GREAT BOOKS

There are several brilliant authors who have had an enormous influence on my understanding of human cognition, communication, and interaction: 

Bruno Bettelheim

The Uses Of Enchantment: The Meaning And Importance Of Fairy Tales - Bantam Vintage Books; ISBN: 0679723935

Elias Canetti

Crowds And Power - Noonday Press; ISBN: 0374518203

Umberto Eco

A Theory Of Semiotics - Indiana University Press; ISBN: 0253202175

Travels In Hyper Reality - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; ISBN: 0156913216

Stephen M. Fjellman

Vinyl Leaves: Walt Disney World And America - Westview Press; ISBN: 0813314720

Sigmund Freud

Jokes And Their Relation To The Unconscious - W.W. Norton; ISBN: 0393001458

Julian Jaynes (1923-1997)

The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind - Houghton Mifflin Company; ISBN: 0395563526

Keith Johnstone

IMPRO: Improvisation And The Theatre - Routledge Theatre Arts Book, ISBN: 0878301178

Erving Goffman

Frame Analysis: An Essay On The Organization Of Experience - Northeastern University Press; ISBN: 093035091X

The Presentation Of Self In Everyday Life - Doubleday Books; ISBN: 0385094027

Interaction Ritual - Essays On Face-To-Face Behavior - Pantheon Books; ISBN: 0394706315

Behavior In Public Places: Notes On The Social Organization Of Gatherings - Free Press; ISBN: 0029119405

Tor Nørretranders

The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down To Size - Viking Press; ISBN: 0140230122

William Irwin Thompson

The American Replacement Of Nature - Doubleday Currency; ISBN: 0385420250

James Twitchell

Carnival Culture: The Trashing Of Taste In America - Columbia University Press; ISBN: 0231078315

Adcult USA: The Triumph Of Advertising In American Culture - Columbia University Press; ISBN: 0231103255

Lead Us Into Temptation: The Triumph Of American Materialism - Columbia University Press; ISBN: 0231103255