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Caffeine
- How Caffeine Created the Modern World
- Narrated by: Michael Pollan
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Michael Pollan, known for his best-selling nonfiction audio, including The Omnivores Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind, conceived and wrote Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World as an Audible Original. In this controversial and exciting listen, Pollan explores caffeine’s power as the most-used drug in the world - and the only one we give to children (in soda pop) as a treat.
Pollan takes us on a journey through the history of the drug, which was first discovered in a small part of East Africa and within a century became an addiction affecting most of the human species. Caffeine, it turns out, has changed the course of human history - won and lost wars, changed politics, dominated economies. What’s more, the author shows that the Industrial Revolution would have been impossible without it. The science of how the drug has evolved to addict us is no less fascinating. And caffeine has done all these things while hiding in plain sight! Percolated with Michael Pollan’s unique ability to entertain, inform, and perform, Caffeine is essential listening in a world where an estimated two billion cups of coffee are consumed every day.
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- Ameena
- 14-10-22
EYE OPENING
A deep dive into the unknown world of a molecule that controls humanity. uffff!
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- Abish4i
- 02-02-22
Caffeine, Plants and Homo-sapiens
This was insightful and very interesting, I was expecting more informative narration and details. At some point one might realise there is too much repetition of facts.
Though overall this listen was okayish.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-01-22
informative
Informative.. and filled with surprising facts. as a coffee lover myself, I am in awe of the far reaching implications of coffee and the impact it has had on the world we live in.
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- Shillpa Kataria Singh
- 10-05-20
Caffeine Lover
I chose this book only because of the title.But ended up enjoying it while sipping on my coffee. Light and easy listening with a bit of history and economics thrown in. #butfirstcoffee
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- Vidhu Shekhar
- 20-08-23
Incredible
Very informative, in the best possible language & vocabulary. Impeccable story telling. Must listen.
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- SS
- 03-07-20
Coffee and the makings of a modern world
As usual Michael Pollan brings his illustrious way of exploring the plant-human worlds, delving deep into their history, that simultaneously surface into observations of our contemporary life and culture. It is Michael Pollan's unique craft in bringing complex theories into a fabric of everyday observations, put them in plots that are easily accessible to a general reader. It's a very rare and unique skill, and here, it's perfectly crafted.
The content is more of a longish book chapter, than a standalone book in itself.
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- Aakash Mittal
- 18-04-23
Perfect Essay on Caffeine..
I have always thought of Caffeine as an addictive drug. Everyone enjoying the shot of energy, borrowed from the future self. The ultimate blindfold but for remaining active and awake not sleeping.
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- Namrata Singh
- 01-02-22
Average book
this did tell me a few things about caffeine that I didn't know , but not sure what I got from this.
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- Pabi
- 04-05-23
Great Book about journey of Coffee
This is a great book about the journey of coffee from Africa and how it propagated over time and continents for centuries.
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- Deb
- 10-11-21
A history and geography of caffeine!
Michael Pollan, author of the masterful treatise 'Cooked', presents a comprehensive review of the history and usage, including physiological effects, of caffeine in different forms, mainly coffee. The story is made more poignant for being a personal narrative, as Pollan abstained from his regular daily cuppas while he was writing this.
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