books by Mark Johnson     books:       The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding Mark Johnson University Of Chicago Press, 2007 In 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 to show how the body generates meaning even before self-consciousness has fully developed. From there he turns to cognitive neuroscience to further explore the bodily origins of meaning, thought, ...             Metaphors We Live By29 reviews George Lakoff, Mark Johnson University Of Chicago Press, 1980 Applicable to many disciplines I read this book back in the 90s while I was studying psycho-linguistics as an undergrad and then grad student. My linguistic interest aptly augmented my interest for roles in information technology - implementation and management (ie communication principles, hierarchical, object-oriented, top-down, bottom-up, etc analysis and implementation are all good examples of applied abstraction, which ...             Innovator's Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work (Harvard Business School Press) (Harvard ...4 reviews Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson, ... Harvard Business School Press, 2008 accessible and practical As a small business owner I was not sure this book would be relevant for the clientele I serve. I couldn't be more wrong! The book is written in an accessible and easy to understand way, and the strategies are easy to employ. The Innovator's Guide is a book I keep on my desk and refer to again and again. The book contains a wealth of practical tips that I have used to help my business grow! It ...             Tantra for Erotic Empowerment: The Key to Enriching Your Sexual Life7 reviews Mark A. Michaels, Patricia Johnson Llewellyn Publications, 2008 Good follow up to first book This book continues the work from the first volume with more snippets of info from classical tantric texts made accessable for the western reader. The reader is then free to do more detailed reading/study of the classical texts if they wish on their own. The authors do make an effort to present their ideas in a way that is "gender inclusive" so if you are gay, straight, queer, of have a ...             Philosophy in the Flesh : The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought37 reviews George Lakoff, Mark Johnson Basic Books, 1999 Linguistic and Philosophy together. This is a scholarly work with all the bases covered. What Western Philosophy is from Descartes to Kant to modern philosophy and how this changes things. The linguistics and philosophy are both presented in very accessible language so that no background in either is a prerequisite. It is a very readable work for the non-scholar. Good read.             The Ultimate Desert Handbook : A Manual for Desert Hikers, Campers and Travelers19 reviews Mark Johnson International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 2003 It's the best desert hiking and survival book.. The Ultimate Desert Handbook is the best book on desert hiking and survival I have found, and I have read them all. That's not just my opinion, but also that of all my friends who like to backpack and hike in the desert. Unlike other books that claim to cover the subject of desert hiking and survival, this one actually does so. Water, acclimatizing the body, clothing and equipment, navigation, ...             Finale 2008: A Trailblazer Guide Mark Johnson Penelope Press, 2008 Learn to take advantage of Finale's incredible power by focusing on the tools you need and ignoring the one's you don't. This guide cuts through the confusion and offers clear, step-by-step methods for creating beautiful scores with ease. Readers will find a concise overview of Finale's framework followed by a guide to the everyday tricks and shortcuts that make using Finale a breeze. Author Mark Johnson draws from his many years of experience ...             Tangle5 reviews Ginn Hale, Lawrence Schimel, ... Blind Eye Books, 2008 An amazing anthology I bought this anthology for Ginn Hale's novella, Feral Machines-- and it was a great sci-fi read-- but it wasn't the only outstanding story. Erin MacKay's novella ,Crossing the Distance, was smart, and heart-wrenching in a very good way. She took the whole concept of Soul Mates and built an amazing world around it. Astrid Amara's two stories were both wonderful; Lord Ronan's Shoes had ...             Colonial Latin America4 reviews Mark A. Burkholder, Lyman L. Johnson Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 A good survey of colonial Latin America If you are a novice in the study of colonial Latin America, this book is a good place to start. Burkholder and Johnson have covered just about every aspect of society and politics in colonial Latin America from pre-Columbian cultures to the struggles for independence in the 1800's. The book covers religion, slavery, the environmental impact of Europeans, government structures, gender roles, ...             The Essence of Tantric Sexuality11 reviews Mark A. Michaels, Patricia Johnson Llewellyn Publications, 2006 The Best Tantra Book You'll Ever Read Whether you are simply curious about Tantra, already know something about it, or are already knowledgeable, this is the book for you. The authors studied with the individual most responsible for bringing Tantric practices to the West, and they artfully, seriously and delightfully pass along what they have learned in this slim volume. "How to" manual, history book, explanation of Eastern ...             Secret Matter5 reviews Toby Johnson Lethe Press, 2005 SPECTRUM AWARD NOMINATION SECRET MATTER has been nominated for the Spectrum Awards Hall of Fame presented by Gaylaxicon, the Washington, DC-based national gay and lesbian science fiction fan club. The award will be given at their annual convention in DC in Oct. 1999This is the first year for this award. The Hall of Fame is just starting. So of all the hundreds of gay sci fi books published up to this year, SECRET ...             The Black Pearl (Dark Horse Comics Collection)6 reviews Mark Hamill, Eric Johnson, ... Dark Horse, 1997 i loved this comic book! mark hamill is soooo talented! he can not only pull my attention into the big and little screens, but also to this comic book. i love the fact that he drew some of the pictures himself. the story is a little awkward. a hero made solely by the media, who in reality is basically a stalker. i love this book, and mark hamill!             Everyday Life and Politics in Nineteenth Century Mexico : Men, Women, and War1 review Mark Wasserman University of New Mexico Press, 2000 Making Sense of "Los Años Olvidados" For all its historical riches, the nineteenth century, particularly the first half, is a period in Mexican history neglected by historians for far too long. Almost forty years ago, Nettie Lee Benson lamented the lacunae when she stated that much was yet to be learned about what actually happened during the period between 1810-1857. Fifteen years ago the refrain was much the same when Eric Van ...             Avengers: Galactic Storm, Vol. 22 reviews Len Kaminski, Tom DeFalco, ... Marvel Comics, 2006 So-So Avengers Adventure Having read some of the original issues when this series first came out in the early 90s, I decided to pick up the assembled stories in the 2 Galactic Storm volumes... and now I wish I hadn't. Frankly, they're exactly what you'd expect from a 90s Marvel crossover- there's a loud of loud noise, mindless action and disjointed plot threads. I'm as big a fan of action and loud noise as the next comic ...             Rethinking Innateness: A Connectionist Perspective on Development (Neural Networks and Connectionist Modeling)3 reviews Jeffrey L. Elman, Elizabeth A. Bates, ... The MIT Press, 1997 Chomsky is dead or at least dying... Grammar isn't encoded in our genomes. It is learned. The beginnings of the proof are here. This is an important book. Read it and it's companion: Exercises in Rethinking Innateness : A Handbook for Connectionist Simulations; which gives you hands on with the models discussed.             Photodetection and Measurement: Maximizing Performance in Optical Systems1 review Mark Johnson McGraw-Hill Professional, 2003 An outstanding guide to some very tough terrain This book will help a lot of people, especially students and young researchers in optics, engineering science, and experimental physics, to stay out of a lot of trouble. I predict that many students and professors are going to be very grateful to Mark Johnson! *Photodetection and Measurement* is all about how to make optical measurements work *in real life*. Starting from an elementary level, it ...             Designing Enterprise Applications with the J2EE(TM) Platform (2nd Edition) (The Java Series)6 reviews Inderjeet Singh, Beth Stearns, ... Prentice Hall PTR, 2002 Essential read for designing J2EE applications A must read for seasoned professionals and those new to the subject. Invaluable insights and guidelines are detailed at every tier of architecting a J2EE enterprise application. I found myself frequently relating to the examples and wishing I had read this book to help with earlier projects. This would have saved hours of re-factoring because the authors have already detailed solutions to ...             Chinese Village, Socialist State2 reviews Edward Friedman, Paul G. Pickowicz, ... Yale University Press, 1993 Insightful and informative It has been two years since I read this book, but I see it hasn't had a review yet, and I think it deserves one, so I add my two bits. A very detailed analysis of the developments in rural Chinese society over a period of massive upheaval. Provides tremendous insight into the social mechanisms at play, and the interplay of contemporary political movements with the traditional power structures in ...             Avengers: Galactic Storm, Vol. 11 review Bob Harras, Tom DeFalco, ... Marvel Comics, 2006 One last hurrah for the House of Ideas Once upon a time there was a comic universe, large and diverse, filled with just about any type of character from any type of pulp genre, and they shared and interacted in the same universe. You had a Martial Arts character named Shang Chi living in the same world as the cosmic space fantasy Silver Surfer who fought against the supernatural thriller Dracula who appeared in the socially conscious ...             The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason2 reviews Mark Johnson University Of Chicago Press, 1990 Profound and thorough exposition of embodied philosophy and Cognitive Linguistics Of the work in embodied philosophy and cognitive linguistics, this by far the most careful, cogent, and through exposition. It is not light reading--it assumes a high level of education and a high degree of familiarity with Western philosophy, but it is profoundly rewarding. Johnson develops a theory of image schemas as the preconceptual links between our embodied experiences and our ...              search for books aesthetics, applications, challenge, collection, connectionist, designing, development, disruptive, empowerment, enriching, enterprise, imagination, innateness, innovation, innovator, maximizing, measurement, metaphors, modeling, nineteenth, performance, perspective, philosophy, photodetection, rethinking, sexuality, socialist, trailblazer, travelers, understanding books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: This Side of Married: 8 we recommend Good follow up to first book Impressum - about us get your own shoutbox