(In no particular order) These are the books I’ve read and the topics I’m comfortable discussing. I’m always reading something. Cheers!
Perspective Agents - Chris Perry
Lead to Win - Mike Manazir
Meme Wars - Joan Donovan, Emily Dreyfuss, and Brian Friedberg
Amazing Ourselves to Death: Neil Postman’s Brave New World Revisited - Lance Strate
McLuhan: Hot and Cool - Gerald Emanuel Stearn
Context Blindness: Digital Technologies and the Next Stage of Human Evolution - Eva Berger
Perspectives on Culture, Technology and Communication: The Media Ecology Tradition - Edited by Casey Man Kong Lum
Orality and Literacy - Walter J. Ong
How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them - Barbara F. Walter
Drive Yourself Sane: Using the Uncommon Sense of General Semantics - Susan & Bruce Kodish
Man and His Symbols - Carl Jung, editor
Technics and Civilization - Lewis Mumford
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America - Daniel J. Boorstin
Preface to Plato - Eric A. Havelock
Mapping Media Ecology: Introduction to the Field - Dennis Cali
Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles - Marianne Williamson
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell
The Angry Therapist - John Kim
The Holographic Universe - Michael Talbot
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking - Malcolm Gladwell
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference - Malcolm Gladwell
Media Ecology: An Approach to Understanding the Human Condition - Lance Strate
The Global Village: Transformations in World Life and Media in the 21st Century - Marshall McLuhan and Bruce R. Powers
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains - Nicholas Carr
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other - Sherry Turkle
The Bias of Communication - Harrold A. Innis
The Disinformation Age: Politics, Technology, and Disruptive Communications in the United States - Edited by W. Lance Bennett and Steven Livingston
The Book of Tea: Beauty, Simplicity, and the Zen Aesthetic - Okakura Kakuzō
Media and Formal Cause - Eric and Marshall McLuhan
Theories of Communication - Eric and Marshall McLuhan
Laws of Media: The New Science - Eric and Marshall McLuhan
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business - Neil Postman
Culture is Our Business - Marshall McLuhan
Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart - Dr. James Doty
The Gutenberg Galaxy - Marshall McLuhan
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man - Marshall McLuhan
The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures - Antonio Damasio
Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
What the Heck Is EOS?: A Complete Guide for Employees in Companies Running on EOS - Gino Wickman and Tom Bouwer
Way of the Peaceful Warrior - Dan Millman
The Medium is the Massage - Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore
The Design of Everyday Things - Don Norman
The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks - Joshua Cooper Ramo
Einstein's Dreams - Alan Lightman
Story - Robert Mckee (Lots of it)
One Hundred & One Famous Poems - Roy J. Cook, editor
Synchronicity - Dr. Kirby Surprise
Life 3.0 - Max Tegmark
The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Alex Haley & El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
Journey Into Darkness - John Douglas & Mark Olshaker
Mindhunter - John Douglas & Mark Olshaker
Mind Change: How Digital Technologies Are Leaving Their Mark on Our Brains - Susan Greenfield
The Meme Machine - Susan Blackmore
Ogilvy on Advertising - David Ogilvy
Personal Connections in the Digital Age - Nancy Baym
Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives - Dean Buonomano
The Persuasion Code - Morin & Renvoise
Cognitive Neuroscience - Michael Gazzaniga
Irresistible: the Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked - Adam Alter
Neuromarketing: Exploring the Brain of the Consumer - Leon Zurawicki
The Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology - Joinson, a., Mckenna, K. Y. A., Postmes, T., & Reips, U.-d. (Yes, all of it;)
A Networked Self: Identity, Community, and Culture on Social Network Sites - Zizi Papacharissi
Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture - Henry Jenkins, Joshua Green, and Sam Ford
The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business - Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen
The Hero and the Outlaw - Margaret Mark
The Biological Mind: How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are - Alan Jasonoff
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma - Bessel van der Kolk
Psychology of the Media - David Giles
A Creator's Guide to Transmedia Storytelling: How to Captivate and Engage Audiences Across Multiple Platforms - Andrea Phillips
Convergence Culture - Henry Jenkins
Acting in film - Michael Caine
Dark Mission - Richard Hoagland
Ethical Slut - Dossie Easton, Catherine a. Liszt
Aikido for Life - Gaku Homma
David Brinkley Memoir - David Brinkley
Zanshin : Meditation and the Mind in Modern Martial Arts - Vince Morris
Perry Farrell - Dave Thompson
The Political Mind - George Lakoff
Don’t Think of an Elephant - George Lakoff
The Political Brain - Drew Westen
What Technology Wants - Kevin Kelly
The Inevitable - Kevin Kelly
Propaganda - Edward Bernays
The Problem of the Media - Robert McChesney
Introduction to Political Psychology - Cottam, M.l., Dietz-uhler, B., Mastors, E. & Preston, T. (Most of it;)
The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle
A New Earth - Eckhart Tolle
A History of Knowledge - Charles Van Doren
Silent Power - Stuart Wilde
Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke
The Book of the Law - Aleister Crowley
Pronoia - Rob Brezny (More of a fun and experimental reference book…)
Crack in the Cosmic Egg - Joseph Chilton Pearce
Biology of Transcendence - Joseph Chilton Pearce
The Heart-mind Matrix: How the Heart Can Teach the Mind New Ways to Think - Joseph Chilton Pearce
The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz
Chariots of the Gods - Erich Von Daniken
Gods From Outer Space - Erich Von Daniken
Earth Chronicle Series (7 of 7 books) - Zecharia Sitchin
Return to Love - Marianne Williamson
Gift of Change - Marianne Williamson
Quantum Healing - Deepak Chopra
Coercion - Douglas Rushkoff
Playing the Future - Douglas Rushkoff
Present Shock - Douglas Rushkoff
Media Virus - Douglas Rushkoff