Article recommendation:

"Culture, Nature, Environment" by Tim Ingold.  The link is to Google books and begins on page 13 if it does not appear automatically.

Book recommendations:

New Recommendation: Radical Embodied Cognitive Science by Anthony Chemero, 2009. This takes the extended-embodied mind view significantly further clearly.

And: Biological Emergences: Evolution by Natural Experiment by Robert Reid. 2007. A bold, progressive vision of evolutionary theory that puts us on the doorstep of a new synthesis.

And: Lines: A Brief History by Tim Ingold. 2007. A subtle view of networks and a different kind of voyage through our cognitive landscape.

And: Weak Links: Stabilizers of Complex Systems from Proteins to Social Networks by Peter Csermely. 2006. Radical possibilities of networks.

And: Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It by Thomas de Zengotita.  2005. Life in the strange, new, flattered-by-media-and-options world where we are all nudged to living performance choices.

My Favorite books (My Amazon.com lists)

Cognitive Science/Philo of Mind - books which investigate the extended, embedded, and/or linguistic nature of mind rather than a brain-centric view.

New Currents in Biology - a sampler of some of the exciting trends across biology.

Economics from an As-Lived Perspective - yes, economics does not have to be the dismal science; here is a short list of good books on the healthy, lively, and even spiritual side of economics.

Cultural classics general books that have shaped my view of the world.

Network Ideas - good works on the fast emerging and widely relevant field of networks.

Synthetic philosophy book series recommendations:

Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology - Self-explanatory series from Cambridge University Press

Springer Verlag Frontiers Collection - New series that covers large questions of science particularly life sciences.