comer. En vez de comida, consumimos sustancias comestibles parecidas a la comida, no provenientes de la naturaleza sino de la ciencia. En la denominada dieta occidental, la comida ha sido reemplazada por los nutrientes y el sentido comun por la confusion. El resultado es lo que Michael Pollan llama la paradoja americana: cuanto mas nos preocupamos por la nutricion, menos saludables parecemos. Tanto la industria alimenticia como la ciencia de la nutricion pretenden sacar partido de la confusion general sobre que es comer. Y la prueba palpable es que treinta años de consejos nutricionistas oficiales nos han hecho mas enfermizos y obesos. El autor propone un camino alternativo de alimentacion que esta inspirado en la tradicion y la ecologia. Siguiendo este camino podemos escapar de la dieta occidental y, como consecuencia, de la mayoria de las enfermedades cronicas que esa dieta causa. Una obra polemica que ataca la ciencia de la nutricion, los intereses de las grandes empresas alimenticias e incluso a los gobernantes que permiten continuos engaños a los consumidores. Un libro muy original y practico que nos enseña a alimentarnos mejor.

A New York Times bestseller that has changed the way readers view the ecology of eating, this revolutionary book by award winner Michael Pollan asks the seemingly simple question: What should we have for dinner? Tracing from source to table each of the food chains that sustain us—whether industrial or organic, alternative or processed—he develops a portrait of the American way of eating. The result is a sweeping, surprising exploration of the hungers that have shaped our evolution, and of the profound implications our food choices have for the health of our species and the future of our planet.

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 everything consumed and the implications for ourselves and our planet. His astonishing findings will shock all who care about what they put on their plate.

Michael Pollan, el ingenioso e influyente divulgador americano, periodista del New York Times, nos presenta el libro revelación que cambiará tu lista de la compra. A lo largo de El dilema del omnívor

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 of our mental experience. In This Is Your Mind On Plants, Michael Pollan explores three very different drugs - opium, caffeine and mescaline - and throws the fundamental strangeness 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, and the equally powerful taboos.

#1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of This is Your Mind on Plants, How to Change Your Mind, The Omnivore's Dilemma, and Food RulesFood. 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 confusionmost of what were consuming today is longer the product of nature but of food science. The result is what Michael Pollan calls the American Paradox: The more we worry about nutrition, the less healthy we see to become. With In Defense of Food, Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." Pollans bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we can start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives, enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy, and bring pleasure back to eating.

El libro definitivo para comer bien y de froma inteligente. Frente a las dietas, sentido común. Comer no tiene que ser tan complicado. En esta epoca de dietas milagrosas demasiado elaboradas y consejos contradictorios sobre salud y nutricion, Saber comer nos ofrece 64 reglas basicas para nuestra alimentacion diaria. Escrito con claridad, precision, y una agudeza que lo ha llevado a convertirse en un bestseller, este manual indispensable bebe de una gran variedad de tradiciones y nos muestra como las distintas culturas han alcanzado a traves de los siglos una sabiduria comun sobre la comida. Saber comer es un manual perfecto para gente con sentido comun y para todo aquel que alguna vez se haya preguntado "¿que, cuando, y como deberia comer?". Reseñas:"En las cuatro decadas que llevo leyendo y escribiendo sobre nutricion nunca habia encontrado nada tan inteligente, sensato y facil como estas 64 reglas."Jane Brody, The New York Times "Destinada a convertirse en una guia de referencia para comer bien, sin necesidad de leer largos manuales sobre nutricion."Los Angeles Times "Un manual practico que reemplazara todos los libros de dieta en tu estanteria."

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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 restaurant or an all-you-can-eat buffet, this handy, pocket-size resource is the perfect manual for anyone who would like to become more mindful of the food we eat. For the past twenty years, Michael Pollan has been writing about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect: food, agriculture, gardens, drugs, and architecture. The Omnivores Dilemma, about the ethics and ecology of eating, was named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post. He is also the author of The Botany of Desire, A Place of My Own and Second Nature and, most recently, In Defence of Food.

A must-read ... satisfying, rich ... loaded with flavourSunday Telegraph This 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 the diet and instead rediscover the joys of eating well. By following a few pieces of advice (Eat at a table - a desk doesnt count. Dont buy food where youd buy your petrol!), you will enrich your life and your palate, and enlarge your sense of what it means to be healthy and happy. Its time to fall in love with food again. For the past twenty years, Michael Pollan has been writing about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect: food, agriculture, gardens, drugs, and architecture. His most recent book, about the ethics and ecology of eating, is The Omnivores Dilemma, named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post. He is also the author of The Botany of Desire, A Place of My Own and Second Nature.

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR NEW NETFLIX SERIES, HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MINDIts a trip - engrossing, eye-opening, mind alteringNew StatesmanFascinating. Pollan is the perfect guide ... curious, careful, open mindedThe Guardian 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 mescaline - and throws the fundamental strangeness 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, and the equally powerful taboos. In a unique blend of history, science, memoir and reportage, Pollan shines a fresh light on a subject that is all too often treated reductively. In doing so, he proves that there is much more to say about these plants than simply debating their regulation, 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. This ground-breaking and singular book holds up a mirror to our fundamental human needs and aspirations, the operations of our minds and our entanglement with the natural world.

A captivating personal inquiry into the art of architecture, the craft of building, and the meaning of modern workA room of ones own: Is there anybody who hasnt at one time or another wished for such a place, hasnt turned those soft words over until theyd assumed a habitable shape?When Michael Pollan decided to plant a garden, the result was the acclaimed bestseller Second Nature. In A Place of My Own, he turns his sharp insight to the craft of building, as he recounts the process of designing and constructing a small one-room structure on his rural Connecticut propertya place in which he hoped to read, write, and daydream, built with his own two unhandy hands.Invoking the titans of architecture, literature, and philosophy, from Vitruvius to Thoreau, from the Chinese masters of feng shui to the revolutionary Frank Lloyd Wright, Pollan brilliantly chronicles a realm of blueprints, joints, and trusses as he peers into the ephemeral nature of houseness itself. From the spark of an idea to the search for a perfect site to the raising of a ridgepole, Pollan revels in the infinitely detailed, complex process of creating a finished structure. At once superbly written, informative, and enormously entertaining, A Place of My Own is for anyone who has ever wondered how the walls around us take shapeand how we might shape them ourselves.Praise for A Place of My OwnA glorious piece of prose . . . Pollan leads readers on his adventure with humor and grace.Chicago Tribune[Pollan] alternates between describing the building process and introducing informative asides on various aspects of construction. These explanations are deftly and economically supplied. Pollans beginner status serves him well, for he asks the kind of obvious questions about building that most readers will want answered. The New York Review of BooksBy shrewdly combining just the right mix of personal reflection, architectural background, and nuts-and-bolts detail, Michael Pollan enables us to see, feel, and understand what goes into the building of a house. The result is a captivating and informative adventure. John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and EvilAn utterly terrific book . . . an inspired meditation on the complex relationship between space, the human body and the human spirit. Francine du Plessix GrayA tour de force. Phillip Lopate