Author: Amanda Cummings
Publisher: Amanda Cummings
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
414 pages! Over 150.000 hot and sexy words 18 full erotica cuckold books Do you yearn to humiliate your husband? Watch him suffer? See him cry as you take every last thrust from a huge black man? Tell him how it’s so much bigger and harder than his own pathetic manhood? Make him cleanup afterwards? The full and complete cuckold collection Contains: Watch Me! Riding His Black Cock While My Husband Watches! Fucked In The Ass By A Big Black Stranger Watch Me With A Dark Lover Dominated Watch Me Get Pounded 2 A Black Stud For His Wife Watch Me Get Pounded The Big Dark Stranger Watch Me Take His Black Meat, Honey! You’re Too Small To Make Me Squirt Stretched in front of her husband Bossed From Wife to Slutwife Made to Watch His Wife From Wife to Slutwife 2 How I cuckolded My Husband The Hotwife’s Addiction
Pound My Tight White Hole! Complete Cuckold Collection
Author: Amanda Cummings
Publisher: Amanda Cummings
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
414 pages! Over 150.000 hot and sexy words 18 full erotica cuckold books Do you yearn to humiliate your husband? Watch him suffer? See him cry as you take every last thrust from a huge black man? Tell him how it’s so much bigger and harder than his own pathetic manhood? Make him cleanup afterwards? The full and complete cuckold collection Contains: Watch Me! Riding His Black Cock While My Husband Watches! Fucked In The Ass By A Big Black Stranger Watch Me With A Dark Lover Dominated Watch Me Get Pounded 2 A Black Stud For His Wife Watch Me Get Pounded The Big Dark Stranger Watch Me Take His Black Meat, Honey! You’re Too Small To Make Me Squirt Stretched in front of her husband Bossed From Wife to Slutwife Made to Watch His Wife From Wife to Slutwife 2 How I cuckolded My Husband The Hotwife’s Addiction
Publisher: Amanda Cummings
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
414 pages! Over 150.000 hot and sexy words 18 full erotica cuckold books Do you yearn to humiliate your husband? Watch him suffer? See him cry as you take every last thrust from a huge black man? Tell him how it’s so much bigger and harder than his own pathetic manhood? Make him cleanup afterwards? The full and complete cuckold collection Contains: Watch Me! Riding His Black Cock While My Husband Watches! Fucked In The Ass By A Big Black Stranger Watch Me With A Dark Lover Dominated Watch Me Get Pounded 2 A Black Stud For His Wife Watch Me Get Pounded The Big Dark Stranger Watch Me Take His Black Meat, Honey! You’re Too Small To Make Me Squirt Stretched in front of her husband Bossed From Wife to Slutwife Made to Watch His Wife From Wife to Slutwife 2 How I cuckolded My Husband The Hotwife’s Addiction
Cuckold Collection 19 Full Erotica Books
Author: Amanda Cummings
Publisher: richard crossland
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
19 Books 416 pages! 158,000 words! Feel the size of her big black bull, a complete stranger, ready to pound this hotwife while her pathetic husband is forced to watch, and even to clean up afterwards! Contains: The Hotwife And The Big Black Bull Watch Me With This Big Stiff Black Shaft, Then Try It For Yourself! Riding His Black Cock While My Husband Watches! Fucked In The Ass By A Big Black Stranger Watch Me With A Dark Lover Dominated Watch Me Get Pounded 2 A Black Stud For His Wife Watch Me Get Pounded The Big Dark Stranger Watch Me Take His Black Meat, Honey! You’re Too Small To Make Me Squirt Stretched in front of her husband Bossed From Wife to Slutwife Made to Watch His Wife From Wife to Slutwife 2 How I cuckolded My Husband The Hotwife’s Addition
Publisher: richard crossland
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
19 Books 416 pages! 158,000 words! Feel the size of her big black bull, a complete stranger, ready to pound this hotwife while her pathetic husband is forced to watch, and even to clean up afterwards! Contains: The Hotwife And The Big Black Bull Watch Me With This Big Stiff Black Shaft, Then Try It For Yourself! Riding His Black Cock While My Husband Watches! Fucked In The Ass By A Big Black Stranger Watch Me With A Dark Lover Dominated Watch Me Get Pounded 2 A Black Stud For His Wife Watch Me Get Pounded The Big Dark Stranger Watch Me Take His Black Meat, Honey! You’re Too Small To Make Me Squirt Stretched in front of her husband Bossed From Wife to Slutwife Made to Watch His Wife From Wife to Slutwife 2 How I cuckolded My Husband The Hotwife’s Addition
VIRGIN BREEDING SEX Collection (18 Hot Stories Taboo Erotica Older Man Younger Woman MILF Anal Cuckold Mega Bundle)
Author: Kandice Winslow
Publisher: Stacy Stone, Kandice Winslow
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
18 stories of filthy, hot sex between shy, horny women and the large, strong alpha males who fill them with their loads. You'll find a variety of stories in this 18 book collection, including virgins losing their innocence, mature MILFs and their cuck husbands, doctors screwing their untouched patients, an interracial gang bang, and more! Stories include: 1. Three Doctors Finished Inside Me 2. Breeding My Neighbor 3. Impregnated By My Boyfriend’s Best Friends 4. Bred By Two Big Black Men 5. Breeding an Older Woman 6. Impregnated By Four Doctors 7. Shared By Her Boss And Coworkers 8. Sharing His Wife With His Best Friend 9. Bred By My Professor 10. Bred By A Younger Man While My Husband Watches 11. Bred By Her Boss and Coworkers 12. Bred By Two Doctors 13. An Older Man Got Me Pregnant 14. Shared By Four Men At Once 15. Bred By My Boyfriend’s Best Friend 16. My Husband Shared Me With His Boss 17. Impregnated By Two Older Men 18. Filling The MILF’s ASS keywords: hardcore explicit forbidden affair, cheating wife, BBW anal creampie, horny naughty virgin, erotic romance short story, alpha male, curvy girl, rough, massive men, huge, big, bundle, box set, sexy bundle, mature hotwife, milf, cuckold, cuck, simp, husband and wife, first time, untouched, mfm, multiple partners, orgy, threesome, gang bang, gangbang, adult fiction, xxx, kinky women
Publisher: Stacy Stone, Kandice Winslow
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
18 stories of filthy, hot sex between shy, horny women and the large, strong alpha males who fill them with their loads. You'll find a variety of stories in this 18 book collection, including virgins losing their innocence, mature MILFs and their cuck husbands, doctors screwing their untouched patients, an interracial gang bang, and more! Stories include: 1. Three Doctors Finished Inside Me 2. Breeding My Neighbor 3. Impregnated By My Boyfriend’s Best Friends 4. Bred By Two Big Black Men 5. Breeding an Older Woman 6. Impregnated By Four Doctors 7. Shared By Her Boss And Coworkers 8. Sharing His Wife With His Best Friend 9. Bred By My Professor 10. Bred By A Younger Man While My Husband Watches 11. Bred By Her Boss and Coworkers 12. Bred By Two Doctors 13. An Older Man Got Me Pregnant 14. Shared By Four Men At Once 15. Bred By My Boyfriend’s Best Friend 16. My Husband Shared Me With His Boss 17. Impregnated By Two Older Men 18. Filling The MILF’s ASS keywords: hardcore explicit forbidden affair, cheating wife, BBW anal creampie, horny naughty virgin, erotic romance short story, alpha male, curvy girl, rough, massive men, huge, big, bundle, box set, sexy bundle, mature hotwife, milf, cuckold, cuck, simp, husband and wife, first time, untouched, mfm, multiple partners, orgy, threesome, gang bang, gangbang, adult fiction, xxx, kinky women
The White-Luck Warrior
Author: R. Scott Bakker
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0748117059
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
'A fine example of the new anti-epic fiction at its best . . . This is one of the more brilliant pieces of writing that you're liable to read for a long time.' - Seattle Post-Intelligencer 'One of the major-league fantasy releases of 2011, the highly awaited The White-Luck Warrior by Scott Bakker . . . Nobody can deny the powerful nature of those books . . . Overall [Bakker's books have] enriched the potential of the fantasy genre quite a lot.' - Fantasy Book Critic A score of years after he first walked into the histories of men, Anasûrimbor Kellhus rules all the three seas, the first true aspect-emperor in a thousand years. As Kellhus and his Great Ordeal march ever farther into the perilous wastes of the Ancient North, Esmenet finds herself at war with not only the Gods, but her own family as well. Achamian, meanwhile, leads his own ragtag expedition to the legendary ruins of Sauglish, and to a truth he can scarce survive, let alone comprehend. Into this tumult walks the White Luck Warrior, assassin and messiah both, executing a mission as old as the World's making . . . The second volume in the ambitious and compelling Aspect-Emperor fantasy series Books by R Scott Baker: Prince of Nothing Trilogy The Darkness That Comes Before The Warrior-Prophet The Thousandfold Thought Aspect-Emperor The Judging Eye The White Luck Warrior The Great Ordeal The Unholy Consult Novels Neuropath Disciple of the Dog Light, Time, and Gravity
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0748117059
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
'A fine example of the new anti-epic fiction at its best . . . This is one of the more brilliant pieces of writing that you're liable to read for a long time.' - Seattle Post-Intelligencer 'One of the major-league fantasy releases of 2011, the highly awaited The White-Luck Warrior by Scott Bakker . . . Nobody can deny the powerful nature of those books . . . Overall [Bakker's books have] enriched the potential of the fantasy genre quite a lot.' - Fantasy Book Critic A score of years after he first walked into the histories of men, Anasûrimbor Kellhus rules all the three seas, the first true aspect-emperor in a thousand years. As Kellhus and his Great Ordeal march ever farther into the perilous wastes of the Ancient North, Esmenet finds herself at war with not only the Gods, but her own family as well. Achamian, meanwhile, leads his own ragtag expedition to the legendary ruins of Sauglish, and to a truth he can scarce survive, let alone comprehend. Into this tumult walks the White Luck Warrior, assassin and messiah both, executing a mission as old as the World's making . . . The second volume in the ambitious and compelling Aspect-Emperor fantasy series Books by R Scott Baker: Prince of Nothing Trilogy The Darkness That Comes Before The Warrior-Prophet The Thousandfold Thought Aspect-Emperor The Judging Eye The White Luck Warrior The Great Ordeal The Unholy Consult Novels Neuropath Disciple of the Dog Light, Time, and Gravity
The Cult of Smart
Author: Fredrik deBoer
Publisher: All Points Books
ISBN: 1250200385
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Named one of Vulture’s Top 10 Best Books of 2020! Leftist firebrand Fredrik deBoer exposes the lie at the heart of our educational system and demands top-to-bottom reform. Everyone agrees that education is the key to creating a more just and equal world, and that our schools are broken and failing. Proposed reforms variously target incompetent teachers, corrupt union practices, or outdated curricula, but no one acknowledges a scientifically-proven fact that we all understand intuitively: Academic potential varies between individuals, and cannot be dramatically improved. In The Cult of Smart, educator and outspoken leftist Fredrik deBoer exposes this omission as the central flaw of our entire society, which has created and perpetuated an unjust class structure based on intellectual ability. Since cognitive talent varies from person to person, our education system can never create equal opportunity for all. Instead, it teaches our children that hierarchy and competition are natural, and that human value should be based on intelligence. These ideas are counter to everything that the left believes, but until they acknowledge the existence of individual cognitive differences, progressives remain complicit in keeping the status quo in place. This passionate, voice-driven manifesto demands that we embrace a new goal for education: equality of outcomes. We must create a world that has a place for everyone, not just the academically talented. But we’ll never achieve this dream until the Cult of Smart is destroyed.
Publisher: All Points Books
ISBN: 1250200385
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Named one of Vulture’s Top 10 Best Books of 2020! Leftist firebrand Fredrik deBoer exposes the lie at the heart of our educational system and demands top-to-bottom reform. Everyone agrees that education is the key to creating a more just and equal world, and that our schools are broken and failing. Proposed reforms variously target incompetent teachers, corrupt union practices, or outdated curricula, but no one acknowledges a scientifically-proven fact that we all understand intuitively: Academic potential varies between individuals, and cannot be dramatically improved. In The Cult of Smart, educator and outspoken leftist Fredrik deBoer exposes this omission as the central flaw of our entire society, which has created and perpetuated an unjust class structure based on intellectual ability. Since cognitive talent varies from person to person, our education system can never create equal opportunity for all. Instead, it teaches our children that hierarchy and competition are natural, and that human value should be based on intelligence. These ideas are counter to everything that the left believes, but until they acknowledge the existence of individual cognitive differences, progressives remain complicit in keeping the status quo in place. This passionate, voice-driven manifesto demands that we embrace a new goal for education: equality of outcomes. We must create a world that has a place for everyone, not just the academically talented. But we’ll never achieve this dream until the Cult of Smart is destroyed.
Nora
Author: Nuala O'Connor
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062991736
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Named one of the best books of historical fiction by the New York Times Acclaimed Irish novelist Nuala O’Connor’s bold reimagining of the life of James Joyce’s wife, muse, and the model for Molly Bloom in Ulysses is a “lively and loving paean to the indomitable Nora Barnacle” (Edna O’Brien). Dublin, 1904. Nora Joseph Barnacle is a twenty-year-old from Galway working as a maid at Finn’s Hotel. She enjoys the liveliness of her adopted city and on June 16—Bloomsday—her life is changed when she meets Dubliner James Joyce, a fateful encounter that turns into a lifelong love. Despite his hesitation to marry, Nora follows Joyce in pursuit of a life beyond Ireland, and they surround themselves with a buoyant group of friends that grows to include Samuel Beckett, Peggy Guggenheim, and Sylvia Beach. But as their life unfolds, Nora finds herself in conflict between their intense desire for each other and the constant anxiety of living in poverty throughout Europe. She desperately wants literary success for Jim, believing in his singular gift and knowing that he thrives on being the toast of the town, and it eventually provides her with a security long lacking in her life and his work. So even when Jim writes, drinks, and gambles his way to literary acclaim, Nora provides unflinching support and inspiration, but at a cost to her own happiness and that of their children. With gorgeous and emotionally resonant prose, Nora is a heartfelt portrayal of love, ambition, and the quiet power of an ordinary woman who was, in fact, extraordinary.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062991736
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Named one of the best books of historical fiction by the New York Times Acclaimed Irish novelist Nuala O’Connor’s bold reimagining of the life of James Joyce’s wife, muse, and the model for Molly Bloom in Ulysses is a “lively and loving paean to the indomitable Nora Barnacle” (Edna O’Brien). Dublin, 1904. Nora Joseph Barnacle is a twenty-year-old from Galway working as a maid at Finn’s Hotel. She enjoys the liveliness of her adopted city and on June 16—Bloomsday—her life is changed when she meets Dubliner James Joyce, a fateful encounter that turns into a lifelong love. Despite his hesitation to marry, Nora follows Joyce in pursuit of a life beyond Ireland, and they surround themselves with a buoyant group of friends that grows to include Samuel Beckett, Peggy Guggenheim, and Sylvia Beach. But as their life unfolds, Nora finds herself in conflict between their intense desire for each other and the constant anxiety of living in poverty throughout Europe. She desperately wants literary success for Jim, believing in his singular gift and knowing that he thrives on being the toast of the town, and it eventually provides her with a security long lacking in her life and his work. So even when Jim writes, drinks, and gambles his way to literary acclaim, Nora provides unflinching support and inspiration, but at a cost to her own happiness and that of their children. With gorgeous and emotionally resonant prose, Nora is a heartfelt portrayal of love, ambition, and the quiet power of an ordinary woman who was, in fact, extraordinary.
Albion's Seed
Author: David Hackett Fischer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019974369X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 981
Book Description
This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019974369X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 981
Book Description
This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.
White Trash
Author: Nancy Isenberg
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110160848X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
The New York Times bestseller A New York Times Notable and Critics’ Top Book of 2016 Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction One of NPR's 10 Best Books Of 2016 Faced Tough Topics Head On NPR's Book Concierge Guide To 2016’s Great Reads San Francisco Chronicle's Best of 2016: 100 recommended books A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2016 Globe & Mail 100 Best of 2016 “Formidable and truth-dealing . . . necessary.” —The New York Times “This eye-opening investigation into our country’s entrenched social hierarchy is acutely relevant.” —O Magazine In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg upends history as we know it by taking on our comforting myths about equality and uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing—if occasionally entertaining—poor white trash. “When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win,” says Isenberg of the political climate surrounding Sarah Palin. And we recognize how right she is today. Yet the voters who boosted Trump all the way to the White House have been a permanent part of our American fabric, argues Isenberg. The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement to today's hillbillies. They were alternately known as “waste people,” “offals,” “rubbish,” “lazy lubbers,” and “crackers.” By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called “clay eaters” and “sandhillers,” known for prematurely aged children distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, and listless minds. Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature and scientific theories over four hundred years, Isenberg upends assumptions about America’s supposedly class-free society––where liberty and hard work were meant to ensure real social mobility. Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Party in the early nineteenth century, and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery. Reconstruction pitted poor white trash against newly freed slaves, which factored in the rise of eugenics–-a widely popular movement embraced by Theodore Roosevelt that targeted poor whites for sterilization. These poor were at the heart of New Deal reforms and LBJ’s Great Society; they haunt us in reality TV shows like Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty. Marginalized as a class, white trash have always been at or near the center of major political debates over the character of the American identity. We acknowledge racial injustice as an ugly stain on our nation’s history. With Isenberg’s landmark book, we will have to face the truth about the enduring, malevolent nature of class as well.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110160848X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
The New York Times bestseller A New York Times Notable and Critics’ Top Book of 2016 Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction One of NPR's 10 Best Books Of 2016 Faced Tough Topics Head On NPR's Book Concierge Guide To 2016’s Great Reads San Francisco Chronicle's Best of 2016: 100 recommended books A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2016 Globe & Mail 100 Best of 2016 “Formidable and truth-dealing . . . necessary.” —The New York Times “This eye-opening investigation into our country’s entrenched social hierarchy is acutely relevant.” —O Magazine In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg upends history as we know it by taking on our comforting myths about equality and uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing—if occasionally entertaining—poor white trash. “When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win,” says Isenberg of the political climate surrounding Sarah Palin. And we recognize how right she is today. Yet the voters who boosted Trump all the way to the White House have been a permanent part of our American fabric, argues Isenberg. The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement to today's hillbillies. They were alternately known as “waste people,” “offals,” “rubbish,” “lazy lubbers,” and “crackers.” By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called “clay eaters” and “sandhillers,” known for prematurely aged children distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, and listless minds. Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature and scientific theories over four hundred years, Isenberg upends assumptions about America’s supposedly class-free society––where liberty and hard work were meant to ensure real social mobility. Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Party in the early nineteenth century, and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery. Reconstruction pitted poor white trash against newly freed slaves, which factored in the rise of eugenics–-a widely popular movement embraced by Theodore Roosevelt that targeted poor whites for sterilization. These poor were at the heart of New Deal reforms and LBJ’s Great Society; they haunt us in reality TV shows like Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty. Marginalized as a class, white trash have always been at or near the center of major political debates over the character of the American identity. We acknowledge racial injustice as an ugly stain on our nation’s history. With Isenberg’s landmark book, we will have to face the truth about the enduring, malevolent nature of class as well.
Letters of James Joyce
Author: James Joyce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The Spell of the Sensuous
Author: David Abram
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307830551
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Winner of the International Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction Animal tracks, word magic, the speech of stones, the power of letters, and the taste of the wind all figure prominently in this intellectual tour de force that returns us to our senses and to the sensuous terrain that sustains us. This major work of ecological philosophy startles the senses out of habitual ways of perception. For a thousand generations, human beings viewed themselves as part of the wider community of nature, and they carried on active relationships not only with other people with other animals, plants, and natural objects (including mountains, rivers, winds, and weather patters) that we have only lately come to think of as "inanimate." How, then, did humans come to sever their ancient reciprocity with the natural world? What will it take for us to recover a sustaining relation with the breathing earth? In The Spell of the Sensuous David Abram 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 of magician to reveal the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural environment. He explores the character of perception and excavates the sensual foundations of language, which--even at its most abstract--echoes the calls and cries of the earth. On every page of this lyrical work, Abram weaves his arguments with a passion, a precision, and an intellectual daring that recall such writers as Loren Eisleley, Annie Dillard, and Barry Lopez.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307830551
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Winner of the International Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction Animal tracks, word magic, the speech of stones, the power of letters, and the taste of the wind all figure prominently in this intellectual tour de force that returns us to our senses and to the sensuous terrain that sustains us. This major work of ecological philosophy startles the senses out of habitual ways of perception. For a thousand generations, human beings viewed themselves as part of the wider community of nature, and they carried on active relationships not only with other people with other animals, plants, and natural objects (including mountains, rivers, winds, and weather patters) that we have only lately come to think of as "inanimate." How, then, did humans come to sever their ancient reciprocity with the natural world? What will it take for us to recover a sustaining relation with the breathing earth? In The Spell of the Sensuous David Abram 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 of magician to reveal the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural environment. He explores the character of perception and excavates the sensual foundations of language, which--even at its most abstract--echoes the calls and cries of the earth. On every page of this lyrical work, Abram weaves his arguments with a passion, a precision, and an intellectual daring that recall such writers as Loren Eisleley, Annie Dillard, and Barry Lopez.