Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
What's your body telling you? What's your body telling you? Steve Sisgold YOUR BODY IS TRYING TO TELL YOU SOMETHINGFeeling stressed out, sick, or anxious? Not sure what your next move should be-or why your thinking is so cloudy? Time to get out of your head and into your b… OL13655579W
The spell of the sensuous The spell of the sensuous David Abram [In this book, the author] 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 … OL15845262W
This is my body This is my body William C. Springer "What does it mean to be human? This book explores that age-old question and provides a basis for rethinking the nature of all living beings. The author argues that the existentialist notion of being… OL16535641W
Chinese Surplus Chinese Surplus Ari Larissa Heinrich In CHINESE SURPLUS Ari Heinrich dissects the figure of the medically or artistically commodified body in Chinese culture and popular science. Providing a history of how bodies have been thought and s… OL20183526W
Our own devices Our own devices Edward Tenner From the author of Why Things Bite Back-- which introduced us to the revenge antics of technology--Our Own Devices is a wonderfully revealing look at the inventions of everyday things that protect us… OL2958209W
Cannibals and Philosophers Cannibals and Philosophers Daniel Cottom "Taking us to the heart of the Enlightenment via the stomach, Daniel Cottom argues that the period was from the beginning obsessed with guts and disgust as much as it was with mind and reason. In Can… OL3238563W
Living Across and Through Skins Living Across and Through Skins Shannon Sullivan "What if we lived across and through our skins as much as we do within them? According to Shannon Sullivan, the notion of bodies in transaction with their social, political, cultural, and physical su… OL5833782W