Becoming Animal
by David Abram | 
The Language Instinct
by Steven Pinker | 
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
by Steven Novella | 
Vehicles
by Valentino Braitenberg | 
Emergence
by Steven Johnson |
Quantum Psychology
by Robert Anton Wilson | 
A General Theory of Love
by Thomas Lewis | 
The Social Animal
by David Brooks | 
The Brain: The Story of You
by David Eagleman | 
Incognito
by David Eagleman | 
How to Create a Mind
by Ray Kurzweil | 
Lying
by Sam Harris | 
The Most Human Human
by Brian Christian | 
How We Know What Isn't So
by Thomas Gilovich | 
On Dialogue
by David Bohm | 
The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self
by Thomas Metzinger | 
Philosophy in the Flesh
by George Lakoff | 
The Illusion of Conscious Will
by Daniel M. Wegner | 
The Conscious Mind
by David J. Chalmers | 
Being No One
by Thomas Metzinger |
David Abram draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand magician to reveal the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural environment. He explores the character of perception and excavates the sensual foundations of language, which--even at its most abstract--echoes the calls and cries of the earth. On every page of this lyrical work, Abram weaves his arguments with passion and intellectual daring.