Date/Time
February 24, 2022
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Enjoy reading books with a nature/environmentalism theme? Join NC’s monthly book club!
Calling All Bookworms!
We meet on the 4th Thursday of the month via zoom (registration required to receive the link). We welcome people of all backgrounds and abilities to join. Whether or not you’ve read this book, please feel free to come and participate in the discussion!
*Registration is required. Click here to register.
Participants can expect discussion around the book, intellectually stimulating conversation, and a shared passion for all things nature. Our February book will be, Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World by Michael Pollan (Audiobook Only).
Cover for “Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World” by Michael Pollan (Audiobook)
Book Description:
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.
This is a free group. Please email us at [email protected] if you need assistance or accommodations with the subject line: Book Club.
