Download Audiobook Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World by Michael Pollan in English

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Michael Pollan, identified for his best-selling nonfiction audio, together with The Omnivores Dilemma and The way to Change Your Thoughts, conceived and wrote Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Fashionable World as an Audible Authentic. On this controversial and thrilling hear, Pollan explores caffeine’s energy because the most-used drug on the planet – and the one one we give to youngsters (in soda pop) as a deal with.Pollan takes us on a journey via the historical past of the drug, which was first found in a small a part of East Africa and inside a century turned an dependancy affecting a lot of the human species. Caffeine, it seems, has modified the course of human historical past – gained and misplaced wars, modified politics, dominated economies. What’s extra, the creator exhibits that the Industrial Revolution would have been unimaginable with out it. The science of how the drug has developed to addict us isn’t any much less fascinating. And caffeine has performed all this stuff whereas hiding in plain sight! Percolated with Michael Pollan’s distinctive capacity to entertain, inform, and carry out, Caffeine is important listening in a world the place an estimated two billion cups of espresso are consumed each day.