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Michael Pollan Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.

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Michael Pollan is an author. Author of This is Your Mind on Plants; How to Change Your Mind; Cooked; In Defense of Food; The Omnivore’s Dilemma; The Botany of Desire and Second Nature.

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Book Cover for: My Old Home: A Novel of Exile, Orville Schell

My Old Home: A Novel of Exile

Orville Schell
Michael PollanMichael Pollan

Commonwealth Club talk on an extraordinary new novel by Orville Schell: My Old Home. With Winston Lord: A Novel Approach to China https://t.co/h1QFZlTTRE

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Book Cover for: Being You: A New Science of Consciousness, Anil Seth

Being You: A New Science of Consciousness

Anil Seth
Michael PollanMichael Pollan

I’m reading a lot of books about my next project, which is about consciousness, so I’ve been reading a lot of theoretical books about consciousness. One I really like is called Being You: A New Science of Consciousness by Anil Seth.

Hardcover, 2021

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Mindapps: Multistate Theory and Tools for Mind Design, Thomas B. Roberts

Mindapps: Multistate Theory and Tools for Mind Design

Thomas B. Roberts
Michael PollanMichael Pollan

I just received a copy of "Mindapps"" by Thomas Roberts. Looks like an interesting and provocative books about alternate states of consciousness. https://t.co/QcjGj4kwfh

Paperback, 2019

$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture, Gabor Maté

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

Gabor Maté
Michael PollanMichael Pollan

Looking forward to reading this new book by Gabor Mate, one of our best thinkers and writers on trauma. The Myth of Normal is a event. https://t.co/QfERoRAAUQ https://t.co/fF4ElNv69c

Hardcover, 2022

$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Consciousness Medicine: Indigenous Wisdom, Entheogens, and Expanded States of Consciousness for Healing and Growth, Françoise Bourzat

Consciousness Medicine: Indigenous Wisdom, Entheogens, and Expanded States of Consciousness for Healing and Growth

Françoise Bourzat
Michael PollanMichael Pollan

This important book on psychedelic guiding by one of the luminaries in the field is now out on audio-- don't miss it: Consciousness Medicine (Audiobook) by Françoise Bourzat, Kristina Hunter, Ralph Metzner - foreword | https://t.co/enLUvFb1eV https://t.co/5vl7rAk2TT

Paperback, 2019

$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Stop Saving the Planet!: An Environmentalist Manifesto, Jenny Price

Stop Saving the Planet!: An Environmentalist Manifesto

Jenny Price
Michael PollanMichael Pollan

Provocative challenge to environmentalism (as we know it) by my friend @JennyJJPrice: Stop Saving the Planet! - Jenny Price https://t.co/qSEahgmPhK

Paperback, 2021

$10.00$5.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Michael Pollan

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Michael Pollan
Michael PollanMichael Pollan

Join Senator Booker and me tomorrow evening for his book club. We'll be discussing The Omnivore's Dilemma https://bit.ly/3NFpK16

Paperback, 2007

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Technically Food: Inside Silicon Valley's Mission to Change What We Eat, Larissa Zimberoff

Technically Food: Inside Silicon Valley's Mission to Change What We Eat

Larissa Zimberoff
Michael PollanMichael Pollan

Fascinating book on tech's efforts to re-engineer our food. Technically Food: Inside Silicon Valley's Mission to Change What We Eat a book by Larissa Zimberoff https://t.co/R3T5nWVpJc

Hardcover, 2021

$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Acid Test: Lsd, Ecstasy, and the Power to Heal, Tom Shroder

Acid Test: Lsd, Ecstasy, and the Power to Heal

Tom Shroder
Michael PollanMichael Pollan

If you've never read Tom Shroder's book on MDMA and MAPS 35 year quest to resurrect it as a medicine, now's your chance: A new edition with an introduction by Rick Doblin

Paperback, 2015

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, Mike Jay

Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind

Mike Jay
Michael PollanMichael Pollan

Mike Jay's PSychonauts is easily the most interesting work of psychedelic history I've read in years.

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