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.

Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most admired writers takes us on a mind-altering journey to the frontiers of human consciousness When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it seemed to researchers, scientists and doctors as if the world might be on the cusp of psychological revolution. It promised to shed light on the deep mysteries of consciousness, as well as offer relief to addicts and the mentally ill. But in the 1960s, with the vicious backlash against the counter-culture, all further research was banned. In recent years, however, work has quietly begun again on the amazing potential of LSD, psilocybin and DMT. Could these drugs in fact improve the lives of many people? Diving deep into this extraordinary world and putting himself forward as a guinea-pig, Michael Pollan has written a remarkable history of psychedelics and a compelling portrait of the new generation of scientists fascinated by the implications of these drugs. How to Change Your Mind is a report from what could very well be the future of human consciousness.

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.