Reddit reviews The Axemaker's Gift: Technology's Capture and Control of Our Minds and Culture

Here are half-a-dozen good ones for you:

• The Axemaker's Gift: Technology's Capture and Control of Our Minds and Culture, by James Burke and Robert Ornstein
  
• Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, by Marc Reisner
  
• Ceasefire!: Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality, by Cathy Young
  
• The Essential William H. Whyte, ed. Albert LaFarge
  
• No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, by Naomi Klein
  
• Toxic Sludge Is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry, by John Stauber & Sheldon Rampton

Robert Ornstein and James Burke.

https://www.amazon.com/Axemakers-Gift-Technologys-Capture-Control/dp/0874778565

I'm sorry if you took my comment spitefully as that was not my intent. Here is some reading you might find interesting:

• The Axemakers Gift - a chronicle of how technology has changed our perception of the world
  
  
• The Tree of Knowledge - a scientific and biological approach to philosophical questions about human perception and understanding.
  
  
• Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things - trying to understand human cognition through how we categorize things

Check out The Axemaker's Gift.

Hi friend! I don't know how well this book would fit the general argument of your class, but it made a deep impression on me in college:

https://www.amazon.com/Axemakers-Gift-Robert-Ornstein/dp/0874778565

The Axemaker's Gift by James Burke: All about examining of why we are the way we are and how we got here the way we did--it's the evolution of technology starting all the way back when monkeys came down from the trees.

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson: The science textbook you wish you got in school. Funny, informative, and provides an accessible way to learn about the world around us.

The Republic by Plato: Pretentious, I know, but this was the first philosophy book that ever really opened my mind to different types of thought.