Books written by Mark Johnson

Metaphors We Live By

In this updated edition of Lakoff and Johnson's influential book, the authors supply an afterword surveying how their theory of metaphor has developed within the cognitive sciences to become central to the contemporary understanding of how ...

Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason: How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding

This book brings together a selection of essays from the past two decades that build a powerful argument that any scientifically and philosophically satisfactory view of mind and thought must ultimately explain how bodily perception and ...

EBOOK: Race And Ethnicity In A Welfare Society

The book aims to: -Review debates, issues and concepts associated with the notion of a multicultural-welfare state in the context of contemporary Britain -Draw on examples from across 'need' groups (children, mental health, older people, ...

Philosophical Perspectives on Metaphor

Rich with historical and cultural value, these works are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

Mathematical Foundations of Speech and Language Processing

This volume consists of original contributions presented by participants during the two workshops. Topics include language modeling, prosody, acoustic-phonetic modeling, and statistical methodology.

Problems for Biomedical Fluid Mechanics and Transport Phenomena

This unique resource offers over two hundred well-tested bioengineering problems for teaching and examinations. Solutions are available to instructors online.

Problems for Biomedical Fluid Mechanics and Transport Phenomena

How does one deal with a moving control volume?

Moral Imagination: Implications of Cognitive Science for Ethics

The Enlightenment idea that reason creates fixed moral rules that specify "the right thing to do" is mistaken, according to Johnson, because it misses the ways in which human conceptual systems are grounded in bodily experience, and it ...

Philosophy In The Flesh: The Embodied Mind And Its Challenge To Western Thought

What are human beings like? How is knowledge possible? What is truth? Where do moral values come from? Questions like these have stood at the center of Western philosophy for...

Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge of Western Thought

Advanced Guide to Finale

"The reader will develop the skills necessary to master Finale software, including fast note entry, part extraction, advanced score layout, and contemporary notation. Focusing on the most recent version of...

The Aesthetics of Meaning and Thought: The Bodily Roots of Philosophy, Science, Morality, and Art

This book gathers the best of philosopher Mark Johnson’s essays addressing questions of our embodiment as they deal with aesthetics—which, he argues, we need to rethink so that it takes into account the central role of body-based ...

Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason: How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding

Introduction: bringing the body to mind -- Cognitive science and Dewey's theory of mind, thought, and language -- Cowboy bill rides herd on the range of consciousness -- We are live creatures: embodiment, American pragmatism, and the ...

British Social Attitudes: The 24th Report

The British Social Attitudes survey series is carried out by Britain's largest independent social research institute, the National Centre for Social Research.

Caribbean Volunteers at War: The Forgotten Story of the RAF's 'Tuskegee Airmen'

This valuable work looks at their experiences.”—HistoryOfWar The heroic exploits of the Caribbean men and women who volunteered their services to the Allied effort during the Second World War have, until now, passed by with little ...

Baseball Skills and Drills

Let's first discuss the first baseman's technique in receiving balls from the other infielders . As the ground ball is hit , the first baseman should hustle to the base , square his chest to the fielder , and prepare mentally for a ...

One in a Billion: The Story of Nic Volker and the Dawn of Genomic Medicine

"Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Mark Johnson and Kathleen Gallagher chronicle the story of a young boy with a never-before-seen disease and the doctors who take a bold step into the future of medicine to save him"--Page 4 of cover

Processes of Change in Brain and Cognitive Development: Attention and Performance XXI

In recent years there has been a shift within developmental psychology away from examining the cognitive systems at different ages, to trying to understand exactly what are the mechanisms that...

Wasted

With searing honesty, WASTED documents Mark's descent into the depths of addiction and criminality. Homeless, hooked on heroin and crack, no one - least of all Mark - believed he would survive.

Inovação para o crescimento

Este livro escrito por quatro especialistas em criar inovação para o crescimento mostra como isto é possível e depende unicamente de sistematização.