It's more on the border between science (cognitive neuroscience), linguistics and philosophy, but this book provides the assembly language of human reason, otherwise known as embodied cognition. It will one day be recognized as one of the great works of early 21st century.

I worked for Nolan Bushnell in the mid-90s at one of his failed, post-Atari ventures. The guy clings to his success with Pong like it was the tattered old teddy bear that he can't go to bed without. He'd come in blustering about this or that allegedly brilliant idea, and yet it would always fall flat on the ground like buttered-side-down toast. He's a one-hit wonder who's been desperately scratching for his second big hit for close to 30 years now.