Your mind operates on auto-pilot, there's no reason why you shouldn't have a copy of the owner's manual. Learn how culture and commerce attempt to hack into your system, how to defend yourself, and even how to use those same techniques to improve your life and society.

In his father's shoes: "When 15-year-old Clay's father dies of cancer, he puts on a pair of wingtips given to his dad by a gypsy and discovers that he can travel in time with them. Eager to know more about his father's younger years, Clay goes back in time to experience what it would be like to walk in his father's shoes"--Container. Out of the woods: "When a hotshot L.A. lawyer Matt Fleming agrees to head upstate into the wilderness to check on...