This Is Your Mind on PlantsOf 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 book, Michael Pollan explores three very different drugs opium, caffeine and mescaline and throws the fundamental strangeness of our thinking about them into sharp relief.

Each stage of the War

and also going outside: adventuring

For two years 'Marga' risked it all

She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings

He bares his soul - his passions

From their faithful camper van to boats

The average age of an RAF fighter pilot was just twenty years old

Adventure and opportunity blossom on every corner of this strange wartime city of girls

Francis saw himself as the first Renaissance king

affirmations

voted for Barack Obama when he ran for an Illinois Senate seat

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