{"product_id":"9781788167185","title":"Being a Human : Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Charles Foster\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePrehistory\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 2 June 2022 by Profile Books Ltd in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 400 pages, 3\/4 images scattered throughout\u003cbr\u003e128 x 199 x 27mm | 280g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022'A thrilling deep-dive through our evolutionary past, and a witty and learned commentary on why we are the way we are - and what wisdom we've lost along the way' Cal Flynn, author of Islands of Abandonment'A wild ride: brave, outrageous, hilarious, helpful and urgent ... essential reading' Merlin Sheldrake, author of Entangled LivesWhat kind of creature is a human? If we don't know what we are, how can we know how to act? Charles Foster sets out to understand what a human is, inhabiting the sensory worlds of humans at three pivotal moments in our history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Foster begins his quest with his son in a Derbyshire wood, trying to find a way of experiencing the world that recognises the deep expanse of time when we understood ourselves as hunter-gatherers, and when modern consciousness was first ignited. From there he travels to the Neolithic, a way of being defined by fences, farms, sky gods and slaughterhouses, and finally to the Enlightenment, when we decided that the universe was a machine and we were soulless cogs within it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Charles Foster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57390965621061,"sku":"9781788167185","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/3721\/6069\/files\/9781788167185_1102cb52-6701-4293-9e79-ac98563ac681.jpg?v=1773517320","url":"https:\/\/stripyduckbookshopcafe.co.uk\/products\/9781788167185","provider":"The Stripy Duck Bookshop Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}