Name: The Botany of Desire
Rating: 4.30 (2 reviews)
Author: Michael Pollan

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Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and Cooked, examines the mutualistic relationship between humans and the plants they’ve domesticated to satisfy four basic desires—sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control—in The Botany of Desire.  As Pollan illustrates in this brilliant and engaging book, we depend on these plants just as they depend on us. 

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