Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature
10 best books like Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature (Alva Noë): Sour Heart, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us, The Elephant Vanishes, Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life, Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error, Age of Legend, Fear and Trembling, Mythologies, What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell, Cultural Studies and the Study of Popular Culture
| Author | Jenny Zhang |
| ISBN | 0399589384 |
A fresh new voice emerges with the arrival of Sour Heart, establishing Jenny Zhang as a frank and subversive interpreter of the immigrant experience in America. In this debut collection, she conjures the disturbing and often hilarious experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese American...
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether he's attending a Bruce Springsteen concert the day after visiting Michael Brown's grave, or discussing public displays of affection at a Carly Rae Jepsen show, he writes with a poignancy and magnetism that resonates...
With the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami makes this collection of stories a determined assault on the normal. A man sees his favorite elephant...
Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life
| Author | Amber Scorah |
| ISBN | 0735222541 |
A riveting memoir of losing faith and finding freedom while a covert missionary in one of the world's most restrictive countries.
A third-generation Jehovah's Witness, Amber Scorah had devoted her life to sounding God's warning of impending Armageddon. She volunteered to take the message...
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
| Author | Kathryn Schulz |
| ISBN | 0061176044 |
In the tradition of The Wisdom of Crowds and Predictably Irrational comes Being Wrong, an illuminating exploration of what it means to be in error and why homo sapiens tend to tacitly assume (or loudly insist) that they are right about almost everything. Kathryn Schulz, editor of Grist magazine, argues...
| Author | Michael J. Sullivan |
Each culture has its own myths and legends, but only one is shared, and it is feared by all.
With Age of Myth, Age of Swords, and Age of War, fantasy master Michael J. Sullivan riveted readers with a tale of unlikely heroes locked in a desperate battle to save mankind. After years of warfare, humanity...
| Author | Søren Kierkegaard |
| ISBN | 0143037579 |
Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian, and religious author interested in human psychology. He is regarded as a leading pioneer of existentialism and one of the greatest philosophers of the 19th Century.
In Fear and Trembling, Kierkegaard wanted to understand the anxiety...
| Author | Roland Barthes |
| ISBN | 0374521506 |
"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his preface to Mythologies. There is no more proper instrument of analysis of our contemporary myths than this book—one of the most significant works in French theory, and one that has transformed the way...
What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell
| Author | Will Gompertz |
| ISBN | 0670920495 |
In the tradition of Eats, Shoots & Leaves, art history with a sense of humor
Every year, millions of museum and gallery visitors ponder the modern art on display and secretly ask themselves, "Is this art?" A former director at London's Tate Gallery and now the BBC arts editor, Will Gompertz...
This revised and fully updated version of John Storey's best-selling survey is an accessible introduction to the range of theories and methods that have been used to study contemporary popular culture. The book also provides a map of the development of cultural studies through discussion of its most...
| Author | Peter J. Leithart |
| ISBN | 1591280060 |
How could a conservative Christian - an ordained minister with a beard, no less - be against not only Christianity, but theology, sacraments, and ethics as well? Yet that is the stance Peter Leithart takes in this provocative theological bricolage. Seeking to rethink evangelical notions of culture,...
Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking)
| Author | Christian Rudder |
| ISBN | 0385347375 |
A New York Times Bestseller
An audacious, irreverent investigation of human behavior—and a first look at a revolution in the making
Our personal data has been used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and sell us stuff we don’t need. In Dataclysm, Christian Rudder uses it to show us...
E-Flux Journal - The Internet Does Not Exist
| Author | Julieta Aranda |
| ISBN | 3956791304 |
This collection of essays is stunning in its range. It is the best explanation I've come across yet of the internet age. Its perspective is the intersection of art, technology and politics. In the past an individual's grip on the world was self and society, soul and God; now we perceive things strictly...
Dining In: Highly Cookable Recipes
Alison Roman's Salted Butter and Chocolate Chunk Shortbread made her Instagram-famous. But all of the recipes in Dining In have one thing in common: they make even the most oven-phobic or restaurant-crazed person want to stay home and cook. They prove that casual doesn't have to mean boring, simple...
Art History: A Very Short Introduction
| Author | Dana Arnold |
| ISBN | 0192801813 |
This clear and concise new introduction examines all the major debates and issues in the field of art history, using a wide range of well-known examples. Dana Arnold also examines the many different ways of writing about art, and the changing boundaries of the subject of art history.
Other topics...
Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
An illuminating, entertaining tour of the physical imperfections that make us human
We humans like to think of ourselves as highly evolved creatures. But if we are supposedly evolution’s greatest creation, why do we have such bad knees? Why do we catch head colds so often—two hundred...
Ethics: A History Of Moral Thought (Modern Scholar)
| Author | Peter Kreeft |
| ISBN | 1402547692 |
A brilliant, brilliant audio presentation which every person needs to hear. Please, listen to this, take your time, consider the questions, even argue if you like, but don't ignore this.
The other day I was at a book presentation and overheard a lady saying to some others 'I don't have time for...
Take My Course, Please! The Philosophy of Humor
