From two renowned scholars, an "enjoyable and intellectually stimulating" look at how metaphors shape our perceptions and actions ( Language).The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subje...

"A welcome renewal and defense of John Dewey's ethical naturalism, which Johnson claims is the only morality 'fit for actual human beings.'" — Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsWhat is the difference between right and wrong? This is no easy question to answer, yet we constantly try to make it so, frequently appealing to absolutes, whether drawn from God, universal reason, or societal authority. Combining cognitive science with a pragmatist philosophical frame...

Mark Johnson is one of the great thinkers of our time on how the body shapes the mind. 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 action give rise to cognition, meaning, language, action, and values.A brief account of Johnson's own intellectual journey, through which we track some of the mos...

Introduction: The unifying Idea of the Borrowing the Master's BicycleI've written a book about one thought and that thought keeps coming back to me, and that is the more you study something, the more you give and sacrifice for your passions, the more you learn about life--the more your passion "transforms" you. Whatever your passion is, whatever you invest time in learning or doing, the more you'll learn about life, and the more you'll realize that that thing is connected in some w...

For decades, the dead ruled the Earth unchallenged, but their reign was finite. In time, they returned to the dust from which they came. When the living survivors emerged from their underground shelters, they would discover hundreds of thousands of tattered decaying messages, the letters left behind by the last to perish in the Zombie Apocalypse. These are those "Letters From The Dead."

Mark Johnson's father had 'LOVE' tattooed across his left hand, but that didn't stop the beatings. The Johnson children would turn up to school with broken fingers and chipped teeth, but no one ever thought of investigating their home life. Mark just slipped through the cracks, and kept on falling. For years.Constantly in trouble at school, Mark began stealing at the age of seven, was drinking by the age of eight, and took his first hit of heroin aged eleven. A sensitive, intelligen...

An exploration of the central role the human imagination plays in all meaning, understanding, and reasoning."There are books . . . which carefully, delightfully, and genuinely turn your head inside out. This is one of them. It ranges over some central issues in Western philosophy and begins the long overdue job of giving us a radically new account of meaning, rationality, and objectivity." — San Francisco Chronicle...

How To Get What You Want: A Convict's Choice is a raw, honest, and empowering self-help guide born from the depths of incarceration and forged through the fire of personal accountability. Part memoir, part manual, this book explores the choices we make when we hit rock bottom—and the power we have to rise above it.Drawing from hard-learned lessons behind bars, the author reveals how mindset, discipline, and clarity of purpose can transform even the darkest...

A Minister's Son is a personal account of one young man's coming to terms with his strict religious upbringing. Deciding in childhood to conceal misgivings about his inherited faith, the author relates how his adolescent doubts lead to a life of dishonesty and hypocrisy. There is inevitable tension in his relationship with his evangelical father, a minister, and deep internal conflict as the young man takes to the podium himself as a speaker in both religious and secular settings. Fear and...

Inexplicable deaths. Desperate immortals. Why have the ancient demons resurfaced?Sergeant Tummil almost apprehends the chaos energy Seeker who witnessed a massacre that horrified a nation: Terese Saarg. When she disappears, the case is shut down. But Tummil won’t allow himself to forget the innocent hundreds who died. If he wants answers and justice, he’ll have to start investigating where Saarg left off.As he uncovers more details of the mysterious massacr...

Unveiling a Hidden Truth: How the CIA Fueled Addiction and Division in Black Communities with Crack CocaineThis powerful book delves into the covert operations of the CIA and their shocking role in promoting crack cocaine within Black communities. It exposes a dark chapter in American history, where a potent drug became a weapon to dismantle social movements and exacerbate racial inequalities.Witness the rise of addiction, the fracturing of families, and the resilience of a...

"Demonstrates that the aesthetic and emotional aspects of meaning are fundamental . . . and that the arts show meaning-making in its fullest realization." —George Lakoff, author of Moral PoliticsIn The Meaning of the Body, Mark Johnson continues his pioneering work on the exciting connections between cognitive science, language, and meaning first begun in the classic Metaphors We Live By. Johnson uses recent research into infant psychology...