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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Bennett Alan Weinberg; Bonnie K Bealer |
| ISBN: | 0415927226 9780415927222 0415927234 9780415927239 |
| OCLC Number: | 44683483 |
| Description: | xxi, 394 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Contents: | pt. 1. Caffeine in history -- 1. Coffee : Arabian origins -- 2. Tea : Asian origins -- 3. Cacao : American origins -- pt. 2. Europe wakes up to caffeine -- 4. Monks and men-at-arms : Europe's first caffeine connections -- 5. The caffeine trade supplants the spice trade : tea and coffee come to the west -- 6. The late adopters : Germany, Russia, and Sweden join in -- 7. Judgments of history : medical men debate caffeine -- 8. Postscript : why did caffeine come when it came? -- pt. 3. The culture of caffeine -- 9. Islands of caffeine (1) : Japan : the tradition of tea, the novelty of coffee -- 10. Islands of caffeine (2) : England : caffeine and Empire -- 11. The endless simmer : America and the twentieth century do caffeine -- 12. Caffeine culture and Le fin de Millénaire -- pt. 4. The natural history of caffeine -- 13. Caffeine in the laboratory -- 14. Caffeine and the plant kingdom : "My vegetable love" -- pt. 5. Caffeine and health -- 15. Caffeine and the body : health effects, reproductive issues, and fitness -- 16. Thinking over caffeine : cognition, learning, and emotional well-being -- 17. Caffeine dependence, intoxication, and toxicity. |
| Responsibility: | Bennett Alan Weinberg, Bonnie K. Bealer. |
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"[A] marvelous new book."<br>-Malcolm Gladwell, "The New Yorker, July 30,2001 <br>"With a flavor reminiscent of Daniel Boorstin's" The Discoverers, The World of Caffeine tells an intriguing history of a drug that many people seem unable to live without. The book's engaging, easy style allows readers to zip through it like a jolt of good java, or savor it slowly like a good cup of tea."<br>-"The Washington Post Book World <br>"The alchemists of old only dreamed of turning dross into gold, but the scientists who followed them succeeded in converting caffeine into ideas. In this new information age the conversion continues at an even faster pace, and this very useful book helps us to understand how it all happened."<br>-James Trager, author of "The Food Chronology and "The People's Chronology <br>"This well-researched and entertaining book, "The World of Caffeine, contains a wealth of facinating cultural and historical andcdotesand scientific facts which provide a unique perspective on the world's most commonly used psychoactive drug."<br>-Roland R. Griffiths, PhD, a leading caffeine researcher, John Hopkins University School of Medicine <br>"With impressive felicity, Weinberg and Bealer marshal the forces of history, chemistry, cultural anthropology, psychology, philosophy, and even a little religion to tell caffeine's complicated story."<br>-"The Cleveland Plain Dealer <br> Read more...
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