false 17910 0 0 891983 184744024X 9781847440242 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179239719m/891983.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179239719s/891983.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/891983.Wasted 4.17 12 17910 4.08 556 82 2007 1435518 0226401928 9780226401928 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183572372m/1435518.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183572372s/1435518.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1435518.The_Meaning_of_the_Body_Aesthetics_of_Human_Understanding 3.83 12 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, and language and examines the many dimensions of meaning—including images, qualities, emotions, and metaphors—that are all rooted in the body’s physical encounters with the world. Drawing on the psychology of art and pragmatist philosophy, Johnson argues that all of these aspects of meaning-making are fundamentally aesthetic. He concludes that the arts are the culmination of human attempts to find meaning and that studying the aesthetic dimensions of our experience is crucial to unlocking meaning's bodily sources.
            <DIV>Throughout, Johnson puts forth a bold new conception of the mind rooted in the understanding that philosophy will matter to nonphilosophers only if it is built on a visceral connection to the world.<DIV> <DIV><DIV>“Mark Johnson demonstrates that the aesthetic and emotional aspects of meaning are fundamental—central to conceptual meaning and reason, and that the arts show meaning-making in its fullest realization. If you were raised with the idea that art and emotion were external to ideas and reason, you must read this book. It grounds philosophy in our most visceral experience.”—George Lakoff, author of Moral Politics</DIV> (20061023)]]> 17910 4.08 556 82 2007 400562 0226403181 9780226403182 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174442057m/400562.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174442057s/400562.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/400562.The_Body_in_the_Mind_The_Bodily_Basis_of_Meaning_Imagination_and_Reason 4.10 10 San Francisco Chronicle</div>]]> 17910 4.08 556 82 1990 182221 0711910650 9780711910652 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/182221.Ideal_for_Living_A_History_of_Joy_Division 4.44 9 17910 4.08 556 82 1998 1361370 0226401693 9780226401690 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182992766m/1361370.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182992766s/1361370.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1361370.Moral_Imagination_Implications_of_Cognitive_Science_for_Ethics 3.43 7
Expanding his innovative studies of human reason in Metaphors We Live By and The Body in the Mind, Johnson provides the tools for more practical, realistic, and constructive moral reflection.</div>]]> 17910 4.08 556 82 1993 182225 0862761662 9780862761660 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/182225.An_Ideal_for_Living_A_History_of_Joy_Division_and_New_Order 4.80 5 17910 4.08 556 82 1984 433849 007139303X 9780071393034 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174730090m/433849.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174730090s/433849.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/433849.The_Ultimate_Desert_Handbook_A_Manual_for_Desert_Hikers_Campers_and_Travelers 3.67 3 17910 4.08 556 82 2003 1492892 1859739202 9781859739204 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184211547m/1492892.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184211547s/1492892.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1492892.Beauty_and_Power_Transgendering_and_Cultural_Transformation_in_the_Southern_Philippines 4.50 2
This innovative work -- one of the first ethnographic studies to be published in the aftermath of the region's civil unrest -- will be of interest to anyone working on gender, the body and sexuality. Not only does it extend the boundaries of cross-cultural studies of non-mainstream genders and sexualities by directly engaging the entanglement of local sensibilities with global images and discourse, but it also demonstrates that there is nothing ambiguous about ambiguity -- gendered, sexual or otherwise. Rather, this ambiguity is the specific product of different historical relations of power through which various cultural subjects are created and re-create themselves.
</div>]]> 17910 4.08 556 82 1997 5947318 1605980412 9781605980416 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5947318.Wasted_A_Childhood_Stolen_An_Innocence_Betrayed_A_Life_Redeemed 3.50 2 Wasted documents Mark’s descent into the very depths of addiction and criminality. Hooked on heroin and crack, homeless on the streets of London with a price on his head, no one—least of all Mark—believed he would ever survive, never mind recover. And yet he somehow found the strength to pull through, and now runs his own thriving tree surgery business, employing and helping other recovering addicts. A shocking and inspirational story.
]]> 17910 4.08 556 82 2009 5732763 0951911643 9780951911648 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5732763.Off_to_Bethlehem 4.00 1 17910 4.08 556 82 278426 4.00 1 1 1993