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The Botany of Desire - A plant's-eye view of the world by Michael Pollan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | 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
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
$41.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
The bestselling author of "The Botany of Desire" explores the ecology of eating to unveil why we consume what we consume in the twenty-first century "What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat. Anthropolog ...Show more
The Omnivore's Dilemma : The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-food World by Michael Pollan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Food & Cooking
The truth behind why we consume what we consume in the twenty-first century We are indeed what we eat - and what we eat remakes the world. But we are only just beginning to recognise the profound consequences of the simplest everyday food choices, both for ourselves and for the natural world. The O ...Show more
The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-food World by Michael Pollan
$23.95 AUD
Category: Food & Cooking | Reading Level: very good
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
This Is Your Mind On Plants: Opium-Caffeine-Mescaline by Michael Pollan
$22.99 AUD
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
$35.00 AUD
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