Most of the books on this list are not directly about the
Alexander Technique. Instead, they present information about discoveries
in the many fields that will help you to deepen your understanding of how
humans learn and function. Enjoy.
Bolles, Edmund Blair. A Second Way of Knowing: the Riddle of Human
Perception (1991)
Clark, Andy. Surfing Uncertanty: Prediction, Action and the Embodied
Mind (2016)
Cohen, Rajal. DebauchedKinesthesia andFaulty Sensory Appreciation
Colapinto, John. This is the Voice. (2021) Also an
audio book
Damasio, Antonio. Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the
Feeling Brain (2003); Descartes Error: Emotion, Reason and the
Human Brain (1994)
DeSilva, Jeremy. First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human.
(2021)
Dewey, John. Human Nature and Conduct (1922, 1950)
Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1997)
Duhigg, Charles. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Live
and Business (2012)
Elliott, Clark. The Ghost in my Brain: How a Concussion Stole My
Life and How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Helped Me Get it Back (2015).
Evans, J.A. Frederick Matthias Alexander: A Family History (2001)
Falk, Seb. The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval
Science (2020)
Freeman, Brian, Ph.D. Human Embryology from a Biodynamic Perspective. 12
Lecture series
on 6 DVDs (2010) available from www.booksandbones.com (US/Canada format, NTSC)
or
http://www.biobook.co.uk/ (UK/PAL format)
Gopnik, Alison. The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us
About the Mind (2001)
Graeber, David and David Wengrow. The Dawn of Everything: a New
History of Humanity (2021)
Grafton, Scott. Physical Intelligence: the Science of How the
Body and the Mind Guide Each Other Through Life (2020)
Hawkins, Jeff. A Thousand Brains: a New Theory of Intelligence (2021)
Johnson, Mark: The Body in the Mind: the Bodily Basis of Meaning,
Imagination and Reason (1987)
Jones, Frank Pierce. Freedom to Change (1976, 1996)
Lieberman, Matthew. “The Mind-Body Illusion: Why There is no Escaping
It.” The Mind-Body Illusion
Lakoff, George and Mark Johnson. Metaphors We Live By (1980)
LeDoux, Joseph. The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings
of Emotional Life. (1996)
Maisel, Ed. Resurrection of the Body (1969)
McLeod, Rosslyn. Up From Down Under: the Australian Origins of
Frederick Matthias Alexander and the Alexander Technique (1994, 1995,
2017)
Mercier, Hugo and Dan Sperber. The Enigma
of Reason, (2017)
Milkman, Katy. How to Change: the Science of Getting From Where You
Are to Where You Want to Be (2021)
Mithen, Steven. The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive
Origins of Art, Religion and Science. (1996)
Nestor, James. Breath: the New Science of a Lost Art (2020)
O’Connor, M.R. Wayfinding: the Science and History of how Humans
Navigate (2019)
Paul, Annie Murphy. The Extended Mind:
The Power of Thinking Outside of the Brain. (2021)
Prat, Chantel. The Neuroscience of You: How Every Brain is Different and How to Understand
Yours (2022)
Proffitt, Dennis and Drake Baer. Perception: How Our Bodies Shape
Our Minds (2020)
Scott, James C. Against the Grain: a Deep History of the Earliest
States (2017)
Seth, Anil. Being You: A New Science of
Consciousness (2021)
Solms, Mark. The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of
Consciousness (2021) van der Kolk, Bessel A. The Body Keeps the Score.
2014
van der Kolk, Bessel A. The Body Keeps the Score. (2014)
Vedantam, Shankar. The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds
Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars and Save Our Lives (2010)
(Also a podcast)
Vernikos, Joan, Ph.D. Sitting Kills, Moving Heals: How Simple
Everyday Movement Will Prevent Pain, Illness and Early Death—and Exercise Alone
Won’t (2011)
Ward, Jacob. Loop: How Technology is
Creating a World Without Our Choices and How to
Fight Back (2022)
Wood, Wendy. Good Habits, Bad Habits: the Science of Making Positive
Changes that Stick (2019, 2020)
Wright,Robert. Moral Animal: Why We are the Way We Are: the
New Science of Evolutionary Psychology (1994)
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