Sebastiaan de With

Delve into the deepest mysteries of opium, caffeine, and mescaline in This Is Your Mind on Plants. Michael Pollan will take you on a journey through the cultures and traditions surrounding these plant drugs, challenging our arbitrary thinking about them. Join Pollan in questioning the boundaries and laws we set around our innate desire for mind-altering experiences.

An Academy Award®–winning actor shares raucous stories and outlaw wisdom in this unconventional memoir. Filled with lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction, this book covers how to get relative with inevitable challenges, hurt people less, get hurt less, and have more fun. With fifty years of sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, graces, truths, and beauties of brutality, this is a guide to catching more greenlights and realizing that yellows and reds eventually turn green too.

Explore the use of psychedelic drugs for treating conditions like depression, addiction, and anxiety in this brilliant and brave investigation. Join Michael Pollan on a personal journey into altered states of consciousness and the thriving underground community of psychedelic therapists. Discover the truth about these mysterious drugs and their potential to transform our understanding of the mind, the self, and our place in the world. A unique blend of science, memoir, travel writing, history, and medicine, this book is a triumph of participatory journalism and a gripping account of a journey to an exciting and unexpected new frontier.

This fascinating read delves into the history and engineering of the iconic Boeing 747, known as "the Queen of the Skies." Written by one of the most celebrated engineers of the 20th century, Joe Sutter, the book provides unique insight into the cutting-edge American technology and glamorous era of jet travel when the 747 was first created. With humor and personality, Sutter shares insider knowledge and juicy anecdotes about the aeronautical industry and the larger-than-life personalities involved.