Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen http://www.amazon.ca/Lies-My-Teacher-Told-Everything/dp/0743296281/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239198486&sr=1-1 From Publishers Weekly Loewen's politically correct critique of 12 American...

Prehistory of the Mind by Steven Mithen http://www.amazon.ca/Prehistory-Mind-Steven-Mithen/dp/0500050813/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1239198021&sr=1-1 From Amazon.com Try an experiment: take a passenger along on a brief car trip--a jaunt to the supermarket, say. Have a nice conversation while yo...

A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion by Catherine Albanese http://www.amazon.ca/Republic-Mind-Spirit-Cultural-Metaphysical/dp/0300136153/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239197291&sr=8-1 "American religious history has tended to emphasi...

Religion and the American Mind: From the Great Awakening to the Revolution by Alan Heimert

Here's a related article that mentions the text: http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tse ... relrev.htm

Wilderness and the American Mind by Roderick Nash http://www.amazon.ca/Wilderness-American-Mind-Roderick-Nash/dp/0300091222/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239196258&sr=8-1 “In this important and influential work, Roderick Nash explains the origin of the wilderness concept and the role ...

Sorry, couldn't quit without Nazim Hikmet. One of my favourite poems and has been so for years: http://www.nazimhikmetpoetryfestival.org/index.php?id=3 "On Living" by Nazim Hikmet I Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel, for example-- I mean wit...

One possible reason that religion in this country has remained strong, while religion is Europe is fast becoming passe, is that it does offer a counter-weight to the atomism of our society... Sometimes I think that it is the sense of history in Europe that acts as a counter weight. I went to boardi...

Deer Dancer by Joy Harjo Nearly everyone had left that bar in the middle of winter except the hardcore. It was the coldest night of the year, every place shut down, but not us. Of course we noticed when she came in. We were Indian ruins. She was the end of beauty. No one knew her, the stranger whos...

"The Mystery" by Christopher Howell I built my hut amongst the townsmen, Yet here no hoof-beat or creaking wheel assails me. You ask how can this be? It is because The quiet heart brings solitude unto itself. I pick chrysanthemums by the eastern fence, And gaze into the distant hills of su...

It sounds interesting. There is a video of Wright interviewing Dan Dennett. It's an hour long. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3133438412578691486 There is also a Ted Talk. It's 20 minutes long. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7649291049306277988 There is also a site about his NonZe...