Thom Hartmann is the host of the nationally and internationally syndicated talkshow The Thom Hartmann Program and the TV show The Big Picture on the Free Speech TV network. He is the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of 24 books, including Attention Deficit Disorder: A Different Perception, ADHD and the Edison Gene, and The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, which inspired Leonardo DiCaprio’s film The 11th Hour. A former psychotherapist and founder of the Hunter School, a residential and day school for children with ADHD, he lives in Washington, D.C.

FOREWORD
Re-affirming the Value of All Human Beings by Michael Popkin

PREFACE From Minimal Brain Damage to Hyperactivity to ADHD

INTRODUCTION
Hunters and Farmers Twenty Years Later

PART ONE
UNDERSTANDING HUNTERS AND FARMERS

ONE
ADHD as a State of Mind

TWO
How to Recognize Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

THREE
Hunters in Our Schools and Offices: The Origin of ADHD

FOUR
“Normal” People: The Origins of Agriculture

FIVE
Baseline States of Consciousness

SIX
Could Someone with ADHD Have Survivedin a Primitive Hunting Society?

SEVEN
Hunters and Farmers Vindicated by Science

EIGHT
What Maslow Overlooked: The Need to Feel Alive

NINE
Can Parents’ Smoking Cause Childhood Behavior Problems?

PART TWO
LIVING AND THRIVING IN THE FARMER’S WORLD

TEN
How to Turn a “Disorder” Back into a Skill: A Survival Guide for ADHD Adults

ELEVEN The Hunter’s Struggle: Impulse and Its Control

TWELVE
How to Work with a Hunter: Practical Advice for Managers, Parents, and Teachers

THIRTEEN
Studying and Paying Attention

FOURTEEN
Creativity and ADHD: A Brilliant and Flexible Mind

FIFTEEN
ADHD and Sleep

SIXTEEN Hunters on Drugs

SEVENTEEN
Halfway to the Stars:How Unrealized ADHD Can Limit an Apparently Successful Life

EIGHTEEN
A Disorganized Collection of “Hunter in a Farmer’s World” Anecdotes

NINETEEN The Edison Trait: Hunters Who Have Changed the World

EPILOGUE
Older and Younger Cultures: Further Thoughts on Cultural Anthropology and Our Future Acknowledgments

AFTERWORD
A Legacy of Hope
by Ellen B. Littman

About the Author
by Dave deBronkart

Also by Thom Hartmann

Bibliography

Index