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| Author | : Bianca Tam |
| Publisher | : Tale Weaver |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 1990-09 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780942139020 |
The author recounts her life, including her privileged childhood in Italy, her marriage to a Chinese officer, her work spying for the Japanese, and her trial after the war
| Author | : Michael Pollan |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 238 |
| Release | : 2021-07-08 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0141997346 |
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 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.
| Author | : Jim Hogshire |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Gardening |
| ISBN | : 9781559501149 |
"Opium. Known as 'The Mother of All Analgesics,' it's probably the greatest pain killer ever discovered. Opium is the parent of morphine, heroin, laudanum, Darvocet, Darvon, and many other pain relievers. Opium causes poets to rhapsodize and nations to go to war. 'Religion... is the opium of the people,' said Karl Marx, but some people insist on the real thing. In Opium for the Masses, Jim Hogshire tells you everything you want to know about the beloved poppy and its amazing properties [...] As he reveals the secrets of the seductive opium poppy, he tells the sad story of prescription drugs: doctors, drug makers and governments prohibiting natural remedies in favor of harsh synthetic derivatives. Opium for the Masses includes rare photographs and detailed illustrations that bring this magnificent plant to life."--From cover.
| Author | : Markman Ellis |
| Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2015-06-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1780234643 |
Although tea had been known and consumed in China and Japan for centuries, it was only in the seventeenth century that Londoners first began drinking it. Over the next two hundred years, its stimulating properties seduced all of British society, as tea found its way into cottages and castles alike. One of the first truly global commodities and now the world’s most popular drink, tea has also, today, come to epitomize British culture and identity. This impressively detailed book offers a rich cultural history of tea, from its ancient origins in China to its spread around the world. The authors recount tea’s arrival in London and follow its increasing salability and import via the East India Company throughout the eighteenth century, inaugurating the first regular exchange—both commercial and cultural—between China and Britain. They look at European scientists’ struggles to understand tea’s history and medicinal properties, and they recount the ways its delicate flavor and exotic preparation have enchanted poets and artists. Exploring everything from its everyday use in social settings to the political and economic controversies it has stirred—such as the Boston Tea Party and the First Opium War—they offer a multilayered look at what was ultimately an imperial industry, a collusion—and often clash—between the world’s greatest powers over control of a simple beverage that has become an enduring pastime.
| Author | : Hans Derks |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 851 |
| Release | : 2012-04-18 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9004221581 |
Covering a period of about four centuries, this book demonstrates the economic and political components of the opium problem. As a mass product, opium was introduced in India and Indonesia by the Dutch in the 17th century. China suffered the most, but was also the first to get rid of the opium problem around 1950.
| Author | : Liao Yiwu |
| Publisher | : Atria/One Signal Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2020-03-03 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1982126655 |
A “memorable series of portraits of the working class people who defended Tiananmen Square” (The New York Review of Books) during the protests from the award-winning poet, dissident, and “one of the most original and remarkable Chinese writers of our time” (Philip Gourevitch). Much has been written about the Tiananmen Square protests, but very little exists in the words of those who were actually there. For over seven years, Liao Yiwu—a master of contemporary Chinese literature, imprisoned and persecuted as a counter-revolutionary until he fled the country in 2011—secretly interviewed survivors of the devastating 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Tortured, imprisoned, and forced into silence and the margins of Chinese society for thirty years, their harrowing and unforgettable stories are now finally revealed in this “indispensable historical document” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
| Author | : Jim Hogshire |
| Publisher | : Feral House |
| Total Pages | : 201 |
| Release | : 2010-08-01 |
| Genre | : Gardening |
| ISBN | : 1936239019 |
A practical guide to growing and using poppies and other botanical wonders.
| Author | : George van Driem |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Tea |
| ISBN | : 9789004386259 |
The Tale of Tea presents a comprehensive history of tea from prehistoric times to the present day in a single volume, covering the fascinating social history of tea and the origins, botany and biochemistry of this singularly important cultigen.
| Author | : Roy Moxham |
| Publisher | : Constable |
| Total Pages | : 271 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Tea |
| ISBN | : 9781841199177 |
The British were slow to take to tea, lagging behind the Portuguese and Dutch, and even the French. When they finally took it to their hearts, however, it became a national obsession. They covered their kingdom with tea gardens and tea shops. The taxation of tea led to massive smuggling, and the loss of their American empire.
